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No, I'm right - period.

In the mid Sixties Paramount was just a studio, not the part-time network they are today. They made pilots and tried to sell them to the networks. Nobody bought the first Star Trek pilot. Lost in Space went on the air on CBS and was a hit. Then, as you write, "Paramount decided to take another look after Lost in Space aired and greenlighted a second pilot". At that point NBC bought the show. It's reasonable to conclude that that decision was driven by the success of Lost in Space. Therefore, Star Trek would have remained just another one of the thousands of failed and forgotten pilots if not for Lost In Space.

>>Star Trek...reached a more adult audience with thought provoking ideas, analogies and visions of a better future.<<

Not true. Star Trek was cancelled because its audience was largely teenagers and children, not the adults that advertisers wanted. As for "visions of a better future", I'm not sure that I'd characterize a militarist - if not outright fascist - state like the Federation as a "better future". I've never seen any evidence that the Federation is a democracy.

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