{"id":11257,"date":"2011-01-31T12:10:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T20:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11257"},"modified":"2011-01-31T12:10:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T20:10:28","slug":"original-roddenberry-star-trek-pitch-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/01\/original-roddenberry-star-trek-pitch-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Roddenberry Star Trek Pitch Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 1964, Gene Roddenberry<\/strong> submitted a sixteen-page pitch for a new series to be called Star Trek<\/em> and fans can now see that pitch online in its entirety.<\/p>\n

The pitch, part of which has been published before, includes a description of the characters and some ideas which became episodes during the run of Star Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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As many fans know, the Captain of the ship (in this case, the U.S.S. Yorktown, not the more-familiar Enterprise) would have been Robert M. April, a “space-age Captain Horatio Hornblower.”<\/p>\n

Other characters included: the Executive Officer, Number One, a “mysterious” female;\u00a0 the navigator – Jose Ortegas;\u00a0 the doctor – Phillip “Bones” Boyce;\u00a0 the First Lieutenant, Mr. Spock, who was described as being “probably half-Martin”\u00a0 and “with a heavy-lidded” and “satanic” face; and the Captain’s Yeoman, a blonde female with the surname of “Colt.”<\/p>\n

Several programs that became episodes were mentioned in the pitch, including: The Cage<\/em> (The Menagerie<\/em>), Charlie X, A Piece of the Action, <\/em>and Mudd’s Women<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Roddenberry had plenty of other story ideas which were included in the pitch. 100 A.B.<\/em> would have been the story of life after “The Bomb.” “A terrifying parallel as we examine what might be our own world a few decades after an atomic holocaust,” is the description of this sobering story.<\/p>\n

Another story, Kentucky, Kentucky<\/em>, would have featured an earth colony out in space that had been reduced to a frontier, log-fort life.<\/p>\n

Other topics covered in the pitch include casting, language (a telecommunicator device is mentioned), weaponry (laser beams), costuming and specifics regarding the U.S.S. Yorktown.<\/p>\n

The pitch can be seen here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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