Coming up. The Physics Engine is now real and used by computing gaming designers, structural engineers, rocket scientists, seismologist, weapons designers, aerospace scientists, etc.
Add the physics engine to AI and you have one of the real, real early steps toward holodeck Physics.
Of the ones on the list, I have to choose Bashir. He sexually harassed Dax, trying to wear her down. Quark was far worse than anyone on the list. As for Kirk, his reputation as a playboy has been greatly exaggerated in popular culture. On the actual show, he was not that way. Here's a video that looks into that.
This was 1966, and they wrote SciFi just like they did westerns.
Roddenberry wrote it/had it written that way because he knew Westerns, but didn't know anything about Sci Fi; I think it's his wife who said this and said that the same script works if they have revolvers and horses rather than phasors and space ships.
@Northwest Actually, Roddenberry did write several, and he also came up with the idea; from the IMDB's info on TOS (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0060028/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cst_sm):
And since there had been a huge wave of Westerns on TV & in film, I'm guessing it was also a comfortable spot for others involved. He had experience noted in the Wikipedia article (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series):
Roddenberry had extensive experience in writing for series about the Old West that had been popular television fare in the 1950s and 1960s. Armed with this background, he characterized the new show in his first draft as "Wagon Train to the stars".[8][12] Like the familiar Wagon Train, each episode was to be a self-contained adventure story, set within the structure of a continuing voyage through space.
(The IMDB bears out his writing background.)
And while he hadn't worked on a bunch of Sci-Fi, it seems it was an early passion of his. Theodore Sturgeon write two episodes (and Shari Lewis wrote one!).
Here's more of the wikipedia on the influences Roddenberry cited:
Roddenberry noted a number of influences on his idea, some of which includes A. E. van Vogt's tales of the spaceship Space Beagle, Eric Frank Russell's Marathon series of stories, and the film Forbidden Planet (1956). Some have also drawn parallels with the television series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954), a space opera that included many of the elements integral to Star Trek—the organization, crew relationships, missions, part of the bridge layout, and some technology.[7]:24 Roddenberry also drew heavily from C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels that depict a daring sea captain who exercises broad discretionary authority on distant sea missions of noble purpose. He often humorously referred to Captain Kirk as "Horatio Hornblower in Space".[11]
Bashir was overly horny, he kept getting rejected.
Wesley had that one episode where he was up for anything, and the writers of the show changed direction for him. Except for that other episode where the 16year old Wil Wheaton kissed that 26year old actress.
Quark has to be the biggest creep. He used his holo-suites as a brothel. He had a clause in his employees contracts that made it mandatory for them to sleep with him... Not to mention he tried to scan Kira that time to make a sex hologram of her. And he let little Jake Sisko into his establishment with all the shady shit going on... That was very bad parenting on Ben Sisko's part though.
@cootiespie They were mail order brides, intended for settlers on Ophiuchus III, who felt they had low or no chance of scoring a husband wherever they hailed from.
The entire Enterprise crew, with the exception of Spock, of course, had a boner for them. Kirk was also afflicted. This was 1966, and they wrote SciFi just like they did westerns.
@cootiespie It's my favorite of all the series. It requires the mindset that this is the 1st Starship and predates Kirk and the Forming of the Federation. Archer and his crew are out there on their own and with the exception of Vulcans, which T'pol is, every species is new to them
