Who never guest starred on TOS that should have?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Ooh ohhh ohhhhhh!!! Paul Lynde! Larry Hagman!

They could have crossed Paul Lynde with Shouting Spock..

"I'm the secret SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE!!!!!!!!"

 

[Mysterion]

Ernest Borgnine! I can totally see him as a starship captain, or maybe as the one in charge of the Janus II pergium mining.

A miner maybe, but captain of a starship? He's always played working class guys. It's his thing. And, especially in the 60s, captains were leading man types.

Yeah, Borgnine would have never played the comander of a ship. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfkkVFIT_PY

 

[Timewalker]

Ernest Borgnine! I can totally see him as a starship captain, or maybe as the one in charge of the Janus II pergium mining.

A miner maybe, but captain of a starship? He's always played working class guys. It's his thing. And, especially in the 60s, captains were leading man types.

Yeah, Borgnine would have never played the comander of a ship. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfkkVFIT_PY

Indeed!

I suppose you consider the guy who played Captain Decker in "The Doomsday Machine" to be a 'leading man' type? I sure don't.

 

[lurok]

Barbara Eden would have been a great guest star.

As OP asked to suggest character as well, perhaps alt. pregnant babe in Friday's Child?

Victor Buono was on nearly every other show back then. He could have been great as a large villain.

Definitely alt. Harry Mudd

Hope this one not too radical. TOS known for 'progressive' casting back then, so: Woody Strode? (Spartacus, Once Upon A Time In West). Ted Cassidy own the part, but Strode might have made an interesting alt Ruk...

 

[Nerys Myk]

Ernest Borgnine! I can totally see him as a starship captain, or maybe as the one in charge of the Janus II pergium mining.

A miner maybe, but captain of a starship? He's always played working class guys. It's his thing. And, especially in the 60s, captains were leading man types.

Yeah, Borgnine would have never played the comander of a ship. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfkkVFIT_PY

Lt Commander Quinton McHale, NCC-73

 

[WisTrekFan]

Ernest Borgnine! I can totally see him as a starship captain, or maybe as the one in charge of the Janus II pergium mining.

I could see him playing an old buddy of Scotty's.

 

[Kegg]

I suppose you consider the guy who played Captain Decker in "The Doomsday Machine" to be a 'leading man' type?

Captain Decker was actually written to be a Robert Ryan role, which happened to be the first name to jump to mind when I saw this thread. For me Robert Ryan in the Doomsday Machine is one of Star Trek's quintessential what ifs? - as the man had a gift for playing men consumed by their own demons - so I'll just leave it here and bow out.

 

[scotpens]

Walter Pidgeon & Anne Francis - though may have been a bit too close to Forbidden Planet for comfort

The hell with that. Anne Francis in a skimpy Bill Theiss original? That would've been awesome.

Indeed it would have!

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

Richard Burton as Flint in Requiem for Methuselah (not that James Daly wasn't amazing, but imagine it with Burton!).

Mick Jagger as Adam in The Way to Eden (the jam session with Spock would have been something else entirely and you know Rand and Uhura both would have gotten laid--perhaps at the same time--that night).

Dean Martin as Roger Korby in What Are Little Girls Made Of? (staggering slurring smooth-talking crazy android guy).

 

[Wingsley]

Aw, jeez. Someone had to mention Dean Martin!

That can only mean it is time for... Jerry Lewis!

But seriously, it would've been great to see a young Jerry Orbach (LAW & ORDER).

As has been mentioned on these boards before, Jack Lord (the original HAWAII FIVE-O) would've made a great starship captain or base commander.

As far as a guest character from the 60's making an appearance in TOS, though, I really wanted to see more of the "Cage" crew in more recurring roles, either as prequel-stories or maybe just as individual characters with a past connection to the Enterprise. It would be absolutely hilarious if the Enterprise was sent to rescue a starship in distress, and to have "Number One" brought to McCoy's sickbay from treatment by Nurse Chapel via the split-screen effect.

And it would be great to show Jeffrey Hunter as Pike, handing over command of the Enterprise to Kirk in a flashback.

It would also be great to see Mike Farrell or Loretta Swit (M*A*S*H) guest on TOS.

Another idea intrigues me: casting Meg Wylie (The Talosian Magistrate) as a Starfleet flag officer or senior Federation official.

 

[scotpens]

. . . It would be absolutely hilarious if the Enterprise was sent to rescue a starship in distress, and to have "Number One" brought to McCoy's sickbay from treatment by Nurse Chapel via the split-screen effect.

And how would the similarity in their appearance be explained? Are they sisters? Twins? Wait, I’ve got it — IDENTICAL COUSINS! Yeah, that’s the ticket . . .

Come to think of it, Patty Duke would have made a great Miri.

 

[A beaker full of death]

A miner maybe, but captain of a starship? He's always played working class guys. It's his thing. And, especially in the 60s, captains were leading man types.

Yeah, Borgnine would have never played the comander of a ship. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfkkVFIT_PY

Indeed!

I'm well aware of McHale's Navy. A PT boat is hardly a ship of the line.
It's not a knock on Borgnine; I think he's aces. He's just not a ship's captain type.

I could see him playing an old buddy of Scotty's.

Agreed.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ If he was assimilated, he could be: Ernest. Borg Nine.

 

[EEE]

Only know Bain & Landau from cult sixties watching;

I spent the 60's seriously considering the odds that two "reknowned" actors could meet, get married, and still have NO facial muscles capable of expressions.

heard Space 1999 pretty awful. Maybe I'll give it a shot when finish UFO. Or is life too short?

Life is waaaaaaaay too short. That show is only for real versions of Christopher George's short lived character "Ben Richards." Or the protagonist from the Casca series of books. And only then, to see if they have any feelings/nerve endings left.

 

[Christopher]

As has been mentioned on these boards before, Jack Lord (the original HAWAII FIVE-O) would've made a great starship captain or base commander.

Didn't Lord get offered the Kirk role and turn it down before Shatner was cast?

It would also be great to see Mike Farrell or Loretta Swit (M*A*S*H) guest on TOS.

Well, Mike Farrell was the second lead in Roddenberry & Coon's The Questor Tapes pilot in 1973.

 

[Mysterion]

It would also be great to see Mike Farrell or Loretta Swit (M*A*S*H) guest on TOS.

Well, Mike Farrell was the second lead in Roddenberry & Coon's The Questor Tapes pilot in 1973.

Just saw Farrell in an episode of The Monkees last weekend, so he was definitely working around the time TOS was being made. I could see him as a "crewman of the week" sort.

 

[Theodore Jay Miller]

Eartha Kitt

I picture Eartha Kitt as an alien leader type, like Elaan of Troyius or Deela in Wink of an Eye (assuming the interracial thing with Kirk would get by).

How about Peter Falk as Arne Darvin in Trouble with Tribbles?

James Coburn might have been good as a Vulcan; I remember his Derek Flint character.

 

[judge alba]

burt lancaster would have made an good captain. (think that's his name)
clint eastwood as an admiral
jane fonda as a Rommie
oh and I know he wasnt an actor but it would have been pretty cool for Bob Marely to be a captain

 

[A beaker full of death]

jane fonda as a Rommie

More likely an Orion Sex Slave.

 

[Harvey]

As has been mentioned on these boards before, Jack Lord (the original HAWAII FIVE-O) would've made a great starship captain or base commander.

Didn't Lord get offered the Kirk role and turn it down before Shatner was cast?

Yes. IIRC, there's an amusing memo from Roddenberry indicating that Lord wasn't right for the role because he took his last name too literally.