Wagon Train to the Stars

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I always thought the glaring western motifs were a tribute to the original concept of Star Trek being “A wagon train to the stars.”

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah, it’s for the same reason they never went to a jungle world.

    Back in the day they just shot everything in the desert outside of LA. It’s the whole reason westerns were a thing in the first place, free setting.

    So there was a bunch of props and sets from the studio, and Star Trek could do it for free.

    I mean, wasn’t even MASH in the desert for some reason?

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Original Series straight-up used the Downtown Mayberry set from The Andy Griffith Show twice.

      Star Trek used a LOT of stuff from other properties due to money. But I still feel like the western sets were used by choice. Especially in Enterprise, which was meta at that point.

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    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I thought it was because they all like spaghetti

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is the reason a lot of Stargate was shot in various temperate rain forests.

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• data1701d@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To be fair, I’d say cowboy appearances would be relatively proportional to the population, maybe 1 or 2% of each series… Except DS9, which has a bit of an Alamo obsession.

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Should come as no surprise the folks stationed on DS9 were obsessed with the defense of a lone fortress against impossible odds.

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    • data1701d@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The difference being that the Federation was there by consent of the Bajorans and didn’t proceed to seize the entire area from its rightful owner. 😂

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  • sirblastalot@ttrpg.network ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think TOS had as many mobster episodes as it did cowboy episodes.

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    • data1701d@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It had an oddly large amount of episodes involving ancient Mediterranean civilizations, though… Those darn Greeks/Romans taking over our Trek!

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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A black sheriff?

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  • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It worked in blazing saddles!

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  • mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He said the sheriff is near!

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did Voyager or Discovery ever have cowboys?

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  • Cagi@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In cowboy times they went to Fairhaven, Ireland.

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    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Guess Tom Paris prefers horseless carriages.

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  • usernamefactory@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe not literally, but the season 3 episode where Discovery arrived in the future went hard on the western vibes. I think they even included swinging saloon doors at one point.

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• ShamanSpiff@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fun fact: Star Trek has lasted longer than the wild west did. 58 years versus 47 years

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• amzd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These are literally paid advertisements for the animal agriculture lobby.

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  • ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t underestimate the power of “We need a cheap episode, where’s the literal decades of western props we keep in storage?”

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    • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In case of TOS, they literally pitched it as a kind of Western but in space to the studios due to the popularity of the genre on TV (both DeForest Kelly and Shatner had also already appeared in Western serials).

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• ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  you would do well to stay away from firefly.

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