Back to Dullea, he appears in the first episode of Route 66 in a very not-Bowmanish role.
Speculative: TOS Era Actors who would have worked well on Star Trek
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Backing up to the above, I have a partial shooting schedule for TWOK here and while it doesn't include any scenes on the Enterprise bridge, one thing that's very clear is that Shatner and Montalban had overlapping work schedules, not sequential. For instance on day 41—Thursday—they're shooting on the Reliant bridge with Khan, and on day 42—Friday—they're shooting Kirk in sickbay. It's been said the Khan scenes were shot at night (a la Michael J. Fox for much of Back to the Future) so the shoot would not interfere with Montalban's Fantasy Island schedule.
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Some of the TOS clapperboard frames show "nite" or "day" written on the slate. Does that refer to the time being portrayed, or the actual time a scene was being filmed?
I may be wrong but I thought that was to let the lab know if it was intentionally shot exterior day-for-night, or interior lit for night. So they would process it right.
That sounds reasonable. It shouldn't matter to the finished product when the scenes were filmed, only what they're meant to look like.
But now I'm finding, as I look through my slate images for "The Cage," that the Briefing Room scene and the Bridge are marked nite, while a Talosian underground scene is marked day.
That's three indoor settings. So I'm leaning toward "The Cage" slates keeping track of when a shooting day went past a certain hour, probably the dinner break. And maybe nite means they came back and resumed working after dinner.
Edit: I have two slates from WNMHGB:, a bridge scene, and Gary raising his hands to make Kirk kneel before their climactic fight. They're both marked day. And I don't see any day or nite notations on the regular production episode slates.
Edit 2: I take that back. There's a day notation on the Bridge scenes from "The Corbomite Maneuver." That was still very early days, and apparently they dropped the practice later.
That's three indoor settings. So I'm leaning toward "The Cage" slates keeping track of when a shooting day went past a certain hour, probably the dinner break. And maybe nite means they came back and resumed working after dinner.
Edit: I have two slates from WNMHGB:, a bridge scene, and Gary raising his hands to make Kirk kneel before their climactic fight. They're both marked day. And I don't see any day or nite notations on the regular production episode slates.
Edit 2: I take that back. There's a day notation on the Bridge scenes from "The Corbomite Maneuver." That was still very early days, and apparently they dropped the practice later.
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Every time I watch Space Seed I imagine actor Leif Erickson as a long in the tooth Commodore in Star Fleet after we hear the name of the Viking adventurer when Khan is thinking of past warriors and his own historical counterparts! 
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It’s based on the time of day indicated in the script for a given scene. Mostly for editorial, possibly for the lab so they don”t mistakenly “correct” footage that could be mistaken for incorrectly exposed.
How would time of day be relevant to Bridge or Briefing Room scenes?
I believe that script notation is only used in scenes where it's relevant. I checked a few Trek scripts (one each TAS, TNG, DS9, and VGR) and they don't use day/night notations for shipboard scenes, only for planet-surface exteriors and sometimes interiors (for the view out the windows, I guess).
Early on on the show they treated the Enterprise as having different lighting for time of day, so that the human crew, used to day and night cycles, would have some equivalent. Also, sometimes writers use "night" to indicate "later that same day", like "day" is Kirk on the job and "night" is him in his quarters.
If anyone has questions about script formats, and Star Trek docs and scripts, I have practical experience with the former and access to tons of the latter, so "Who ya gonna call?".
I still think the "day" and "nite" notations are about the time a scene ended up getting shot. Like nite is after the dinner break, and the studio wanted to know that for bookkeeping reasons, how much is this director costing us, or wages and labor law.
I've only seen them on The Cage, WNMHGB, and Corbomite clappers, and most of them are indoor or shipboard scenes. But I don't honestly know.
I've only seen them on The Cage, WNMHGB, and Corbomite clappers, and most of them are indoor or shipboard scenes. But I don't honestly know.
It's been a while since I've seen the episodes. Did they keep this up through the series or abandon it at some point?
The crew realized that low lighting was making Spock shouty, so they turned them up.
I believe it was short-lived. It’s just one more thing to keep track of, and one more potential continuity problem if you don’t stay on top of it.
ZapBrannigan said that "I've only seen them on The Cage, WNMHGB, and Corbomite clappers" so it seems to have been short lived indeed.
If the show had stayed on the air another season, they might have gotten Farrah Fawcett...I just spotted her on a Fall 1969 episode of Mayberry R.F.D., which turns out to be her first role listed on IMDb.
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