10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Original Star Trek

io9 ^ | August 4, 2011 | Charlie Jane Anders and Mandy Curtis

[Politicalmom]

And she played Counselor Troi’s mother in TNG.

[mikrofon]

Arm the Hootron torpedoes!

[GOPJ]

...top NASA scientists visited the set of the bridge in the 60s to see what they thought. They agreed that most of the situation would be realized in our future.. warp speed, space travel, even transporters. The one thing they all agreed would never happen was getting doors to open and close by themselves...

That's a great story - thanks for sharing.

[Politicalmom]

I LOVE “How Much for Just the Planet?”.

[tanknetter]

Real reason was TOS had a crappy budget and couldn’t afford the prosthetic foreheads.

I really liked how they dealt with the incongruity in the DS9 episode "Trial and Tribbleations".

No one from the uptime DS9 crew could figure out that the smooth forehead Klingons were really Klingons. When they (I think it was Chief O'Brien) asked Worf about it his response was a typically curt "It is something we don't discuss with outsiders".

I think they should have just left it at that, rather than trying to deal with it retroactively in Enterprise.

[DejaJude]

Job security is being Mrs. Gene Roddenberry. Viewers don't like the Mrs.? We'll give her a new character.

Except Mrs. Roddenberry wasn't Majel in 1966. He didn't divorce his first wife until 1969. Majel seems to be his preferred mistress at the time.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping...

http://www.imayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/startrek/index.htm

[KevinDavis]

It was both Nichelle and Majel.. Gene used to sleep with a lot of females in his office. Lucy did hear about what Gene was doing and told him to stop it.

[DejaJude]

Read Q in Law and How Much for Just the Planet?

Wasn't Q a STNG character? Never read any of those. I went to Amazon to check out How Much for Just the Planet. Never read it, and I'm not sure I would want to. However, I did like the movie Galaxy Quest.

[GeronL]

lol I must have totally forgotten the Mayberry thing.

I noticed the list did not include the original run had the lowest rating at the time.

[GeronL]

lol I must have totally forgotten the Mayberry thing.

I noticed the list did not include the original run had the lowest rating at the time.

[DejaJude]

I still re-read mine. I think that one might have been the one where they all told the stories about their Kobayashi Maru tests.

I don't have mine anymore. I had to move so many times that books were donated to used book stores. A search of Amazon shows that the title of the novel is The Kobayashi Maru. It had humor, suspense, drama and a happy outcome. I think it was the inspiration for the newest ST movie where the new cadets were assigned their posts.

[Malone LaVeigh]

There’s an old saying, I don’t know if it applies to her, but... “No matter how hot she is, somewhere there’s a guy who’s tired of putting up with her sh!t.”

IIRC, her husband was into the swinging scene. Something she was uncomfortable with. She probably got tired of his $h!t.

[ApplegateRanch]

Chekov wasn’t in season one, and therefore never met Khan, making the confrontation on Seti Alpha 5 — in which Khan recognizes Chekov — a nonsequitur.

Checkov, while totally not in Season I, was still alive, even if unseen, in that time frame.

My theory is, he met Khan in a spaceport bar during a layover, while making a connection back to earth, on his way to enter the Academy.

Khan was not about to forget (future) Ensign Chekov, because he took Khan for 5 bars of latinum, plus 50 quatloos, in a game of Cripple Mister Onion, an ancient card game they had both learned from reading classic Diskworld novels....

[MarkL]

Second, what the hell happened to the Klingons. In the original series they didn’t have bumpy foreheads but they did in all the later series.

Hmmmph! Apparantly you never saw the episode of Deep Space 9 where they went back in time to the "Trouble with Tribbles" episode. Mr. Wharf was one of the time travelers, and when the rest of the crew didn't recognize the "old style" Klingons, he got all grumpy and said that it wasn't something they discussed with non-Klingons!

Mark

[MarkL]

The Andorians pop back up in “Enterprise”.

Remember, "Enterprise" predates ST-TOS by a century or more, I believe.

Mark

[MarkL]

Re: The green Orion Slave Girls...

I recall reading that when the film was sent to the labs after filming, the prints came back color corrected, so the slave girls were no longer green. I believe that happened more than one time.

Mark

[MarkL]

The one thing they all agreed would never happen was getting doors to open and close by themselves..

The automatic door work just fine at Walmart. Hmmmph, "scientists!"

Mark

[MarkL]

7of9 never "did it" for me. I was far more into Kess (Jennifer Lien)

Mark

[MarkL]

For one of these, just go to "ThinkGeek."

Here's a quote from the site:

In the Star Trek universe, the Red Shirt is the phase-cannon fodder obliterated on screen to alert the audience to the danger of the situation. It's Roddenberry proclaiming, "We could have just killed one of the characters you cared about!" The Red Shirt is a sci-fi idiom for the anonymous, the expendable, the smoking boots behind a boulder. We've printed that word, "Expendable," in a Trekish font on a red 50% polyester/50% cotton jersey ringer with black rib-knit collar and cuffs.

Just don't stand next to us when you wear that thing.

Mark