#security chief

Do you know in which episode this scene appears?  Hint: Spock has just called for an armed team to report to the bridge. The man behind him is the Security Chief, one of the two security guards who show up in answer to Spock’s call.  * all screencaps from Memory Alpha except when otherwise noted

If you guess the episode was “The Menagerie, Part I” you were correct. And if you recognized this is the scene where Spock has turned himself over to Dr. McCoy to be arrested for mutiny, you can give yourself two points. Bonus point - what is the name of the Security Chief? 

The man on the left is Lt. Pitcairn, the Security Chief of the Enterprise during this episode. You never hear his name during the actual episode but it is listed in the script as part of the list of characters and in various stage directions at several points in the scripts. During this episode and the next, you only hear Kirk, Spock, and others refer to him as Security Chief. The other security guard, by the way, is Vinci who often turns up in other episodes. And yes, Pitcairn is the one who was often confused with the Transporter Chief. 

The next time we see Lt. Pitcairn is during the court martial proceedings, standing near the door. Another security guard played by extra Tom Lupo is on the other side of the room. 

Part I ends with the two security guards escorting Mr. Spock back to his quarters and Captain Kirk left alone in the hearing room, trying to make sense of what he has just seen and heard. It appears Lt. Pitcairn (played by actor Brett Dunham) originally had a line of dialogue in this scene. According to the final draft, the scene ends with Lt. Pitcairn saying "We've orders to lock you up." Instead, the line was revised with Kirk saying “Lock him up”  possibly to give it a more dramatic flair. This will not be the only time Lt. Pitcairn loses a line of dialogue. (source of the dialogue change is from a discussion on Memory Alpha).  *screencap thanks to Todd Walkenhorst of Fizbin’s Celebrity Memes. 

Part II of “The Menagerie” begins with the continuation of Spock’s court martial hearing. Mendez reads the charges, Spock pleads guilty to all. Transmissions are now coming directly from Talos IV and that is why the hearing was moved to a closed session - only the court martial panel itself and Spock are allowed to remain.  After watching more of the transmissions, Kirk and Mendez are surprised when they suddenly stop. Spock explains that the Talosians have noticed Captain Pike is fatigued and suggests they reconvene later. After a pause in the proceedings, the earlier security crewman wheels in Captain Pike and Chief Security Pitcairn escorts Mr. Spock back inside. *Screencap by Todd Walkenhorst.

Then the men depart. Scotty, McCoy, and the recorder are not seen again in the hearing room. From the stance in this screencap, Lt. Pitcairn appears to remain on security duty outside the doors of the hearing room. The panel picks up the story of Captain Pike and Vina on the screen. Five of the crew, including Number One, Colt and Spock, prepare to beam down to the planet for the second time. Only this time only the women are beamed down inside Pike’s cage  and the men remain on the pad.  Eventually, Pike finds a way of blasting a hole in the wall and all four of them escape to the surface. Suddenly the transmissions stop so Captain Pike can rest. 

Now the panel is ready to begin again and we see Lt. Pitcairn as well. Hmmmm.... where did he come from?  Wasn’t he last seen at his post outside the door?  Despite this still being a closed hearing, it seems he’s back in his old position (by the way, I am nearly positive this is a unused piece of footage from earlier when the hearing first began). 

Here is where it gets interesting.  Both David Eversole in an article for orionpressfanzines.com and David Tilotta of Lost Trek History reveal that there was another scene between the time security leaves the hearing and the time you see Lt. Pitcairn reappear behind Captain Pike. Indeed, it was even filmed. According to the shooting script, just after the court martial panel has seen Captain Pike and the three women escape from their captors, Lt. Pitcairn appears at the door to announce “ Sir, Engineer and ship's surgeon to see you.” With that, both McCoy and Scotty enter the room and tell Captain Kirk that they were able to isolate the computers that Spock had jammed before and can now return the ship to manual control. However, that scene later gets deleted and Pitcairn loses his second line of dialogue.  And we are left with a mystery as to why he shows up next in a scene inside the hearing room where he shouldn’t have been.  You are only seeing this image from that deleted footage because of David Tilotta and Curt McAloney’s generosity in allowing me to use the one of several other restored frames they presented in their Lost Trek History article.  If you wish to read the articles - and I suggest you do.  Dave Eversole - http://www.orionpressfanzines.com/articles/menagerie.htm (and a special thank you for your additional help)

David Tilotta and Curt McAloney -https://www.startrek.com/article/lost-trek-history-the-menagerie. They are also authors of the excellent book, Star Trek Lost Scenes.  If you don’t already own a copy, it’s available on Amazon. 

Brett Dunham had a very short screen career. In the same year as “The Menagerie” he was in an episode of Gomer Pyle USMC.  He appeared on Mission Impossible as a driver in the episode “The Survivors” in 1967 (photo from Avelyman) . And he also had appearances in The Bionic Woman and a made-for-TV movie titled Crisis in Mid-Air in the late 70s. Those seem to be the last screen roles Brett Dunham had. 

However, there was an acting coach in Hollywood by the name Brett Dunham. He ran The Screen Actors Workshop and his name shows up in many an actor’s resume under training, including Robert Blake (known for his lead role in the television series Baretta). An article on acting classes in 2002 says that this Brett Dunham had been involved in acting, teaching and directing for more than 25 years and had worked under another acting coach named Charles Conrad for eight years prior to that. His name does show up as an actor in several LA newspapers in the theater section during this time period. He even performed in a Paddy Chayefsky play at the Melrose Theater along with Don Eitner, who was an extra and Shatner’s body double in “The Enemy Within.”

Is this the same Brett Dunham who played Lt. Pitcairn in “The Menagerie”?  It seems almost too much of a coincidence that Brett Dunham the actor/the acting coach is in Hollywood around the same time our Brett Dunham was appearing on screen. But so far, we have not located any information that proves this to be true.