1x15 Shore Leave - Star Trek: The Original Series Episode Guide

Star Trek: The Original Series

- Episode 01x15

Episode: 01x15
Title: Shore Leave
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 6149-17
First Aired: Dec. 29, 1966

Season 1 » Episode #15 - Shore Leave

Star Trek: The Original Series - 01x15 Shore Leave

Summary: The crew of the Enterprise investigate a seemingly serene planet with no life, but then encounter fictional characters and old friends and enemies from their pasts.

Who appeared in this episode?

Mr. Spock

Guest Stars:

Captain James T. Kirk	played by William Shatner
Tonia Barrows	played by Emily Banks
Caretaker	played by Oliver McGowan
Rodriguez	played by Perry Lopez
Dr. McCoy	played by DeForest Kelley
Sulu	played by George Takei
Finnegan	played by Bruce Mars
Angela	played by Barbara Baldavin
Uhura	played by Nichelle Nichols

	Season 1 / Episode 15: - Shore Leave Mr. Spock: Dr. McCoy is correct, captain. After what this ship has been through in the last three months, there is not a crewman on board who is not in need of rest. Myself excepted of course.
	Season 1 / Episode 15: - Shore Leave Mr. Spock: On my planet to rest is to rest. To cease using energy.To me it is quite illogical to run up and down on green grass, using energy instead of saving it.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: When the WW II fighter planes appear, to make a strafing run on Rodriguez and Angela, at first we plainly see an American aircraft, appearing to be a Vought F4U "Corsair," approaching, while in the last two shots, it is clearly a Mitsubishi A6M "Japanese Zero" firing on them and then departing.
CHAR: When Sulu sees someone being transported from the Enterprise, he says, "Someone's beaming down from the bridge." In this series, all transports originated from the Transporter Room; also, he wouldn't know from what duty station someone was assigned.
FAKE: After Kirk has "beat the tar out of Finnegan," Spock, standing in the gully below, asks him if he enjoyed it. Spock's next four headshots are obviously in a studio with a painted background, evidenced as well by the lack of background noise. In the next shot, he is back in the gully with Kirk.
MISC: The "props" used during this episode included a live tiger. During the scene in which Kirk first encounters his long lost girlfriend, as he's exclaiming "Ruth!...Ruth!", the unseen tiger can be heard growling in the background.
FAKE: When the Black knight is killed you can see the "dummy" in the armor take a breath of air when you look at him a second time.

TRIVIA

"Shore Leave" is the only episode in which the U.S.S. Enterprise is seen orbiting a planet from right to left.
It is widely believed that actress Barbara Baldavin is playing Angela Martine, her role in the earlier episode, "Star Trek" (1966) {The Naked Time (#1.4)}. While her character is generally identified by only that same first name, even in the end credits' cast list, at one point Kirk addresses her as "Teller". This bit is among the material deleted from general syndication prints to clear time for additional commercial sales, allowing the assumption that Baldavin is again playing Martine to be made and accepted.
An elephant was meant to accompany the scene of the Bengal tiger, but filming constraints never made it happen, and the pachyderm isn't in the episode.
Shot on the same wildlife reserve that "Daktari" (1966) was filmed.
Theodore Sturgeon's original script was deemed by NBC to be too imaginative and therefore too expensive. Gene Roddenberry had to do a speedy rewrite which meant that the cast frequently had little time to learn their new lines and would have to adlib.