What if Kirk in the original series was single dad and each episode ended with kirk writtng a letter to his son(not david).about that episodes adventure..also. He would be a single parent (a widow) would this add to the series?
what if kirk was single parent?
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So combining Sisko from DS9 with Doogie Howser?
Pass.
If they were going to make Kirk a dad his son should be an active character, which means putting him on the ship, which not only would be difficult to justify but would just make the similarities to Sisko more pronounced.
Pass.
If they were going to make Kirk a dad his son should be an active character, which means putting him on the ship, which not only would be difficult to justify but would just make the similarities to Sisko more pronounced.
I think that would have been quite the progressive concept for a 60s TV series, to say the least.
Maybe a bit formulaic to end every episode like that, but it could have worked for a more kid-oriented kind of show.
So instead of Wagon Train to the Stars, it's The Rifleman of the stars?
The Phaserman, starring William Shatner and who, Kurt Russell?
The Phaserman, starring William Shatner and who, Kurt Russell?
No, Craig Hundley!
Or Huxley, as he is known today.
Or Huxley, as he is known today.
Starring Bill Bixby as Captain Kirk, and Miyoshi Umeki as Mrs. Spockington.
If you mean the angle of the lead character being a single father, see:
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdOf5eCuK8g[/yt]
(The date's wrong...1958-1963.)
Seriously thought, would it really change the basic format of Star Trek if Kirk had a son (according to OP off the ship), and Kirk in some fashion referred to his son occasionally? In the background supposedly McCoy had a daughter somewhere.
Lose the widower angle and have Kirk be divorced (controversial in 1965?), the son lives with the ex-wife, and Kirk communicates with the boy. This would seem on the surface to be something that would have minimum impact of the stories we're all familiar with.
At the same time it would add a bit more to Kirk's overall back story.
MITCHELL: If I hadn't aimed that little blonde lab technician at you
KIRK: You what? You planned that?
MITCHELL: Well, you wanted me to think, didn't you? I outlined her whole campaign for her.
KIRK: I married her.
Lose the widower angle and have Kirk be divorced (controversial in 1965?), the son lives with the ex-wife, and Kirk communicates with the boy. This would seem on the surface to be something that would have minimum impact of the stories we're all familiar with.
At the same time it would add a bit more to Kirk's overall back story.
MITCHELL: If I hadn't aimed that little blonde lab technician at you
KIRK: You what? You planned that?
MITCHELL: Well, you wanted me to think, didn't you? I outlined her whole campaign for her.
KIRK: I married her.
Other examples that come to mind are Bonanza and My Three Sons, then shows where it's a single man caring for child relatives like Bachelor Father and Family Affair. And those are just some from memory that I watched during the 60s. Oh, and The Andy Griffith Show.
I like that notion much better than him being a single parent who's always traveling, which sound tragic.
In the mid-'60s, divorced lead characters were pretty uncommon in prime time programming, and there was still a bit of a social stigma associated with it. Even the Mary Tyler Moore show had to be tweaked before it aired in 1970. She was originally supposed to be divorced, but the network or sponsors feared viewers would think she was divorced from Dick Van Dyke, even though his show had ended about 5 years earlier and was running in syndication. So Mary Richards became a 30-ish woman with an unsuccessful dating life.
Peyton Place may have been one of the few shows to even mention divorce back in the 60s, though it was a serialized soap opera I never watched.
Peyton Place may have been one of the few shows to even mention divorce back in the 60s, though it was a serialized soap opera I never watched.
Perry Mason (fall 1957–spring 1966) mentioned and had divorced clients all over the place. As to regular characters, Vivian Bagley (Vivian Vance) was a divorced mother raising a son on Desilu's own The Lucy Show starting in 1962. Very possibly the first lead female character on US network TV to be one.
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