The ship's transporters - which let the crew 'beam' from place to place - really came out of a production need. I realized with this huge spaceship, I would blow the whole budget of the show just in landing the thing on a planet.
When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before.
To cast Mr. Spock, I made a phone call to Leonard, and he came in. That was it.
When they put out the sales brochure when we eventually went to series, they carefully rounded Spock's ears and made him look human so he wouldn't scare off potential advertisers.
No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.
