Guests stars we never got....

[captcalhoun]

Lee Marvin, Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Steve McQueen, John Wayne, Alec Guiness.. hey, a guy can dream...

John Wayne would've been great as a captain like Maxwell of the Phoenix from TNG's The Wounded.

Marilyn Monroe?

Jimmy Dean?

y'know, in a alt-world where they lived...

 

[Zachary Smith]

This one:

 

[Nerys Myk]

This one:

She's dressed for the part.

 

[EnsignHarper]

Really. Mess up his hair and he'd have made a great lunatic scientist. He'd have done a much better job of playing Lazarus in The Alternative Factor.

Speaking of Lazarus, wasn't Robert Brown a last-minute replacement for John Barrymore Jr.? IIRC, Barrymore either didn't show up for the first day of shooting or he walked off the set and never came back.

Barrymore could have been... interesting. At the very least, given his history, playing the insane Lazarus probably would've come very naturally to him.

OHHHHH YEAHHHH.....Barrymore screwed that one up BIG time... by not showing up - and it pissed off Justman and Solow so much, they actually took him before the SAG board, and got his ass suspended for half a year - and basically killed what was left of his career.

 

[John Picard]

This one:

The one woman who made me appreciate the beauty of red heads when I was a young boy.

 

[Tan Ru]

This one:

Mmmmmm..............yeah‼

The young version of Rhonda Fleming.

 

[Aquehonga]

Great topic Warped9

Dean Spockwell would've been a great guest-star

Shocked Dean Spockwell wasn't!

DS was in the TZ episode “A Quality of Mercy” with Lenny Nimy.

 

[Jeri]

I think Ross Martin ("Artemis Gordon") would have been a great choice of character actor; of course, he was starring in Wild, Wild, West the whole time TOS was on. So I guess it would have been difficult.

 

[Praetor]

How about a young Randolph Mantooth or Kevin Tighe (later to be seen on 'Emergency'?) I know Mantooth was in a few guest starring roles at the time.

 

[Forbin]

Marty Millner as an alien lawman named Adam-12?

 

[Praetor]

Marty Millner as an alien lawman named Adam-12?

Ouch.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Robert Ryan as Commodore Decker.

According to an introduction by Walter Koenig on the UK Star Trek videos, he was offered the part. My memory is a little hazy, those 3 episode volumes also featured short intros with George Takei and James Doohan.

 

[NTRPRZ]

Even though someone posted shots of Dr. Zachary Smith on the Enterprise, I think Jonathan Harris would have made an excellent guest star.

IMHO, he could have played Ambassador Petri in "Elaan of Troyius". He and Jay Robinson shared many of the same mannerisms, even vocal inflections. And, since it was in Trek's third season, the year after Lost in Space was cancelled, he would have been available.

And now that I think about it, Bill Mumy could have played Tommy Starnes in "And the Children Shall Lead." He and Mumy were both redheads and about the same age. And, of course, with LIS not on the air, he also would have been available.

 

[Praetor]

Robert Ryan as Commodore Decker.

According to an introduction by Walter Koenig on the UK Star Trek videos, he was offered the part. My memory is a little hazy, those 3 episode volumes also featured short intros with George Takei and James Doohan.

Well your memory can't be totally wrong, because I remember that too. IIRC, he wasn't available for some reason.

Even though someone posted shots of Dr. Zachary Smith on the Enterprise, I think Jonathan Harris would have made an excellent guest star.

IMHO, he could have played Ambassador Petri in "Elaan of Troyius". He and Jay Robinson shared many of the same mannerisms, even vocal inflections. And, since it was in Trek's third season, the year after Lost in Space was cancelled, he would have been available.

And now that I think about it, Bill Mumy could have played Tommy Starnes in "And the Children Shall Lead." He and Mumy were both redheads and about the same age. And, of course, with LIS not on the air, he also would have been available.

Both of those would have been better choices than the actors who were cast, IMHO, although I'm not sure about Harris in that makeup for Petri.

 

[Zachary Smith]

Even though someone posted shots of Dr. Zachary Smith on the Enterprise, I think Jonathan Harris would have made an excellent guest star.

IMHO, he could have played Ambassador Petri in "Elaan of Troyius". He and Jay Robinson shared many of the same mannerisms, even vocal inflections. And, since it was in Trek's third season, the year after Lost in Space was cancelled, he would have been available.

And now that I think about it, Bill Mumy could have played Tommy Starnes in "And the Children Shall Lead." He and Mumy were both redheads and about the same age. And, of course, with LIS not on the air, he also would have been available.

Those were mine!

 

[Gov Kodos]

The Sothers Brothers as Tellerite ambassadors who spend much of their time, when not criticising the Federation and its disrespect towards Tellar, accusing Spock of the murder of the Tellerite ambassador in Journey to Babel... this countered by the Andorian Ambassador played by Goldie Hawn in her classic bubble head mode, which leaves everyone very confused but interested.

 

[Grant]

I'm sure a lot of these have been said

Martin Landau
Ross Martin
Simon Oakland
Joe Maross
Earl Holiman
Richard Long
Kevin McCarthy
Fritz Weaver
Albert Salmi
Jack Klugman
Victor Bouno
James Macarthur
Ivan Dixon
Greg Morris
Peter Graves



and any of a dozen babes that appeared on Wild, Wild West...........

Surprising how few asian & hispanic actors there were to chose from in the '60s

 

[Jeri]

^ ^ I was going to come in here and correct my Ross Martin post up there, but it was too late. I noticed I spelled Artie's name wrong: it's Artemus Gordon, instead of Artemis.

I was just browsing at Wiki and found this quote:

Ross Martin once called his role as Artemus Gordon "a show-off's showcase" because it allowed him to portray over 100 different characters during the course of the series, and perform dozens of different dialects. Martin sketched his ideas for his characterizations and worked with the make-up artists to execute the final look. Martin was nominated for an Emmy in 1969.

 

[Zachary Smith]

^ ^ I was going to come in here and correct my Ross Martin post up there, but it was too late. I noticed I spelled Artie's name wrong: it's Artemus Gordon, instead of Artemis.

I was just browsing at Wiki and found this quote:

Ross Martin once called his role as Artemus Gordon "a show-off's showcase" because it allowed him to portray over 100 different characters during the course of the series, and perform dozens of different dialects. Martin sketched his ideas for his characterizations and worked with the make-up artists to execute the final look. Martin was nominated for an Emmy in 1969.

Make no mistake, I loved the "Wild Wild West" and Jim and Artie. Even as a kid though, Gordon's make-ups seemed phoney and obvious to me. And I always found it funny he would put on an OBVIOUS disguise and go into a town where NO ONE KNEW HIM. I thought it was hilarious because I always imagined every one was wondering about that "stranger wearing the weird disguise".

 

[Navigator_NCC2120]

The Sothers Brothers as Tellerite ambassadors who spend much of their time, when not criticising the Federation and its disrespect towards Tellar, accusing Spock of the murder of the Tellerite ambassador in Journey to Babel... this countered by the Andorian Ambassador played by Goldie Hawn in her classic bubble head mode, which leaves everyone very confused but interested.

If only! That would have been priceless.

Sock-It-To-Me...Say Goodnight Dick. Goodnight Dick.


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