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  • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.website
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    14 days 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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    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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      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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        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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      14 days ago

      In cowboy times they went to Fairhaven, Ireland instead.

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      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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    14 days ago

    These are literally paid advertisements for the animal agriculture lobby.

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        13 days 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).