Correct Me, if I'm Wrong.
Yes and no.
No, it was not Oliver. While Susan Oliver played Vina in Star Trek® pilot film, and this role called for her to also appear in the fantasy scene involving the green-skinned Orion girl's attempts to seduce Captain Pike, it was actually Majel Barrett (cast in The Cage as "Number 1" and later to provide the voice of the Enterprise computer and play Nurse Christine Chapel) who was painted green, again and again, darker each time, for the test footage.
Yes, as fantastic and totally made up as this story sounds, it is true. Gene Roddenberry was known for spinning tall tales when it came to Star Trek®, and when interviewing members of the cast and crew today, more than 45 years after the fact, memories can prove faulty. Did something really happen, or are they just thinking it did because they have heard the story told so many times over four-and-a-half decades? For his research in writing These are the Voyages - TOS, Season One, and its sequels, Seasons Two and Three, Marc Cushman dug deeper than any writer has before while searching for the truth behind the tales. Besides finding documents in the show files indicating the truthfulness of this story of green versus pink, he unearthed a 1960's interview with makeup artist Fred Phillip's from the set of the original Star Trek. Coming straight from the horses mouth, Phillips said, "We did this three days in a row. We had her so green you couldn't believe it, and she still kept coming back pink!" Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. Discover this as you journey into These are the Voyages - TOS, Season One, scheduled for release in July 2013 from Jacobs Brown Press.
No, it was not Oliver. While Susan Oliver played Vina in Star Trek® pilot film, and this role called for her to also appear in the fantasy scene involving the green-skinned Orion girl's attempts to seduce Captain Pike, it was actually Majel Barrett (cast in The Cage as "Number 1" and later to provide the voice of the Enterprise computer and play Nurse Christine Chapel) who was painted green, again and again, darker each time, for the test footage.
Yes, as fantastic and totally made up as this story sounds, it is true. Gene Roddenberry was known for spinning tall tales when it came to Star Trek®, and when interviewing members of the cast and crew today, more than 45 years after the fact, memories can prove faulty. Did something really happen, or are they just thinking it did because they have heard the story told so many times over four-and-a-half decades? For his research in writing These are the Voyages - TOS, Season One, and its sequels, Seasons Two and Three, Marc Cushman dug deeper than any writer has before while searching for the truth behind the tales. Besides finding documents in the show files indicating the truthfulness of this story of green versus pink, he unearthed a 1960's interview with makeup artist Fred Phillip's from the set of the original Star Trek. Coming straight from the horses mouth, Phillips said, "We did this three days in a row. We had her so green you couldn't believe it, and she still kept coming back pink!" Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. Discover this as you journey into These are the Voyages - TOS, Season One, scheduled for release in July 2013 from Jacobs Brown Press.
Watch for These are the Voyages — TOS, Seasons Two and Three, set for publication by Jacobs/Brown Press later in 2013.
