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.

Star Trek TOS Trivia #41

Lloyd Bridges was asked to play Capt. Pike in the original pilot but turned it down believing a science-fiction show would hurt his career. Jeffrey Hunter, who played Capt. Pike, was replaced after his salary demands were deemed to be too high.

Star Trek TOS Trivia #40

The first interracial kiss on television was between William Shatner (Capt. Kirk) and Nichelle Nichols (Uhura). It appears in the 3rd season's episode 'Plato's Stepchildren'

which originally aired on November 22, 1968.

Star Trek TOS Trivia #39

Captain James T. Kirk became the youngest Starfleet captain at the age 34.

Star Trek TOS Triva #38

In the episode 'The Trouble With Tribbles,' Spock estimated that there were 1,771,561 tribbles on Space Station K7 at the time they all dropped out of the storage compartment onto Kirk's head.

Star Trek TOS Trivia #37

There are numerous instances where Kirk orders phasers fired, but the animation is shown to the viewer is that of the photon torpedoes being fired.

Star Trek TOS Trivia #36

James Doohan ('Scotty') lost his right middle finger during WWII. Most of his scenes are shot to hide it. In Scenes with a close-up view of Scotty's hands (operating the transporter for example) someone else's hands were always used.

Star Trek TOS Trivia #35

While Gene Roddenberry remained nominally in charge of the series as executive producer, he essentially removed himself from the daily production of the show in its third season.

Star Trek TOS Trivia #34

Martin Landau was originally offered the role of Spock, but declined. This led to the casting of Leonard Nimoy.

Star Trek TOS Trivia #33

Leonard Nimoy's makeup had a faint greenish hue to it, because of his green Vulcan blood. Because the makeup was hand-mixed, the amount of green varied slightly, and in many shots (even close-ups) it's not really visible.

Star Trek TOS Trivia #32

Walter Koenig became the first Star Trek actor to ever write a Star Trek story. It was a script written for 'Star Trek: The Animated Series.' The episode is entitled 'The Infinite Vulcan'.

Star Trek TOS Trivia #31

Two models of the Enterprise were used on the show. One is 3 feet long and the other is 11 feet long.