[ale] Re: OT: FIELD REPORT: TONIGHT&Thursday: Star Trek: The Menagerie in theatres

[Scott Castaline]

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> Want to know where the ideas came from that ended up as Star Trek?
> Check out a copy of Forbidden Planet.  This is a remake of 
> Shakespeare's "The Tempest" set on a distant planet. The 
> television series simply shifts the Point Of View from that of the
> characters on the planet to that of the crew of the space ship
> that shows up uninvited. Complete with captain who woos the girl.
> You'll recognize all sorts of special effects that were stolen as
> well.
>
> Sean
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Is that what the Tempest was about? I thought that it was just all the 
drugs back in the 60's when I went to High School.