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Star Trek's First Pilot Deviated From The Norm - And NBC Wasn't Happy With That (www.slashfilm.com)

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Executives didn't care for the forward-thinking, action-lite episode.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The article explaining how they divided up the 'number one' character for the next pilot is pretty interesting.

Honestly, I think the studio exec feedback was reasonable, given how USA society was at the time, although they come off as conservative assholes kind of. Making the show a bit more light-hearted and adding moments of humor, dumbing it down a bit, adding a bit of swinging 60's vibe, and doing some major recasting all combined to make a pilot that ended up being a hit, and although the show's run wasn't super popular among mainstream people, it was a HUGE hit among the early geek sci-fi crowd, and resulted in the gigantic franchise that came later.