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THE OPENING:
============
The first two seasons had Shatner's  voice-over during  the opening credits
as:

"Space...  the  final  frontier.    These are  the voyages  of the Starship
Enterprise.  Its five year mission:  to explore strange new worlds, to seek
out new life  and new  civilizations, to  boldly go  where no  man has gone
before."

For the third season, it was changed to:

"Space...  a  final  frontier.    These  are  the  voyages  of the Starship
Enterprise.  Its five year mission:  to explore strange new worlds, to seek
out new life  and new  civilizations, to  boldly go  where no  man has gone
before."

For "The Cage", they didn't have any voice-over, just the music.

NAMES:
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It is generally agreed that Kirk's full name is "James Tiberius  Kirk".  It
was only  given  as "James  T.   Kirk" in  TOS, the  "Tiberius" didn't come
around until  TAS  ("Bem")  and  the  novels.   In  "Where No  Man Has Gone
Before", Gary  Mitchell  makes a  gravestone for  Kirk that  says "James R.
Kirk", apparently before Gene had settled on a middle name.

Spock's other name (you  couldn't pronounce  it, as  he told  the blonde in
"This Side of Paradise") isn't given in the  television series  or the film
series.  It is given in one or  more of  the books  if you  care to believe
them.  According to the Officer's  Manual, it  is Xtmprszntwlfd (pronounced
with six syllables).

McCoy's middle initial is given in "Friday's Child" and the  film series as
"H".  Some  novels  have  it  as  "H",  others  as "T".   Geoffrey Mandel's
Officer's Manual lists his middle name as Horatio.

As a general rule, Vulcan  males have  five-letter names  starting with "S"
and ending with "K" (Spock,  Sybok, Sarek,  etc.)   in honor  of Surak, and
Vulcan females have names starting with "T'"  (T'Pau, T'Pring,  etc.).  The
explanations for Saavik are range from "she's  part Romulan,  so the naming
convention didn't hold" to "Her name is T'Saavik, but the "T'S" is too hard
to pronounce" to "the  Romulans deliberately  gave her  a male  name, as an
insult".

Klingon names seem to lean toward starting with a  "K".   One novel asserts
that this rule actually applies only to  high-ranking officers,  and one of
the Klingon characters received  a  battlefield promotion.   His companions
implicitly knew that his name was now K____ rather than V____.

Other names  from  Geoffrey  Mandel's  Officer  Manual:   Montgomery Edward
Scott, Itaka Sulu (though George  prefers Walter  and Gene  and some novels
call him Hikaru) , Upenda Uhura (some sources say Nyota), Pavel Andreievich
Chekov (also stated as such in  "The Way  to Eden"),  and Christopher Robin
Pike.


SPEED:
======
The fastest the original Enterprise has gone (not counting "off the scale")
was 14.1 in "That Which Survives".  For TOS, speed is (warp ^ 3) * c, which
yields:

	      warp    c
	      ----  ----
	       1       1
	       2       8
	       3      27
	       4      64
	       5     125
	       6     216
	       7     343
	       8     512
	       9     729
	      10    1000
	      11    1331
	      12    1728
	      13    2197
	      14.1  2803.221

STARDATES, YEARS, AGES, ETC.:
=============================
In TOS  the  stardates  ranged  from  1513  (Man  Trap)  to 5928 (Turnabout
Intruder).  At this time  Gene had  intended for  stardates to  be based on
Julian dates  modulo  10000, with  one stardate  being 24  hours in length.
There are numerous examples where this is false.  Some of  the most blatant
are The  Immunity  Syndrome  (where  a  quick  calculation  shows  that one
stardate is  less  than 2.5  hours) and  Requiem for  Methuselah (where one
stardate figures out  to be  about 960  hours).   There are  a few episodes
where the  stardates  actually  decrease  during  the  show.   See also the
numerous timelines that  get posted  to the  rec.arts.startrek newsgroup on
Usenet.

     1992-1997 Eugenics Wars (according to Off Manual/TMP novel)
     1993-1996 Eugenics War (according to TOS "Space Seed")
     2018      Last use of sleeper ships (according to Space Seed)
     2031-2039 Clone Wars (according to Off Manual (80)/TMP novel)
     2035      US gets 52nd state (according to TNG "The Royale")
     2047      Mind Control Revolt (according to Off Manual/TMP novel)
     2049      First Kzinti Invasion of Earth (according to Off Manual)
     2064      Kzinti Invasions Halt (according to Off Manual)
     2079      All United Earth "nonsense" abolished (according to TNG
               "Encounter at Farpoint")
     The year in TOS is somewhere between 2260 and 2286.
     The Officer's Manual says TMP took place in 2265.
     The year  on a bottle  of Romulan Ale  is given in  TOS  "The Wrath of
               Khan" as 2283(?)
     Khan was marooned for 15 years at the time of ST2.
     TNG is 93-100 years after TOS, and 78-79 years after TMP.
     TOS "Ballentine Concordance (1976)": Gives McCoy's age as 45.
     TOS "Who Mourns for Adonais": Chekov gives his age as 22.
     TOS "The Deadly Years": Kirk's age is given as 34.
     TNG "The Neutral Zone": Data gives the year as 2364.
     TNG "Encounter at Farpoint": McCoy's age is given as 137.
     TOS "Journey to Babel": Sarek's age is given as 102.437.
     TNG "Sarek": Sarek's age is given as 202.
     TNG "The Schizoid Man": Wes  said  "Data,  chronologically, you're not
               much older than I am."
     TNG "DataLore": Data says he was found 26 years ago.
     TNG "Datalore": Data  details  exactly  how many years he spent at the
               Academy, how many as an ensign, etc. Counting backwards from
               stardate 41xxx.x would give his grad date.
     TNG "Encounter at Farpoint": Data graduated SFA  in the class of '78
               with Honors in Dextral Biology and Probability Mechanics.
     TNG "Encounter at Farpoint": The Post-Atomic Age started in 2078.
     TNG "Encounter at Farpoint"  (and the Officers Manual): the New United
               Nations  was  formed in 2036  (the Officers Manual says this
               happened during the Clone Wars).
     Kirk was born in the year 2228 in Riverside,  Iowa,  where a statue of
               him has been erected.
     The book "The Final Reflection" (non-canon, but who really cares) puts
               the lifespan of a  Klingon at about 40 years (Terran).  Worf
               would be about 15, by this reckoning.
     William Shatner was born on March 22, 1931
     Leonard Nimoy was born on March 26, 1931.
     DeForest Kelley was born on Jan 20, 1920

SNAFUs:
======
"Space Seed":  As Kirk is bashing in Khan's glass coffin,  his phaser falls
off his belt.  McCoy  keeps looking  down at  it, like  he's wondering when
they're going to yell 'cut' so they can re-shoot the scene.  They never did
re-shoot because they didn't want to invest in more glass.

"Operation:  Annihilate!":  In a well-known ST blooper, the amoeba-creature
accidentally hits Spock's rear end instead of his back.

"Court-Martial":  Kirk  says  "Gentlemen,  this  computer  has  an auditory
sensor.  It can, in effect, hear sounds.   By  installing a  booster we can
increase that capability on the order  of one  to the  fourth power" (which
the writers seemed to think sounded more impressive than "one") :-) (and we
just have to assume that the voices and other  ship noises  were masked out
like the heartbeats were)

"The Squire of Gothos":   Trelane  sees Earth  history 900  years late, but
since he talks of Alexander Hamilton's death (1804)  and of  how he admires
Napoleon (whose  reign  started  in  1804).    This  would  put the episode
sometime just after 2704.  This is more than four centuries too late.

ST2:TWoK:  When Khan comforts his  fallen comrade  (the guy  with the blond
hair) you can see that guy closed his eyes even though he is "dead".

WHAT ARE WE:
============
Trekkie:  A  groupie fan.   Someone  who wears  Spock ears  and thinks that
makes them important.  Asks questions like "what did you have for breakfast
on the Tuesday when you shot scene 46a  of episode  5?"   The most die-hard
fan, who lives, eats, and breathes Star Trek.  Term originated  in the late
1960s.

Trekker:  A fan who is interested in the  show and  the idea  of Star Trek,
but doesn't let it interfere with his/her life.   This  is apparently being
added to  an  upcoming  edition  of Webster's  Dictionary.   Term came into
popularity in the 1970s when the press gave "Trekkie" a bad name.

trekker:  (with a small "t") A person who travels vast distances.

Trekologist:  A fan  who enjoys  collecting Star  Trek technical literature
and trying  to logically  and rationally  explain continuity  errors in the
show.

Treknician:  A fan who enjoys collecting data (and debating with others) on
the technical aspect of Star Trek (warp technology, transporter technology,
etc.).

CREW BACKGROUNDS:
=================
James Tiberius Kirk is from  Riverside, Iowa;  he was  married in "Paradise
Syndrome", and is now a  widower.   He was  also in  love (if  he knows the
meaning of  the  word)  with  someone  named  "Ruth"  ("Shore  Leave"), and
mentioned that  he almost  married that  cute little  blonde lab technician
that Gary  Mitchell  steered Kirk's  way ("Where  No Man  Has Gone Before")
which some have guessed to be none other than Carol  Marcus.   See also the
"Love Interests" monthly posting in rec.arts.startrek for further details.

Leonard McCoy was in love with someone named "Nancy",  whom the salt-sucker
takes the form of in "The Man  Trap".   They were  going to  mention in one
episode that he had been married with a daughter named Joanna, but it never
made it on film.

Chekov's ex-girlfriend (Irena [Irini?]  Galliulin) is  seen in  "The Way to
Eden".

UNTELEVISED TOS EPISODES:
=========================
          The Cage
          He Has Walked Among Us (unfilmed)
          Paleface
          (other titles I can't remember)

"Patterns of Force" was never shown in Germany.

A black and white original of "The Cage" was pieced back  together with the
color clips  stolen  for  "The Menagerie"  which has  since been televised.
Just before  the premier  of TNG,  Paramount "found"  a copy  of "The Cage"
which was  all  in  color  (which they  then televised).   It  is marred by
drastic changes in the Talosians' voices  in mid-sentence,  otherwise it is
fun to watch (along with a  grinning, shouting  Spock).   The color version
they show now has been cut down to an hour and has Spock's famous "grinning
at the singing plants" scene removed.  Sigh.

Yes, "Assignment Earth" was indeed a pilot that  never got  off the ground.
One of a few.  Gene wanted to create  some more  shows.   The reference for
this is in the  book The  Making of  Star Trek,  (the white  cover, not the
silver one).

The Great Bird was involved with pilots for  three different  new TV series
in the early seventies:

Three different  pilots  were apparently  shot for  one of  the series, not
unlike the series of pilots that  had to  be shot  to get  "Star Trek" into
production.  The first of these  was "Genesis  II," starring  Alex Cord and
Mariette Hartley.  In it, Dylan  Hunt, a  NASA scientist  doing research on
suspended animation in an underground lab,  gets accidentally  buried for a
half millennium  or  so, and  emerges into  a post-nuclear-holocaust world.
The story concerns the interaction  of two  societies, one  devoted to Good
Works and  the  progression  of  all  humankind,  and  the  other  to being
Nazi-style lords and masters.  "Planet Earth" was the second pilot.  Set in
the same  future,  with  minor  alterations  in  background  and format, it
starred John Saxon as Dylan Hunt, with folks  like Diana  Muldaur and Janet
Margolin in major parts.  It was just an extended TV episode with some good
stuff in it; a  mutant warrior  race called  the Kriegs  (sp?   never saw a
script in print) look a *great*  deal like  retconned Klingons.   The third
movie, apparently   a   sort   of  a   last-ditch  attempt   to  produce  a
network-acceptable pilot,  was called  "Strange New  World," and completely
gutted the earlier forms of the series  format.   It starred  John Saxon in
the lead,  but  no  one else  I ever  heard of,  and was  such a  lox I can
understand why G.R.'s name wasn't  on it.   It  seemed to  be three scripts
pasted together, end-to-end.

Roddenberry made  two  other pilots  during this  era:   "Spectre" and "The
Questor Tapes."  "Spectre" was a lovely idea that  could have  made a great
series, since  its  format  allowed  the  inclusion  of  most  major horror
fiction, even including H.P.  Lovecraft's "elder gods."   It starred Robert
Culp and Gig Young, and is a *FUN* movie, if you ever  get a  chance to see
it.  I believe it would have gone series,  if made  in the  last few years,
but at  the  end  of  the  Nixon  era,  horror,  even  humorous horror, was
unacceptable fare to the majority of TV watchers.  ("Spectre" deals with an
occult investigator and his M.D.  sidekick, who keep  getting involved with
nasty superbeings from other times  and dimensions;  the hero's housekeeper
is a witch, and puts a no-drinking geas on the alcoholic M.D.   sidekick in
the opening scenes.)

"The Questor  Tapes"  starred Robert  Foxworth and  Mike Farrell, providing
some of the best acting ever seen in a TV SF movie.  (Foxworth does a scene
as the  robot  learning  how to  use vocal  inflection while  carrying on a
conversation with  the  first  human  it's  ever  spoken with.)   The movie
suffers a bit from the obviousness of the series  format it  sets up; noble
alien with  sidekick,  on  the  run from  various governmental authorities,
while trying to learn human emotions  and fulfill  its mission  to help the
human race.  A bit of  a yawn  in print,  but it  could have  been a *good*
series, with decent writing.

Dorothy C.    Fontana  wrote  a  novelization  of  "The  Questor  Tapes" in
paperback, and  you  might be  able to  find it  in a  used book  store.  I
believe scripts  for  at least  the best  four are  available from "Lincoln
Enterprises," or folks like that.

In the  still  shots  during  the credits  of "The  Immunity Syndrome" (and
others) there is a picture of a rubbery-faced man with blank eyes.  This is
from "Return to Tomorrow", but wasn't aired with  the episode.   Sargon was
building android bodies, which were  actually actors  covered in latex-like
rubbery stuff.    They  filmed  him as  he was  removing the  latex (in the
background, a  props  man   is  saying,   "You  wanted   showbiz,  you  got
showbiz...").  One still of this ended up in the  credits.   The whole shot
ended up on the blooper reel for that season.  As far as I know,  it is the
only still which doesn't come from an actual Star Trek scene.


AWARDS:
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TOS "The Tholian Web": won an Emmy for "best special effects".
TOS: nominated for "Outstanding Drama Series" Emmy in 66-67
TOS: nominated for "Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting
     Role in a Drama" Emmy in 66-67 (Leonard Nimoy)
TOS: nominated for "Mechanical Special Effects" Emmy in 66-67 (Jim Rugg)
TOS: nominated for "Photographic Special Effects" Emmy in 66-67 (Darrell
     Anderson, Linwood G. Dunn, and Joseph Westheimer)
TOS: nominated for "Individual Achievements in Film and Sound Editing" Emmy
     in 66-67 (Douglas H. Grindstaff, for Sound Editing)
TOS: nominated for "Outstanding Drama Series" Emmy in 67-68
TOS: nominated for "Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting
     Role in a Drama" Emmy in 67-68 (Leonard Nimoy)
TOS: nominated for "Outstanding Achievements in Film Editing" Emmy in 67-68
     (Donald R. Rode, for "The Doomsday Machine")
TOS: nominated for "Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a
     Supporting Role in a Series" Emmy in 68-69 (Leonard Nimoy)
TOS: nominated for "Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction and Scenic
     Design" Emmy in 68-69 (Walter M. Jeffries, Jr., Art Director, and John
     Dwyer, Set Decorator, for "All Our Yesterdays")
TOS: nominated for "Special Classification of Outstanding Individual
     Achievement" Emmy in 68-69 (Special Photographic Effects)  (Van Der
     Veer Photo Effects, Howard A. Anderson Company, The Westheimer
     Company, and Cinema Research, for "The Tholian Web")
TOS: nominated for "Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing" Emmy in 68-69
     (Donald R. Rode, for "Assignment: Earth" (weird, since it was a 67-68
     episode))


MISC TRIVIA:
============
James Doohan is missing the middle  finger of  his right  hand.   It can be
seen in  brief  shots (especially  in the  early episodes).   Whenever they
needed to show Scotty's hands (like when he operated  the transporter) they
had a stand-in and  showed a  close-up.   ("Cut!   All right,  bring in the
stunt hands.")  Doohan tried to keep his right hand under tables and behind
his back as much as possible.

"The Man Trap":  Spock says that  Vulcan has  no moon  (when Uhura mentions
romance).  Some of the books say it has one or two moons/sister planets.

Majel Leigh Hudec is Majel Barrett's real name.  She took  the name Barrett
to fool NBC so they would hire  her for  Christine Chapel  (they never knew
that the blond Majel Barrett was the same person as the  brunette whom they
fired as Number One).  Some volume of "The Best of Trek" stated that Number
One and Christine Chapel were sisters.

The Klingons  and  the  Romulans  had  a  trade  agreement  of  sorts,  for
technology.  The  Klingons  got  cloaking  devices  (according to non-canon
sources), the Romulans got Klingon warships (ref "The Enterprise Incident")
and warp  technology  (from  non-canon  sources).    Also,  there  is  some
speculation (again, non-canon) that the Bird of Prey as seen  in "Star Trek
III:  The Search  for Spock"  and "Star  Trek IV:   The  Voyage Home", plus
several times in Star Trek:  The Next Generation, was  originally a Romulan
design.

"The Paradise  Syndrome":   "He  Has Walked  Among Us"  and "Paleface" were
combined into "The  Paradise Syndrome",  according to  speculation by Allen
Asherman and David Gerrold.  Reportedly, only Gene Coon knew  for sure, and
of course he's been dead for about 15 years...

"City on the Edge of Forever":  If you want  H.   Ellison's original script
for "City on  the Edge  of Forever",  look for  a book  called "Six Science
Fiction Plays", edited  by Roger  Elwood.   It's a  paperback, published in
1976 by Pocket Books  under the  Washington Square  Press imprint.   It was
distributed in the U.S.  and Canada by Simon & Schuster.  I have no idea if
it's still in  print.   If it  isn't, check  your local  library, used book
stores, and  the  dealer's  room at  your next  convention.   There must be
copies out there somewhere.  According to  Elwood's foreword,  this was the
first time Ellison's original uncut script was published.  It's preceded by
a ten-page  introduction  that  Ellison  wrote  especially  for  this book,
telling his  version  of  the  transformation of  his script  into what was
eventually telecast.  The book also contains these scripts:

     "Sting!"                  by Tom Reamy
     "Contact Point"           by Theodore R Cogswell & George Rae Cogswell
     "Stranger with Roses"     by John Jakes
     "The Mechanical Bride"    by Fritz Leiber
     "Let Me Hear You Whisper" by Paul Zindel

("Sting!"  is a movie screenplay; "The Mechanical Bride" is a teleplay; the
others are stage plays)


According to the Star Trek Compendium:
     	Kirk:   was in 79 TOS episodes
     	Spock:  was in 79 TOS episodes + "The Cage"
     	McCoy:  was in 74 TOS episodes
     	Uhura:  was in 65 TOS episodes
     	Scotty: was in 61 TOS episodes
     	Sulu:   was in 47 TOS episodes
     	Chekov: was in 33 TOS episodes

DeForest Kelley  mentioned  at  a con  once that  TOS cost  $200,000 for an
average episode, though records seem to show it as $100,000 to $120,000.