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* ActorInspiredElement[=/=]WagTheDirector: The original script called for Spock to karate chop Kirk to subdue him. Creator/LeonardNimoy felt that this would be an uncharacteristically violent act for a peace-loving species like the Vulcans so he came up with a pincer-like grasp on the neck that has since become known as the Vulcan Nerve Pinch and become one of the character's most famous gimmicks.
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* ActorInspiredElement[=/=]WagTheDirector: The original script called for Spock to karate chop Kirk to subdue him. Creator/LeonardNimoy felt that this would be an uncharacteristically violent act for a peace-loving species like the Vulcans so he came up with a pincer-like grasp on the neck that has since become known as the Vulcan Nerve Pinch and become one of the character's most famous gimmicks. The episode's director, Leo Penn, notably had trouble understanding what Nimoy was describing but allowed it after Shatner completely understood the context of the nerve pinch.
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/GeneRoddenberry named this as one of his ten favourite episodes.
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/GeneRoddenberry named this as one of his ten favourite favorite episodes.
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-->"I can't imagine any more cruel and insensitive comment a man (or Vulcan) could make to a woman who has just been through a sexual assault! But then, some men really do think that women want to be raped. So the writer of the script (ostensibly Creator/RichardMatheson - although the line could have been added by Creator/GeneRoddenberry or an assistant scribe) gives us a leering Mr. Spock who suggests that Yeoman Rand enjoyed being raped and found the evil Kirk attractive!"
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** The subplot of Sulu and three crewmembers stranded on the freezing planet was not in Creator/RichardMatheson's original script but was added by staff writers. Matheson did not like that this was done.
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** The subplot of Sulu and three crewmembers stranded on the freezing planet was not in Creator/RichardMatheson's original script but was added by staff writers. Matheson did not like that this was done.done, and declined to contribute any further scripts or stories to the show as a result.
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** While Grace Lee Whitney liked the episode, she hated the final scene, in which Spock asks Yeoman Rand, if "the impostor had some very interesting qualities, wouldn't you say, yeoman?". In her autobiography, she wrote:
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** While Grace Lee Whitney Creator/GraceLeeWhitney liked the episode, she hated the final scene, in which Spock asks Yeoman Rand, if "the impostor had some very interesting qualities, wouldn't you say, yeoman?". In her autobiography, she wrote:
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* ExecutiveVeto: [[http://www.thesearethevoyagesbooks.com/writing-of-the-enemy-within.html The executives]] very reluctantly approved the episode, anxious that Kirk's intentionally written flaws, including the first AttemptedRape scene on NBC, would make the audience hate him.
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* YouLookFamiliar: Edward Madden previously played an Enterprise geologist in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E01TheCage The Cage]]".
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* YouLookFamiliar: Edward Madden previously played an Enterprise geologist in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E01TheCage "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]".
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* DeletedRole: Frank da Vinci and Ron Veto together had a deleted scene in this episode.
* EditedForSyndication: During the syndication run, the following scenes were typically cut from broadcast:
** Extended scene of Scott preparing to beam Kirk up to the ship.
** A longer conversation between Spock and Good Kirk about Evil Kirk demanding brandy from [=McCoy=].
** Extended scene of Evil Kirk in Rand's quarters.
** Additional segments of discussion with Rand and Fisher in sickbay.
** Extra dialogue between Good Kirk and Spock, followed by another scene showing the two entering engineering to look for Evil Kirk.
** Longer reports from Sulu on the surface of the planet, including a split scene of Sulu speaking to Kirk, then a shot of the ''Enterprise'' in orbit, followed by Kirk's reply.
* EditedForSyndication: During the syndication run, the following scenes were typically cut from broadcast:
** Extended scene of Scott preparing to beam Kirk up to the ship.
** A longer conversation between Spock and Good Kirk about Evil Kirk demanding brandy from [=McCoy=].
** Extended scene of Evil Kirk in Rand's quarters.
** Additional segments of discussion with Rand and Fisher in sickbay.
** Extra dialogue between Good Kirk and Spock, followed by another scene showing the two entering engineering to look for Evil Kirk.
** Longer reports from Sulu on the surface of the planet, including a split scene of Sulu speaking to Kirk, then a shot of the ''Enterprise'' in orbit, followed by Kirk's reply.
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* According to Joan Winston, this episode was shown in mental hospitals to illustrate that everyone has "good" and "bad" sides, and that we need to merge the positive traits of both.
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* According PropRecycling: The gauzy, red-bordered triangular set piece behind which the evil Kirk emerges briefly in engineering during the hunt scene appears to Joan Winston, have been left over from the early briefing room as seen in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]" and "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E3WhereNoManHasGoneBefore Where No Man Has Gone Before]]".
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The last two scenes of Act One are switched in order from what appears in the script. In the teleplay, Kirk and Spock learn about the assault of Janice in sickbay, then head to the transporter room, where they are faced with the discovery that the transporter is creating duplicates. The act ends with Scotty suggesting, "We don't dare beam up the landing party. If this should happen to a man…" and Kirk exclaiming, "Oh, my God!" In the episode itself, the sickbay scene follows the one in the transporter room, and the act ends with Spock declaring, "There's only one conclusion – we have an impostor aboard." Director Leo Penn wasshown known to reorganize scenes when he deemed them to be more dramatic in mental hospitals to illustrate a different order from what was scripted.
** In the final draft and the revised final draft of this episode's script, [=McCoy=] mused thateveryone has "good" and "bad" sides, and that we need to merge the positive traits part of both."the Human condition" was having "[[TitleDrop an enemy within]]".
* YouLookFamiliar: Edward Madden previously played an Enterprise geologist in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E01TheCage The Cage]]".
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** The last two scenes of Act One are switched in order from what appears in the script. In the teleplay, Kirk and Spock learn about the assault of Janice in sickbay, then head to the transporter room, where they are faced with the discovery that the transporter is creating duplicates. The act ends with Scotty suggesting, "We don't dare beam up the landing party. If this should happen to a man…" and Kirk exclaiming, "Oh, my God!" In the episode itself, the sickbay scene follows the one in the transporter room, and the act ends with Spock declaring, "There's only one conclusion – we have an impostor aboard." Director Leo Penn was
** In the final draft and the revised final draft of this episode's script, [=McCoy=] mused that
* YouLookFamiliar: Edward Madden previously played an Enterprise geologist in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E01TheCage The Cage]]".
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** MundaneMadeAwesome: While Nimoy came up with the Nerve Pinch, he gave credit to William Shatner's acting, which Nimoy felt made it look so effective.
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** MundaneMadeAwesome: While Nimoy came up with the Nerve Pinch, he gave credit to William Shatner's acting, which Nimoy felt made it look so effective. (Kirk [[LargeHam cries out in agony]] before collapsing; nearly all subsequent victims of the pinch would merely lose consciousness immediately.)
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** MundaneMadeAwesome: While Nimoy came up with the Nerve Pinch, he gave credit to William Shatner's acting, which Nimoy felt made it look so effective.
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* ActorInspiredElement / WagTheDirector: The original script called for Spock to karate chop Kirk to subdue him. Creator/LeonardNimoy felt that this would be an uncharacteristically violent act for a peace-loving species like the Vulcans so he came up with a pincer-like grasp on the neck that has since become known as the Vulcan Nerve Pinch and become one of the character's most famous gimmicks.
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* ActorInspiredElement / WagTheDirector: ActorInspiredElement[=/=]WagTheDirector: The original script called for Spock to karate chop Kirk to subdue him. Creator/LeonardNimoy felt that this would be an uncharacteristically violent act for a peace-loving species like the Vulcans so he came up with a pincer-like grasp on the neck that has since become known as the Vulcan Nerve Pinch and become one of the character's most famous gimmicks.
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/GeneRoddenberry named this as one of his ten favourite episodes.
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* CreatorBacklash: While Grace Lee Whitney liked the episode, she hated the final scene, in which Spock asks Yeoman Rand, if "the impostor had some very interesting qualities, wouldn't you say, yeoman?". In her autobiography, she wrote:
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** While Grace Lee Whitney liked the episode, she hated the final scene, in which Spock asks Yeoman Rand, if "the impostor had some very interesting qualities, wouldn't you say, yeoman?". In her autobiography, she wrote:
** While Grace Lee Whitney liked the episode, she hated the final scene, in which Spock asks Yeoman Rand, if "the impostor had some very interesting qualities, wouldn't you say, yeoman?". In her autobiography, she wrote:
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** The subplot of Sulu and three crewmembers stranded on the freezing planet was not in Creator/RichardMatheson's original script but was added by staff writers. Matheson did not like that this was done.
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* ActingForTwo: Creator/WilliamShatner plays both Good Kirk and Evil Kirk.
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* ActorInspiredElement / WagTheDirector: The original script called for Spock to karate chop Kirk to subdue him. Creator/LeonardNimoy felt that this would be an uncharacteristically violent act for a peace-loving species like the Vulcans so he came up with a pincer-like grasp on the neck that has since become known as the Vulcan Nerve Pinch and become one of the character's most famous gimmicks.
* CreatorBacklash: While Grace Lee Whitney liked the episode, she hated the final scene, in which Spock asks Yeoman Rand, if "the impostor had some very interesting qualities, wouldn't you say, yeoman?". In her autobiography, she wrote:
-->"I can't imagine any more cruel and insensitive comment a man (or Vulcan) could make to a woman who has just been through a sexual assault! But then, some men really do think that women want to be raped. So the writer of the script (ostensibly Creator/RichardMatheson - although the line could have been added by Creator/GeneRoddenberry or an assistant scribe) gives us a leering Mr. Spock who suggests that Yeoman Rand enjoyed being raped and found the evil Kirk attractive!"
* EnforcedMethodActing: According to Grace Lee Whitney, while shooting the scene when a distraught, tearful Janice Rand accuses Captain Kirk of trying to rape her, Creator/WilliamShatner slapped her across the face to get her to register the proper emotion. As they shot the rape scene days earlier, Whitney couldn't get into the same emotion successfully, and it was Shatner's "solution" to the problem.
* CreatorBacklash: While Grace Lee Whitney liked the episode, she hated the final scene, in which Spock asks Yeoman Rand, if "the impostor had some very interesting qualities, wouldn't you say, yeoman?". In her autobiography, she wrote:
-->"I can't imagine any more cruel and insensitive comment a man (or Vulcan) could make to a woman who has just been through a sexual assault! But then, some men really do think that women want to be raped. So the writer of the script (ostensibly Creator/RichardMatheson - although the line could have been added by Creator/GeneRoddenberry or an assistant scribe) gives us a leering Mr. Spock who suggests that Yeoman Rand enjoyed being raped and found the evil Kirk attractive!"
* EnforcedMethodActing: According to Grace Lee Whitney, while shooting the scene when a distraught, tearful Janice Rand accuses Captain Kirk of trying to rape her, Creator/WilliamShatner slapped her across the face to get her to register the proper emotion. As they shot the rape scene days earlier, Whitney couldn't get into the same emotion successfully, and it was Shatner's "solution" to the problem.
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* According to Joan Winston, this episode was shown in mental hospitals to illustrate that everyone has "good" and "bad" sides, and that we need to merge the positive traits of both.
