Order Up!
Sadly, the answers to these four questions are: No, no, no and, again, no. The order in which the episodes of Star Trek® air on TV and are arranged on the DVD sets is based solely on their production numbering. These production numbers represented the order in which the scripts for the show were put into pre-production. In most cases, they were shot in this order as well, but sometimes problems would come up requiring an episode to be pushed back in the production schedule and another pulled forward. The production numbering would not be changed, even though the order in which the episodes were filmed sometimes did.
Here's a Season One episode which is wrongly listed in all existing public sources (books, magazines, the Internet) as to its production order. Can you guess which episode it is by this image, which also serves as clue as to why the production order had to be changed?
Here's another. Can you spot someone in this picture to help you identify the episode title?
With These are the Voyages – TOS, Season One by Marc Cushman, the true order in which all the episodes of Star Trek® were filmed, along with the actual production dates, will be made available to the public for the first time. You will not only know what episode was filmed when, but what part of each episode was filmed when … and where … and how it went. For the first time ever, you will be put on the set for the making of every episode of the original Star Trek®. We may even tell you what time they broke for lunch.
Go where no Star Trek® fan has gone before … in These are the Voyages – TOS, Season One, by Marc Cushman, schedule for release by Jacobs/Brown Press in July 2013.
Go where no Star Trek® fan has gone before … in These are the Voyages – TOS, Season One, by Marc Cushman, schedule for release by Jacobs/Brown Press in July 2013.
Watch for These are the Voyages — TOS Seasons Two and Three, set for publication by Jacobs/Brown Press later in 2013.
