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On TOS Aliens of the Week and Race

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This is from a 1980 interview TOS Season 3 Producer Fred Freiberger did with Starlog Magazine (Issue 39) Starlog Magazine: [David] Gerrold also criticized the lack of a racially balanced crew on the Enterprise. Fred Freiberger: Nonsense. The second or third show I did starred France Nuyen, who is an oriental (“Elaan of Troyius”). We …

Quote: “Elaan of Troyius”

by trekkiefeminist

Part of the reason we did [“Elaan of Troyius”] was because the network had told us they had done a survey in which they discovered that women, generally, were terrified of space. They needed stability, they needed surroundings. They’d rather be in valleys than on top of mountains. So we tried to get the women, …