History Trivia / StarTrekTheOriginalSeries

* HeyItsThatSound: Creator/WilliamShatner, Creator/LeonardNimoy and Creator/DeForestKelley became best friends onset, much like their characters.

* ApprovalOfGod: Kirk/Spock SlashFic wasn't published in fanzines until [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/A_Fragment_Out_of_Time 1974]], although stories had circulated privately since at least 1968. Roddenberry and Shatner/Nimoy knew about fan fiction, of course; fans published and sent copies of (non-slash) fanzines like ''T-Negative'' and ''Spockanalia'' and Roddenberry's letters in response expressed surprised appreciation. According to rumor, he and Shatner/Nimoy knew slash was out there as well and were all fine with the idea. Speaking in 1979 for the Marshak/Culbreath biography ''[[https://tinyurl.com/bdfw9m2r Shatner: Where No Man]]'', Nimoy, with characteristic reserve, said he and Shatner must have done something they were unaware of "that provokes all these questions -- including the erotic questions and the pornographic questions." Roddenberry played it up in his novelization of ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' with his invention of the expression ''t'hy'la'' and [[WordOfGay the infamous]] [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Roddenberry_Footnote Roddenberry Footnote]]. The second volume of professionally published ''Star Trek'' fan fiction, ''[[https://vakarangi.blogspot.com/2014/03/myriad-universes-star-trek-new-voyages.html The New Voyages]]'' (1976-1978), even has a story partly written by Nichelle Nichols that some fans interpret as subtextual SlashFic, although the brief erotic moments feature ''Uhura'' shamelessly flirting with Spock.[[note]]''New Voyages'' editors Marshak and Culbreath were definitely hardcore slash fangirls and notoriously tinkered with the stories sent to them, so they may have added some slash elements.[[/note]]

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Proving that boundaries being needed have always been a thing, Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath (and by extension the slash fandom) were originally accepted by the Trek writers and cast, doing books with Shatner (''Where No Man'') and writing SlashFic with Nichols (called ''Surprise''). And then they had to start pushing the idea that Kirk wanted to be raped, amongst other sexual fantasies, and the crew cut ties with them, Fontana and Gerrold especially being sick of slash fans.

** A third TOS Mudd episode, titled "Deep Mudd," was actually written; it was a direct sequel to "I, Mudd" and would have had him escape the androids' planet by tricking them into revealing the location of a cache of super-advanced devices which then end up in the hands of a band of {{space pirate}}s; unfortunately, Carmel was busy with another project and the script was dropped.
** The producers of ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' also considered having him appear in a cameo as a character witness for the ''Enterprise'' bridge crew's trial. This would have been an ironic ContinuityNod to the end of "Mudd's Women," where Kirk jokingly offered to be a character witness at ''Mudd's'' trial.

** In a TV Guide interview two months before his death, Creator/GeneRoddenberry listed his ten favourite episodes - "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime Amok Time]]", "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E14BalanceOfTerror Balance of Terror]]", "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E28TheCityOnTheEdgeOfForever The City on the Edge of Forever]]", "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E25TheDevilInTheDark The Devil in the Dark]]", "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E5TheEnemyWithin The Enemy Within]]", "The Menagerie" (Two parter), "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime The Naked Time]]", "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E21TheReturnOfTheArchons The Return of the Archons]]", "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E3WhereNoManHasGoneBefore Where No Man Has Gone Before]]" and "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles The Trouble with Tribbles]]"

** One of Adams' assistants in "The Dagger of the Mind" is named Eli. The actor playing him is named Eli Behar.

** DC Fontana was angry about “The Enterprise Incident” being rewritten: Kirk was meant to have had real SanitySlippage due to the events of previous produced episodes “Elaan Of Troyius” and “The Paradise Syndrome”, and she apologised to Nimoy for the scenes he had with the Romulan Commander.

** Harry finally reappeared in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery,'' played by Rainn Wilson.

** Creator/GraceLeeWhitney was the primary catalyst for the development of the (in)famously short skirt worn by female crew and officers. Whitney, a dancer, wanted the uniform to show off her legs, and pushed for a short microskirt. She also contributed to the design of what would eventually become the tricorder, assisting Roddenberry with designing a gadget she could carry in a bag around her shoulder to assist Kirk during away missions.

** Creator/WilliamShatner plays both Kirk and sinister-impostor-Kirk in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E5TheEnemyWithin The Enemy Within]]" (transporter accident), "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E7WhatAreLittleGirlsMadeOf What Are Little Girls Made Of?]]" (robot double), "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror Mirror, Mirror]]" (mirror universe), "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy Whom Gods Destroy]]" (shapeshifter), "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E24TurnaboutIntruder Turnabout Intruder]]" (body swap), and ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' (alien shapeshifter).

* ReferencedBy: Creator/BryanSinger is a {{Trekkie}}, so he included a couple of episodes in two ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' films he directed. "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime}} The Naked Time]]" is seen on one of Hank's TV sets in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', and "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E2WhoMournsForAdonais}} Who Mourns for Adonais?]]" is playing in the background when Ororo has a private conversation with [[Film/XMenApocalypse Apocalypse]].

** Also, [[StockFootage space and bridge scenes are recycled over and over]], and a few props and sets are recycled into later episodes.

** As the third season wound down, Roddenberry started inserting things into the show that would make for nice trinkets to sell from his own mail-order merch store that he was running with his wife Majel Barrett. The most blatant incidence of that was a jarringly clunky dialogue scene over Spock's never-seen-before-or-since "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination" (IDIC, the Vulcan's "civilizational" motto) pendant into the episode "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" Which was done purely so that they can sell replicas later.

** As the third season started to wind down, Roddenberry started inserting things into the show that would make for nice trinkets to sell from his own mail-order merch store that he was running with his wife Majel Barrett. The most blatent incidence was when he rather clumsily inserted a suprisingly elaborate dialogue scene about Spock's never-seen-before-or-since "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination" (IDIC, the Vulcan's "civilizational" motto) pendant into the episode "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" purely so that he can sell replicas later.

*** The main company hired to do the series, Creator/TheHowardAndersonCompany, managed to do both pilots on a decent time scale. But when it came to the first ''actual'' episode produced ("[[Recap/StarTrekS1E10TheCorbomiteManeuver The Corbomite Maneuver]]"), their workload increased to the point where there was no choice but to hire other vendors to help out with the show.

*** The 11-foot model of the Enterprise was, in fact, one of the reasons why Dunn's company was hired to begin with. As the ship proved too huge for both of the studios Anderson's crew to work with. Once Film Effects was dropped from the series, the model and its 3-foot counterpart were subsequently retired, with heavy use of StockFootage being used for the ship for the third season.

* McLeaned[=/=]RoleEndingMisdemeanor: There are conflicting reasons as to why Janice Rand was written out of the series after only eight appearances during the first season. Creator/GeneRoddenberry has said it was a budgetary move, but others have claimed that as the show progressed her role as the Captain's Woman, or potential loved interest for Kirk became impractical. Other stories have claimed that Grace Lee Whitney was having issues with alcoholism, which was said to be affecting her work on the series. Whitney herself said she may have been let go to keep her quiet over accusations of a network executive having sexually assaulting her.

* TheOtherMarty: See ThePeteBest below.

* RedShirt: Although the TropeNamer, the first red-shirted casualty doesn't appear in series until episode 7 (" [[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E7WhatAreLittleGirlsMadeOf}} What Are Little Girls Made of?]]"); the very first casualties are blue-shirted Science Team and gold-shirted Command squaddies.

** In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E26AssignmentEarth}} Assignment: Earth]]", the ''Enterprise'' travels back in time to 1968. and it's mentioned that "an important assassination" will take place and that a government coup will take place in Asia. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were both assassinated later that year, and this was the year of Iraq's July 17 Revolution in which the Ba'athist Party and UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein first came to power. There was also a Saturn V rocket launch that went wrong, which given Kirk's statement about how the "real" events were never generally revealed, which would mean the actual real world events were a cover-up for what happened in the Star Trek timeline.

** In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E26AssignmentEarth}} Assignment: Earth]]", the ''Enterprise'' travels back in time to 1968. and it's mentioned that "an important assassination" will take place and that a government coup will take place in Asia. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were both assassinated later that year, and this was the year of Iraq's July 17 Revolution in which the Ba'athist Party and UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein first came to power.

** MarySue: From ''Fanfic/ATrekkiesTale''.

** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles The Trouble with Tribbles]]", Bones uses the word "bisexual" for the concept which is now referred to as "hermaphroditic".

** Don't expect to ever hear Sulu say "''Oh, my''." That's Creator/GeorgeTakei's personal {{catchphrase}}. Sulu himself was the only regular who lacked a memorable CatchPhrase or VerbalTic, one of the reasons he didn't show up in too many parodies (and when he did, he was usually the StraightMan).[[note]]For their famous "Last Voyage of the Starship ''Enterprise''" sketch, ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' decided to cast the show's ''production designer'' in the role of Sulu, which he has reprised in every ''Star Trek'' parody the show has done ever since.[[/note]] More recently, given Takei's predilection for AdamWesting, parodies of Sulu are basically parodies of Takei (including the CampGay antics--see below).

** The military and many high-level police agencies are experimenting with non-lethal heat and sound beams to disperse riots and disarm attackers without killing them. Phasers on Stun, anyone?

* FlipFlopOfGod: Shatner’s infamous tweet over Kirk can’t be bi is a NeverLiveItDown moment for him, but he worked with slash fans on a book (“Where No Man…”) in the seventies and has always been happy to push Kirk/Spock or get handsy with Nimoy during their friendship.

* ApprovalOfGod: Kirk/Spock SlashFic wasn't published in fanzines until 1982. However, rumor has it that Roddenberry and Shatner/Nimoy knew it was out there and were supposedly all fine with the idea. Speaking in 1979 for the Marshak/Culbreath biography ''[[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Shatner:_Where_No_Man... Shatner: Where No Man...]]'', Nimoy, with characteristic reserve, said he and Shatner must have done something they were unaware of "that provokes all these questions -- including the erotic questions and the pornographic questions." Roddenberry played it up in his novelization of ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' with his invention of the expression ''t'hy'la'' and [[WordOfGay the infamous]] [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Roddenberry_Footnote Roddenberry Footnote]]. The second volume of professionally published collection of ''Star Trek'' fan fiction, ''[[https://vakarangi.blogspot.com/2014/03/myriad-universes-star-trek-new-voyages.html The New Voyages]]'' (1978), even has a story partly written by Nichelle Nichols that some fans interpret as subtextual SlashFic, although the brief erotic moments feature ''Uhura'' shamelessly flirting with Spock.[[note]]''New Voyages'' editors Marshak and Culbreath were definitely hardcore slash fangirls and notoriously tinkered with the stories sent to them, so they may have added some slash elements.[[/note]]

* ApprovalOfGod: While a few writers got sick of it, Roddenberry and Shatner/Nimoy were all fine with the idea of Kirk/Spock, playing it up and realising that female fans made their show so popular. [[https://vakarangi.blogspot.com/2014/03/myriad-universes-star-trek-new-voyages.html The New Voyages]] even has Nichelle Nichols writing SlashFic.

* ThePeteBest: Creator/JeffreyHunter's Captain Christopher Pike has gained something of a loyal following as being "the ''Star Trek'' captain who wasn't". Adventures featuring him have appeared in the expanded universe, in novels and in comic books; and he also made a reappearance in [[Film/StarTrek2009 the 2009 reboot movie]], as played by Creator/BruceGreenwood. Captain Pike, this time portrayed by Anson Mount, finally became a main character on the second season of Series/StarTrekDiscovery.

* FriendshipOnTheSet:

* HeyItsThatSound:
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gASm1AMYGHk transporter sound effect]] was based on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0hs4KrkFp8#t=0m30s part of the "Tardis taking off" sound effect]] in ''Series/DoctorWho''.

* HilariousOuttakes: There was a gag reel put together in recent years.

* UnderminedByReality:
** Creator/GeneRoddenberry's vision of a future moneyless utopia falls rather flat when you learn that the man himself was a quite ruthless businessman, pulling shady moves like writing completely irrelevant lyrics to the show's theme song that were never intended to be used just so he could steal part of the composer's paycheck. Though you can still argue that the "idea" itself is more important than the flaws of the man behind it.
** Of course, the "moneyless society" concept was [[NewerThanTheyThink never part of the original series.]] The episodes with Harry Mudd and Cyrano Jones make it very clear that money ''does'' exist. The "we don't use money in the future" idea first appears decades later in a throwaway line in ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome,'' and frankly seems to just come out of the blue. It would be ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' that made it a central aspect of the setting.

** Production was rife with problems. The root cause for much of it was the network wanting an action-oriented SpaceWestern and the production team wanting to do serious science fiction. Low budgets were also a big problem, something you'd [[SpecialEffectFailure probably figure out from watching almost any episode]]. Things got especially bad in the infamous Third (or "Turd") Season. The show was renewed thanks to a fan letter-writing campaign, but with budgets slashed further and a move to the FridayNightDeathSlot. This led to Creator/GeneRoddenberry quitting his job as ShowRunner. As a result of all this, the third season had a marked decline in quality with an accompanied increase in campiness. Creator/LeonardNimoy found himself frequently clashing with writers and directors who wanted Spock to do OutOfCharacter things like use violence or hit on the GirlOfTheWeek. By the end of that season, the show had predictably crashed and burned itself into {{Cancellation}}.

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