Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️⚧I woke up this morning and chose violence
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Rev. Charles Browning@charliejane I love what you say about the "space western." *Star Trek* was billed as "Wagon Train to the stars" or whatever and then *Deep Space Nine* basically took this all to its logical conclusion by being *Gunsmoke* on a space station. Really not much else one can do with this formula (especially now that *The Mandalorian* incorporated the Spaghetti Western into space opera).
Let *Firefly* be.
Todd Horowitz@FrChazzz @charliejane People usually misinterpret the "Wagon Train to the Stars" idea, because none (?) of us have actually watched Wagon Train. Wagon Train referred to the format, not the setting. The format was that there was a regular cast, the members of the titular wagon train that moved from place to place, but each episode would be about a different guest star. Ironically, Star Trek did not end up being "Wagon Train to the Stars", but was more about the regular characters.
To the extent that (original) Star Trek was a Western, it's because it took place beyond the (final) "frontier", outside of the presumably peaceful territory of the Federation, in places of danger.
To the extent that (original) Star Trek was a Western, it's because it took place beyond the (final) "frontier", outside of the presumably peaceful territory of the Federation, in places of danger.