A black sheriff?
Risa
Star Trek memes and shitposts
Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
These are literally paid advertisements for the animal agriculture lobby.
Don't underestimate the power of "We need a cheap episode, where's the literal decades of western props we keep in storage?"
I always thought the glaring western motifs were a tribute to the original concept of Star Trek being “A wagon train to the stars.”
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.
Should come as no surprise the folks stationed on DS9 were obsessed with the defense of a lone fortress against impossible odds.
I think TOS had as many mobster episodes as it did cowboy episodes.
It had an oddly large amount of episodes involving ancient Mediterranean civilizations, though… Those darn Greeks/Romans taking over our Trek!
I mean, there's Romulans
you would do well to stay away from firefly.
Did Voyager or Discovery ever have cowboys?
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.
In cowboy times they went to Fairhaven, Ireland instead.
Guess Tom Paris prefers horseless carriages.