Star Trek Valiant updates

For Star Trek Adventures: Valiant we’re semi-seriously going with an imagined late 60s to early 70s spinoff. I’m going with a Strange New Worlds look in my head, but joining in anyway.

The Wild Bunch star Robert Ryan (Gene Roddenberry’s first choice for Commodore Decker) is now our captain.

I admit a lack of knowledge of 60s-70s film and TV stars who aren’t already from genre things, so Commander Melnyk is now played by Ann-Margret.

Of course this means she can dance.

(And if the Valiant shows up in Strange New Worlds we can get Katherine McNamara for a pretty good likeness.)

I also suggested the theme for Judd For The Defense by Alexander Courage, which already sounds like a Western rather than a lawyer show so why not? Elegiac orchestral themes post The Motion Picture are much easier to come by.