From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: graemecree@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: Beyond the Farthest Star (TAS): my review   
      
   On May 9, 2:35apm, SparkoHeaps  wrote:   
   > I think part of the problem was they voiced their parts separately,   
   > making interaction difficult.   
   They mostly did, but sometimes they got together in the same studio.   
   Other times, Shatner or Nimoy would just pop a tape in the mail from   
   wherever they happened to be on tour.   
   Speaking of which, one thing we ought to mention about TAS is that   
   Doohan has at least as many lines as Shatner and Nimoy, probably more,   
   as he plays almost every male guest character (with a few exceptions;   
   they did get Stanley Adams, Mark Lenard, and even Ted Knight in for a   
   role, but most of it is Doohan).  Majel and Nichelle do almost every   
   female role in the whole series.  Of the new regular characters, Lt.   
   Arex and Lt. M'Ress, Doohan plays Arex and Majel plays M'Ress.   
   The original plan had been to have even Sulu and Uhura played by those   
   two.  Nimoy had believed that everyone was going to play their own   
   parts, but was shocked when he first came into the studio, that   
   although Paramount claimed to own the likenesses of Takei and   
   Nicholas, that they weren't going to play their own roles.  (a cost-   
   saving measure).  Nimoy put his foot down and refused to do the show   
   under those conditions.  Apparently Gene asked him if he was insisting   
   that they appear in every episode, and he said no, only that whenever   
   they do appear, they should do their own voices.  Without Nimoy there   
   was no show, so George and Nichelle made it on.  There wasn't enough   
   money to bring in Walter Koenig too, which is why Chekov is gone and   
   replaced by Arex.  (Walter got his revenge though, by scripting an   
   episode which was perhaps TAS's worst).  Gene really should have made   
   the same stand himself, but didn't rock the boat.   
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