My feeling watching TOS is that even though the special effects are cheesy and the plot devices are lame and the dialogue is wooden, it still has a feeling of r

My feeling watching TOS is that even though the special effects are cheesy and the plot devices are lame and the dialogue is wooden, it still has a feeling of reality. I think some of that is just the chemistry of the actors, but some of it was that the people writing about a crew on a warship had been in the military during the war themselves. James Doohan (Scotty) was missing a finger from the war! It wasn’t just a bunch of kids imagining what it’s like to be in a military, but people with at least some experience of it.