I know, I was being intentionally silly.  I really do want to read the Iron Dream but it's perpetually out of print and the e-book is supposedly riddled with errors.  I've always wondered if Verhoeven's take on Starship Troopers wasn't some sort of oblique nod to Spinrad.

OK, so let's get a few things straight.  First, just because the original Star Trek used the SF authors of the time doesn't mean that all their work was really really good.  We all know about Harlan Ellison and "City on the Edge of Forever", and yes Norman Spinrad deserves credit for "The Doomsday Machine" but that…