"Mark Zenier" wrote in message
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In article SjFjd.75969$E93.50122@clgrps12,
m II wrote:
starman wrote:

Spock was trying to make the first mnemonic memory circuit using "stone
knives and bear skins". The episode is called 'City on the Edge of
Forever', written by Harlan Ellison. It's regarded by many as the best
one of the original series.

I caught an old time radio broadcast a while back. It was a rerun of
a 1950s 'Have Gun Will Travel' (with Richard Boone?). The author was a
little know Gene Roddenberry. To me, that name is so tied to Star Trek
that it was hard associating it with a fifty year old wild west script.

But the original Star Trek was pitched to the executives as "Wagon Train
to the Stars", although a major part of the inspiration seems to have
been Capt. James Cook's expeditions to the south Pacific.



Well, Kirk was patterned after Horatio Hornblower. Maybe Hornblower
was patterned after Cook?