An episode chosen at random can be anything from high camp to geopolitical allegory to genuinely intelligent drama, and is likely to be at least two out of those three. Plots varied widely in quality from episode to episode and from season to season, depending upon who was writing and/or directing. This also resulted in attracting multiple high-profile guest stars and guest writers, including Harlan Ellison, Theodore Sturgeon and Richard Matheson. note Takei facetiously put down fencing on his resume so he wouldn't be given a katana once it came up in the script, he got a crash course the weekend before filming. In particular, George Takei said that almost every Asian actor wanted to be Sulu because they wouldn't be required to use an Asian accent or engage in Asian martial arts, instead breaking cultural stigma by being a practitioner of European fencing. According to the cast members, near everyone in Hollywood wanted to be a part of Star Trek because of the steps forward it was making. The cast was a dynamic mix of ethnicities and cultures, and while the focus was nearly always on Kirk, Spock and McCoy, they still had a Russian, an Asian and a black African woman in positions of responsibility, authority and respect, despite recent, brewing or ongoing conflicts concerning people of those ethnicities in Real Life. While troublesome to produce, the show was a major Trope Maker, especially in Science Fiction (each of the three main characters has a trope named after them, and that's just for starters!). note Notably, he pitched it as " Wagon Train in space", not " Wagon Train To The Stars". As such he pitched Star Trek to the networks as a merging of the two most popular genres of the time, science fiction anthologies and Westerns. He deduced that by creating a science fiction show borrowing heavily from the film Forbidden Planet, he could slip in such commentary disguised as metaphors for the various current events.
The origin of the show came when Gene Roddenberry was looking to write hard-hitting political and moral commentary and could not do so with the regular dramas of the time.
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After the release of its spinoff series and the movies, it has been retroactively called Star Trek: The Original Series to differentiate it from the franchise as a whole. Star Trek is the first show in the Star Trek franchise.
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