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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I always thought the glaring western motifs were a tribute to the original concept of Star Trek being “A wagon train to the stars.”

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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?

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

I thought it was because they all like spaghetti

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 weeks ago

It is the reason a lot of Stargate was shot in various temperate rain forests.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Should come as no surprise the folks stationed on DS9 were obsessed with the defense of a lone fortress against impossible odds.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The difference being that the Federation was there by consent of the Bajorans and didn't proceed to seize the entire area from its rightful owner. 😂

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

Like Gul Dukat, James Bowie and William Travis came to impose slavery on the native population.

The battle of the Alamo is presented as tragedy but the fact is the good guys won.

[–] sirblastalot@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think TOS had as many mobster episodes as it did cowboy episodes.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It had an oddly large amount of episodes involving ancient Mediterranean civilizations, though… Those darn Greeks/Romans taking over our Trek!

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, there's Romulans

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It worked in blazing saddles!

[–] mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

He said the sheriff is near!

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Did Voyager or Discovery ever have cowboys?

[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

In cowboy times they went to Fairhaven, Ireland instead.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago

Guess Tom Paris prefers horseless carriages.

[–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] ShamanSpiff@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Fun fact: Star Trek has lasted longer than the wild west did. 58 years versus 47 years

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

you would do well to stay away from firefly.

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

These are literally paid advertisements for the animal agriculture lobby.

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't underestimate the power of "We need a cheap episode, where's the literal decades of western props we keep in storage?"

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks 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).