Misc Information

THE OPENING

The first two seasons had Shatner's voice-over during the opening credits as:
"Space... the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."

For the third season, it was changed to:
"Space... a final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."

For "The Cage", they didn't have any voice-over, just the music.
NAMES

It is generally agreed that Kirk's full name is "James Tiberius Kirk". It was only given as "James T. Kirk" in TOS, the "Tiberius" didn't come around until TAS ("Bem") and the novels. In "Where No Man Has Gone Before", Gary Mitchell makes a gravestone for Kirk that says "James R. Kirk", apparently before Gene had settled on a middle name.

Spock's other name (you couldn't pronounce it, as he told the blonde in "This Side of Paradise") isn't given in the television series or the film series. It is given in one or more of the books if you care to believe them. According to the Officer's Manual, it is Xtmprszntwlfd (pronounced with six syllables).

McCoy's middle initial is given in "Friday's Child" and the film series as "H". Some novels have it as "H", others as "T". Geoffrey Mandel's Officer's Manual lists his middle name as Horatio.

As a general rule, Vulcan males have five-letter names starting with "S" and ending with "K" (Spock, Sybok, Sarek, etc.) in honor of Surak, and Vulcan females have names starting with "T'" (T'Pau, T'Pring, etc.). The explanations for Saavik are range from "she's part Romulan, so the naming convention didn't hold" to "Her name is T'Saavik, but the "T'S" is too hard to pronounce" to "the Romulans deliberately gave her a male name, as an insult".

Klingon names seem to lean toward starting with a "K". One novel asserts that this rule actually applies only to high-ranking officers, and one of the Klingon characters received a battlefield promotion. His companions implicitly knew that his name was now K____ rather than V____.

Other names from Geoffrey Mandel's Officer Manual: Montgomery Edward Scott, Itaka Sulu (though George prefers Walter and Gene and some novels call him Hikaru) , Upenda Uhura (some sources say Nyota), Pavel Andreievich Chekov (also stated as such in "The Way To Eden"), and Christopher Robin Pike.
SPEED

The fastest the original Enterprise has gone (not counting "off the scale") was 14.1 in "That Which Survives". For TOS, speed is (warp ^ 3) * c, which yields: 
         warp    c 
         ----  ----
          1       1
          2       8
          3      27
          4      64
          5     125
          6     216
          7     343
          8     512
          9     729
         10    1000
         11    1331
         12    1728
         13    2197
         14.1  2803.221
STARDATES, YEARS, AGES, ETC.

In TOS the stardates ranged from 1513 ("The Man Trap") to 5928 ("Turnabout Intruder"). At this time Gene had intended for stardates to be based on Julian dates modulo 10000, with one stardate being 24 hours in length. There are numerous examples where this is false. Some of the most blatant are The Immunity Syndrome (where a quick calculation shows that one stardate is less than 2.5 hours) and Requiem for Methuselah (where one stardate figures out to be about 960 hours). There are a few episodes where the stardates actually decrease during the show. See also the numerous timelines that get posted to the rec.arts.startrek newsgroup on Usenet. 

     1992-1997 Eugenics Wars (according to Off Manual/TMP novel)
     1993-1996 Eugenics War (according to TOS "Space Seed")
     2018      Last use of sleeper ships (according to Space Seed)
     2031-2039 Clone Wars (according to Off Manual (80)/TMP novel)
     2035      US gets 52nd state (according to TNG "The Royale")
     2047      Mind Control Revolt (according to Off Manual/TMP novel)
     2049      First Kzinti Invasion of Earth (according to Off Manual)
     2064      Kzinti Invasions Halt (according to Off Manual)
     2079      All United Earth "nonsense" abolished (according to TNG
               "Encounter at Farpoint")
     The year in TOS is somewhere between 2260 and 2286.
     The Officer's Manual says TMP took place in 2265.
     The year  on a bottle  of Romulan Ale  is given in  TOS  "The Wrath of
               Khan" as 2283(?)
     Khan was marooned for 15 years at the time of ST2.
     TNG is 93-100 years after TOS, and 78-79 years after TMP.
     TOS "Ballentine Concordance (1976)": Gives McCoy's age as 45.
     TOS "Who Mourns for Adonais": Chekov gives his age as 22.
     TOS "The Deadly Years": Kirk's age is given as 34.
     TNG "The Neutral Zone": Data gives the year as 2364.
     TNG "Encounter at Farpoint": McCoy's age is given as 137.
     TOS "Journey to Babel": Sarek's age is given as 102.437.
     TNG "Sarek": Sarek's age is given as 202.
     TNG "The Schizoid Man": Wes  said  "Data,  chronologically, you're not
               much older than I am."
     TNG "DataLore": Data says he was found 26 years ago.
     TNG "Datalore": Data  details  exactly  how many years he spent at the 
               Academy, how many as an ensign, etc. Counting backwards from
               stardate 41xxx.x would give his grad date.
     TNG "Encounter at Farpoint": Data graduated SFA  in the class of '78
               with Honors in Dextral Biology and Probability Mechanics.
     TNG "Encounter at Farpoint": The Post-Atomic Age started in 2078.
     TNG "Encounter at Farpoint"  (and the Officers Manual): the New United
               Nations  was  formed in 2036  (the Officers Manual says this 
               happened during the Clone Wars).
     Kirk was born in the year 2228 in Riverside,  Iowa,  where a statue of
               him has been erected.
     The book "The Final Reflection" (non-canon, but who really cares) puts
               the lifespan of a  Klingon at about 40 years (Terran).  Worf
               would be about 15, by this reckoning.  
     William Shatner was born on March 22, 1931
     Leonard Nimoy was born on March 26, 1931.
     DeForest Kelley was born on Jan 20, 1920
SNAFUs

"Space Seed": As Kirk is bashing in Khan's glass coffin, his phaser falls off his belt. McCoy keeps looking down at it, like he's wondering when they're going to yell 'cut' so they can re-shoot the scene. They never did re-shoot because they didn't want to invest in more glass.

"Operation: Annihilate!": In a well-known ST blooper, the amoeba-creature accidentally hits Spock's rear end instead of his back.

"Court-Martial": Kirk says "Gentlemen, this computer has an auditory sensor. It can, in effect, hear sounds. By installing a booster we can increase that capability on the order of one to the fourth power" (which the writers seemed to think sounded more impressive than "one") :-) (and we just have to assume that the voices and other ship noises were masked out like the heartbeats were)

"The Squire of Gothos": Trelane sees Earth history 900 years late, but since he talks of Alexander Hamilton's death (1804) and of how he admires Napoleon (whose reign started in 1804). This would put the episode sometime just after 2704. This is more than four centuries too late.

ST2:TWoK: When Khan comforts his fallen comrade (the guy with the blond hair) you can see that guy closed his eyes even though he is "dead".
WHAT ARE WE

Trekkie: A groupie fan. Someone who wears Spock ears and thinks that makes them important. Asks questions like "what did you have for breakfast on the Tuesday when you shot scene 46a of episode 5?" The most die-hard fan, who lives, eats, and breathes Star Trek. Term originated in the late 1960s.

Trekker: A fan who is interested in the show and the idea of Star Trek, but doesn't let it interfere with his/her life. This is apparently being added to an upcoming edition of Webster's Dictionary. Term came into popularity in the 1970s when the press gave "Trekkie" a bad name.

trekker: (with a small "t") A person who travels vast distances.

Trekologist: A fan who enjoys collecting Star Trek technical literature and trying to logically and rationally explain continuity errors in the show.

Treknician: A fan who enjoys collecting data (and debating with others) on the technical aspect of Star Trek (warp technology, transporter technology, etc.).
CREW BACKGROUNDS

James Tiberius Kirk is from Riverside, Iowa; he was married in "The Paradise Syndrome", and is now a widower. He was also in love (if he knows the meaning of the word) with someone named "Ruth" ("Shore Leave"), and mentioned that he almost married that cute little blonde lab technician that Gary Mitchell steered Kirk's way ("Where No Man Has Gone Before") which some have guessed to be none other than Carol Marcus. See also the "Love Interests" monthly posting in rec.arts.startrek for further details.

Leonard McCoy was in love with someone named "Nancy", whom the salt-sucker takes the form of in "The Man Trap". They were going to mention in one episode that he had been married with a daughter named Joanna, but it never made it on film.

Chekov's ex-girlfriend (Irena [Irini?] Galliulin) is seen in "The Way To Eden".
UNTELEVISED TOS EPISODES
"Patterns of Force" was never shown in Germany.

A black and white original of "The Cage" was pieced back together with the color clips stolen for "The Menagerie" which has since been televised. Just before the premier of TNG, Paramount "found" a copy of "The Cage" which was all in color (which they then televised). It is marred by drastic changes in the Talosians' voices in mid-sentence, otherwise it is fun to watch (along with a grinning, shouting Spock). The color version they show now has been cut down to an hour and has Spock's famous "grinning at the singing plants" scene removed. Sigh.

Yes, "Assignment: Earth" was indeed a pilot that never got off the ground. One of a few. Gene wanted to create some more shows. The reference for this is in the book The Making of Star Trek, (the white cover, not the silver one).

The Great Bird was involved with pilots for three different new TV series in the early seventies:

Three different pilots were apparently shot for one of the series, not unlike the series of pilots that had to be shot to get "Star Trek" into production. The first of these was "Genesis II," starring Alex Cord and Mariette Hartley. In it, Dylan Hunt, a NASA scientist doing research on suspended animation in an underground lab, gets accidentally buried for a half millennium or so, and emerges into a post-nuclear-holocaust world. The story concerns the interaction of two societies, one devoted to Good Works and the progression of all humankind, and the other to being Nazi-style lords and masters. "Planet Earth" was the second pilot. Set in the same future, with minor alterations in background and format, it starred John Saxon as Dylan Hunt, with folks like Diana Muldaur and Janet Margolin in major parts. It was just an extended TV episode with some good stuff in it; a mutant warrior race called the Kriegs (sp? never saw a script in print) look a *great* deal like retconned Klingons. The third movie, apparently a sort of a last-ditch attempt to produce a network-acceptable pilot, was called "Strange New World," and completely gutted the earlier forms of the series format. It starred John Saxon in the lead, but no one else I ever heard of, and was such a lox I can understand why G.R.'s name wasn't on it. It seemed to be three scripts pasted together, end-to-end.

Roddenberry made two other pilots during this era: "Spectre" and "The Questor Tapes." "Spectre" was a lovely idea that could have made a great series, since its format allowed the inclusion of most major horror fiction, even including H.P. Lovecraft's "elder gods." It starred Robert Culp and Gig Young, and is a *FUN* movie, if you ever get a chance to see it. I believe it would have gone series, if made in the last few years, but at the end of the Nixon era, horror, even humorous horror, was unacceptable fare to the majority of TV watchers. ("Spectre" deals with an occult investigator and his M.D. sidekick, who keep getting involved with nasty superbeings from other times and dimensions; the hero's housekeeper is a witch, and puts a no-drinking geas on the alcoholic M.D. sidekick in the opening scenes.)

"The Questor Tapes" starred Robert Foxworth and Mike Farrell, providing some of the best acting ever seen in a TV SF movie. (Foxworth does a scene as the robot learning how to use vocal inflection while carrying on a conversation with the first human it's ever spoken with.) The movie suffers a bit from the obviousness of the series format it sets up; noble alien with sidekick, on the run from various governmental authorities, while trying to learn human emotions and fulfill its mission to help the human race. A bit of a yawn in print, but it could have been a *good* series, with decent writing.

Dorothy C. Fontana wrote a novelization of "The Questor Tapes" in paperback, and you might be able to find it in a used book store. I believe scripts for at least the best four are available from "Lincoln Enterprises," or folks like that.

In the still shots during the credits of "The Immunity Syndrome" (and others) there is a picture of a rubbery-faced man with blank eyes. This is from "Return To Tomorrow" but wasn't aired with the episode. Sargon was building android bodies, which were actually actors covered in latex-like rubbery stuff. They filmed him as he was removing the latex (in the background, a props man is saying, "You wanted showbiz, you got showbiz..."). One still of this ended up in the credits. The whole shot ended up on the blooper reel for that season. As far as I know, it is the only still which doesn't come from an actual Star Trek scene.
AWARDS

MISC TRIVIA

James Doohan is missing the middle finger of his right hand. It can be seen in brief shots (especially in the early episodes). Whenever they needed to show Scotty's hands (like when he operated the transporter) they had a stand-in and showed a close-up. ("Cut! All right, bring in the stunt hands.") Doohan tried to keep his right hand under tables and behind his back as much as possible.

"The Man Trap": Spock says that Vulcan has no moon (when Uhura mentions romance). Some of the books say it has one or two moons/sister planets.

Majel Leigh Hudec is Majel Barrett's real name. She took the name Barrett to fool NBC so they would hire her for Christine Chapel (they never knew that the blond Majel Barrett was the same person as the brunette whom they fired as Number One). Some volume of "The Best of Trek" stated that Number One and Christine Chapel were sisters.

The Klingons and the Romulans had a trade agreement of sorts, for technology. The Klingons got cloaking devices (according to non-canon sources), the Romulans got Klingon warships (see "The Enterprise Incident") and warp technology (from non-canon sources). Also, there is some speculation (again, non-canon) that the Bird of Prey as seen in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" and "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", plus several times in Star Trek: The Next Generation, was originally a Romulan design.

"The Paradise Syndrome": "He Has Walked Among Us" and "Paleface" were combined into "The Paradise Syndrome", according to speculation by Allen Asherman and David Gerrold. Reportedly, only Gene Coon knew for sure, and of course he's been dead for about 15 years...

"The City On the Edge of Forever": If you want H. Ellison's original script for "The City On the Edge of Forever", look for a book called "Six Science Fiction Plays", edited by Roger Elwood. It's a paperback, published in 1976 by Pocket Books under the Washington Square Press imprint. It was distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Simon & Schuster. I have no idea if it's still in print. If it isn't, check your local library, used book stores, and the dealer's room at your next convention. There must be copies out there somewhere. According to Elwood's foreword, this was the first time Ellison's original uncut script was published. It's preceded by a ten-page introduction that Ellison wrote especially for this book, telling his version of the transformation of his script into what was eventually telecast. The book also contains these scripts: ("Sting!" is a movie screenplay; "The Mechanical Bride" is a teleplay; the others are stage plays)

According to the Star Trek Compendium: DeForest Kelley mentioned at a con once that TOS cost $200,000 for an average episode, though records seem to show it as $100,000 to $120,000.
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