Star Trek TOS Trivia #46

The second season episode 'Patterns Of Force' was aired only once on German TV after which it was prohibited to be broadcast by any German TV station again to this day, because of its Nazi thematics.

Star Trek TOS Trivia #45

William Shatner requested that his name in the opening credits be 10% larger in size than that of his co-stars, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley.

Star Trek TOS Trivia #44

A regular "Star Trek" extra, the tall blond Eddie Paskey played a red-shirted crewman in almost every original series episode for all 3 seasons. He rarely spoke, and was even killed off in the episode "Obsession," but was regularly back on duty for the rest of the series.

Star Trek TOS Trivia #43

Gene Roddenberry created the transporter as an easier (and cheaper) way of getting Enterprise crew members onto a planet's surface, rather than landing the ship on the planet.

Star Trek TOS Trivia #42

Leonard Nimoy's father was a barber and ran a barbershop during the original run of Star Trek. In a mid-1960s interview with 16 Magazine, Nimoy revealed that kids often came in asking for a "Mr. Spock" haircut, not knowing that "Spock's dad" was cutting their hair.