![]() ![]() 73 light years per hour and manned by a crew of 203. Roddenberry’s 23 rd century version was described as a 190,000-ton “cruiser class” ship, capable of traveling. ![]() Yorktown, a name that goes as far back as 1839 in the United States Navy. The space-faring vessel in Roddenberry’s original pitch was called the U.S.S. And it all started with Desilu Productions - and a forward-thinking exec named Herb Solow - giving Roddenberry a production deal to develop his show in April of 1964. How much of that first proposal changed and/or made it to the screen by the time premiere episode “The Man Trap” aired that first week of September 1966? Let’s take a look at some of the major elements… The Ship: from the U.S.S. This brief written proposal was the basis of all that would follow over the five decades since. ![]()
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