Gene Roddenberry In A TOS Episode....

[Spock's Barber]

I know GR did some minor voiceover work in TOS, for example the anonymous crewman who tells Kirk that there are real turkeys in the galley in Charlie X. It made me wonder.....would it have spoiled an episode if GR had made a cameo appearence, in the same way that Alfred Hitchcock was seen briefly in many of his movies? Maybe GR could have been a background character or a heavily made up alien?

 

[Nerys Myk]

I know GR did some minor voiceover work in TOS, for example the anonymous crewman who tells Kirk that there are real turkeys in the galley in Charlie X. It made me wonder.....would it have spoiled an episode if GR had made a cameo appearence, in the same way that Alfred Hitchcock was seen briefly in many of his movies? Maybe GR could have been a background character or a heavily made up alien?

How many people would have recognized him in 1966-69?

 

[Spock's Barber]

How many people would have recognized him in 1966-69?

I don't know, but It would have been fun to see GR in some type of role. I know Roger C. Carmel was good as Harry Mudd, but I'm trying to imagine GR in his place.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

I recall he has a voice-over line in one of them where he says, "Communicator, we need more lines to the Impulse Deck." It might have been "Arena."

 

[Kor]

Somehow this calls to mind that old photo of Roddenberry in a Cage-era uniform that the Encyclopedia and the Chronology depict as Robert April.

Kor

 

[alensatemybuick1]

I recall he has a voice-over line in one of them where he says, "Communicator, we need more lines to the Impulse Deck." It might have been "Arena."

It was "What Are Little Girls Made of".

 

[Maurice]

I don't know, but It would have been fun to see GR in some type of role. I know Roger C. Carmel was good as Harry Mudd, but I'm trying to imagine GR in his place.

Likely terrible. Carmel was a trained actor who'd been on Broadway. Roddenberry wasn't an actor at all as far as I know, and a "wild" line here or there is no indication he could.

 

[Albertese]

I can imagine he could have been fine as a costumed background extra, not unlike how George Lucas wore a fancy suit and blue skin makeup in Star Wars Episode III. No lines or anything. Just, for instance, like one of the ambassadors in the background of "Journey to Babel" or something on those lines.

--Alex

 

[Spock's Barber]

Likely terrible. Carmel was a trained actor who'd been on Broadway. Roddenberry wasn't an actor at all as far as I know, and a "wild" line here or there is no indication he could.

Would you believe.....since Melvin Belli was so awful as the Gorgan in And The Children Shall Lead, could GR have done any worse in the role?

 

[johnnybear]

What was so bad about Belli? He wasn't terrific or fantastic as Gorgon, but was he really that bad?
JB

 

[Spock's Barber]

What was so bad about Belli? He wasn't terrific or fantastic as Gorgon, but was he really that bad?
JB

Yes. He sounded and looked like he was reading directly off cue cards. "Death...to..you...all!"

 

[johnnybear]

Well I never knew he was top ranking lawyer either I guess!
JB

 

[Spock's Barber]

Well I never knew he was top ranking lawyer either I guess!
JB

You'd think that he could have applied his courtroom oratory skills to his 'acting', but I guess those are two different venues.

 

[johnnybear]

Well maybe my Lord!
JB

 

[F. King Daniel]

I'm surprised he wasn't part of the Big Crew Getogether scene in TMP

 

[Spock's Barber]

How many people would have recognized him in 1966-69?

All his girlfriends would have recognized him.

 

[Nerys Myk]

All his girlfriends would have recognized him.

And are wondering what happened to the part he promised them.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

And are wondering what happened to the part he promised them.

Oh I'm sure he gave them the part he promised... wait, you meant role in the show. Nevermind.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Oh I'm sure he gave them the part he promised... wait, you meant role in the show. Nevermind.

Yes, he gave them the BIG part.

 

[The Old Mixer]

the BIG part.

And you know this how...?