Story added by ltathena on February 1, 2021
"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before!" With these words, television history was made. But what if time travelers from the future went back and financed the series at $5,000,000.00 budgets per episode (in 1966 money) for a full agreed-upon five years/seasons of 26 hourlong adventures over a great mission? With the $5 Million per episode spent on a large ensemble cast and pushing the boundaries of the then-new fields of visual/photographic effects, another $5 Million per episode would be used for insurance and convincing NBC affiliates to air the programs as is from fall 1966 to spring 1972 to document a sex/race/species-positive future vision of the crew of the starship Enterprise. If the merchandising and other problems were tackled out of the gate, what would happen to the show?
William Shatner
Andrew Robinson
George Takei
Barbara Steele
Majel Barrett
Leonard Nimoy
DeForest Kelley
James Doohan
Walter Koenig
Nichelle Nichols
Grace Lee Whitney
John Winston
Ricou Browning
Lee Meriwether
Elaine Devry
Ricky Nelson
Ben Chapman
Andrea Dromm
Nancy Kwan
Booker Bradshaw
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