Some Star Trek factoids. When Star Trek first aired the very first episode was entitled The Man Trap involving a female metamorph who was actually a creature who drained the salt from human beings? In her normal human guise, she was an ex gal pal of Dr. McCoy ie. DeForest Kelley, but this turns out that it was the fourth episode actually filmed. The first one should have been Where No One Has Gone Before, but executives said they wanted something that wasn't as intellectual and had more of a creature in it. The fourth episode was the first one that fit the bill so that was aired first. We didn't see the introduction of Spock and Shatner, as we would have, until the third episode was aired which was actually the first Where No Man Has Gone Before where they actually traveled to the end of the galaxy. Now in that particular episode we saw William Shatner at his grave and it said James R. Kirk, but we know later he was called James T. Kirk - T. for Tiberius. A few other factoids - Leonard Nimoy was in the original pilot The Cage in which Jeffery Hunter played the protagonist, but apparently the executives didn't like him and Jeffery Hunter wasn't that happy with it so they made another pilot with Shatner. Of course, Nimoy was in every single episode, perhaps best known previously, for roles in them, a small role, and also playing Narab, an alien, in Zombies from the Stratosphere. James Doohan i.e. Scotty Montgomery, the engineer, lost the middle finger of his right hand during World War II. They always were careful not to show that on close up. Only in one episode was that revealed. And, I should point out, that in the sequel and in The Cage, which was the original, Gene Roddenberry got the brilliant idea to make it a two hour installment entitled The Menagerie in which scenes from that original pilot were incorporated, but Christopher Pike, the role that Jeffery Hunter had played, was now played by a lesser known actor because Jeffery Hunter didn't want any part of it. So he had heavy makeup and the man was supposed to be ill accounting for the change in his physiography.
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