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Re: TOS Episodes with Klingons

At 02:21 PM 12/31/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>
>SuSvaj:
>: There were also Klingons in "Elaan of Troyius."  This was also the 
>: premiere of the Klingon warship.
>
>IIRC we saw their ship, but we didn't see any Klingons.  

I sure did.  The captain apears on the main viewer more than once, and
demands the surrender of the Enterprise.

SuSvaj




>
>Klingons were mentioned - and lurked off-screen - in several other episodes,
>but the number of episodes in which we actually *saw* Klingons was relatively
>few for TOS's three-year run.  This paucity of Klingons, however, was
about to
>change.  
>
>I read somewhere that had TOS been renewed for a 4th season, Roddenberry
>planned on making Capt. Koloth a recurring character (like Gul Dukat on "Deep
>Space Nine").  The idea was that both Kirk and Koloth patrolled the same
sector
>of space, but on opposite sides of the Federation-Klingon border.  Koloth was
>to have been a sort of Klingon counterpart to Capt. Kirk.  If you recall from
>"The Trouble With Tribbles," Kirk and Koloth greeted each other familiarly
when
>the latter beamed aboard Deep Space Station K-7, indulging in a little
>"friendly" banter: "Ah, Captain Kirk." "My dear Captain Koloth!"  Ah, what
>might have been!
>
>This is ironic in that actor William Campbell ("Koloth") was on the short
list
>to play Kirk after Jeffrey Hunter was no longer available for the series, but
>that Roddenberry eventually chose William Shatner over him for what turned
out
>to be the role of a lifetime.  Campbell, who had worked on some of the same
>television shows as Roddenberry in the past, kept on good terms with him,
>eventually playing "Trelane" in "The Squire of Gothos" before coming back as
>Koloth in "The Trouble With Tribbles".
>
>Those who know Star Trek production trivia better than I can full us in on
the
>details.  (Hopefully, this story isn't apocryphal.).
>
>
>
>-- 
>Voragh                       
>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>

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