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Netflix's Lost in Space vs. CBS' Star Trek: Discovery

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Netflix recently debuted their reboot of Irwin Allen's classic 1965 sci-fi series Lost in Space, making it the second high-profile reboot of a notoriously campy 1960s sci-fi TV series in as many years. Last year, of course, also saw the release of Star Trek: Discovery, the seventh show to bear the Trek title. And while Star Trek and Lost in Space were incredibly different shows in terms of tone and premise – Gene Roddenberry himself famously discouraged comparing the two – they do frequently occupy the same cognitive space in the minds of sci-fi fans. Not only are they contemporaneous shows of a common genre, but they also share common attitudes rooted in the glories and hardships of American frontier life in the early days of Manifest Destiny. Star Trek was Wagon Train, and Lost in Space was The Swiss Family Robinson (which was a Swiss novel, yes, but was famously transposed to America in a 1940 feature film).

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