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We report: we find the moon at its highest during the darkest hours of the night, while we are not awake enough to articulate any thought. We look at the diffraction of the moonlight in the clouds, and the iridescence it produces colours our late night dreams.
I genuinely love looking up some random production detail for some random TOS episode and just ending up at
Leonard Nimoy objected to the script's directive that Spock "kayoes" Negative Kirk on the head, so he improvised the neck pinch on the spot and demonstrated it on William Shatner for director Leo Penn.
I was looking up unrelated ST lore detail on Wikipedia and ended up at this:
Spock possessed the ability to project a unique form of energy through his fingertips. Nimoy explained the idea of putting his hand on his neck and shoulder to Shatner, and they rehearsed it. Nimoy credits Shatner's acting during the "pinch" that sold the idea and made it work on screen.
I feel I should also mention the occasionally immaculate "no and" energy on the set as well, particularly with these two. I've heard about it in various contexts, but I think my favorite has to be Roddenberry's ham-handed attempt at making William Shatner and/or Leonard Nimoy of all the cast members vehicles for his product placement.
This was a much more collaborative era of TV in general when it comes to actors, and Roddenberry had personally headhunted both of them in the first place, he'd worked with Nimoy before TOS, he knew perfectly well what kind of prima donna artistes he was working with, and he still tried it after having stepped back from the show for ages. I knew all that, but!
I was searching for an unrelated factoid about "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" (the episode in question) which led to the old blog of the director, Ralph Senensky, who recently died (the last TOS director remaining, at 102 years), where he had a series of genuinely fascinating posts that are basically his memoirs of the episodes he directed (interesting, his baby as far as TOS is concerned was "Metamorphosis", which he felt combined the best work of himself, Jerry Finnerman, William Shatner, and Gene L. Coon all in a single episode). He also had left some great and informative comments/replies to mostly random people, so I'm glad it's still up.
Anyway, I've read several versions of the big conflict over the IDIC in "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" but Senensky's is pretty great. The context is that Gene Roddenberry suddenly decided to actually get involved in the show again for ~merchandising~ purposes, and insisted on adding a full-on product placement ad in the episode for the IDIC pin he had designed to sell as merch. Shatner and Nimoy's artistic sensibilities were so bitterly offended that they threw giant tantrums about the idea until the scene was modified to arise organically out of the actual plot and character dynamics. But Senensky's account is peak Everyone:
Our first day of filming, Tuesday, July 16th, arrived, and I was greeted with a mutiny on the Enterprise. Bill Shatner and Leonard Nimoy had very strong objections to a portion of the scene we were scheduled to do that day and were refusing to film. Since the objection was to dialogue involving a piece of jewelry that Gene Roddenberry had designed, he was summoned to the set. (I have since learned that Leonard Nimoy first phoned producer Fred Freiberger to tell him of the problem. When Freiberger refused to take any action, Leonard called Roddenberry.) The morning was spent in a round table war with the six characters involved in the scene plus Gene and me. But the battle was strictly Bill and Leonard vs Gene. Bill and Leonard felt Gene was using the scene as a promotional commercial for a pin he had designed; the pin was part of Leonardβs costume. Gene vehemently denied these accusations, but the guys were adamant in their refusal to be a part of something they considered to be commercially oriented. The final result of the long morningβs angry combat was that Gene agreed to rewrite the scene.
This is where the IDIC comes from, incidentally, and why it doesn't really track with, um, anything we hear about Vulcan culture in TOS outside this episode. There really is some genuinely great world building in it (and it's a genuinely great episode), but ... well. Good for them, honestly.
#really funny considering all the commercials shatner's done since then lmao
So, I was morbidly curious even before I posted this last night about how long it would take before someone brought the commercials up to suggest that being in commercials that make no pretense to being anything else is somehow at odds with having artistic principles about product placement in ambitious projects that very much are not commercials. I had guessed it would take around a day, but it looks like it was less than half of one.
Even at the time, Nimoy and Shatner weren't arguing that they were too good for commercials, but that Star Trek was. Commercials or no commercials, neither of them budged on that point at any era of their lives, even long afterwards. This incident was basically the beginning of the end of their respect for Roddenberry and they were still pissed about it many years later. Nimoy wrote that it influenced his complete falling out with Roddenberry (and he's generally described as the more hostile to Roddenberry of the lead actors), while in 2008, Shatner summed up his opinion of Roddenberry as:
After the first thirteen episodes writer/producer Gene Coon was brought in and Roddenberry became the executive producer, meaning he was more of a supervisor than working on the show day-to-day. After that his primary job seemed to be exploiting Star Trek in every possible way.
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Blacksmith/Knight is so severely underrated in general imo. To forge a properly fitted suit of armour would the blacksmith not need to know the precise shape of the knight's body? How their muscles flex and move under duress and strain, how their armour must be shaped to allow the Knight as much flexibility as possible in battle? And who better than the blacksmith to help the Knight test of the suitable to a new suit of armour?
from the llangattock hours, illuminated by willem vrelant, the master of the llangattock hours, the master of the llangattock epiphany, and other flemish artists in bruges, 1450s
source: Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig IX 7
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Majoring in creative writing was a colossal mistake that ruined my life financially artistically socially and spiritually BUT i got to read aloud from My Immortal to a crowd of twenty horrified bystanders for academic credit. So I broke even
The assignment was to bring a story written by someone else and share the first paragraph with the class. Nowhere in the assignment description or the syllabus did it specify that the story had to be good
VD. an incredibly tiny black and white puppy grabs the dangling lead line of a brown horse. she then pulls on the lead line, and the horse willingly walks with her as she runs over to her owner, who while laughing says in a strong irish accent, "well done, good girl." End VD.
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