Marc Cushman - These Are the Voyages - TOS: Season Three

ALSO BY MARC CUSHMAN

These Are the Voyages TOS: Season One

These Are the Voyages TOS: Season Two

I SPY: A History and Episode Guide of the Groundbreaking Television Series

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Cushman, Marc

These Are the Voyages TOS: Season Three / Marc Cushman, with Susan Osborn; with a foreword by David Gerrold; Edited by Mark Alfred, Scott R. Brooks, George A. Brozak, and Thomas C. Tucker

Publisher: Matthew Williams Brown

Includes bibliographical reference

ISBN 978-0-9892381-7-5 (hard)
ISBN 978-0-9892381-8-2 (soft)
ISBN 987-0-9892381-9-9 (ebook)
First edition hard cover, January 2015

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013940946
2014 Marc Cushman. All rights reserved

This book is a work of journalism, protected under the First Amendment, and is not endorsed, sponsored, or affiliated with CBS Studios Inc. or the Star Trek franchise. The Star Trek trademarks, logos, and related names are owned by CBS Studios Inc. and are used under fair use guidelines.

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Cover design: Susan Osborn, Leo Sopicki and Gerald Gurian
Interior Design: Gerald Gurian
Back photo of author: Mike Hayward Photography

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To Gene Roddenberry and Robert H. Justman for their encouragement and invaluable help in providing the documents needed for this telling of the Star Trek story.

To Dorothy C. Fontana, John D.F. Black, and Mary Black for their extra efforts in supplying me with the information and further connections to make much of what follows possible.

Acknowledgments

My appreciation to those who gave further encouragement and guidance and support:

For all her help going through the Star Trek show files at the UCLA Performing Arts Library (since absorbed into the UCLA Special Collections Library), my gratitude to Lauren Buisson.

For locating the Nielsen ratings for the original broadcasts of ST:TOS, I am indebted to Kate Barnett at Nielsen Media Services.

A special thank you to those who kindly granted interviews: Mark A. Altman, Barbara Anderson, Richard Arnold, Jean Lisette Aroeste, Emily Banks, Hagan Beggs, John D.F. Black, Mary Black, Bill Blackburn, Antoinette Bower, Victor Brandt, Charlie Brill, Mark Robert Brown, Robert Brown, Judy Burns, Marvin Chomsky, Julie Cobb, Paul Comi, Joe DAgosta, Leslie Dalton, Winston S. De Lugo, Elinor Donahue, Jack Donner, James Doohan, Deborah Downey, Doug Drexler, John M. Dwyer, Harlan Ellison, John Erman, Dorothy C. Fontana, Michael Forest, David Frankham, Ben Freiberger, Lisa Freiberger, Gerald Fried, David Gerrold, David A. Goodman, Peter Greenwood, Doug Grindstaff, Edward Gross, Patrick Horgan, Clint Howard, Bruce Hyde, Sherry Jackson, Lois Jewell, George Clayton Johnson, Robert H. Justman, Stephen Kandel, Sean Kenney, Walter Koenig, Nancy Kovack, Tanya Lemani, Trelaine Lewis, Joanne Linville, Gary Lockwood, Barbara BarBara Luna, Don Mankiewicz, Scott Mantz, Bruce Mars, Don Marshall, Arlene Tasha Martel, Richard Matheson, Vincent McEveety, Lee Meriwether, Vic Mignogna, Lawrence Montaigne, Sean Morgan, Stewart Moss, Joyce Muskat, Julie Newmar, Leonard Nimoy, France Nuyen, William OConnell, Bob Olsen, Leslie Parrish, Eddie Paskey, Roger Perry, Alec Peters, Mark Phillips, Garth Pillsbury, Mary Linda Rapelye, Chet Richards, Ande Richardson-Kindryd, Gene Roddenberry, Rod Roddenberry, Susan Sackett, Joseph Sargent, Ralph Senensky, Peter Sloman, Louise Sorel, Norman Spinrad, Malachi Throne, Bjo Trimble, Beverly Washburn, Andrea Weaver, John Wheeler, Grace Lee Whitney, Fred Williamson, William Windom, John Winston, William Wintersole, Morgan Woodward, and Celeste Yarnall.

Many of those who helped to make the original Star Trek are sadly no longer with us. In an effort to include their voices in this documentation, alongside the voices of those I was able to interview, I relied on hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, as well as dozens of books. A full list of these sources can be found in the bibliography, but I wish to give special mention here to the following books and their authors:

Beam Me Up, Scotty by James Doohan with Peter David. Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories by Nichelle Nichols. Captains Logs, by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman. The City on the Edge of Forever by Harlan Ellison. Eighty Odd Years in Hollywood by John Meredyth Lucas. From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley by Terry Lee Rioux. Gene Roddenberry: The Last Conversation by Yvonne Fern. Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek by Joel Engel. Great Birds of the Galaxy by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman. History of Trek, by James Van Hise. I Am Not Spock and I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy. Inside Star Trek: The Real Story by Herbert F. Solow and Robert H. Justman. The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy by Grace Lee Whitney with Jim Denney. The Making of Star Trek by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry. The Music of Star Trek, by Jeff Bond. On the Good Ship Enterprise: My 15 Years with Star Trek by Bjo Trimble. Science Fiction Television Series: 62 Prime Time Shows, 1959 through 1989, by Mark Phillips and Frank Garcia. Shatner: Where No Man by William Shatner, Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath. Starlog: Star Treks Greatest Guest Stars edited by David McDonnell. Star Trek: An Annotated Guide by Susan R. Gibberman. The Star Trek Compendium by Allan Asherman. Star Trek Creator by David Alexander. The Star Trek Interview Book by Allan Asherman. Star Trek Lives! by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Sondra Marshak, and Joan Winston. Star Trek Memories by William Shatner with Chris Kreski. To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei by George Takei. Trek Classic by Edward Gross. The Trouble with Tribbles by David Gerrold. Warped Factors by Walter Koenig. The World of Star Trek by David Gerrold.

For those who have either shared in the decades of work or have given their support and encouragement in other meaningful ways:

Mark Alfred, Mark A. Altman, Barbara Asaro, Paul Barry, Judith Bleses, Scott Brooks, George A. Brozak, Dawn Cushman, Druanne Cushman, Steven Dai Watkins-Cushman, Kathleen Dougherty, Curtis Fox, Melody Fox, Karen Glass, Gerald Gurian, Gerald Hill, Robert Jake Jacobs, Andy and Sondra Johnson, William Krewson, Linda J. LaRosa, Michael Makkreel, Scott Mantz, Minka, Bob Olsen, Mark Phillips, Patricia Satin-Jacobs, David Mark Peterson, Leo Sopicki, Paul Stuiber, Jeff Szalay, Kipp Teague, Thomas C. Tucker, Fred Walder, Eric Zabiegalski, and Michael Zabiegalski.

May you all live long and prosper.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

So much has been written about Star Trek, its hard to know what to say that hasnt already been said. Unfortunately, a lot of what has been written about