Despite being portrayed as a male (per the episode’s script) in his appearances on Star Trek: The Original Series The Keeper was played by actress Meg Wyllie. The character was voiced by actor Malachi Throne in “The Cage”.
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Who played the Talosian on Star Trek?
Despite being portrayed as a male (per the episode’s script) in his appearances on Star Trek: The Original Series The Keeper was played by actress Meg Wyllie. The character was voiced by actor Malachi Throne in “The Cage”.
How many races are there in Star Trek?
From the Bajorans (a proud people struggling to recover from another species’s hostile occupation of their world) to the Tamarians (a seemingly incomprehensible race that turns out to communicate through mythology and metaphor), Star Trek’s writers have dreamed up nearly 300 different alien species and counting.
Why is Captain Kirk not in the pilot?
This original Star Trek pilot was rejected by NBC for being “too cerebral”, “too intellectual”, “too slow”, and with “not enough action”, so they commissioned a new pilot, which later became Where No Man Has Gone Before, starring a completely different captain: one Captain James T. Kirk played by William Shatner.
Why was Spock limping in The Cage?
As to why Spock was limping; Trivia: In case you were wondering why Spock is limping in the scenes on Talos IV, the original script for “The Cage” indicated that he’d been injured on Rigel VII, in the fight that Pike briefly discusses with Dr. Boyce.
Why did they get rid of Captain Pike?
Large chunks of the pilot were repurposed in “The Menagerie” to give Pike his happy ending on Talos IV. Jeffrey Hunter was unwilling to return, so the disfigured Pike was played by Sean Kenney under heavy makeup. Pike wouldn’t play a role in a Star Trek story again until the 2009 J.J.
Why did Christopher Pike leave Star Trek?
When the second pilot was to be filmed Jeffery Hunter the original Captain Pike was not available because he was making a movie. This is according to the book The Making Of Star Trek pages 135-136.
Does Leonard Nimoy have a limp?
Stark Trek creator Gene Roddenberry told him to limp, and so he did. The explanation, limited to Twitter-approved length, clarifies that it wasn’t an injury but fails to explain why Spock limped in the first place.
Why does Spock lump in the pilot?
It is noted that Spock’s limp and the bandages on the various crewmembers are a result of the recent battle on Rigel VII, thus laying to rest all the speculation that Leonard Nimoy was limping because of a real life accident.