Uniform question....

[Admiral Buzzkill]

First of all, I liked the away team jackets that you saw in the Cage... curiously absent from the next pilot, later brought back sometime in TNG.

The jackets were one of Theiss's experiments with fabric - they were thin vinyl leatherette with the grey foam backing used as the "right side." Unfortunately, the foam turned out to be delicate, snagging and scarring any time an actor brushed up against, say, a plaster "boulder" on Talos.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Or it could just be that they wanted to include some sex appeal in the publicity photos to attract male viewers

Except that she was also signed to a 13-week contract, and Nichelle Nicholls was classed as a "day player" for the first two years, and was only paid for the episodes on which she worked.

 

[Shaw]

The jackets were one of Theiss's experiments with fabric - they were thin vinyl leatherette with the grey foam backing used as the "right side." Unfortunately, the foam turned out to be delicate, snagging and scarring any time an actor brushed up against, say, a plaster "boulder" on Talos.

Back in the early 80's I found that the vinyl used for Volkswagen interiors was a great match. The foam side had the sparkley-specks quality to it.

Or it could just be that they wanted to include some sex appeal in the publicity photos to attract male viewers

Except that she was also signed to a 13-week contract, and Nichelle Nicholls was classed as a "day player" for the first two years, and was only paid for the episodes on which she worked.

Well, if Whitney appeared on film she was given very high placement in the credits... including "The Conscience of the King" where all she did was walk out of the turbo lift as I recall.

 

[Praetor]

On par with McCoy? Geez.

 

[Tan Ru]

Wow, the credits type-face changed a lot didn't it?

Never noticed that before.

 

[erastus25]

So this picture apparently vouches that Rand was supposed to be a big deal indeed.

Or it could just be that they wanted to include some sex appeal in the publicity photos to attract male viewers (though personally I've never understood what anyone saw in Rand). Earlier, around the production of the second pilot, the publicity photos featured Kirk, Spock, and Yeoman Smith, who I think had only one line in the entire pilot and whose whole purpose was basically to stand there and look pretty.

The more cynical viewpoint is that the studio told them to use Rand instead of Uhura in those photos because they wanted it to show only white actors.

 

[ClayinCA]

I don't think Uhura had been cast yet when those photos were taken; if memory serves, Nichelle Nichols was cast extremely close to the start of filming on "The Corbomite Maneuver."