Byline: ROB OWEN TV/Radio writer
Let's not kid ourselves about the new syndicated sci-fi drama ``Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict.''
This show may bear the name of the famed ``Star Trek'' creator, but Roddenberry (who is credited with writing this weekend's premiere back in 1976) really has nothing to do with ``Earth: Final Conflict.'' He died in 1991.
But where there's a legacy, there's money to be made.
``Earth: Final Conflict'' premieres late tonight (12:30 a.m. on WTEN, Ch. 10) and sets up a premise that's a little bit ``V'' (aliens with a hidden agenda come to Earth claiming to be our friends, curing disease), a little bit ``War of the Worlds'' (the …
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