Of course they included all those costs. It was all one big project to try to revive Star Trek. This is how film projects and taxes work.

Hollywood accounting is… complicated.

AI-generated take photo depicting William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy bracketing Lucille Ball. Tells of fakery include Lucy's too small head, Nimoy's face, and incorrect costume details.

"It's a faaaake!" AI fuckery fakery is everywhere, like this image we found on an article. Such photo-real nonsense confuses the historical record — caveat emptor.

#StarTrek

The weird floating red railing section in the lower center, random people sitting at consoles as if they're working, that the red stripe wraps around the side of the overhead unit, the random-looking wall set wall, etc.

Those contacts were under Desilu's legal department, and few made it into the Roddenberry paperwork. It was common to have the actors of recurring characters signed to multi-year contracts with the option to terminate and not renew as part of the studio's option.

DC Fontana’s 1961 Scriptwriting flyer

Did it really? We all knew what it was.

Yep. And CBS pulled the plug on it for a hot second and then hastily shoved it back into the schedule, killing the unaired sitcom Doc as well as Gilligan's Island in the process, putting it in front of The Lucy Show, where that 1-2 punch killed The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in the fall.

Newly uncovered William Shatner TV 8 interview February 1969 YouTube video by CBS 8 San Diego

The last episode of Star Trek had wrapped filming month before this interview; there was no letter-writing campaign of the magnitude of the previous year. The timeslot move mentioned was for the summer, which would be led off by "Turnabout Intruder".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJVO...

A Sid Hix cartoon showing a man carrying a briefcase labeled Internal Revenue Dept. speaking to a receptionist at a TV station office. The receptionist looks startled, while in the office the station manager watches nervously from behind his desk. The caption reads, “Just tell him it’s the man from uncle!” Text at bottom right identifies the source as BROADCASTING, February 27, 1967 p116.

#OTD 59 years ago, Broadcasting magazine printed this Sid Hix cartoon playing on the name Uncle Sam & former hit, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which was fading in the ratings & would vanish in less than a year. #StarTrek was a candidate to fill its 1967–68 timeslot, but NBC put Laugh-In there instead.

Boston Globe, February 26, 1967.

"You have not written about Star Trek since its opening show. What do you think about it?"—Donna

(I think that it was unfortunate in its choice of an opening episode, but that it has improved immeasurably since then. It is exceptionally well produced and written).

San Francisco Chronicle, February 26, 1967.

SCIENCE OFFICER Spock (Leonard Nimoy), a man incapable of emotion, falls in love for the first time with Jill Ireland on Star Trek, Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in color on Channels 4 and 3.

It takes two to tango, and she and Gene tangoed while he was still married to Eileen. She wasn't faultless.

Surely not 1964.

Looks AI or AI-processed.

Musical compositions, films (and their audio tracks) are 95 years.

What app is that?

Hartford Courant, February 12, 1967

AIDS ENEMY: Madlyn Rhue portrays spacecraft crew member Marla who is torn between duty & love when her lover attempts to seize control of the Enterprise in his quest for world power in "Space Seed" on the NBC colorcast of "Star Trek" Thursday from 8:30 - 9:30p.m.

#OTD 1967 item.

One wonders from whence these "news" items originated.

We sent you one.

You are not of the body.

Monster Times 1, no. 26 (September 1973), 15.

At the recent ST-Equicon speculation ran the full spectrum from delighted anticipation to utter dread. A few Trekkies are so utterly horrified by the prospect of the animated series that they are already readying petitions to protest its very existence.

Exhibitors Herald-World, February 9, 1929. Texas Guinan was the real-life nightclub manager who was the inspiration for the name of Whoopi Goldberg's Star Trek character.

It was just a concept for a big window that made no logical sense.

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Nichelle Nichols in a Star Trek publicity photo circa 1966

Charles Washburn and Nichelle Nichols on the Star Trek set circa 1967

When Lt. Uhura appeared in the #StarTrek 1966 debut, she was boldly going where no Black woman had gone before—as a continuing network TV character in an aspirational future where skin color didn’t matter.

Learn how this. happened & why it matters ➡️ www.facttrek.com/blog/uhura

#BlackHistoryMonth

It appears that Blish was simply being Blish and making changes. This drew the ire of Fontana.