{"id":19740,"date":"2018-01-25T05:02:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T09:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=19740"},"modified":"2018-01-21T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T18:40:15","slug":"gene-roddenberrys-original-pitch-for-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=19740","title":{"rendered":"Gene Roddenberry&#8217;s Original Pitch for &#8220;Star Trek&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2018\/z012518firstpitch_startrek.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Don Kaye and SyfyWire posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/firsts-gene-roddenberrys-original-pitch-for-star-trek\">Firsts: Gene Roddenberry&#8217;s Original Pitch for <em>Star Trek<\/em><\/a> that will be of interest to fans.&nbsp; Here are just a few things I found interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p>The first captain of what became known as the U.S.S. Enterprise was not Christopher Pike or James Kirk, but Robert April.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p>Spock was originally conceived as&nbsp;&#8220;probably half Martian,&#8221; with a reddish complexion, semi-pointed ears, and a &#8220;Satanic&#8221; look.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Phillip &#8220;Bones&#8221; Boyce was the doctor not Leonard McCoy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p>A shuttlecraft was used to take folks from the ship to other planet surfaces.&nbsp; There was no transporters&#8230; no &#8220;Beam me up, Scotty.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p>There were no phasers for the crew. They&nbsp;were originally going to carry rifles and pistols that fired either bullets, tranquilizer pellets, or explosive projectiles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mklopez\">Miguel Lopez<\/a> for the heads-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Kaye and SyfyWire posted Firsts: Gene Roddenberry&#8217;s Original Pitch for Star Trek that will be of interest to fans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19743,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19740\/revisions\/19743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}