Sometimes I think no one reads what I post…
Gene Coon wrote a teleplay that was based on a 1944 short story (which I’ve read) by Fredric Brown, who was also credited in the episode.
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Eh? What’s that you say? 
My apologies, I did post that without reading to the bottom. Poor form. However, I get partial credit for naming and linking the actress as well as the character name, no?
Hehehe, you are one of the students who hates all or nothing points, no doubt. 
But, yes, you did provide linkies I was too lazy to look up.
“Violet, you’re turning violet!” :eek:
Ah, yes, it was in the collection The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time, edited by Robert Silverberg. It was one of the top fifteen vote getters among all short stories that pre-dated the Nebula Awards, as voted on by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America.
I always enjoy the Star Trek episode because it was shot at Vasquez Rocks, which can be seen from the road, now freeway, we used to have to travel to get to LA from our desert outpost on the edge of the world.
Gee, I sure wish Otto and DSYoungEsq would drop by this thread.
Wasn’t there an episode that was based on an award-winning short story?
Yes. It was shot at Red Rock Canyon.
John Tesh did the episode’s orchestration.
I love you people.
I suspect you’re thinking of “A Private Little War,” with the non-green (and total package) Nancy Kovack.
I am so confused. Wasn’t the first show the one where the guys with the big heads found the girl in a crashed starship and fixed her up best they could? Shatner wasn’t in the one I’m thinking of. And I don’t remember any green girls of any kind.
And this is confusing me too:
You often saw a picture of the green Orion Slave Girl (who was really the female foil in the episode made to look like an Orion Slave Girl by the mental powers of the Talosians) in the credits at the end of the episodes.
Huh?
The original pilot for Star Trek was called “The Cage.” In it, Captian Christopher Pike was captured by some aliens called the Talosians (the guys with the big heads). They had the power to create illusions. One of the illusions, based on a fantasy of Pike’s involved a green Orion slave girl. The slave girl was a woman named Vina, who also featured in a number of other illusions cast by the Talosians. She was not really green. She was indeed smashed up in a space ship crash and rebuilt as best as the Talosians could without an intact human model.
Footage from “The Cage” was later incorporated into a two-part episode of the regular series called “The Menagerie.” Some of the recycled footage was of Vina in her illusory Orion slave girl pigmentation.
Episodes of the original series included stills from various episodes over which the closong credits appeared. Vina-as-Orion-slave-girl was the last (or next to last) still for many of the episodes.
Not sure what’s confusing you.
Yep. That was the first episode, “Menagerie”. The Talosians were the big head guys. The used their mental powers to make Cpt Pike (the not-Shatner captain)see what they wanted him to see. They made him see the girl as a hotty instead of a busted up burn victim with a paralyzed face. All the crazy adventures he had (like the busted up burn victim girl being a sexy green Orion Slave Girl doing the wild sexy dance) were halucinations the big headed guys gave him. Later this episode (pilot?) was recycled into a series of flashbacks that were shown on a big screen for Kirk, Spock & Bones while Cpt Pike sat in an iron-plated electric wheelchair & drooled. Seems he became a busted up burn victim himself somewhere along the way. I believe (I was just a kid and haven’t picked up this one on video yet) that Cpt Pike was on trial for something.
Well! Guess I need to get myself a Star Trek DVD box set sort of thing so I can get this all sorted out in my foggy memory.
I went to a Star Trek site to check this one out. That’s not the one I was thinking about. I remember that show as the girl with the hunk of ginger root that’s alive.
Actually, Spock was being court-martialed - at his own insistence - for kidnapping Pike, diverting the Enterprise with faked orders, and going to Talos IV, which was an, er, forbidden planet. Pike was one of the three senior officers on the court-martial board, along with Kirk and Commodore Mendez, the top dude at Starbase 11.
Except of course Commodore Mendez was a Talosian illusion and the whole court-martial was a ruse to give Spock time to get to Talos IV.
Cripes! Those Talosians really get around.