Hey, I never noticed that before....

[Phaser Two]

I agree about Lethe. The Neural Neutralizer got her. When she says, "I love my work," she has totally flat affect, and we hear the music cue for something's askew.

Lethe had definitely been altered by the Neural Neutralizer. Her name was derived from the river of forgetfulness in Greek mythology.

Of course. Thanks, you two; good points. The music cue - is that the slowly blowing descending horn? Used, e.g., in Return of the Archons when Landru first appears and in Wink of an Eye when Kirk notices the bridge crew "slowing down?" If so, I love that one.

 

[johnnybear]

Strange how the actress playing Lethe made her one and only appearance in television with this episode!
JB

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Strange how the actress playing Lethe made her one and only appearance in television with this episode!
JB

Except she was in multiple shows.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913748/

 

[JonnyQuest037]

...That makes it even stranger!

 

[johnnybear]

Except she was in multiple shows.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913748/

That's weird! I remember looking her up on the IMDB years ago and Dagger was her only credit! It must be the Mandela Effect all over again!
JB

 

[CorporalCaptain]

That's weird! I remember looking her up on the IMDB years ago and Dagger was her only credit! It must be the Mandela Effect all over again!
JB

Granted, IMDb isn't 100% reliable, but at least one of those citations should be easily checkable, I'd think....

 

[johnnybear]

I used to check up on actors that I didn't really know much about years ago and she was one that I had looked up! Either that or whomever updates her page found other listings for her in the years since!
JB

 

[Trekfan12]

This Side of Paradise....when Spock drops his communicator, he is shown wearing lace up boots like the type Kirk wore in Arena.

WOW Spock had big feet

 

[Trekfan12]

I always saw those lace-up boots over the years and assumed they were colonist-issue, to go with the jumpsuit. The thing of interest in that shot was the hotly-desired communicator prop.

But now in HD, if you look closely you can see he was wearing them the whole time:
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x24hd/thissideofparadisehd050.jpg

I wonder why he was wearing the laced up shoes instead of the regular Starfleet boots?

 

[Trekfan12]

I wonder why Leila took him to change his clothes when the other personnel from the ship who had been infected with the spores stayed in their uniforms on the planet?
JB

Maybe to emphasize that Spock belonged to the colonists now and was no longer part of the Enterprise?

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I wonder why Leila took him to change his clothes when the other personnel from the ship who had been infected with the spores stayed in their uniforms on the planet?
JB

Maybe to emphasize that Spock belonged to the colonists now and was no longer part of the Enterprise?

Yep, that was exactly it. I can't remember where I read this, but those plain coveralls the colonists wore were meant to symbolize their mindless conformity.

 

[johnnybear]

Mindless conformity or not they were plenty happy on that little world and I'll bet a lot of us would like it there too!
JB

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

That's weird! I remember looking her up on the IMDB years ago and Dagger was her only credit!

Lots of actors have uncredited roles. I remember hearing that some movie actors who were extras, bit parts in the 30s, 40s, etc didn't even even know they'd been in a particular well-known film until someone told them - they were just given a costume and told to walk around on a stage for a scene. They did it, then never gave that job a second thought. If I understand it right, they were contract players for a studio and hung around doing little things here and there.

 

[johnnybear]

Yes there are many uncredited actors on television and even in Star Trek itself! But how anyone could not know they were in Trek TOS is crazy! I wonder what juice they were on?
JB

 

[Harvey]

Yes there are many uncredited actors on television and even in Star Trek itself! But how anyone could not know they were in Trek TOS is crazy! I wonder what juice they were on?
JB

The studio system of the 30s and 40s is not the same environment as the one at Desilu when Star Trek was produced.

 

[Marsden]

Yes there are many uncredited actors on television and even in Star Trek itself! But how anyone could not know they were in Trek TOS is crazy! I wonder what juice they were on?
JB

I think LDS is what you're thinking of.

 

[The Old Mixer]

If you can remember the 2260s, you weren't there.

 

[GNDN18]

Part of the Free Speech movement, no doubt.

 

[Noname Given]

Yes there are many uncredited actors on television and even in Star Trek itself! But how anyone could not know they were in Trek TOS is crazy! I wonder what juice they were on?
JB

Because a set is a set. It was a job to them:

1) Go to wardrobe and get costumed.
2) Go to stage 9 (or whatever stage they're filming on.)
3) Stand/Walk in the background per the Director's (primary or secondary) until the Director says you're done.

They have no lines, they're set dressing; so it wouldn't surprise me that (back in the day when Star Trek was a Network show consistently at the bottom of the ratings); that someone couldn't recall walking standing in the background for a few hours on one particular set if that's what they did multiple times a week for multiple productions.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Yeah. Not everybody is a fan like we are. To us, being on TOS would be the thrill of a lifetime. To some of the extras and actors, it was probably no different than being on Lost in Space or Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.