A surviving Jeffrey Hunter?

[johnnybear]

That or he needed a cash injection?
JB

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Assignment: Earth was never close to being picked up, in large part because Roddenberry was super-late to the spy craze which was already waning. Its use as a Trek episode was a desperate hail-Mary pass on the part of Roddenberry, and a pathetic one, too, because the script was not good or compelling, serving neither the prospective series nor Trek well.

Thanks, and I didn't mean to imply that it ever was close to selling, but I can see how my post might've read that way. Thanks for the clarification.

Yeah, I've honestly never seen the fuss about Gary Seven. He's an awkward fit into the Star Trek Universe at best, and doesn't mesh with the TOS cast well at all. But most backdoor pilot episodes play pretty strangely, especially when the prospective series doesn't sell.

 

[mos6507]

Yeah. I'm not really sure what went down when she was on the show

She tends to have a very unglamorous attitude about Hollywood in general. She doesn't really understand nerd or fan culture. Kind of a walking Get a Life sketch sort of attitude.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Terry Garr is an example of someone who's quite glad to have put Trek far far behind her. Not everyone cares to have been associated with it.

True; Gary Lockwood has gone from saying his TOS appearance was "just one show" to embracing it on occasion, but there was a time when he was irritated with fans' interest in--what was for Lockwood--one guest appearance.

 

[Maurice]

And let's not forget that being paid to shake hands and sign autographs as a great incentive to embrace fandom in your retirement. It's not always about seeing the light, but seeing a paycheck.

 

[johnnybear]

All those hands to shake and germs to pick up I guess! No wonder they want money for it!!!
JB

 

[Noname Given]

Terry Garr is an example of someone who's quite glad to have put Trek far far behind her. Not everyone cares to have been associated with it.

Wllliam Wimdom is another actor who didn't think much of Star Trek, the main cast, or the atmosphere and relationship between the actors on the filming set.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Hmm. And yet Teri Garr essentially played the same character in Close Encounters and Oh, God! (and a very similar character, albeit with a German accent, in Young Frankenstein.)

 

[Noname Given]

Hmm. And yet Teri Garr essentially played the same character in Close Encounters and Oh, God! (and a very similar character, albeit with a German accent, in Young Frankenstein.)

^^^
But those are feature films with well known producers/directors. Not a TV show 'one off' gig.

 

[The Four Doctor]

Jeffrey Hunter was still called "Hank" by his family and childhood friends and teachers when they were in Trek retrospectives. Henry McKinnies Jr. being his birth name.

 

[johnnybear]

I remember him being in a cameo as the climber on that windswept cliff in A Guide For The Married Man (1967) and apparently his full real name was Henry Herman McKinnies born in 1926! Now they kept the Herman bit quiet didn't they!
JB

 

[Miramanee]

Imagine if they hadn't replaced him with Shatner. No movies with the original cast. You can't replace the captain with another actor

 

[johnnybear]

Babylon 5 did it and in the series too!
JB

 

[Spock's Barber]

Admiral Pike instead of Morrow in ST:III?
Mention of Admiral Pike instead of Nogura in TMP? This would mean we don't have "The Menagerie."

...or Jeff Hunter instead of Admiral Bob in ST:V.