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Don't forget the word-word-for word replay of the destruct sequence from "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield."

She disdainfully spoke about the experience on a Later With Bob Costas appearance once. She couldn't even remember Robert Lansing's name, referring to him as "another guy" she would have had to do the show with. Frankly, I always thought "The Omega Glory" got too much of a bum rap by...

"All Our Yesterdays" which was the next to last episode was something of a budget-saver in that it's the only episode in the entire run of the show not to have any scenes aboard the Enterprise and Scotty is only heard in a voiceover. The earlier draft of the script had them beaming up and the...

"Assignment Earth" I felt was a weak-tea premise for a show. I've always found it amusing to see all the concerns of "don't violate the Prime Directive" applied to Kirk, but when you get right down to it, whoever Gary Seven works for is the ultimate violator of a "Prime Directive" there is...

It's in the Cushman book. :)

The amusing thing about Trek and "My Three Sons" airing opposite each other is that part of "City On The Edge Of Forever" (the Mission sets) was filmed on their soundstage since "Sons" had by then wrapped up production for the season.

Someone once posted scans of this Viewmaster (with written captions of the descriptions from each picture included) on YT set to generic music. I downloaded that and made a new version with some regular Trek music to underscore it (Including the cue from "Omega Glory" itself).

I have always had zero patience with Ellison's angry-man crusade over what happened with "City" especially the way he tried to basically have his cake and eat it too by taking the plaudits over writing what most fans called the best episode ever of Trek but at the same time acting like what he...

Re: "A Piece Of The Action." Anyone ever notice that James Doohan does the voice of that radio DJ ("Brought to you by Bang-Bang!")?

I do agree that it didn't register at the time. In fact I don't think it ever registered for a long time that Kirk and Khan never come face-to-face in the story and only talk on monitors and com-lines (the reason of course being Montalban's limited schedule). Trek II was indeed such an...

I think the difference though comes down to the fact that Rojan gets "Federation integration" meaning there's going to be a ton of supervised exchange and regular contact, whereas Khan as we know was left on his own and the key thing is there was *zero follow up*. And for me that's the one...

Exactly! Khan did far *less* than Rojan and the Kelvans did (Khan never actually killed anyone) but look how he got treated compared to the Kelvans who are going to get the welcome wagon from the Federation as opposed to "exile" (Frankly Kirk should have turned the tables on Rojan by making...

The reason I like "A Piece Of The Action" is that it just gives us a straight-ahead comedy from start to finish (and anchors it in a not too off-the-wall premise for sci-fi that a book left behind on 1920s Chicago could be turned into a "Bible" by an alien race). You know what you're in for...

I'd love to put audio of him getting a "Sit on it, Kirk!" set to a clip of Shatner sitting in his chair in Tribbles and abruptly bolting up. :)

That also included Takei doing a guest shot on "Mission" and Walter Koenig doing one "Mannix" when they weren't needed on Trek.

The only problem with this line of thinking though is that it presumes that the Cold War ended because we "put aside our differences" but that is not the case at all. The Cold War ended when the people of Eastern Europe and the USSR decided they'd had enough of the system that was responsible...

IMO D.C. Fontana vastly improved City in the final end result. Ellison got lost in his bizarre little subplots about the drug-dealing Beckwith (and committed a cardinal sin of TV writing by making his victim a character with a similar sounding last name) and wasted time getting to the point...

I can tell you exactly why Herb was annoyed by Richard's proposed continuation. Because Richard's obsession with doing it his way undermined the aborted Tom DeSanto project that Herb and Dirk Benedict were already signed up for. That's the reason why Herb and Dirk aren't in Richard's...

Not to mention the ultimate hypocrite. Here's a guy who spent his whole life playing the martyr crusading against the supposed evil of what other people do to another person's work.......and then he delivered Ron Moore a slobbering kiss for doing just that to Battlestar Galactica while...

And over time, you wonder how many of the "stories" they tell at Conventions is really how it happened or if it's just a case of giving the fans what they want to hear and knowing they can earn extra money telling them stories. It's the same principle behind how retired baseball players used...

Joan had just started to get back into acting after taking a few years off to have two children during her marriage to Anthony Newley (who at the time was at the peak of his popularity). The TV guest circuit was basically a way to earn some "mad money" as she called it so I'm sure for her it...

I belong to several Battlestar Galactica (REAL ONE!) FB groups and we don't have those problems. OTOH, the one time I was part of a Trek TOS group, things got ridiculous over time and I quit.

Leslie Parrish wore the same Greco outfit again in an episode of "Mannix" later in the same season when she's posing for a sculptor.

Big problem with "The Apple." When you look at its core plot, it's the same premise as "Who Mourns For Adonias" (a "god" is holding the Enterprise hostage but its power is broken thanks to a sustained phaser blast at the power source) You can disguise it with different superficial elements...

Here's my problem. Wouldn't Hedford have been successfully treated on the Enterprise and been able to resume her diplomatic duties if the Companion hadn't interfered and brought them to the planet? That's the sticking point for me.

"All Our Yesterdays" is a true classic and is IMO the best of the "romance" Trek episodes. Because "City On The Edge Of Forever" cut the only scene that indicates Edith Keeler reciprocating romantic interest in Kirk, "All Our Yesterdays" is more effective because of the reciprocal feeling...

A classic case of what happens when the "MacGuffin" of the story is far more compelling than the "main" story of the episode. It throws me off completely and consequently I don't care about the whole Rayna business (no fault of Louise Sorel, who was the best thing about the short-lived 1979...

To me the biggest "what-if?" on "Enterprise Incident" is what if the first choice for the Romulan Commander, Lee Grant hadn't turned down the part. Linville was okay, but Grant would have been IMO outstanding.

"Elaan" is pretty much Trek doing "Taming Of The Shrew" for the most part. Jay Robinson (Petri) is best known for being the insane Emperor Caligula in "The Robe" and its sequel "Demetrius And The Gladiators"

Jessica Walter was who they wanted initially for "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" (she had played Shatner's wife on his short-lived "For The People" series the year before Trek) but was unavailable, which was why Muldaur got her second turn.