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Gene Roddenberry's original 1964 pitch for Star Trek

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edited February 2011 in Ten Forward
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I read the words "utilitarian" and "hanky panky" within a paragraph of each other.

    Notably, Gene describes using similar or "parrallel worlds" to explain low-budget means of creating fictional societies or planets. I guess that's how he pitched it - aside from the "utilitarian" "hanky panky."
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    with all the technobabble that gets thrown about in modern trek i did get a good laugh out of "happily eliminating the need to encumber our stories with tiresome scientific explanation" :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Cormoran wrote: »
    with all the technobabble that gets thrown about in modern trek i did get a good laugh out of "happily eliminating the need to encumber our stories with tiresome scientific explanation" :D

    Bbbbbrrrraaaaaaaggggggaaaaaaa!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    From what I've read, it was a good read.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I think I read that...lol
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    He suggested.... a crucifixion episode....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    lol..that would have been interesting
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    But who would have been crucified? With his luck, it would have been Chekhov. And then he would claim he will have been the second Russian to be crucified, after Jesus. Because Jesus would have been Russian according to Chekhov.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I was chatting about this with Tommy61 earlier today and it's a pretty interesting find.

    I'm glad we ended up with the Enterprise rather than the Yorktown.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Aelfwin wrote: »
    I was chatting about this with Tommy61 earlier today and it's a pretty interesting find.

    I'm glad we ended up with the Enterprise rather than the Yorktown.

    I agree..or they could have gone off the map and picked the USS Q-tip
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