Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-haydn!recko From: recko@haydn.DEC (Tim Recko LTN1-2/B17, 617/486-6220 DTN 229) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: ST pilots Message-ID: <3573@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 11:28:26 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3573 Posted: Mon Aug 12 11:28:26 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 23:16:54 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 25 >Subject: Re: ST pilots >Posted: Tue Aug 6 09:03:50 1985 > > When I saw Roddenberry in St. Louis (~ 9 yrs. ago), he showed a b&w print > of "The Cage", explaining that the original color print had been destroyed. > > He also said that he had planned to have the characters of Number One > and Spock in the series; but that the NBC execs told him, in effect, that > he couldn't have both an alien AND a woman as major characters in the show!! > Consequently, he bestowed Number One's rank and personality traits on Spock. > >--- > K. Bellar WB0SJP Teltone Corp. > uw-beaver!tikal!kirk Kirkland, Wa. USA (206) 827-9626 when i saw gene r., he mentioned that since he could not hold on to both characters, he decided to save spock, and marry Majel Barrett, the actress who played number one; obviously something he could not do the other way around! tr (tim recko, DEC-Littleton, MA) Posted: Mon 12-Aug-1985 11:25 EDT To: NET_STARTREK