Thus spake "JKconey"  :

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>"curmudgeon"  wrote in message 
>news:lJidnQ6uidf4QCnVnZ2dnUVZ_gqdnZ2d{at}bresnan.com...
>> In response to past posts about stereotypes and clichés, I got out my 1999
>> paperback copy of Roger Ebert's book Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary.
>> Which is a self proclaimed Greatly Expanded and Much Improved Compendium 
>> of
>> Movie Clichés, Stereotypes, Obligatory Scenes, Hackneyed Formulas, 
>> Shopworn
>> Conventions and Outdated Archetypes.
>>
>> For example the so called Orwell that Ends Wells Rule.
>> The inability of Hollywood to look into the future and see anything except 
>> cataclysmic wars, mass nuclear destruction, oppressive automations, and 
>> ruthless police states.
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>> *curmudgeon*
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>   Wasn't it Roddenberry's wonderful vision of a positive future that made 
>Trek different?

Trek was originally supposed to be a "Wagon Train to the Stars" type
of show, according to a number of sources, including his biography and
the official history.  

I don't remember why he changed the premise.  But the WTttS concept
has always stuck in my head.
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