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{{quote|''"In a matter of seconds, the plaza had gone from a ghostly quiet to a shoot out that would have been at home in a holodrama about the Old West."''|''The Backwards Mask (Traveller New Era Trilogy)'' by Matthew Carson}}
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Many settings end the similarities there, in spirit, while others seem to have the people [[In the Style Of|deliberately aping the style]] of [[The Wild West]] in response to the situation. Basically, the question is when the hero(es) comes riding/flying into town, how many of them are wearing cowboy hats.
Depending on how epic the story is, a
Compare [[New Old West]], [[Cattle Punk]], [[Samurai Cowboy]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Many of the ''[[2000 AD]]'' strips set in the [[Judge Dredd|Cursed Earth]] play out like [[Spaghetti Western
** The batch of early ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' stories set on Luna 1 were modeled especially as a western set on Earth's moon.
* ''[[Just a Pilgrim]]'' is explicitly based on Western tropes.
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== [[Fanfic]] ==
* The ''Star-Crossed'' story cycle of ''[[Undocumented Features]]'' features a pair of strangers arriving in a frontier settlement, both trying to escape their
== [[Film]] ==
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*** Tatooine is pretty much the Wild West of Star Wars, with little law enforcement, savage natives wanting their land, farms, shady saloons, smugglers, all set on an endlessly sprawling desert.
*** It's like a [[Louis L'Amour]] novel...'''[[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]] !!!'''
* [[Peter David]] wrote a
* ''[[Moon Zero Two]]'' (a movie mostly known these days by having been featured on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'') was actually advertised as "the first Moon Western"
* ''[[The American Astronaut]]'' is a
* Ironically, ''[[Space Cowboys]]'' wasn't a western at all. Despite the presence of Clint Eastwood.
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* [[L. Ron Hubbard]]'s ''[[Battlefield Earth]]''. Kinda sorta.
* [[Poul Anderson]] and [[Gordon R. Dickson]]'s first [[Hoka]] story features the Hokas cheerfully recreating the Wild West.
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'' has a story ''The Tale of the Adopted Daughter'' which takes place on a frontier planet that is a Western in
* Parodied in ''[http://www.spacewesterns.com/articles/1/ Bat Durston, Space Marshall]'', a short story by G. Richard Bozarth.
* ''Dragonfall 5 and the Space Cowboys'', one of the sci-fi juveniles by Brian Earnshaw.
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* Gene Roddenberry pitched ''[[Star Trek]]'' to the networks as a "[[Wagon Train to the Stars]]" (naming that trope.)
** Almost every [[Star Trek]] series had at least one Western episode: ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' had "North Star", the original series had "Spectre of the Gun", and ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' had "A Fistful of Datas".
** Although not a
*** The producers stated that ''Deep Space Nine'' was ''[[The Rifleman]]'' [[In Space]].
*** ''Gunsmoke'' would work just as well.
* ''Earth 2'' is a pretty straight Wagon Train ripoff, just one set on a different planet.
* ''[[True Jackson, VP|True Jackson]]'' has a
* [[Red Dwarf]] episode "Gunmen of the Apocalypse"
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S8/E04 Colony in Space|Colony in Space]]''. As ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' puts it: "Bullets richochet through this story of [[Determined Homesteader|stouthearted frontiersmen]], [[Magical Native American|inscrutable natives]], and [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|ruthless claim-jumpers]]".
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Rifts]]'' features a number of
* The D20 game ''Dinosaur Planet: Broncosaurus Rex'' is a space western on an alien planet with dinosaurs.
* ''[[Traveller]]'': The default setting is The Spinward Marches, a semi-civilized place with constant low-key mayhem going on in between wars. Traveller has plenty of room for [[The Epic|epic]] [[The Quest|quests]], gigantic [[Space Battle]] s and secrets that [[Man Was Not Meant to Know]]. But it also has low-key adventures for when the players are in a lighter mood.
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** Not to mentioned the cowboy hat-clad parallel universe.
* ''[[Wild West Cowboys of Moo Mesa]]'' features alien [[Funny Animal|"cattle" men]]. The tie-in merchandise stated that the characters were the result of a weird radioactive meteor mutating Earth's animal life.
* ''[[Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors]]'' combined
* An episode of the ''[[Superfriends]]'' from the 4th
== [[New Media]] ==
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