That's Ivonne Craig. I remember that episode.
Why Does Star Trek Endure And What Is The Secret Of its Success ?
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And she was Bat Girl too.
Yes. Gorgeous in tight leather. I remember it well.
...they sure did...salt and pepper shakers for medical scanners, among other things....
They had to - their budget was pretty low.
For its time fame Treks special effects were cutting edge..
The first trek Pilot The Cage is easily one of the best Trek episodes. I liked Jeffry Hunter as Captain Pike and thought him a pretty god actor and I liked Pike. I wish he had been able to stay with the series if not as the main character in re-occurring role. What would also been interesting is they had initially made The Cage as a Feature film, that might have been helpful in promoting the future tv series.
The Budget was the Reason, they had to "Beam" Persons.They had to - their budget was pretty low.
It was to Expensive to express Landings of a Spaceship, so they had to
create a new Transportation System
Season 3 of the original series is considered to be the worst , for a number of reasons.
You've got several things going all at once with Star Trek and it's "kids." First, a truly hopeful, if admittedly impossible (now matter how much tech we get we're not curing humans of being, well, human). Along with science fiction, you have a format that lets the writers tell pretty much any story they want in any setting they want. Nazis? Romans? alien society. Some weird fantasy Robin Hood tale? A Q/God/Alien wizard did it. Plus with the cast as a crew, everyone had a clearly defined role within the show with none of that "why is that person even on this show?" business. Plus, because it was "science fiction" it provided a "spoonful of make-believe" to help the social consciousness go down. The first kiss between a black woman and a white man didn't happen on The Virginian. It happened on Star Trek.
Discovery is apparently going to to allow character conflict. That bodes pretty well of the show.
Next Generation and DS9 had occasional character conflict, or at least disagreement. I can't speak much to Voyager or Enterprise. I quit watching the first after what seemed like the 8000th "spatial anomaly" and the latter's theme song made me throw up in my mouth. Also, I kept expecting Dean Stockwell to show up and tell the Captain he was going to have to dress like a Klingon female to quantum leap out of that time period.