Favorite off-camera Star Trek moments?

[Lord Garth]

This is something different. What are you favorite off-camera moments for Star Trek? It can be during Production, behind-the-scenes, or anything that happened over the decades in real life.

My three favorite moments:

1. Most of the TOS cast being there for the launch of the Enterprise shuttle in 1976.

2. Ronald Reagan visiting the set of TNG. I don't care what your politics are. It's cool to have a former President visit the set.

3. Nick Meyer is/was a cigar smoker. According to Star Trek Movie Memories, William Shatner thought they smelled foul. So, one time on the set of TUC, he asked Nick Meyer if he had to smoke them at such-and-such time every day. He said he did. So William Shatner got back at him the next day by throwing a stink bomb. Nick Meyer asked "Do you have to do that?!" Then William Shatner sarcastically replied, "Yes I have to do that every day!" And then he got the message.

 

[od0_ital]

The home video footage from the original series set of Adam Nimoy in Vulcan ears surprising Leonard Nimoy in his Spock costume & makeup.

Dr. Stephen Hawking getting a tour of the TNG sets and reportedly said, after seeing the warp core, "I'm working on that."

Getting to meet Leonard Nimoy, briefly, at a premiere event for Star Trek in 2009 in Austin, TX.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Shatner dancing with Sherry Jackson atop the big turntable on the set of "What are Little Girls Made Of."

 

[Armus]

Harlan Ellison's legendary pitch to the Paramount Executives during the early development of what came to be Star Trek: The Motion Picture. According to Mark Altman's Captain's Logs and Shatner's Movie Memories, Ellison pitched a story where the Enterprise changed history and altered the course of human evolution to one where Lizards became the dominant life. One of the executives said he had been reading a book about the Mayans in prehistory and asked if Ellison could put some Mayans in the story. Ellison said that there were no Mayans in prehistory. The executive got upset and said no one would know the difference. Ellison told him it was an idiotic suggestion and said something to the effect of, "I'm the writer I don't know who the fuck you are!" and walked out of the meeting.

 

[ScottJ85]

That point in the 80s where the TOS crew quit smoking together.

 

[XCV330]

When Shatner trolls trek reddits

 

[BillJ]

Nothing beats the entertainment factor of the Axanar fiasco.

 

[Vger23]

An interview between Nimoy and Shatner, I don't remember where or in what production (might have been one of Shatner's Trek documentaries), it might have been filmed at Nimoy's home, and Leonard quietly tells Bill "You're my best friend."

That's my favorite moment.

 

[Armus]

An interview between Nimoy and Shatner, I don't remember where or in what production (might have been one of Shatner's Trek documentaries), it might have been filmed at Nimoy's home, and Leonard quietly tells Bill "You're my best friend."

That's my favorite moment.

That sounds like Mind Meld. I enjoyed listening to Shatner and Nimoy reminisce together, while they enjoyed a quiet day on Nimoy's hard -earned luxurious LA estate.

 

[Black Manta]

Can I use The Big Bang? I love the dream sequence with Mego doll Spock.

 

[Finn]

2. Ronald Reagan visiting the set of TNG. I don't care what your politics are. It's cool to have a former President visit the set.

IIRC it was during the taping of Sins of the Father. Someone asked Reagan what he thought of the Klingons. Reagan allegedly said that he liked them because they reminded him of congress.