Circled up during an Indian attack, they dropped like flies.
I’m not aware of any red shirts to identify them, save that you had never seen the guy before.
And Roddenberry said exactly that in one of the interviews on the box set. I think the Writers’ Guide says it too - need to look it up.
Nah - they’d run out of Shakespeare plays before the season was out.
Forbidden Planet is the one Shakespearean adaptation to ever improve on the original.
I am impressed, Sir.
My opinion of you increases. 
“What’s a bathing suit?”
“Then I’ll put more guards around the guards!”
Bit o’ trivia: Leonard Nimoy played a character named Bernabe Zamora in four episodes of Wagon Train.
What? No love for Strange Brew?
Hamlet, eh?
Sure you’re not thinking of Forbidden Zone? 
Forbidden Planet has a star cruiser sent to bring back a failed colony, but the remaining members, a philologist and his daughter do not wish to go. The Captain, Doctor and First Officer are the protagonists. It has also been compared to The Tempest.
I was about five the first time I saw it, and when the Id monster showed up, I was in my Father’s lap.
Apologies for going off-topic here, but Throne of Blood (1957) is a definite improvement over the original as well. Probably better than any Wagon Train episode, too.
And sort-of back on topic, I’d heard that Star Trek was pitched this way, but I hadn’t realized until this thread that Wagon Train was a specific TV show. I thought it was just meant to be descriptive.
And to go full circle, when Nicholas Meyer was brought in to salvage the movie franchise, he was not really a fan. He didn’t know the history. So when he pitched his idea for what would become TWoK, he offered up that he envisioned Kirk as a Hornblower type.
The two Star Trek films Meyer directed (2 & 6) were particualrly Hornblower-esque, complete with tactical ship battles, and Kirk at his most mortal and introspective. The problem with trying to classify the original series in any particular category is that thematically is was all over the place; some episodes were very space operatic, some were drenched in allegory and irony, and some were just jokey comedy that was discordant with with the more serious themes. “Wagon Train in space” may have been the elevator pitch, and to a certain extent the original intent, but it was as much Route 66 and Twilight Zone as Wagon Train.
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On the commentary track for TWOK Meyer talks about redesigning the uniforms to get an 18th century naval look and ‘running out the guns” with the crew lifting grates to fire a photon torpedoes. Don’t think photon torpedoes were ever show before.
“Star Trek TOS” may be close to “77 Sunset Strip” although I don’t think Roddenberry ever wrote for them. He wrote a number of shows but the two with the most credits were “Have Gun, Will Travel” and his own “The Lieutenant”. But 77 Sunset could vary all over the place with serious drama mixed with comic ones with Kookie lending his comb to Louis the Horse Player.
Only as blobs of light outside the ship. I thought the whole thing made even less sense than having technicians in a Weapons Room waiting for commands to come down from the bridge (“Balance of Terror”).
WWII submarine technology or 18th century man-o-war technology. Just the thing for a 23rd century starship. :smack: