Elaan of Troyius
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Handheld Nuclear weapons too! Wonder how that worked or didn't for them?
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JB
Well, in that case, a lot of episodes would be disappointing, since the series seemed to be primarily "space adventure." Trek's forte wasn't usually Outer Limits style hard sci-fi.
How can you see them when this is standing next to them?!?!
This is a reconstructed mozaic that I built from the "toe to head" pan when Elaan first materializes.
M.
Outer Limits wasn't exactly "hard", not often. Not more than Trek. I'm not saying space adventure can't or shouldn't be present. Once the more important work of making a strong SF story is under control, then great, add all the space adventure you want.
The point of Trek wasn't to do Taming of the Shrew in outer space. It wasn't to have cool space battles. The adventure aspect, or romance aspect, all that non-SF content was well done in Trek, but it's sort of the icing on the cake of the science fiction content.
Look at season one. They had their SF heads firmly screwed on, then. They were so pure about the SF that they were never allowed to do a season like that again. For me, it's the ultimate dream season of SF on television that will never happen again. Again, it's not that adventure must be missing; it's that the adventure is a delivery device for the SF.
Season 3, and fairly often season 2, were disappointing in this respect. Someone may rebut me by saying Gene R wanted a "wagon train to the stars". No, he didn't. He told the suits that, to trick them into letting him put SF on the air for a mass audience. He's said so.
When they did such quintessentially science fictional concepts as marriage brokers bringing womenfolk to the space miners, or the show's lead having to defend himself from a charge of MURDER, or the psychiatrist who's secretly crazy and brainwashing his patients.
I'd like to go back in time and be the person doing her body makeup. Yikes!How can you see them when this is standing next to them?!?!
This is a reconstructed mozaic that I built from the "toe to head" pan when Elaan first materializes.
M.
Star Trek was more hard sci-fi when actual sci-fi authors contributed scripts, such as Richard Matheson, George Clayton Johnson, Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch and Norman Spinrad. However, for the most part, the series was always a space adventure. The Network apparently wanted it that way, regardless of what Roddenberry wanted. However, without those hardcore SF writers, the series relied more on space opera, even in the first season.
How can you see them when this is standing next to them?!?!
This is a reconstructed mozaic that I built from the "toe to head" pan when Elaan first materializes.
M.
What more laurels need to be placed on Bill Theiss' brow when one sees a creation like this!!!!
Charlene was very Polite! 
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