Season 1 had a bigger budget.
''YOU were on the ENTERPRISE!!!"
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There are actors who were paid per episode like Doohan and guaranteed a minimum number. So he could have had a number of scenes and he's paid the same amount for one line of dialog or 20 pages (he got an easy payday for Catspaw).
Others where paid per day, like Nichols (correct me if I'm wrong anyone). So if she did one day on the bridge, that might be it for the episode for her if they didn't want to pay her anymore. So you don't see her in landing parties after the first season and only gets beamed down one time in season 3. She wasn't gonna get rich off Star Trek... Day players are exactly that: paid by the day. So seeing Uhura on the bridge doesn't necessarily allow her to go on a landing party mission, unless they felt like paying her. They might as well go with the actor they gave a base salary to. You wanna maximize your investment by making that person work as much as possible for the money.
Then there are background players. I don't know if they did it differently then, but today they have union and non union. Non union are the people you don't notice. They also are dead last to eat at mealtimes and the last to go home. They are paid the least amount of money and can be treated like cattle. No, I'm not bitter.
So episodes with a lot of non-speaking people may have been the non-union background people and really cheap ass day players. If money was saved elsewhere, they may have splurged for on people. A lot of those third season episodes were on standing sets. I'm not sure how the accounting worked, if they could move the money from one column to another.
Others where paid per day, like Nichols (correct me if I'm wrong anyone). So if she did one day on the bridge, that might be it for the episode for her if they didn't want to pay her anymore. So you don't see her in landing parties after the first season and only gets beamed down one time in season 3. She wasn't gonna get rich off Star Trek... Day players are exactly that: paid by the day. So seeing Uhura on the bridge doesn't necessarily allow her to go on a landing party mission, unless they felt like paying her. They might as well go with the actor they gave a base salary to. You wanna maximize your investment by making that person work as much as possible for the money.
Then there are background players. I don't know if they did it differently then, but today they have union and non union. Non union are the people you don't notice. They also are dead last to eat at mealtimes and the last to go home. They are paid the least amount of money and can be treated like cattle. No, I'm not bitter.
So episodes with a lot of non-speaking people may have been the non-union background people and really cheap ass day players. If money was saved elsewhere, they may have splurged for on people. A lot of those third season episodes were on standing sets. I'm not sure how the accounting worked, if they could move the money from one column to another.
You are occasionally spicy.No, I'm not bitter.
Apart from Mirror, Mirror and Plato's Stepchildren, whose plots necessitated her presence on said planets, and again on K7 in Tribbles, am I right in thinking City on the Edge is the only other episode she beams down? City being the only one in which any yeoman would do. Nichols, of course, is lovely "happiness at least" etc.
Well, there was "The Lorelei Signal..."
No idea how I forgot Mirror, Mirror. But yeah, I think that was it for Uhura's transporter usage.
On the original live action series.
IMO I think all the show and movie subforums should have a general discussion thread. We have one in each of the new show forums.
Does her visit to K7 count?
She also beams down in "The Gamesters of Triskelion".
Technically, she didn't beam down, but she did beam up at the end.
Those X out of Y contracts often had a set number of days of work, and if the actor was required to go over that they more got money for each additional day.
Day players always got the same amount.
Most background players (then called extras) like on Star Trek were union. Most situations with non-union background players allowed were for very large crowd scenes (see the TMP Rec Deck) or locations where it's difficult to get union background players.
Day players always got the same amount.
Most background players (then called extras) like on Star Trek were union. Most situations with non-union background players allowed were for very large crowd scenes (see the TMP Rec Deck) or locations where it's difficult to get union background players.
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Lieutenant Uhura was also a landing party member in "The Gamesters of Triskelion".
Well, she wasn't beamed down by the Enterprise's equipment, anyway...Technically, she didn't beam down, but she did beam up at the end.
Well, it was the intention.
Point being that she still beamed down...
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