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We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing, all-powerful god, who creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek!

THHA 7 Jan 9
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Can you imagine if NBC would have allowed him full range and an adequate budget..?

Varn Level 8 Jan 10, 2019

Well they gave him the unprecedented latitude of producing a 2nd pilot when they didn't like the first one, and the budget per episode (> $250K in 1960s dollars IIRC) was still the largest to that time. And it resulted in spinoffs to the present day. I'd say he got more than his share of opportunity in relative terms. And he used it well, too.

@mordant Every recollection I’ve read by cast and writers was how they were constantly told what they could not do.. Squeezing their budget tighter and tighter, till canceling them before their 5 year mission was up. No doubt NBC represented the American viewing audience, though - more fist fights!

@Varn My recollection of the original series is they tried to cancel it after 2 years, kept it going for a 3rd season because of unprecedented fan outrage, but gave it a late-night time slot that Roddenberry knew would kill it anyway, so he was no longer very involved with the final season, and it showed. First episode aired in the 3rd season got this review: "Green alien women in high heeled boots steal Spock's brain and install it in their electric Mah-Jong set."

Yeah I am sure the empty suits at the network had factions that wanted to undermine the show and get rid of it as insufficiently profitable. One of the recurrent demands I recall reading about were for "more T&A shows", the industry slang of the day for lady parts on display. And Kirk himself was a replacement for the original, less swashbuckling and more deliberate Captain Pike in the original pilot; Kirk seemed to be in a torn uniform shirt in at least every 3rd episode. Still ... they managed to get in the first interracial kiss and the first multicultural regular cast, and some shows that had not-too-subtle digs at religion (Return of the Archons is the one that springs first to mind: "YOU MUST BE ABSORBED!" )

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