The Making of Star Trek
When Gene Roddenberry proposed
Star Trek as a "Wagon Train" to the Stars... (A Western)
NBC granted funds for a Pilot Episode.
In the First Pilot:
The Captain was Christopher Pike
Spock was an Emotional Martian
The first Officer was a cool female named Number One.
NBC rejected the first Pilot,
as too CEREBRAL...
They wanted Action and Adventure...
on $100K per episode...
Including special effects
NBC liked the idea enough
to grant a Second Pilot...
(Distortion. This episode was
the basis for the first Star Trek
Motion Picture)
Also note that the Space Probe
V'GER, was actually
found several hundred years
after it's launch...
and our Voyager probes have
sent unusual data after crossing
the edge of the Solar System...
...
There are Science Fiction
Stories from James White,
from 1958, that clearly show
the beginning of the
Star Trek Crew.
Especially:
James White's hard SF stories
are very Star Trek like.
So much so...
It reminds me of the
ufo report similarity
between 1955 era SF films,
and current Navy/Pentagon
Congressional Reports...
And...
In 1959 there was a film
called
The Spaceship's call letters
we're C-57-D...
(My Initals, and year of birth...)
by L. Ron Hubbard
is a 1949 SF novel.
The level of detail
that he achieved in
this Twilight-Zone type
Space Opera is
very mysterious
for a pulp magazine
novel written just
after WWII...
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