WNMHGB image

[marlboro]

What the heck. Just for fun, my (terrible) picks for recasting TOS:

Kirk: Robert Kulp
Spock : Martin Landau
Bones: Joseph Cotten
Scotty: Richard Basehart
Sulu: Keye Luke
Yeoman Rand: Barbara Eden

A couple of gender swaps:

Chekov: Lee Meriwether
Uhura: William Marshall

Redshirts: the stunt guys from Wild Wild West ( Whitey Hughes, Red West etc.)

 

[The Old Mixer]

I'm not sure if Conrad would have made a good Kirk, but the action scenes would have been amazing.

I couldn’t help thinking of him as Kirk when watching him as Pappy Boyington in Black Sheep.

 

[marlboro]

I have actually never watched that show. I should check it out sometime. I loved WWW and the show also has some cast connections with my favorite 80s show Magnum P.I.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

What the heck. Just for fun, my (terrible) picks for recasting TOS:

Kirk: Robert Kulp

I often thought Robert Culp would've made a good TOS captain, either April, Winter, Pike or Kirk.

In fact, I did a Twitter thread on who I'd cast in the original "Cage" pilot from known 1960s actors.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I have actually never watched that show. I should check it out sometime. I loved WWW and the show also has some cast connections with my favorite 80s show Magnum P.I.

In that case I'd definitely recommend it. He's more of a dramatic / light comedic lead in an ensemble cast than an action hero, so he gets a little more to do acting-wise.

 

[Spock's Barber]

I have actually never watched that show. I should check it out sometime. I loved WWW and the show also has some cast connections with my favorite 80s show Magnum P.I.

I could envision Tom Selleck as Captain Kirk...if he’d shave off that damn porn star mustache.

 

[GNDN18]

I could envision Tom Selleck as Captain Kirk...if he’d shave off that damn porn star mustache.

I’d rather not.

 

[marlboro]

Higgins would have made a great badmiral. I can just picture the Enterprise being chased by a couple of Dobermans in space suits every time Kirk breaks the Prime Directive.

And "Khan...did you see the sunrise this morning?" BLAM! would have been a lot more badass than " KHAAAAN! "


A young Tom Selleck sans (awesome) stache:

He would have made a great Will Decker, I think.

 

[Harvey]

Some quotes from Dromm are posted on IMDB:

Since Star Trek (1966) was only a pilot they could keep you under option for six months and change your character or, even worse, drop you from the series. You had no guarantees that they would sign you for the series. I thought that doing the movie (The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966)) would be more exciting and a great thing to do. That was a choice I had to make and you can't look back.
I was offered a role in The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966). They told me you either had to do the film or the (Star Trek (1966)) series. I chose the film, but had I known that "Star Trek" would become such a phenomenon, I probably would have opted for the series.

The the paperwork is pretty clear that Andrea Dromm was dropped after the second pilot by Desilu; it wasn’t a choice she made.

http://startrekfactcheck.blogspot.com/2014/01/drive-in-dream-girls-star-treks-first.html

Since the movie came out on May 25, 1966, and Star Trek’s first regular episode (“The Corbomite Maneuver”) didn’t start rehearsals until May 23, 1966, she probably could have done both.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

The the paperwork is pretty clear that Andrea Dromm was dropped after the second pilot by Desilu; it wasn’t a choice she made.

Everyone is the hero of their own story, I guess.

 

[BK613]

Re: Andrea Dromm.
Of course if it were presented to her by her agent as a choice("If you go do this movie you might miss out on the series" or some such), she would remember it as a choice. Don't see the need to imply nefarious motivations.

 

[Ssosmcin]

There’s nothing nefarious about a 50-year-old memory. My memory plays tricks on me about things less than a decade ago. It’s one of the reasons why the police interrogate people immediately. Over the course of hours your memory can change how things went down.

She wasn’t interviewed regularly about the series, so I’m sure a great many details had fallen by the wayside. It was a few days on set for a pilot in 1965. It that long for her. Just a job.

 

[BK613]

No failure of memory is required either. WNMHGB was shot in July of 1965 and the letter dropping her came NINE months later in April of 1966. Her remembering that she decided to go to Northern California to shoot a movie rather than hang around LA to see if she'd be a part the series doesn't require her memory to be fuzzy. It's a point of view thing.

edit: Counting error

 

[Ssosmcin]

Again you’re assuming she had the dates in her head. She could have just remembered they were around the same time. Ya know?

 

[JoseNoodles]

While we are on the subject of photos, anyone know where this image comes from:

Whose is this woman supposed to be? And what are they holding? They look like flashlights with color filters.

The image is featured on the Star Trek Comics Checklist and is listed as being from a British fanzine: https://www.startrekcomics.info/uktosstripsbooksmags.html

 

[Takeru]

Whose is this woman supposed to be?

Janice Rand

 

[Kor]

While we are on the subject of photos, anyone know where this image comes from:

Whose is this woman supposed to be? And what are they holding? They look like flashlights with color filters.

The image is featured on the Star Trek Comics Checklist and is listed as being from a British fanzine: https://www.startrekcomics.info/uktosstripsbooksmags.html

It was one of the early publicity/promo photos. Those look to be flashlights (or "torches" in UK English). This photo was also used on the cover of Grace Lee Whitney's autobiography The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy.

Somebody on flickr has a whole album of these promo pics (including that particular shot) in better/bigger quality:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pineapples101/albums/72157623671304956

Kor

 

[JoseNoodles]

Janice Rand

Wow, I can't believe I didn't recognize Grace Lee Whitney. She has a bit of a pouty smile here. She's also wearing the old style uniform from "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

It was one of the early publicity/promo photos. Those look to be flashlights (or "torches" in UK English). This photo was also used on the cover of Grace Lee Whitney's autobiography The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy.

Somebody on flickr has a whole album of these promo pics (including that particular shot) in better/bigger quality:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pineapples101/albums/72157623671304956

Kor

Well thanks for clearing this up. I thought I had come across an unknown cast member.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

While we are on the subject of photos, anyone know where this image comes from:

Whose is this woman supposed to be? And what are they holding? They look like flashlights with color filters.

The costumes alone in this photo provide us with carbon dating: it was done after WNMHGB but before "The Corbomite Maneuver." Gravitational fields were in a state of flux. It's an era or universe we never got an episode from.

 

[JoseNoodles]

The costumes alone in this photo provide us with carbon dating: it was done after WNMHGB but before "The Corbomite Maneuver." Gravitational fields were in a state of flux. It's an era or universe we never got an episode from.

Or they were, y'know, just transitioning to new uniforms.