Crater provides the M-113 creature with the needed salt and, in turn, the creature gives the professor companionship… something Crater has craved since the creature murdered his wife, the real Nancy Crater, for her salt. Molly then asked if she could take Chester with her should Miles send his wife and daughter away from the station again. Kirk, McCoy, and two crewmen beam back down to the planet to investigate further, and Kirk insists that Dr. As the first episode actually telecast, the opening credits are slightly different from most other first season shows. Let us add here that a cat never would have shot first … it would have been sleeping behind the bar.

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The preview contains a captain's log recorded solely for the preview: " Captain's log, stardate 1324. When Lieutenant Detmer and Ryn took Booker's ship into battle against the Emerald Chain flagship Viridian, Grudge leapt onto Ryn's lap, much to the Andorian's alarm as he had never see a cat before. Parks will have sequels with Next Gen and all the other incarnations of ST, and possibly some other fandoms. DIS: " People of Earth") About a month later, after Discovery reunited with Starfleet command, Booker's ship arrived unexpectedly with only Grudge aboard. Today’s episode of Larry Nemecek’s The Trek Files solves a casting mystery that dates back to Star Trek: The Original Series.While there, Molly expressed her interest to be an exobiologist, which she defined as "someone who studies animals from other planets", prompting Keiko to give Chester as an example.

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Spock remarks that no life is known to exist on the planet, and Korob admits that he is not a native. Mudd's Women" was out of the running because it was questionable to lead off the Star Trek franchise with a risqué story about selling women to miners in space. The latter drawback also weighed against " Charlie X", which was further deemed "too gentle" a tale because it dealt with the problems of an adolescent. The opening and closing theme music composed and arranged by Alexander Courage, utilizing an electric violin, was used for the first nine originally aired episodes.

Variety published a quite negative review of Star Trek on 14 September 1966 issue based on the episode "The Man Trap," stating the series "won't work. Philippa Georgiou was of the opinion, however, that the cat could never get lost, that she had her own gravitational pull.

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Just months after her work on Star Trek she appeared again on NBC, on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. C. Fontana and the the 1988 novel Spock's World by Diane Duane would resolve this discrepancy by explaining Vulcan to have a sister planet, T'Khut (somewhat comparable to Pluto and Charon); this binary pair status would eventually be canonized by a computer graphic visible in the 2023 episode SNW: " Charades". Captain's We have entered a galaxy where beloved illustrator Jenny Parks has conjured an astonishingly vivid homage to the original Star Trek series with an unexpected a cast of cats. The episode was novelized by James Blish under the original scripted name "The Unreal McCoy" in the first Star Trek adaptation collection, released in the US by Bantam Books in January 1967.

The original version of " Where No Man Has Gone Before" has a couple additional corridor shots later edited for the aired version. The statue near the entrance of the Crater home can later be seen in Spock's quarters in " Amok Time" and subsequent episodes. It doesn't simply rest on its gimmick; the entire cast being made of cats would be strange enough to fill a book, but Jenny Parks was meticulous in being true to the original series. Since then, my wife got diagnosed with MS and multiple health issues left me on permanent disability, so sometimes it takes two of us to keep up with them. When Nancy Crater first walks into the dig headquarters, Nichelle Nichols' singing from " Charlie X" was briefly dubbed in as Crater's voice.