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> You could strip out the 25th century tech in Star Trek and replace it with 18th century tech — make the Enterprise a man o'war (with a particularly eccentric
by teddyh 5y ago
> You could strip out the 25th century tech in Star Trek and replace it with 18th century tech — make the Enterprise a man o'war (with a particularly eccentric crew) at large upon the seven seas during the age of sail — without changing the scripts significantly.
IIRC, the Star Trek original series was, at the time, described as “Horatio Hornblower in space”.
- tinus_hn 5y agoThe original pitch is ‘a Wagon Train to the Stars’: http://leethomson.myzen.co.uk/Star_Trek/1_Original_Series/Star_Trek_Pitch.pdf http://leethomson.myzen.co.uk/Star_Trek/1_Original_Series/St...
- teddyh 5y agoYes, that’s what the pitch was, since Wagon Train was a popular series at the time. But, IIRC, the series developers themselves called it more like Horatio Hornblower.