This occurred to me when posting in LSCatalina's thread "No Star Trek". WI Gene Roddenberry couldn't get any US channel interested in Star Trek but on a visit to the UK persuaded the Beeb to make it?
"These are the voyages of the Star Ship Ark Royal, its five year mission to explore......"
I don't think that the captain would be called James T Kirk, or Christopher Pike but may well have still been Robert April whom a lot of Trek fiction (ok Dianne Carey) has coming from Coventry.
Who would be casted?