My name is Hugh and I live in Ohio.

I just left a voice mail and I will leave some notes here too. I’ve been listening to the ‘cast for the last month or so. I have been enjoying your comments about Trek and THE WRATH OF KHAN.

I’ve been a Trek fan since the old days. Yes, I used to watch Trek with that Android Ruk from the episode WHAT LITTLE GIRLS ARE MADE OF. Okay, not really. But sometimes I feel that old. I was 6 when Trek started and I just loved it. Some of my best memories from childhood were watching Trek, and thinking about Trek, and building model kits from Trek.

You cannot believe how excited I got when, at around the age of 10, I found the Stephen Whitfield book, THE MAKING OF STAR TREK which described the first two seasons of producing Trek. I went to my first Trek convention in 1974…it was in New York City. I am still amazed that my parents let me travel there by myself for a convention. I went to a second Trek convention the next year. I cannot describe how happy this all made me.

Anyways, here are my comments about the ‘cast (which I am still listening to):

First: in TREK 1:

-the actress playing Illya, Persis Khambhatta, actually shaved her hair for the movie.
-there is a photo somewhere on line of her crying as her hair is getting clipped

Second: it sounds like you were watching the “special edition” of TREK II; kirk’s line about knowing something about ships that Khan did not know was not in the theatrical release edition.

Third: Andra, the episode with the man who seemed to be the First Officer who turned Godlike and evil was the second pilot: WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE.

-Gary Mitchell (played by actor Gary Lockwood who was also in 2001) gains godlike powers when the Enterprise encounters a forcefield when it tries to explore beyond the edge of the galaxy

-the actress playing the blonde doctor was Sally Kellerman (who went on to play the original Hotlips in the movie MASH).

The vulcan dialogue in both Trek 1 and Trek 2 was actually shot in English. They dubbed in the Vulcan dialogue in post production.

-the Klingon dialogue in Trek 1 was not dubbed in
-the late Mark Lenard, who played the Klingon Commander, would get fan audiences to recite all the Klingon dialogue with him at conventions.

Keep up the good work.

Hugh