From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
   Graeme wrote:   
   "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:  "Charlie X" focused on Yeoman Rand,   
   >> for example.  And "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.   
      
   I couldn't agree more.  Spock is by far the most memorable character of    
   TOS (he's my favorite in all of Trekdom), but we can't discount the    
   immutable chemistry of nearly all of the cast.   
      
   Natalie   
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