"Star Trek": Space Opera or Space Sitcom...? Plus Eggcentricity XI

Willy, in “The Sunshine Boys,”

insists he knows which words are funny.

Willy’s claim’s no empty noise.

Nope, Willy’s claim’s right on the money.

     “Listen, Ben, to what I say!”

(Ben is his nephew.) “’Pickle’s funny…

...duck…all words that start with K...

...‘cake,’ ‘dick,’ ‘rake,’ ‘schtick’… Believe me, Sonny!”

     In “Star Trek,” Roddenberry frames

his scripts with ten gazillion roles,

(some leads, some bits) with off-world names

that christen critters, gnomes ‘n’ trolls.

     One cannot fail to note the horde

that start with (or contain) a K:

Kes, Kahless, Kang 'n' Kargan, too...

as well as Kirk 'n' Spock 'n' Korrd.

     Sure, space remains the last frontier,

but there's not space to name ‘em all --

though, were I to, ‘twould soon be clear

their sum would come to quite a haul.

     Which begs the question: why does Gene

employ so many names with K…?

Does trekkies Roddenberry mean

to take “Trek” in a funny way…? 

Eggcentric Walt:
G'oeuf'y