TOS Season 3edit
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- Some production staff members were disappointed with season three. In a 2006 interview, Leonard Nimoy called it "very weak in general, but it was especially not good for Spock." [1]
- Ira Steven Behr once said that both he and his sister were disappointed "with the third season". [2]
- For the third season, the title and credits are now in a light blue color, much like the credits of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- Kirk no longer wears a green wrap-around shirt in any of the episodes, though officers are seen wearing the full dress uniform in "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" and "The Savage Curtain". In the third season Scotty's dress uniform is accompanied by a traditional Scottish kilt. The uniforms were no longer made of velour (which shrank every time it was cleaned), but of double-knit polyester.
- Each episode of the third season now costs about $180,000, the budget having been reduced even further. Consequently, only two episodes out of the 24 this season ("The Paradise Syndrome" and "All Our Yesterdays") feature location scenery.
- Gene Roddenberry was initially promised an early evening time slot (Mondays at 7:30 p.m.) by NBC. However, this would have required their top-rated series Laugh-In to be moved from its 8pm time slot to 8:30. Laugh-In producer George Schaltter threatened to take his show to another network unless it was guaranteed the 8pm slot. NBC capitulated, forcing Trek to air its third season in the only remaining slot on the schedule--Fridays at 10 p.m. Gene threatened to leave Star Trek entirely if it wasn't put back to the promised time slot, but NBC rejected his threats due to the show's low ratings. He technically kept the post of executive producer for this season, but had actually left for MGM to work on other projects.
- After Gene and most of the writing staff left after the second season, Fred Freiberger took over as producer, with Arthur Singer replacing D.C. Fontana as script consultant.
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