It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was more carnival-like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form.
You unlock the door with the key of imagination.
a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.
Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.
An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it's uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general - no, that's much more the exception than the rule.