Trivia / Star Trek S3 E6 "Spectre of the Gun"

• Creator's Favorite Episode: Walter Koenig named this as his favourite episode.
• Throw It In!:
  • The episode was originally planned to be filmed in an existing Western town set on the backlot. However, serious budget cuts for the series' third season made this impossible. So it was instead made on a soundstage in a surreal, incomplete, plainly artificial environment. Though some (including Leonard Nimoy) were skeptical over this move, it's now largely viewed to have been a good choice for the story. The incomplete nature drops the entire setting straight into the Unintentional Uncanny Valley, making everything all the more unsettling.
  • Reportedly, during the gunfight scene, the shot of the fence getting blasted by gunfire was not in the original script. It was developed on the set during filming.
• Working Title: The Last Gunfight.

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