This is a really cool insight! I'm a huge fan of OG Trek, even the most problematic episodes have really cool things for me to appreciate in them. Very cool to know how the teams managed to function despite Rodenberry's unrelenting vision, I'd always pictured him a difficult person to work for. The makeup specifically is so incredible, it would be really cool to see the people who did it break things down, even if they aren't able to get into the more problematic aspects of the makeup in certain episodes.
The internal coherency and attention to detail was such that the actors themselves became absorbed in the fiction. The book recounts one instance of George Takei arguing with one of the set electricians over which button to push on his console during a scene, with Takei refusing because "If I push that button, it will blow up the Enterprise".
This is a really cool insight! I'm a huge fan of OG Trek, even the most problematic episodes have really cool things for me to appreciate in them. Very cool to know how the teams managed to function despite Rodenberry's unrelenting vision, I'd always pictured him a difficult person to work for. The makeup specifically is so incredible, it would be really cool to see the people who did it break things down, even if they aren't able to get into the more problematic aspects of the makeup in certain episodes.
The internal coherency and attention to detail was such that the actors themselves became absorbed in the fiction. The book recounts one instance of George Takei arguing with one of the set electricians over which button to push on his console during a scene, with Takei refusing because "If I push that button, it will blow up the Enterprise".