[ QUOTE="Mondragon, post: 13207936, member: 79311"]Interesting very loose recurring parallels between the four main new rogue crew members of
La Sirena.
and the characters of Gene Roddenberry's original
1964 StarTrek pitch:
Side by side bellow.
-(Obviously the pitch description of "Number one became Majel Barrett's character in the pilot ep, then for the series some aspects went to the revamped Spock, and the "Dark...Nile Valley" aspect to Uhura, although as per the new series set up, she is analogues of his once new #1 in Raffi Musiker:
-The navigator José Ortega character was dropped from the pilot, (interesting (to me) Roddenberry envisioned a latino lead in the first crew in 1964, yet the studio didn't actually bring it about till over 30 years after with arguably Chakotay and B'elanna). For the new series the analogue is now pilot Chris Rios.
Continued: The emotional Spock expressing "catlike curiosity over anything alien" which we first saw in the smiling emotional Spock of the pilot episode, was obviously dropped for series, and Spock was instead merged with the personality of the removed Number One of the pilot. Yet the "emotional" and somewhat curious catlike Vulcans would be the later revealed Romulans, who we see in Elnor in the new series.
And the Yeoman "colt" pretty much appeared as is in the pilot, other than maybe the "researcher" aspect, only visually similar to Agnes Jurati, so far described as “a researcher, and someone ‘who’s confused with her place in the world.'
Do the four "new" rogue crew members seem to be a somewhat re-purposed throwbacks to Roddenberry's 4 original crew pitch?
Coincidence? :[/QUOTE]
This looks like it lines up surprisingly well. I'll look out for these similarities when the series premieres to see how much of this is the case. But I'm leaning toward I think you just uncovered a really good find. If Larry Chabon really has been a huge Trekkie since the '70s, it might not be a coincidence.
Thanks, (continued here since it got swallowed in the other thread). Just posted it as a curiosity, How deep Chabon (even as a fan) went, if he even read Roddenberry's original 1964 pitch of characters I’d love to know. Used them consciously or subconsciously was even aware I’d be curious to know if it’s any more than a coincidence.
If anything as the show runs, and characters are expanded on, actually developed, they will by nature drift even further, as the pitch were just ideas put down by Roddenberry, not ever fully realized characters, just a very loose starting templates Even then there is just a very slight overlap.
The whole point is to take these once familiar templates, into a very different almost unrecognizable direction.
Of course it excludes the principal new character Dahj, although she's not so much part of the "crew" as she is the passenger.(cargo) of their mission.
This is the new “crew” that he puts together.....
.to save
her.
I can't help but see these familiar Roddenberry character analogues as the starting point, that they'll then use to take them in an all new direction.
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