They were the stars of the show--its that darn, scheming Bill Shatner who derailed them from the track of super stardom!!
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They were the stars of the show--its that darn, scheming Bill Shatner who derailed them from the track of super stardom!!
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It was very common for TV series to use guest stars once a season back then. And sometimes even more: Richard Anderson was two different characters in The Fugitive S2, for an example just off the top of my head. Mannix even had a regular co-star from the first season (Joseph Campanella) come back later as a different character. It was no big deal, nobody thought twice about it.
I heard that John Winston's regular day job was as a barber in Hollywood. Presumably Gene Coon's barber, since Kyle only appears in Coon scripts. (Or coincidence.)
*Rolls eyes* Not this urban legend again!
Kyle has 11 appearances (Tomorrow is Yesterday, Space Seed, City, Catspaw, Adonais, Doomsday, Wolf, Apple, Mirror Mirror, Immunity, Zetar). Coon has a writing credit for exactly one of them (Space Seed).
Coon has a writing credit for 11 other episodes that Kyle did NOT appear in.
It's true that Coon was involved in the revision process of most of Kyle's episodes...but that's because he was on the writing staff for the first two seasons! He was involved in revising almost every single script! There is no connection between Kyle's appearances and Coon's writing.
What about Gene Coon's attractive secretary? What was her name again? 
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Silly me. Looks like I have stumbled into a Cushman fact-check minefield. Gene Coon’s secretary was Andreea Richardson-Kindryd, Google tells me. (I had actually never heard of her until a few years ago, when she contacted me via a Meetup page for my former Sydney Trek group, telling me about the first Cushman book. I think she was passing through Sydney and wanted to visit our meeting, but I never heard more beyond that initial greeting, that came out of left field.)
[Edit: Ha! She now resides in Australia!
http://andreeakindryd.com/ ]
My Kyle anecdote goes back to a story related to me ten years ago, from the 40th anniversary Las Vegas convention - and had no connection to Cushman nor Richardson-Kindryd. I had no idea it was an urban legend, and it's probably my fault for spreading it every few years. But I was assured that Winston really was Coon's barber. (As to whether his appearances were connected to Coon's writing credits was sheer speculation by the teller of the original story.)
I tried to track down Winston myself in both 1983 and 1991, becaused I'd noticed he'd never done a "Starlog" interview and had worked in Australia ("The Evil Touch", 1973), but he was impossible to find in a short window of opportunity, he not being then-active with the Screen Actors' Guild.
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He did also appear in the premier episode of The Time Tunnel too! Wonder if he was knocking some locks off of Irwin's toupee for him as well? 
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JB
You just put in mind of the fascination that was evinced in some by the apparent elaborate construction that was the signature Allen follicular styling. Many have likely already seen this, but it is hilarious altogether, especially in a certain aesthetically notorious actor's description of said feature, as well as some interesting observations on Allen's personality from longtime contributors. It's always well worth the 6+ minute investment!!!
Would McCoy's daughter then join the bridge crew and save them from every situation?
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