  parody? at least it makes a bit more sense getting between stars in less than weeks of travel time.  rodenbury said he got the idea from wagon train.. i never remember wagontrain gettin cross country in under 3 months or so. but there was new people formin up every few weeks for another journey.  rodenburry said somethin about running outa galaxy if he made warpspeed too fast. with  warp 10 max it takes about 20 hours to get between close stars this IS very like loveboat, or wagon train but only new york to paris or new york to la, not new york to philly to cincinnati to stlouis to salt lake to la theres no stops along the wagon train...        