Clark Gregg (The Avengers) was a surprise guest who took over as Nancy’s professor husband.
The night kicked off with a read of the “Mudd’s Passion” script from a 1973 episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series. Nathan Fillion (The Rookie) took over as Kirk while D’Arcy Carden (The Good Place) assumed the role of Spock and Adam Arkin played the mad creator of a love potion. Other participants from the night included Iman Vellani (The Marvels), and Paul Scheer and Paul F. Tompkins, both from Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Rod Roddenberry was there to remember his dad, series creator Gene Roddenberry, and pay tribute to both the foundation’s 60th anniversary as well as the 60th anniversary of Star Trek.
When I heard they were doing the pilot, I kind of expected “The Cage.” I suppose that may be a bit too much inside baseball for non Trekkies.
Now I can’t find it again of course, but someone on BlueSky observed that they apparently didn’t have a final-final draft of “The Man Trap” because the line at the end where Spock is yelling to McCoy that the Salt Vampire is ‘killing the captain, shoot it’ wasn’t in the performance.
This amuses me for no obvious reason. Maybe it’s the combination of Spock yelling frantically to begin with, and to do the un-Star-Trek thing and just kill it.
