Fun reminder that Lucille Ball is the only reason that Star Trek exists.
As the head of Desilu Productions, she green-lighted a pilot; then when it was deemed "too cerebral" by the networks, funded a financially-risky SECOND pilot that got the series picked up by NBC.
Wagon Train (Gene Roddenberry's previous series) to the stars.
She must have very much respected his work.
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Like Lucille Ball, he appeared to be very much of a similar force of nature. Read Roddenberry's 1970s era book, The Making of Star Trek. It's pretty interesting as those things go.
I made a mistake. Wagon Train was not his series. He pitched Star Trek as Wagon Train to the stars. He came to prominence becoming a Los Angeles policeman who wanted to be a writer, and eventually the liaison between the department and the long running Jack Webb police drama reenactment series, Dragnet. Fortunately, he kept some financial interest in Star Trek, unlike Rod Serling, who did not own and of Twilight Zone when it became popular in reruns.
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