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Don't underestimate the power of "We need a cheap episode, where's the literal decades of western props we keep in storage?"
In case of TOS, they literally pitched it as a kind of Western but in space to the studios due to the popularity of the genre on TV (both DeForest Kelly and Shatner had also already appeared in Western serials).