Re: WI Earlier Star Trek?

"David Johnson" <trolleyfan_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> What if, in the 1930s some creative soul comes up with the idea for a
>> new series to do a serial of: That series is Star Trek. What changes
>> would have to be made to Star Trek to make it acceptable to 30s
>> audiences?(one I can think of is replacing Lt. Uhura with an asian or
>> latina or italian women(all 3 are 'unacceptable' but blacks are even
>> more beyond the pale)) What effects on the world would there be from
>> Star Trek emerging as a 1930s serial in the model of Flash Gordon and
>> the like?
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> Forget replacing Uhura with a less "unacceptable" woman - she'd be
> replaced with a man. As would any of the female officers.
>
> If your lucky, you might have a few female nurses on board. But in the
> 30's, the primary purpose for a woman being there would be to be the
> weekly "Damsel In Distress."
>
> David
>  ...

See the movie which I have long regarded as the precursor
of "Star Trek" -- Forbidden Planet.  The crew is entirely male,
there is a comic relief character, the alcohol-obsessed cook.
A da****ng young Leslie Nielsen (yes, it's that old) sweeps
the single female character, civilian, independentish but with
no leader****p characteristic and little tendency to contradict the
men around her, off her feet.  That said, the ****p has a great
deal of realism for its time, the weapons are believable and
not cheesy, and the plot (loosely, "The Tempest") is
interesting.

1956, not in your time frame but about half way there.
But it does perhaps recast the question as WI Forbidden
Planet were made 20 to 25 years earlier, as a serial.
Then I'd say the problem was that the classic serial
needed to pull the kids back to the theater every
Saturday with easily grasped perils.  Forbidden Planet
would, in pieces, be more like an abbreviated 24,
great for coffee break discussion by an older crowd
but maybe not hooking younger audiences.  It'd maybe
be better left as a full-length movie.  With numerous
sequels, like Tarzan.