Make up a fake bit of Trek trivia!
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I just literally LOL'd at that.
FACT: Billy Mumy auditioned for the security officer role on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" but was turned down (as we all know, Denise Crosby was cast). He then pleaded with Gene Roddenberry to consider him for Wesley, raising the intended age of the character. Wil Wheaton was already in the final run for the role, but Billy Mumy insisted that he looked a lot more like a son of Gates McFadden than Wil did (well, perhaps the red hair was all he really had going for him). When that fell through, he tried to convince Gene to give Wesley an older half-brother. Eventually Gene became so annoyed with Mumy trying to get involved with Star Trek, he had a restraining order issued not to contact him or anyone else involved with the series.
DS9 is my favorite Trek series. And I was just thinking about one of my 4 favorite season 5 episodes: Trials and Tribble-ations. That inspired this little fake bit of trivia concerning tribbles.
In TOS episode The Trouble With Tribbles, which parts of were used in the DS9 season 5 episode Trials and Tribble-ations, were originally going to be 4 foot long hairy snakes you couldn't tell the head from the tail. They were going to have 3 legs on each side-one at each end and one that was half way between those 2. The actors, producers and writers found them so funny looking that they were redesigned into the balls of fur we now know and love.
In TOS episode The Trouble With Tribbles, which parts of were used in the DS9 season 5 episode Trials and Tribble-ations, were originally going to be 4 foot long hairy snakes you couldn't tell the head from the tail. They were going to have 3 legs on each side-one at each end and one that was half way between those 2. The actors, producers and writers found them so funny looking that they were redesigned into the balls of fur we now know and love.
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I was talking about TOS episode. Alot of it was featured in that DS9 episode.
Hot out of my imagination, here's my latest fake bit of Trek trivia. BTW: It was inspired by the endings of Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country and the movie after that-Star Trek: Generations.
William Shatner wanted Captain Kirk to be killed off, to "go out in a blaze of glory." at the end of Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country. But director Nicholas Meyer and the higher ups at Paramount adamantly and absolutely REFUSED. However, the director of Generations thought it was a great ideal and granted Shatner his wish.
William Shatner wanted Captain Kirk to be killed off, to "go out in a blaze of glory." at the end of Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country. But director Nicholas Meyer and the higher ups at Paramount adamantly and absolutely REFUSED. However, the director of Generations thought it was a great ideal and granted Shatner his wish.
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Fact: In an outake we'll never see, Kirk's dying words to Picard were: "Get a life!!"
There's also another outtake that was immediately destroyed where Kirk says "it's no man, not no one, you political correct bastard...."
In that same outtake Picard replied just before Kirk died "F**k you."
Rosebud.
FACT: Originally, every time Scotty went on shore leave, there would be reports of stabbed strippers. But Gene Roddenberry disliked story arcs and so the idea only appeared in a single episode.
It was all that water weight he put on in Insurrection. Emergency floatation device my ass.
FACT: Star Trek: Voyager, is TNG's Animated Series.
FACT: William Shatner objected to Jimmy Doohan getting to do so many extra voice characterizations in TAS and left midway through the first season when they wouldn't let him voice other roles. All Kirk's dialog in the remaining 13 or 14 episodes was compiled by editing together lines he had spoken in earlier live-action episodes and other TV shows like "The Virginian" and "Name of the Game" and Promise Margarine commercials.
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Marina Sirtis is a descendant of the real Cassandra, princess of Troy - not to be confused with the mythical doomed seer in Homer's Iliad, based upon the same person. Roddenberry came up with Troi and the telepathic Betazoids after casting Sirtis. Originally, the character's name was Dynea - a Deltan.
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FACT: Kirk originally bequeathed his toupee to Picard in the original ending to Generations.
