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Fun reminder that Lucille Ball is the only reason that Star Trek exists.
As the head of Desilu Productions, she green-lighted a pilot; then when it was deemed "too cerebral" by the networks, funded a financially-risky SECOND pilot that got the series picked up by NBC.
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