Not to be all "on topic" and everything, but I do have a few things to say about the Kurtzman/Orci debate from last night.
I love the fact that people always claim that Star Trek is just like Transformers. I don't think anyone would be saying that if two of the writers hadn't worked on Transformers. Given their track records as writers and creators on Alias,Lost,and Fringe I am guessing they were doing Tranformers because they were hired to write it and Bay wanted the movie done one way so they gave him the script he wanted. Most writers have to do whatever work comes their way and one of the things they have to do is give the director the script he wants,I don't see why Trasformers should be held against them for the rest of their lives. Outside of those three movies they have a pretty good track record.
That's completely moronic if they were that good they wouldn't lower their standards just to please the director.
You're making the HUGE assumption that what we see on the screen in the Transformers movies IN ANY WAY resembled what was on the page.

Given the "bad improv" nature of all of the Witwicky scenes, I think the only actors who stuck to scripted lines were the ones who had to spout technobabble.
I can't find it right now, but I remember watching a round table discussion with the screenwriters of several blockbusters, including either Kurtzman or Orci, I forget which. While they couldn't say anything explicitly negative about the films, they certainly implied conditions that would make anybody turn in shoddy work. Scenes were made for the trailer before the first word of the script was written, and those scenes had to be worked in. The deadlines were VERY short, and the script constantly had to be rewritten--except it couldn't in the case of Transformers 2 because of the writers strike. And, of course, whether or not the script was even *followed* was completely at the whim of the director, when it wasn't at the whim of the studio.
A credited writer can rarely be blamed (well, at least not solely blamed) for the quality of a Hollywood film. And thank God, because I'd hate to dismiss Bill's work on RiffTrax just because "Meet Dave" sucked.

That said, for all I know Kurtzman and Orci COULD still be bad writers. I haven't seen much Fringe (despite several obsessed friends), so I can't say much about their work on it one way or another.