Star Trek and the Characters

 SPOCK HAS GREENISH SKIN, BUT IT WAS ORIGINALLY MEANT TO BE RED.


While Spock’s skin has a slight green tint to it, the original plan was to give him red skin. But back in the mid- to late 1960s, a majority of households still had black and white televisions, so his skin would appear very dark when viewed on their sets. In one early episode, however, Spock looked really green. Someone messed up the color palette that day. One wonders if the chance to see the shows in color during their subsequent syndicated runs helped lure new viewers and give excited longtime fans the chance to re-watch the episodes in a way they had never seen them before

 MAJEL BARRETT RODDENBERRY HAS WORKED ON EVERY STAR TREK SERIES.



Majel Barrett Roddenberry returned in many episodes of the original series to play Nurse Christine Chapel, who had unrequited romantic feelings toward Mr. Spock. She played a more nurturing character, but did not have the command duties of her original role. Following that, Barrett Roddenberry—who has been called “The First Lady Of Star Trek”—had roles in every Star Trek series, playing Nurse Chapel, Lt. M'Ress, and other characters on Star Trek: The Animated Series; Lwaxana Troi and the voice of the Enterprise Computer on Star Trek: The Next Generation; and the computer voices on Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise. She also appeared as Dr. Chapel in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and as Commander Chapel in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and she provided voice work to other films (including the 2009 reboot) and various video games. After her husband died in 1991, Barrett Roddenberry served as executive producer on two series he had created: Earth: Final Conflict (1997-1999) and Andromeda (2000-2005). She passed away in 2008, but not before recording—you guessed it—the Starfleet Computer voice for J.J. Abrams's 2009 movie reboot

Ok out of their top 10 I agree with some, not all.

“The Enemy Within” (season 1, episode 6) - Loved it

“The Corbomite Maneuver” (season 1, episode 11). - Love it

“Balance of Terror” (season 1, episode 15) - Loved it

“The Devil in the Dark” (season 1, episode 26) - LOVED the Horta LOL

“The City on the Edge of Forever” (season 1, episode 29) - Nope, didn't do anything for me.

“Amok Time” (season 2, episode 1) - Loved it

“Mirror, Mirror” (season 2, episode 4) - Loved it

“The Doomsday Machine” (season 2, episode 6) - Eh.. ok but not one of my favorites.

“Journey to Babel” (season 2, episode 10) - Nope, didn't do anything for me.

“The Trouble with Tribbles” (season 2, episode 15) - Come on, how can you not love it.

I liked it for the bad special effects. I didn't know any of the episodes names. I was a fan just not that big of fan.

Would you go to a Star Trek get together in Vegas?

Commander Koenig could have been Spock. Martin Landau, who later starred in Space: 1999, was offered the role of the Vulcan science officer on the Enterprise. But he turned the role down, because "I felt the emotional range of the character was too limiting." Also offered the role of Spock: DeForest Kelley, whom the studio had already vetoed for the role of the ship's doctor. (Kelley turned down Spock, and eventually the studio relented on letting him be the doctor, after the first two pilots were filmed.)

"Leonard Nimoy did not create the Vulcan salute that means "Live Long and Prosper" out of thin air for the season two opener "Amok Time," which was the first time we got to see Spock among his people on Vulcan. It was actually borrowed from something he had witnessed as a child when he was attending a service at an Orthodox Jewish synagogue with his family.



"Five or six guys get up on the bimah, the stage, facing the congregation," Nimoy told the Yiddish Book Center in 2014. "They get their tallits over their heads, and they start this chanting—I think it's called duchening—and my father said to me, 'Don’t look.' So everyone’s got their eyes covered with their hands or they've got their tallit down over their faces ... And I hear this strange sound coming from them. They’re not singers, they were shouters. And dissonant. It was all discordant … it was chilling. I thought, 'Whoa, something major is happening here.' So I peeked. And I saw them with their hands stuck out from beneath the tallit like this [does salute with both hands] towards the congregation. Wow. Something really got hold of me. I had no idea what was going on, but the sound of it and the look of it was magical.”