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- Alan Smithee: Jerry Sohl was unhappy with D. C. Fontana 's rewrites of his script and credited himself under his pseudonym "Nathan Butler".
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Alan Smithee: Jerry Sohl was unhappy with D. C. Fontana's rewrites of his script and credited himself under his pseudonym "Nathan Butler". Creator's Favorite Episode: Leonard Nimoy named this as one of his favourite episodes. Deleted Scene: Spock and Leila walk and romanticize by a stream.
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Teaser
The USS Enterprise arrives at the planet Omicron Ceti III, the site of a colony established in 2264. Unfortunately, the Enterprise's mission is only to catalog its destruction under the bombardment of deadly berthold rays, which were discovered after the colonists left Earth. Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, Doctor McCoy, Lieutenants Sulu, DeSalle, and Kelowitz beam down to the planet's surface and discover to their surprise that Elias Sandoval and the other colonists are not deadafter all.
Act One
1. "Captain's log, stardate 3417.3. We thought our mission to Omicron Ceti III would be an unhappy one. We had expected to find no survivors of the agricultural colony there. Apparently, our information was incorrect." Sandoval and two other colonists are excited to see others than themselves; they haven't seen other Human beings since they left Earth. Sandoval explains that the colony's subspace radio had malfunctioned and they did not have anyone with the expertise capable of repairing it....
Act Two
1. "Captain's log, supplemental. We have been ordered by Starfleet Command to evacuate the colony on Omicron III. However, the colony leader, Elias Sandoval, has refused all cooperation and will not listen to any arguments." When Kirk hails Spock with his communicator, his first officer responds casually and lacking any respect or formality for his commanding officer. McCoy notes that this behavior didn't seem like Spock at all. Kirk attempts to question Spock further, but Spock drops the com...
"It's like a jigsaw puzzle all one color. No key to where the pieces fit in." 1. - Kirk, on Omicron Ceti III "I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question." 1. - Spock, to Leila "Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist." 1. - Spock, to Leila "It didn't hurt us." "I am not like you." 1. - Leila and Spock, af...
Production timeline
1. Treatment "Sandoval's Planet" by Jerry Sohl: 15 June 1966 2. Revised story outline "Power Play": 15 July 1966 3. Second revised story outline: 9 August 1966 4. First draft teleplay "The Way of the Spores" by Sohl: 1 September 1966 5. Second draft teleplay: 11 October 1966 6. Revised second draft teleplay: 16 October 1966 7. Story outline "This Side of Paradise" by D.C. Fontana: 16 November 1966 8. First draft teleplay by Fontana: 7 December 1966 9. Second draft teleplay: 11 December 1966 1...
Story and script
1. In Jerry Sohl's original draft (first titled "Power Play," then "The Way of The Spores"), it was Lieutenant Sulu who was infected by the spores and was able to fall in love with the Eurasian beauty Leila. McCoy discovered an internal condition that would have necessitated Sulu's resignation from Starfleet service, had the spores not cured his condition. His illness gave Sulu a will to develop a relationship with Leila just as similar circumstances would later affect McCoy's judgment in "Fo...
Production
1. Originally "The Devil in the Dark" was scheduled to be filmed before this episode with Ralph Senensky directing it, and Joseph Pevney directing "This Side of Paradise", but during pre-production the two episodes were switched, and changed directors. It was due to producer Gene Coon's assumption that "Devil" would be a tough assignment for a first-time Trekdirector. 2. In a blooper, Leonard Nimoy flubs his line about the plants acting as a repository for thousands of spores. Instead, he say...
Starring
1. William Shatner as Kirk 2. Leonard Nimoy as Spock
Guest star
1. Jill Ireland as Leila Kalomi
Special guest star
1. Frank Overton as Elias Sandoval
Jerry Sohl disliked the rewrites so much he put “Nathan Butler,” his frequent pseudonym, on the final episode. In an interview in Starlog #136, November, 1988, he said: “I didn’t like that she [D. C. Fontana] took out all the things that I did.
Writer Jerry Sohl had his name replaced by the pseudonym "Nathan Butler", after D. C. Fontana rewrote the original draft (entitled "The Way of the Spores"). This was actor Frank Overton's last performance before his death on April 24, 1967, less than two months after the episode first aired.
May 28, 2009 · For whatever reason, D C Fontana then decided to rewrite it, and Jerry wasn’t remotely happy with what she did with it. So he asked they use the pseudonym ‘Nathan Butler’ on the credits, and...
Dec 3, 2019 · After “The Lieutenant”’s cancellation, she began working as Roddenberry’s secretary and script doctor for his new “Star Trek” TV series, rewriting Jerry Sohl’s “The Way of the Spores” to become the classic, “This Side of Paradise.” Originally a love story for Mr. Sulu (George Takei), she rewrote the script for the ...
Jan 15, 2024 · Fontana has writing credits on 10 episodes of The Original Series and did uncredited writing for the season 2 episode "Catspaw." Two of those episodes, Season 3's "That Which Survive" and "The Way to Eden" bear her Michael Richards pseudonym. She objected to the rewrites on these episodes, which fundamentally changed the stories.
