From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: graemecree@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
   On Dec 3, 2:06apm, "Steven L."  wrote:   
   > Perhaps it's because they had hoped to focus on each of the minor actors   
   > in a rotating way, similar to the "centric" episodes on today's "Lost."   
   >   
   > You saw some of that in season 1: a"Charlie X" focused on Yeoman Rand,   
   > for example. aAnd "Naked Time" had a big part for Sulu.   
   Yeoman Rand was not originally intended to be a minor character.  It   
   seems that way now because she left so early, but was seen as THE   
   female lead.  What Are Little Girls Made Of? focused on Nurse Chapel,   
   who was the Producer's Girlfriend.   
   > But Shatner had written memos to the producers "reminding" them that the   
   > show "has to center around Captain Kirk and his decisions."   
   He was the star of the show, billed as such and paid as such.  He was   
   getting $5,000 an episode to Nimoy's $1500.  If you're paying someone   
   a star's salary it doesn't make sense not to use him that way.  Nimoy   
   ended up taking center stage because his character took off, despite   
   not being intended to.  The others didn't.  Even with the episodes   
   centering around Kirk, Kirk never worked alone.  It could have been   
   Kirk and Scotty or Kirk and Sulu or Kirk and Uhura, but it never was.   
   It was Kirk and Spock.  If anything, it was Spock and his unexpected   
   popularity that was responsible for that.   
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