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From: kwc@cvl.UUCP (Kenneth W. Crist Jr.)
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Subject: Re: Martin Landau trivia
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 10:52:03 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 19 10:52:03 1985
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> From: "pugh jon%e.mfenet"@LLL-MFE.ARPA

> pepper shakers?"  Now any Trekker knows that, but I didn't know that they 
> originally asked Martin Landau to play Spock.  It makes sense, since I've
> 
> Jon Pugh
> (I support Little League Rollerball)

     At Shore Leave VII this year, the guest was DeForest Kelley, a wonderful
speaker. He told a little story of how he was the first one approached by
Gene for the role of Spock. Kelley had worked with Gene on two other t.v.
pilots, but Kelley was just starting out in the original Police Story (not
the one in the 70's most people remember) which Gene also had a hand in so
Kelley said no. Later when the second pilot was being shot, Gene wanted
Kelley to play the Doctor, but Paramount had been using Kelley as a bad guy
since 1948 and they didn't think he was right to play the kind old doctor.
What changed their minds? Gene showed them a couple of Police Story episodes
and the studio heads hired Kelley for Doctor McCoy, right after the second
pilot was finished shooting. That is why we see no Doctor McCoy in "Where No
Man Has Gone Before".

					Kenneth Crist
					kwc@cvl
					Computer Vision Lab
					University of Maryland