#inside star trek

[cheer-deforest-kelley]

Here’s an interview with De from 1968 (during the filming of “The Empath”) from a fanzine called “Inside Star Trek”.

“Inside Star Trek” was the first official Star Trek fanzine, distributed through the first officially authorized Star Trek fan club.

The zine was published from 1968-1969 (during filming of the third and final season of the original series) and then again from 1976-1979 (during pre-production until Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released).

The artwork was a bit cheesy, but every issue featured behind the scenes info and an interview with one of the cast or production team (usually on set during a break in filming).

#deforest kelley #deforest kelley interview #inside star trek #the empath #star trek fanzine #behind the scenes

[cantsayidont]

One of examples of Gene Roddenberry's myth-making is his oft-repeated contention that the network shot down the idea of having Number One as the Enterprise's executive officer because they were uncomfortable with having a woman in such a position of authority on the show. In INSIDE STAR TREK, Herb Solow, the head of production for Desilu, who had the job of pitching the series to NBC, says the network was actually enthusiastic about the idea of the character; their objection was to Majel Barrett.

Solow recalls that he attempted (at Roddenberry's insistence) to argue that casting the unknown Barrett would "add humanity and believability to the concept." However:

NBC Program Executive Jerry Stanley starred quizzically at NBC Vice President Grant Tinker. Then Jerry grumbled, "Christ, Herb, this is madness. She's his girlfriend. I remember her hanging around Gene's office at MGM when he was doing The Lieutenant for us." [39]

Not wanting to "rock the boat" with Roddenberry, NBC reluctantly agreed to casting Barrett in "The Cage," the initial pilot. However, Solow says the network executives "resented being put into such an awkward position." (It's important to note that Roddenberry was then married to someone else; he divorced his first wife in late 1969, after marrying Barrett.) Sure enough, after screening the pilot, one of the first things NBC said in its notes on the episode was:

"In varying degrees, we're not too happy with some of the cast. We support the concept of a woman in a strong, leading role, but we have serious doubts as to Majel Barrett's abilities to 'carry' the show as its costar." [60]

The network did (foolishly) object to the character of Mister Spock and recommended his removal (although they had no issue with Nimoy), but given Barrett's performances in "The Cage" and later as Chapel and Lwaxana Troi, NBC's concerns about her acting were pretty justified. However, as Solow put it, when it came to casting, "the only performers [Roddenberry] would stand up for were actresses with whom he'd had a previous personal relationship." So, Roddenberry and Desilu dropped the character rather than recast.

#teevee #star trek #star trek tos #gene roddenberry #herbert f solow #inside star trek #majel barrett #debunking

[scifidancer]

I watched another episode from that TV show where you can learn many things about Star Trek. This time it was about the old Enterprise NCC - 1701. You might remember the colored buttons of the consols on the bridge and all over the star ship...

It was told that they couldn't spend much money for the interior. The buttons for the consols were made with different icecube forms. They were filled with colored epoxy resin. After the resin got hardened they had numerous colored buttons to use. In the series it looks like those buttons would shine. It's because they were lightened from below.

#star trek #star trek: enterprise #starship enterprise #enterprise ncc-1701 #inside star trek #interesting facts

[kyurochurro]

and now i bring to you my concept art for my imaginary tos episode: the crew go to the beach planet (the beach episode) 🏝️

#churro art #my art #digital art #doodles #star trek #star trek the original series #star trek tos #james kirk #james t kirk #spock #s'chn t'gai spock #leonard mccoy #bones mccoy #nyota uhura #montgomery scott #hikaru sulu #pavel chekov #THIS IS SO SIMPLE IM SO SORRY BUT IM SO LOW ENERGY RN FOR NO GOOD REASON WAHHH #ANYWAYS I know we’re in January and it’s still winter and we’re freezing our butts off #but the MOMENT Christmas n new years is over is the moment the inside of my mind begins to look like a tropical landscape… #also I just like designing outfits for characters so I thought it’d be fun to just give each crew member their own beachwear HEHEHE #bones is grumpy of course. he has his hat to protect from the sun #usura is wearing a very classic vintage swimsuit!! since those are so cute I thought it would fit her so well HEHE #Spock is wearing what I imagine to be like. official star fleet aquatic uniforms #like i imagine this is what’s appropriate for the occasion to him BJSJJBSHA #of course. Jim has to be shirtless. I think we would perish if he had to wear a shirt at the beach #sulu I imagine would be sitting in a beach chair under an umbrella reading a book :P #ANDDD Scotty and Chekhov are her for the ride OF COURSE #ok I gotta do my homework now I HAVE SO MUCH STUFF I JAVENT DONE #CURSE YOU BURNOUT!!

[spocks-kaathyra]

experimenting w making little trek dolls for the STLV craft swap :))

#sisko first bc idk how I'm gonna make hair LMAO but isn't he so cute?? #made the doll a while ago but I just made his little outfit today and yesterday :)) #hopefully giving them away for free means no one will mind the shoddy craftsmanship lmao #I think I've set a new record for terrible hand sewing. and there's raw edges on the inside. and none of the thread is the right color #but WHO CARES HES SO CUTE!!!! #it's the early ds9 uniform bc I've been watching voy and I'm sooo enamored with their uniforms ugh I need to make an actual life size one #watching voyager will have u saying things like. surely it can't be that hard to sew an invisible zipper?? #anyways. need to figure out how to make hair so I can make characters other than him and picard 💀💀 #ds9 #star trek #benjamin sisko #deep space nine #captain sisko #narcissus's echoes #narcissus plays dress up #(?)

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

#selfie bee #me telling a coworker who I have been working with for 4 months and whose name I do not know about my toenails #i'm sorry Tobias (?? Paul ??) it was the only topic I could come up with after I already told you about the big bird I saw in 8th grade #FRIENDS how are you!! :) how has the new year been so far!! #did you have a lot of snow on christmas! #we did and it was really fun! I had a very bad cold so I just watched the snow from inside but that was good too c: #do you have any plans for the new year? #i always have lot and most of the time I do not do any of them but planning is fun #this year I REALLY want to watch all of Star Trek ヽ(´∇｀)ﾉ #I would also love to learn how to make a handstand #imagine if you could just make yourself upside down #but it is a far away dream because honestly I am not very good at being usual side up most of the time either #but I will try probably at least 2 times to learn it ( ᐛ ) #maybe I'll finally finish that website! #new years are good and fun #it's wild to think about how much daily life has changed since last year but I feel just the same :) #who knows what this year will bring! #I hope I don't hit a pheasant with my car #I almost hit a pheasant with my car last year and the pheasant made direct eye contact #I wonder how he is doing today #since that moment I think about pheasants a lot #I knew they were real but I had never seen one #just to know they are out there is a mystical feeling #right know it is raining so all the pheasants might be wet #get dry soon pheasants!! #I don't think I've ever seen a wet bird either #I don't know what do do with all these birds thoughts #also thank you for the person who asked about my skirt!! ( ˊᵕˋ )♡.°⑅ #I've finished it and its really really bad #but I love it

[staticbluue]

Data gets to be a little sparkly :) as a treat :))

This started as perspective practice, but then I drew his arm really well and couldn't cover it up, so I opened it instead. Now I realize it looks like a phalloplasty incision hmmmm...

I love drawing wires and cables 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

#artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #digital artist #my art #star trek #star trek tng #st tng #star trek the next generation #star trek fanart #tng fanart #tng data #data soong #fanart #star trek data #i love him so much i wanba throw him into the warp core #i wanna pull out his insides and chew on them

[alexpdcl]

their outfits were too good to not be drawn i had to do it

#mcspirk #triumvirate #spones #mckirk #spirk #star trek tos #star trek fanart #star trek the original series #bones mccoy #leonard mccoy #jim kirk #spock #i contemplated on giving spock the black hood/robe but then i remembered he had a suit inside so there's that x;P

[ministryfix]

I love them

#jackass #johnny knoxville #bam margera #I just put this image over a nerdy-ass Spirk meme my brother sent me #Everything I have learned about Star Trek has been implanted inside my brain against my will

[vaguely-concerned]

I think one of the sweetest things in our man bashir to me is garak at the end tentatively admitting in his roundabout sort of way that he straight up doesn't know how to play. but that he'd kind of like to learn. I've said it before and I'll say it again I want them to have such silly and horny little joyful roleplay adventures together on post-war cardassia

#inside every cardassian there's a theater kid waiting to be freed from the strictures of the state and let out #star trek #star trek ds9 #ds9 #garashir #elim garak

[zerozerozio]

art motivation at an all time low rn, this is all my weak hands could manage

#this is what it looks like inside my brain #gay people #spock/kirk #kirk/spock #spock #mr spock #star trek spock #star trek #star trek fanart #star trek spirk #star trek the original series #star trek tos #star trek original series #star trek tos fanart #spirk #spirk fanart #spirk tos #star trek kirk #james kirk #james t kirk #jim kirk #doodle #sketch #star trek memes #lgbtq community #sorry about all the tags #i just want people to actually see my stuff

[cchipollo]

mirror universe q and picard phone doodles (they are bad and sketchy as but its ok)

#scribbles #star trek #qcard #look inside my brain for more ideas and you will find nothing more than gum a paperclip and a dead fly #mirror picard is. well. mirror picard #erm idk i like a good ol humourless q #im personally a believer that q is a constant across all universes #which is just to say tjere is only one q because he beyond universes and whatnot #but if that WASNT the case idk maybe itd be like this 🤷‍♂️

[cantsayidont]

If you are a STAR TREK fan and need an antidote to Gene Roddenberry's self-mythologizing about his and the franchise's (alleged) progressive idealism, I recommend the following:

Read INSIDE STAR TREK: THE REAL STORY by Herb Solow and Robert Justman. Solow and Justman were there (Solow was the Desilu head of production and Justman an associate producer on TOS), and they puncture a lot of Roddenberry's myth-making very effectively. One side effect: Hearing Alexander Courage's STAR TREK theme will start to make you mad once you learn of Roddenberry's sleazy trick to pocket half of Courage's royalties.

Watch PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW, a 1971 satire/exploitation film/black comedy directed by Roger Vadim and written and produced by Roddenberry (based on a now-obscure 1968 Francis Pollini novel), with a couple of STAR TREK veterans (including William Campbell and James Doohan) in the supporting cast. The movie, which stars Rock Hudson as a former football star turned guidance counselor who uses his position to sleep with and then murder high school girls, is characterized by precisely the same brand of leering-creep sexism as Roddenberry's STAR TREK efforts, here stripped of any veneer of high-minded speechifying. It's not a good movie (it scores a few satiric points here and there, but it's SO sleazy you'll need a shower afterward), but it is instructive in this regard.

Try to come to grips with the fact that before getting into TV, Roddenberry was a speechwriter for William H. Parker, chief of the legendarily racist Los Angeles Police Department, a fact that puts STAR TREK's sometimes very uneasy combination of high-minded rhetoric and liberal imperialism in some perspective. Herb Solow remarked that "it seemed odd that a man as politically and socially liberal as I already knew Gene to be would be so trusted by Chief 'Bill' Parker, well-known in Los Angeles for his ultra-conservative views."

#star trek #teevee #gene roddenberry #pretty maids all in a row #roger vadim #herbert f solow #robert h justman #inside star trek #star trek tos

[not-equippedforthis]

i am aware this would most likely never ever happen but can you imagine spock giving kirk a back/neck rub - as he so clearly expects - and accidentally vulcan pinching him. slumps. ah. i did not intend to do that. bridge goes silent. cap's down. someone douse him with water or something

#listen i KNOW spock is too calculated and precise for that but just IMAGINE FOR A SECOND #'my deepest apologies captain' whilst kirk is waking like a cryptid at 5am. frog blinking. #i KNOW spock would never let that happen BUT LISTENN #not equipped for rambling #spock gets too distracted by the colour warmth sensation feeling intuition that is kirks human mind n accidentally does it a little too har #shitposting #tos kirk #tos spock #spirk #james t kirk #kirk #spock #star trek #star trek tos #star trek the original series #jim kirk #captain kirk #edit: spock with an arm across kirks chest and a hand gently pressed against his forehead so he doesnt fall over :]] #reflexes kick in QUICK #ofc he looks calm and neutral as ever but on the inside hes like aoughhh fuuuckkkk shiiittttt #did it by accident but the imagery is nice....holding him..... #ever so gingerly #kirk blinking awake like '...??' #'please accept my deepest apologies captain' #'...did you vulcan pinch me?' #'on complete accident i assure you. i began to...reminisce and utilised muscle memory. it shall not happen again.' #kirk whilst laughing: 'awfully roundabout way of saying you got distracted mr spock' #'...indeed. would-' #'oh nono no stay where you are. if you- wouldnt mind. that kink in my back- its still-' #'as you wish captain.'

[homewrecking-lore]

#cinema... #tom paris #tuvok #star trek voyager #voy #st voyager #tuvok sitting in the sun looking like living marble: :| #tom paris for some reason: i am going to show you the inside of my mouth.

[stuffyflowers]

I’ve finished prodigy and wow. I’m sorry I didn’t listen to you guys (the handful of people who talk about it) sooner it was so amazing… to anyone who hasn’t watched it just bc “it’s for kids” I’m begging u to give it a shot it genuinely has the most beautiful and emotional story and most engaging main characters out of any modern trek I’ve seen so far.

#star trek #star trek prodigy #my fav is either gwyn or rok I can’t decide tbh #rok specifically reminds me a lot of susie now that I think about it. having so much love trapped inside you but you’re a monster. you’re #too big and intimidating. even when you’re only a kid trying to find your place in the world