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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 2:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry about the blurriness of the picture. This is the badge on Spock's shirt that I've never seen before.



Interesting color scheme.

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"William Shatner reflects on 50 years of Star Trek"

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Catching Up Laurel Goodwin, Yeoman Colt from "The Cage" TrekMovie.com. Imgur



Life has a funny way of working out sometimes. Just ask Laurel Goodwin. More than 50 years ago, the child model-turned actress co-starred with Jeffrey Hunter, Majel Barrett and Leonard Nimoy in the original Star Trek pilot, "The Cage". She played Yeoman J.M. Colt. NBC famously rejected the pilot, but ordered a new one and, well, here we are. But there's more to it than that. Much more. Goodwin would have been part of the second pilot had Hunter stuck with the series; it was when he exited that NBC chose to keep Nimoy and drop Goodwin, while Barrett ended up with the role of Nurse Chapel. And so Goodwin was very, very nearly along for the ride and, in her own way, she still has been part of Trek's trek. ....

What on paper intrigued you about Colt as a character?

I'm an actor. Basically, it was playing the subservient role, and kind of having a crush on the captain and not trying to allow it to be picked up on so I could avoid getting into trouble, because you didn't do that in a military setting. And I wanted to play it right because, just being an actress and getting a job, it wasn't easy. The market was very, very tiny. Three networks. And they made a lot of pilot, but only a few ever got picked up. Star Trek was a bit different. It had a great philosophy. And I thought the timing was perfect, that it was time for a semi-adventure, philosophical, a little deeper than that science-fiction type thing, because everyone was getting a little tired of detectives and cowboys.....



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 18, 2016 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Majel Barrett Roddenberry
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cosplay of Majel Barrett

Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the face behind roles from "Number One" to "Nurse Christine Chapel" to "Lwaxana Troi" and the voice of Starfleet computers past and present, was also creator Gene Roddenberry's wife from 1969 — and thus often dubbed "The First Lady of Star Trek."

Born Majel Lee Hudec in 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio, she first enrolled in an acting workshop at age 10 and continued the interest at Shaker Heights High School, but went to college to become a legal clerk. Majel attended law school for a year, but after receiving an 'F' in contract law, she moved to New York and landed parts in "Models By Season," which was staged in Boston. Then she did a nine-month run in The Solid Gold Cadillac, which toured New Orleans, Texas, Oklahoma and San Francisco, Calif.

Deciding the competition was too stiff in New York, Majel moved to California and the Pasadena Playhouse, and was cast in All for Mary. By the late '50s, she worked in various Paramount films, including Black Orchid, As Young as We Are, and The Buccaneer. Then she decided that the real opportunity was happening in television, and that's where she wanted to be.

After appearing in several series like Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, Window on Main Street, Bonanza, and Pete and Gladys, she met Lucille Ball at an acting class and was signed to a contract with Desilu. Soon after she appeared in an episode of the Lucy Show called "Lucy is a Kangaroo for a Day."

In 1964, when she was no longer under exclusive contract, Majel accepted a guest role on the new MGM series The Lieutenant, produced by Gene Roddenberry. Majel became good friends with Gene and ultimately, years later, his wife.

Later in 1964, Roddenberry cast her in a co-starring role in "The Cage," the pilot for his science fiction series Star Trek. She played 'Number One,' second in command on the U.S.S. Enterprise, but the character's strength and authority in the Star Trek universe as a woman was unsettling to NBC. The network ordered a second pilot made, but it was made without Majel's female officer.

Still, once Roddenberry sold his second Star Trek pilot to the network, he eventually hired her in the later-evolving role of Nurse Christine Chapel. Instead of the dark-haired "M. Leigh Hudec" that they had disliked in the other pilot, she now used the name "Majel Barrett" and wore a blond wig as Chapel.

Meanwhile,more guest spots on television followed in series like Dr. Kildare, 77 Sunset Strip, The 11th Hour, Leave it to Beaver, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and The Second Hundred Years. In 1967 Barrett made the big-screen in Guide for the Married Man with Walter Matthau and directed by Gene Kelly, and again in the sci-fi thriller Westworld. She was also cast in Planet Earth, Genesis II, The Quetor Tapes and Spectre, Roddenberry's unsold pilots produced in the 1970s.

But it was on Aug. 6, 1969, after Star Trek had finished, when she and Roddenberry were married in Japan in a traditional Buddhist-Shinto ceremony. On Feb. 5, 1974, Majel gave birth to a healthy boy, Eugene Wesley Roddenberry, Jr., known affectionately as "Rod."

When The Next Generation returned Star Trek to weekly TV in 1987, she created the role of Deanna Troi's mother, Lwaxana Troi: loud and bossy and as far away from Christine Chapel as anything could be — and a role also seen on the spinoff, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Majel can also be heard as the voice of Starfleet ship computers on Voyager and The Next Generation.

After Roddenberry died In 1991, she conitnued control of his legacy and running Lincoln Enterprises, the mail order business they'd started in the 1970s to deal with the mountain of requests for Star Trek-related materials. She also sold two of his concepts as 1990s syndicated series: Earth: Final Confllict, in which she played Dr. Julianne Belman, and Andromeda. She enjoyed golf, gold working, gourmet cooking, gem cutting and most of all meeting fans at conventions — right up until the summer before her death on Dec. 18, 2008, from complications of leukemia. Imgur images

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bulldogtrekker wrote:
Later in 1964, Roddenberry cast her in a co-starring role in "The Cage," the pilot for his science fiction series Star Trek. She played 'Number One,' second in command on the U.S.S. Enterprise, but the character's strength and authority in the Star Trek universe as a woman was unsettling to NBC. The network ordered a second pilot made, but it was made without Majel's female officer.

According to Herb Solo, NBC didn't have a problem with a female First Officer, NBC was on a big diversity kick back then. The problem NBC, and the studio had, was that the First Officer was being played by Gene Roddenberry's Mistress. They didn't want her on the show at all! Back then, if it had been made public, it could have been a show killer.

I wonder what NBC, and the studio would have said if they had known that he was also cheating on his wife with Nichelle Nichols. Laughing

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 5:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What you say is probably correct. What is printed in the story is what Gene repeatedly told the audience at conventions and is told on the Inside Star Trek CD.

The real story is probably not so pretty.

Have you read The First 25 Years Star Trek book? I finished it 6 weeks ago. Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2016 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

21 Gene Roddenberry Quotes That Inspire a Great Future



The original Star Trek series turned 50 this fall. Its creator, Gene Roddenberry probably had no idea this Space romp would be so successful. Of course he was no stranger to excitement. He lived a life of adventure that would have rivaled Capt. Kirk's.

Roddenberry flew a bomber in the Air Force, worked as a plane crash investigator, and even survived two plane crashes himself. After serving as an L.A. police officer, he became an Emmy Award-winning Hollywood script writer and was the first writer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Roddenberry was also a humanist, and a believer in human potential. He was an advocate for social equality, scientific progress, and a resolute optimist about the future of the species.

Here are some of the best quotes from Roddenberry sure to inspire your own future success:

1. "Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms."

2. "To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin to look and talk and act and think alike."

3. "If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there."

4. "If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear."

5. "Science knows still practically nothing about the real nature of matter, energy, dimension, or time; and even less about those remarkable things called life and thought. But whatever the meaning and purpose of this universe, you are a legitimate part of it."

6. "I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other. And all children go through those phases. We're growing up, we're moving into adolescence now. When we grow up - man, we're going to be something!"

7. "It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward."

8. "It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning."

9. "The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities."

10. "Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are."

11. "What I will take credit for is, I surrounded myself by very bright people who came up with all those wonderful things. And then you can appear very smart."

12. "That's been a question, one of the big questions in my life. 'What is a human?' What are the elements that make a human?' It's a search for...how many elements do you get before you say, 'Yes, it's human,' where before you were saying it's not human."

13. "You can't study evolution, particularly the evolution of humanity, that you don't see that it's getting better and better."

14. "Its seems to me - it's likely that heaven's here right now. If you could take life with its pain and misery, where you fail and you sometimes win, and if you package it into a game, people would pay a fortune to have this game. And I don't know that I'd want it to be resolved so peacefully that the game would be all over."

15. "In a better world, I can do anything. I'll be there in a better world. In a better world, they will not laugh at me or look down their nose at me."

16. "We must learn not just to accept differences between ourselves and our ideas, but to enthusiastically welcome and enjoy them."

17. "Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard."

18. "Reality is incredibly larger, infinitely more exciting, than the flesh and blood vehicle we travel in here. If you read science fiction, the more you read it the more you realize that you and the universe are part of the same thing.

19. "Star Trek says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived."

20. "Diversity contains as many treasures as those waiting for us on other worlds. We will find it impossible to fear diversity and to enter the future at the same time."

21. "Since you are part of the all that is, part of its purpose, there is more to you than just this brief speck of existence. You are just a visitor here in this time and this place, a traveler through it."

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James Doohan

D-Day, the fateful evening during World War II in 1944 that Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, to battle Hitler's Nazi forces and liberate mainland Europe.

One of those soldiers, on his very first combat assignment, was a young Canadian named James Doohan, who later went on to great fame as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on Star Trek: The Original Series. That bit of trivia — and the story that goes along with it — may be old news to longtime fans, but to the Star Trek newcomers out there, it's a tale that's well worth repeating.

"The sea was rough," Doohan recalled of his landing on Juno Beach that day, an anecdote included in his obituary, which the Associated Press ran on June 20, 2005. "We were more afraid of drowning than (we were of) the Germans."

The Canadians crossed a minefield laid for tanks; the soldiers weren't heavy enough to detonate the bombs, the AP story continued. At 11:30 that night, Doohan — a pilot and captain in the Royal Candian Artillery Regiment — was machine-gunned, taking six hits. One bullet blew off his middle right finger, four struck his leg and one hit him in the chest. A silver cigarette case stopped the bullet to the chest.

Doohan, throughout his acting career, took measures to hide the missing finger, but it was occasionally visible to the camera, including in certain shots from Star Trek. He made no effort, however, to hide the missing finger during his decades of autograph signings and convention appearances.

We hope you'll join everyone at StarTrek.com in saluting Doohan, as well as all the soldiers who risked or gave their lives on that pivotal evening.

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Shirts and Skins in TOS - by David Tilotta and Curt McAloney

Many fans of Star Trek: The Original Series are interested in the details of things that are seen in the episodes, and we, as collectors and curators of TOS film and photographs, often get asked if we could examine our material to get information for them. For example, we've been asked about the how effects were done, what the details of certain props look like, whether a particular stuntman was in a particular scene and so on. However, two important questions that we are asked fairly frequently are:

Why does Kirk's command tunic sometimes appear gold and other times greenish?

Why does Mr. Spock's skin color seem to vary from chicken-soup yellow to crab pink?

They're good questions, and ones that we ourselves asked when we were learning about TOS. And since they do get asked often, we thought we'd address them here, at StarTrek.com. Interestingly, and as you'll see, the answer to both questions is fundamentally the same, so please keep reading and you'll see that the issues related to color in TOS are pretty . . . black and white.

Command Tunic Color

So, what color was Kirk's command tunic? Was it gold, mustard, green or something else completely different? Well, the answer to that question can be found directly from the source. That is, based on fabric samples from costume designer William Theiss as well as interviews with him, we know it was actually a very subtle avocado green and not gold or mustard as it sometimes appeared in the episodes. Simply, Theiss wanted the three Starfleet service branches to be represented by the three primary colors. He selected red for engineering, blue for sciences and . . . wait for it . . . green for command. He was actually fairly consistent in his approach and even designed the work jumpsuits using this same scheme.

But, and to get to the changing command-tunic-color issue, if Theiss fabricated the command shirt from an avocado-colored fabric, why did it sometimes appear gold in the episodes?

As we mentioned previously, the answer to that question is the same as that for the question of why Mr. Spock's Vulcan makeup sometimes appears pink. So, let's address that issue next, and then we'll get to the reasons for both.

Vulcan Skin Tones



Most everyone who's reading this article knows that makeup artist Fred Phillips spent a great deal of time determining what color Mr. Spock's skin should be before settling on something that resembled yellow chicken soup (according to Robert Justman in Inside Star Trek: The Real Story). From a practical standpoint, he made the Vulcans this color because Gene Roddenberry wanted the race to look different from the humans. And to do that, in that era when the majority of households had black and white televisions and color sets were relatively new, Phillips settled on a yellow color. That color, after extensive testing, looked good on both color and black and white televisions (darker colors looked muddy on monochrome sets and lighter ones washed out).

But . . . careful observers have noticed that sometimes Mr. Spock's yellow tones look pink in the episodes, similar to those of the humans.

Why is that?



Well, as we said at the beginning of this article, the answer to both questions posed at the beginning — that is, why do the command tunics sometimes appear gold? And why does Mr. Spock's skin vary from yellow to pink? — is the same. And there are five major reasons for these differences. Let's briefly run through them, starting with those that influence the colors on the final broadcast print.

Eastman Kodak Film

The first reason that the colors shifted has to do with the film used back in the 1960's. TOS was shot on an Eastman Kodak negative film and the prints struck from it had a color gamut (that is, range) that favored a warmer palette. In fact, cinematographers have known for quite a while that the consumer and professional Kodak print films tend to have warm green colors that lean toward yellow. What this means, for example, is that colors that are a particular shade of green — such as the command tunics — would be shifted towards yellow in the print.



Color Temperature

Another reason that the colors of the command shirts and Vulcan skin appear to be shifted on the film has to do with the type of lighting used on the set (basically indoor, or "tungsten", lighting) and how different that is from "natural light. As a real-life example of how these types of differences in lighting affect color, anyone who buys paint at a hardware store knows that the color of the paint in the store can look completely different than the color of it on your wall at home. This has to do with the lighting differences between the store and your home and gets at something called color temperature.

Color temperature, basically, refers to color bias and, with regards to lighting, some lights are biased blue and are referred to as cold, while others are biased red and are referred to as warm. Camera flashes, some fluorescent lights (like in our hypothetical hardware store) and the sun are blue biased while old-school tungsten lights (like in some of our homes) are red biased.

With regards to the command tunic material, it looks unmistakably green under daylight or flash conditions but, under tungsten studio soundstage lighting, the warmer colored lights combined with the film print stock caused the particular green to look yellow/gold when viewed. Theiss must have been disappointed in how the tunics looked on television because he designed two wraparound versions for William Shatner that had deeper, different shades of green.



Color Timing

A third reason as to why the colors were different, which is also the reason that principally accounted for their variability from scene-to-scene and from episode-to-episode, had to do with color timing. Color timing, as that term implies, refers to changing or enhancing the color of an image in a motion picture, and it's done by a person called a colorist. A colorist's job involves matching the luminance and color values from scene to scene, but unfortunately they can be inconsistent and biased.

Sometimes, for example, a colorist opts for making people look as pleasing as possible, which implies a healthy, rosy, red-biased complexion. This desire often resulted in Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy looking good, but it sometimes negated the correct make-up color for Mr. Spock. (As a Trek fan, you may have heard about the infamous Orion makeup test for the pilot episode, "The Cage", where the green makeup looked pink because the color timer assumed the film had a green bias to it that he corrected for.)



Optical Effects

Another reason that the colors on the screen did not resemble their real-life colors, and the final one that we'll look at with regards to the color shifts in the final print, has to do with whether or not the film was run through an optical printer (the device that was used to create the optical effects). Specifically, whenever an optical effect was present in a scene — e.g., a transporter effect, a dissolve to a different scene, etc. — there was generally a color shift in that scene in comparison to the preceding and/or proceeding scenes.

This shift, which was accompanied by an increase in contrast and film grain, was a result of how the optical printer was used to create the effect and the fact that multiple, different pieces of film were often used. Additionally, since TOS used more than one company to create the optical effects, even for the same episode, different companies handled the film differently.

It probably goes without saying that, given the time and money, these discrepancies caused by the optical printing process could have been corrected. However, TOS had neither — and, unfortunately, leaving the color shifts in place added more weight to the misperception of what the colors truly were.

Below are examples of scenes that were created using an optical printer and all of the photos in the collage were obtained from the re-mastered digital versions. Photo No.1 shows a screen capture of a typical dissolve transition, and note that the command shirt is yellow and Spock's flesh tones have a magenta tinge.

No.2 was captured just after a transporter effect and, again, the command tunics are yellow and the flesh tones have shifted to magenta.

No.3 was obtained from an optical effect to simulate the ship shaking and, again, yellow tunics and magenta tinted flesh tones.

No.4 is a scene transition where the image squeezes together and then widens out. The red tunics in this short sequence have a color shift, this time to orange.



The Eyes Have It

Up to this point, we've been discussing the factors that influenced the colors in the final broadcast prints of the episodes. However, recording the images on the film was only about half the process of getting TOS into your home. The other half, of course, was transferring the images on the film to your eyes, and these steps involved scanning the film, digitally encoding it (or broadcasting it as was done in the old days), and then displaying the result on your television.

Needless to say, all of these variables can shift the actual color of the images that you see, and they generally do, since they each have a more limited gamut than either your eyes or the film.

And with that, we're finished. We hope you were able to find some nuggets of gold — or avocado green, in this poorly timed pun — in our discussion of color shifts in TOS. Until next time.

BDT: I am so red-green color blind the Bud had to finish this post for me.

David Tilotta is a professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC and works in the areas of chemistry and sustainable materials technology. You can email David at david.tilotta@frontier.com. Curt McAloney is an accomplished graphic artist with extensive experience in multimedia, Internet and print design. He resides in a suburb of the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and can be contacted at curt@curtsmedia.com. Together, Curt and David work on startrekhistory.com. Their Star Trek work has appeared in the Star Trek Magazine and Star Trek: The Original Series 365 by Paula M. Block with Terry J. Edrmann.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 12:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Great article, BDT!

I'm puzzled however by the author's statements concerning Spock's skin color. I thought he was supposed to look slightly green, not yellow! His eye shadow is definitely green.

After all, his blood is green — and we get our own pink skin tone from our red blood!

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[size=18]Photos of George Takei - from 1999

Star Trek: Federation Science was a long-running touring exhibition dedicated to illustrating the real science behind the Star Trek series. Produced by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.... In 1999, a new version of the exhibition began a multi-city European tour....The exhibition featured over 40 modular touch-screen displays illustrating various scientific concepts, with interactive consoles.
One of sites was the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, SC. The display was there from February to May 1999. There was a Stat Trek convention held at the museum and George Takei spoke and signed photographs.

Here are some pictures I took of George Takei with my camera.











George Takei signed two items for me; a photograph of him in his TOS uniform and phaser and the back of Star Trek the Motion Picture soundtrack album.


Here is a photo from my laptop. Imgur images.


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Bud and I were talking on the phone about how the cast of Star Trek aged different than what we saw on the episode The Deadly Years. I found the perfect photograph to illustrate this.
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Where Were The TOS Crew During The Events of "Star Trek: Discovery"?
By: Kayla Iacovino, Trekmovie



The intrepid crew of the USS Discovery will boldly go where no one has gone before — and they'll do it 10 years before the intrepid crew of the USS Enterprise gets the chance.

We've known for some time now that the events of the CBS All Access Show Star Trek: Discovery will take place "about ten years before" the adventures of the Original Series crew. Now we know that the events of the first season of the new show will take place in the year 2256, exactly 10 years before the events of TOS......

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Starfleet Insignia Explained
John Cooley , Star Trek

Starfleet Starship Duty Insignia, Command Division from Star Trek: The Original Series.
"The Starfleet Symbol" "The Arrowhead" "The Delta"

Star Trek uses symbols to convey a lot of things, but none captures the eye or imagination quite like the delta. In the years since The Original Series first aired, fans have tried to determine the meaning behind the various insignia shapes we see in the show. To most it seems that the iconic delta shape is some sort of ship assignment patch meant to represent the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Some arrive at this conclusion because they see various Starfleet personnel wearing a number of different insignia. However, like any puzzle without a key, it's impossible to precisely interpret the meaning of these other insignia.
The hidden key to the puzzle was finally uncovered a few years ago.
The discovery was a memorandum written by producer Robert H. (Bob) Justman to costume designer William Ware (Bill) Theiss. The subject? STARSHIP EMBLEMS.
A copy of that memorandum has been digitized from the Gene Roddenberry Star Trek Television Series Collection (held in the Library Special Collections division of the Young Research Library at UCLA in Irvine, California) and is shown below:



For much more, click on the link below:
http://www.startrek.com/article/starfleet-insignia-explained
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Spinrad's Long Lost Star Trek Script Found



.....Norman Spinrad, the noted science fiction author, penned two episodes of Star Trek for Gene Roddenberry, namely "The Doomsday Machine" and "He Walked Among Us", the latter about a primitive race, the Jugali, inexplicably employing technology well beyond their capabilities. That first episode was produced, but "He Walked Among Us" at Spinrad's urging -- went unpurchased and unproduced. And then the teleplay . . . went missing for 45 years.

Now, that "lost" script has been found (in 2012). A fan recently presented a copy of it to Spinrad and the author has made it available for purchase, for Kindle, at Amazon.com. Spinrad, on his Facebook page, filled in the details of the "He Walked Among Us" saga.

Distressed by Trek producer Gene L. Coon turning "He Walked Among Us" into a comedy vehicle (for TOS guest shot for Milton Berle, a huge fan of the show), Spinrad convinced Roddenberry to ditch the idea entirely. He told Roddenberry "to read it and weep". Roddenberry did so and agreed with Spinrad.

"I killed my second Star Trek, which, down through the years has cost me tens of thousands of dollars in lost residuals," Spinrad wrote. Then, explaining the disappearance of the script and its subsequent discovery, Spinrad noted, "I thought the text of my original version — written on a typewriter! — was lost forever until recently a fan asked me to autograph a faded copy he had bought somewhere. I did, and in return he sent me a pdf off a scan, and that's what I've put on Amazon. Not a great copy, maybe, but the only one that exists or probably can exist."

Link for full story:
http://www.startrek.com/article/spinrads-long-lost-star-trek-script-found
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