USSBurritoTruck@startrek.websiteM to Risa@startrek.websiteEnglish · 28 days agoWagon Train to the Starsi.imgur.comimagemessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1308arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1303arrow-down1imageWagon Train to the Starsi.imgur.comUSSBurritoTruck@startrek.websiteM to Risa@startrek.websiteEnglish · 28 days agomessage-square25fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareamzd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·28 days agoThese are literally paid advertisements for the animal agriculture lobby.
minus-squareThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·28 days agoDon’t underestimate the power of “We need a cheap episode, where’s the literal decades of western props we keep in storage?”
minus-squareCitizenKong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·27 days agoIn 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).
These are literally paid advertisements for the animal agriculture lobby.
Don’t underestimate the power of “We need a cheap episode, where’s the literal decades of western props we keep in storage?”
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).