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Wagon Train to the Stars (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months 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.”

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I thought it was because they all like spaghetti

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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