If Jeff Hunter had been unavailble

[remember...]

If for some reason Hunter could not do the piolet who could do it in his place

 

[Kor]

Jack Lord.

Kor

 

[Nerys Myk]

Lloyd Bridges

 

[Spock's Barber]

Would you believe...

Don Adams

 

[Qonundrum]

Adam West, naturally

 

[diankra]

Weren't Lord and Bridges both approached before Hunter?

 

[Spock's Barber]

Weren't Lord and Bridges both approached before Hunter?

Yes. IIRC, Lord’s demands were too high and Bridges wasn’t interested.

 

[Tenacity]

Ava Gardner.

If Roddenberry wanted to make commentary on equality, jump in with both feet and make the captain a woman. Plus from a few of Gardner's movie I got the impression that she could probably hold her own in a fist fight. Tough girl.

 

[Tim Thomason]

If for some reason Hunter could not do the piolet who could do it in his place

William Shatner. Assuming Hunter doesn't sign on for the second pilot for some reason.

 

[Lance]

Lloyd and Bridges were considered after Hunter turned down the second pilot, afaik? I don't recall that I've ever heard about alternatives to Hunter, but those two were definitely alternatives to Shatner.

 

[johnnybear]

Orson Welles?
JB

 

[Maurice]

Orson Welles?
JB

Welles did once do a pilot for Desilu... and it even won a Peabody award!

 

[Nerys Myk]

Some of these actors seem a bit old for Kirk.

 

[Henoch]

Vic Morrow would be cool.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Some of these actors seem a bit old for Kirk.

This is the knockoff thread. The Kirk thread is here:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/if-shatner-had-been-unavailable.303560/

 

[Nerys Myk]

This is the knockoff thread. The Kirk thread is here:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/if-shatner-had-been-unavailable.303560/

Pike too.

 

[The Old Mixer]

In this scenario, my favorite choice for alternate TOS captain, Robert Conrad, might have actually been available before The Wild Wild West got him...though I don't know when that show's pilot was shot.

 

[Spock's Barber]

^ IMDb gives a date of September 17, 1965. I don’t know if that production date or air date.

 

[The Old Mixer]

^ That's the airdate.