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I always thought the glaring western motifs were a tribute to the original concept of Star Trek being “A wagon train to the stars.”
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024
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It is the reason a lot of Stargate was shot in various temperate rain forests.
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.
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. 😂
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.
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
A black sheriff?
It worked in blazing saddles!
He said the sheriff is near!
Did Voyager or Discovery ever have cowboys?
In cowboy times they went to Fairhaven, Ireland instead.
Guess Tom Paris prefers horseless carriages.
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.
Fun fact: Star Trek has lasted longer than the wild west did. 58 years versus 47 years
you would do well to stay away from firefly.
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?"
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).