Wagon Train to the Stars
Wagon Train to the Stars
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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.
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A black sheriff?
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It worked in blazing saddles!
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He said the sheriff is near!
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Did Voyager or Discovery ever have cowboys?
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In cowboy times they went to Fairhaven, Ireland instead.
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Guess Tom Paris prefers horseless carriages.
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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.
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Fun fact: Star Trek has lasted longer than the wild west did. 58 years versus 47 years
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you would do well to stay away from firefly.
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These are literally paid advertisements for the animal agriculture lobby.
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Don't underestimate the power of "We need a cheap episode, where's the literal decades of western props we keep in storage?"
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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).
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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.”
It is the reason a lot of Stargate was shot in various temperate rain forests.