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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Well, effects, maybe. Watch Encounter at Farpoint sometime and see the introduction of Engineering. Tiny set. Not good at all. They learned how to film it better eventually, but...no. As for sense of wonder...I don't think that applies. Roddenberry was only interested in science fiction so far as it allowed him to do allegories. But I think you'd be hard pressed to grab a TOS story that started with some amazing concept and went from there. Star Trek, originally and probably still today, was a drama that happened to be set in outer space, not a drama about outer space. We can see this in the way that you almost never had a TOS episode that was about, in a primary way, the show's setting. No episodes about issues in the Federation, for instance. The show was ruthlessly outward looking, almost so much so that the background information was unimportant. We can enjoy lots of early episodes just as much as later ones even though there isn't a Federation present at all. It isn't important. I'm a bit rushed for time, unfortunately, but I want to say that while it sounds like I'm building up to some sort of Ellison-reading, Heinlein-quoting elitist conclusion, I really, really like Star Trek. A lot. But I don't think its success is due to it being really out-there, weird, totally wowing science fiction. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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