[OT] more trek trivia

At 09:45  29/04/02 +0100, Adam wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:35:19 -0400
> > From: "Robert Minadeo" <raminad@earthlink.net>
> > Subject: Re: Andromeda and Salute figures
> >
> > OTOH I remember STNG being touted as Rodenberry's vision
> > uncorrupted by
> > network suits. Hence Wesley Crusher, a character Rodenberry
> > wanted in the
> > original but was not allowed to include. Also Rodenberry's
> > Federation was
> > very averse to violence. It was apparently only at the
> > behest of the network
> > suits that ST had so many fight scenes.
>
>
>That would imply that the Suits improved TOS.
>
>Since by definition involvement of suits is bad for SF [CF Series 4-5
>of B5, Crusade etc] It can't be true :) Can it?

Trek trivia: When Rodenberry first pitched Star Trek to the "suits"
cowboy 
westerns were the big thing on American TV. Rodenberry used the pitch of
a 
"wagon train to the stars" to sell the show. The "suits" after seeing
the 
initial pilot (The cage) felt a little duped (it was "too cerebral" )
but 
the still liked the idea enough to commission a second pilot (Where no
one 
has gone before) which ended in the "bare knuckle fist fight" the
"suits" 
wanted.

Cheers

Derek

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