Yeah, yeah. Theme week. I know. This week’s theme, sci-fi!!!
For 100, for the second Star Trek pilot, Gene Roddenberry chose to “keep the Vulcan and marry the girl”, because this actor “wouldn’t have it the other way around”.
If you are talking about the kicking of the female Number One (the nurse later on) and the promotion of Spock to Number One between the first(failed) pilot and the second accepted one, that was done because NBC insisted.
This was the early 60s. Racially mixed crew? No smoking? Female second-in command? Don’t think so.
Wetzel
After some thought…
Majel Barret is the actress that started as Number One, then was Nurse Chapel and then Counsler Troi’s mother on TNG.
She married Gene Roddenberry, so either she wanted to marry and not keep the job( unlikely because they didn’t marry until after TOS ended), or Leonard Nimoy didn’t want to marry Gene (more likely)
I did some reasearch too, and I can’t find any refrence anywhere that one of the actors mandated this change.
So I’ll ask if Leonard Nimoy was the actor who “wouldn’t have it the other way around”
Wetzel
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Actually, that’s a direct quote from Gene himself, joking that Leonard Nemoy wouldn’t have it the other way around.
*Originally posted by Wetzel *
**Majel Barret is the actress that started as Number One, then was Nurse Chapel and then Counsler Troi’s mother on TNG.She married Gene Roddenberry**
She also provided the voice of the Federation computer(s) in at least most of the Star Trek series.