Trivia / Star Trek S3 E13 "Elaan of Troyius"

• Deleted Scene:
  • A scene with Spock playing his Vulcan harp in the arboretum set was filmed but then edited out. In that scene he indicated that he had lost an all-Vulcan musical competition to his father. The music was supposed to be fed into the Dohlman's quarters to calm her down. Removal of this scene meant that the new arboretum would only be seen on-screen twice: in "And the Children Shall Lead", and, in re-dressed form, in "Is There in Truth No Beauty?".
  • The course in etiquette is cut short when the Dohlman knifes her teacher, Ambassador Petri, and Kirk is anxious to successfully complete the mission as the Federation High Commissioner is to attend the wedding. In that regard, Kirk asks Spock to play a love song – Spock refers to it as a mating song – that will be piped into the Dohlman's quarters as Kirk resumed the lessons left off by Petri.
  • The results are less than salutary. The scene continues in Uhura's cabin (which she surrenders to the Dohlman), and Kirk watches in disgust as the Dohlman eats in the manner of Henry VIII. From this point forward, the scene as filmed is shown in the final print, with the exception of the Dohlman's agitated query about "that sickening sound" filtering into the room.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Despite the show not having the budget to create an appropriately "menacing" looking Klingon ship before and the 3rd season having even less of a budget, the Klingon D7 Battle Cruiser was created here mostly at the request of Model Kit company AMT who had released a very successful kit line of the Enterprise and wished for an another appropriately "cool" looking starship to compliment it.
• Working Title: Helen of Troyius.
• You Look Familiar: Victor Brandt, the poor engineer Watson, reappears later in the series as purple-haired space hippie Tongo Rad, son of the Catullan ambassador.

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