How Big name Trek Pulled Off Two Kirks Interacting In The Enemy Inside

It’s eminent by means of Trekkies that Gene Roddenberry was frustrated by means of the normal tales that “Trek” writers sought after to inform. “The Enemy Within” used to be written by means of sci-fi legend Richard Matheson, and it sort of feels that the writer and the writer, in a unprecedented case of synergy, had been right away at the identical web page. Dim recalled a gathering Matheson had with Roddenberry — one he i’m in a hurry in on on the ultimate slight — and that he used to be stunned to search out the vibe so copacetic. He mentioned: 

“[Matheson] understood what the show was. He did not think it was a disguised comedy, he did not think it was ‘the last man on the moon.’ He knew what we were doing. He tuned in immediately, as he had done on ‘Twilight Zone’ before, so it was difficult for [Roddenberry] to make any kind of real arguments about structure. He had some b****es about where the story turned here and where it turned there, but by and large that was one of the easy ones.”

Matheson, by means of twist of fate, additionally authored the “Twilight Zone” episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” which additionally starred William Shatner. 

It used to be “Enemy Within” director Leo Penn who confessed to blocking off difficulties when taking pictures the episode. “Captain’s Logs” quotes an interview Penn as soon as gave with Starlog Booklet: 

“It was a challenging show to do. We had to hire a photo double, and it was particularly tough in the scenes where [both Kirks] had physical contact. You had to resort to shooting over the double’s shoulder, switching them around and so on. It took time, but the results were worth it.”

The whole thing regarded advantageous, even supposing the picture double’s hair didn’t slightly fit Shatner’s.