USSBurritoTruck@startrek.websiteM to Risa@startrek.websiteEnglish · 2 months agoWagon Train to the Starsi.imgur.comimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareaeronmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI always thought the glaring western motifs were a tribute to the original concept of Star Trek being “A wagon train to the stars.”
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoNah, it’s for the same reason they never went to a jungle world. Back in the day they just shot everything in the desert outside of LA. It’s the whole reason westerns were a thing in the first place, free setting. So there was a bunch of props and sets from the studio, and Star Trek could do it for free. I mean, wasn’t even MASH in the desert for some reason?
minus-squareHobbitFoot @thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIt is the reason a lot of Stargate was shot in various temperate rain forests.
I always thought the glaring western motifs were a tribute to the original concept of Star Trek being “A wagon train to the stars.”
Nah, it’s for the same reason they never went to a jungle world.
Back in the day they just shot everything in the desert outside of LA. It’s the whole reason westerns were a thing in the first place, free setting.
So there was a bunch of props and sets from the studio, and Star Trek could do it for free.
I mean, wasn’t even MASH in the desert for some reason?
It is the reason a lot of Stargate was shot in various temperate rain forests.