Gene Roddenberry Was a Horndog
He's infamous for it, in fact. During the days of the first Star Trek, he was two-timing Majel Barret with Nichelle Nichols (daaayum!), and of course they both found out about it. The man couldn't keep it in his pants. No wonder Kirk had all those space VDs.
Before he was effectively removed from creative control on the Next Generation, he was doing much the same thing. I just watched a season two episode where they "rediscover" a missing colony that survived through the generations by cloning the five surviving members of their expedition. As a counterpoint, they were relocating an entire farming community. Cool, passionless science meets barbaric, scantily-clad workers of the earth. Of course, the pencilnecks needed "breeding stock", and the women of the farming village were awarded three husbands each to make this possible.
I LOVE THIS SHOW.
~Sean
Before he was effectively removed from creative control on the Next Generation, he was doing much the same thing. I just watched a season two episode where they "rediscover" a missing colony that survived through the generations by cloning the five surviving members of their expedition. As a counterpoint, they were relocating an entire farming community. Cool, passionless science meets barbaric, scantily-clad workers of the earth. Of course, the pencilnecks needed "breeding stock", and the women of the farming village were awarded three husbands each to make this possible.
I LOVE THIS SHOW.
~Sean