The Galileo Seven

This Story: Season 1 Episode 16 (production code 1.14)
TOS Overall: Story 16, Episode 17
Trek Overall: Story 16, Episode 17
Airdate: 5 Jan 1967
Written by Oliver Crawford & S. Bar David
Directed by Robert Gist

Notes

• The female crewman in the shuttlecraft was supposed to be Janice Rand, but when she was let go, they had to rewrite the character to be someone else.
• That character (Yeoman Mears) was played by Phyllis Douglas.  Douglas later returned in the season 3 episode, “The Way to Eden” as one of the space hippies. As a fun side note, her first acting role was in Gone With the Wind (yes, that one) at age 2.
• This was the first episode with the physical shuttlecraft prop that people could walk in and out of and have it be on set.
• Was the first episode to air in 1967.
• This episode was loosely based off of a 1939 film called “Five Came Back” which starred a very young Lucille Ball, the goddess of Star Trek.

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