hi there this is Jim from Trek World join me today as we look back on yet another of the overlooked but incredibly talented people whose work literally shaped our very lives through the original Star Trek television series so if you’ve been a fan since day one sit back and prepare for a fond remembrance of an old friend however if your Trek Journey began much later then please pull up a chair as we introduce you to someone who was long gone before you even became a fan you may be quite surprised to see just how much of the Trek you love was a result of his work [Music] the following program is brought to you In Living Color on NBC now they say that when you go it doesn’t matter what you take it’s what you leave behind with this video Gene becomes the
very first person to be inducted in Trek world’s Hall of Fame this particular playlist is going to be dedicated to the fallen heroes of Star Trek that most fans will never be aware of it’s my hope that that playlist and the videos within it will always serve as a reference that people can stumble on in the future when they want to know not just what this person did for Star Trek but more importantly what kind of person were they what were their other personality traits Hobbies endeavors the Klingon Empire and their sworn 23rd Century foe Starfleet command which was the peacekeeping and exploration arm of United Federation of planets the arganians and their imposed cessation of hostilities between the Klingons and the Federation an ingenious plot solution which allowed for a classic axis and allies competitiveness without dragging the entire TV series into a war thus allowing the show to still focus on its theme of exploration the universal translator which allowed
the crew of the Enterprise to speak to aliens without ever having to know their language from the deepest depths of Khan noonian Singh and the Eugenics Wars to the incredible Heights of zefram Cochrane and the discovery of the warp drive and towering above it all starfleet’s prime directive Gene was responsible for each and every one of these Concepts oh well this is this is kind of awkward it seems that might have been a little careless in my setup for this that is a photo of Gene but not the right Gene there now that is much better join us after the break as we take a look at the life and career of Gene L the Forgotten Gene from the original Star Trek television series please be sure to check out these other popular videos from season one in our series covering Star Trek in the 1960s
also please be sure to hit that like button just below this video so that YouTube will recommend this video to other folks who may not yet have discovered it let me set the stage for where our Story begins one month before the show’s Premiere geneberry took a vacation his producer just walked out on him so he hired television veteran Gene L an ex-marine to a very large degree Kuhn was going to be the one who would definitely fill the show’s creativity in the coming months the Star Trek that has imprinted itself on fans for decades is Gene L Coons his shows deepened the relationships between Captain Kirk Mr Spock and Dr McCoy he created the Klingons there was more humor with him David Gerald said Gene L created the noble image that everyone gives Roddenberry the most credit for Bill Shatner put it this way Jean Kuhn had more to do with the infusion of life into Star Trek than any
other single person so as I said Gene Runway hired Gene Kuhn in August of 1966. to contribute stories and help overseas Trex production after John d f black quit the series in frustration from working with Rod Murray this Exodus was to be the first in a series that would stretch out over believe it or not the next 20 years into Star Trek the Next Generation as much as everybody loved Gene rinbury’s Vision working closely with him always resulted in a badly fractured relationship now Gene worked full-time on Star Trek from the first season episode Miri to the second season’s episode a private little war and he would go on to contribute periodically for the third season under the pseudonym Lee Cronin now like John d f black before him he left the show in the second season due to exhaustion and a personal clashes with Roddenberry over how regularly
interjected the show with comedy and lighthearted banter during his tenure he would contribute more writing outlines and rewrites than any other person other than Gene reinberry so now let’s take a look at the 13 actual episodes that either wrote rewrote or co-wrote now in the episode Arena the Federation was first revealed Gino Kuhn wrote the script at the last minute over a weekend to be ready to shoot on Monday morning this kind of weekend writing spree was commonplace for Gene while he was there now apparently an almost identical story had been printed over 20 years before an astounding science fiction magazine a lifelong science fiction addict Gene had apparently read that story and didn’t realize that his story so closely followed the earlier story also called Believe It or Not Arena when this was discovered by someone who worked for Kellum DeForest they reached
out to the original author Frederick Brown and they paid him for the story rights which he gladly accepted if you’ve never really understood who Kellum De Forest was don’t feel too bad a lot of people don’t really understand his input into Star Trek so keep an eye open in the future for another video to let you know about this lesser-known contributor to Star Trek now a few episodes later in a taste of Armageddon and the full name of the Federation was used for the very first time the United Federation of planets in space seed Gene introduced us to the Eugenics Wars and the augments that started them this story was so rich in potential that it would inspire a movie sequel in Star Trek The Wrath of Khan almost 20 years later in addition to the movie The augments and their use of genetic manipulation would continue to be told and expanded upon significantly by Star Trek Deep Space Nine Star Trek
Enterprise and Star Trek strange new worlds over the next 50 years as originally recorded in the book The World of Star Trek by David Gerald the devil in the dark had a strangely unique beginning actually wore the horda costume into Gene’s office one day Gene looks at he goes well that’s great what is it and prohaska says I don’t know what it is it can be anything you want to which replied I’ll write a script around it and that he did in four days he wrote the script for the devil in the dark now in errand of Mercy we are introduced to the Klingons a race of Warriors that want nothing better than to conquer anybody they meet the Federation knows this and they offer to provide protection to a small planet whose residents appear to be in the mid-1600s of Earth’s development what neither side suspects is that our hosts are in fact highly evolved beings that only took physical form to interact
with our heroes and their enemies after revealing themselves they enforce a peace treaty upon the Federation and the Empire they also reveal that in the future the Klingons and the Federation would be good friends which did in fact happen just before Star Trek the Next Generation now Star Trek needed a new suite of bad guys while the romulans were complex and interesting they were also very expensive and had time-consuming makeup requirements so the Klingons were introduced as a far more stereotypical group the actual notes that still survived today simply described them as a hard-faced oriental people consider this amazing comparison between John calicosa’s Core and a famous painting of Attila the Hun in Metamorphosis Gene had created yet another character that was so story Rich that he would spawn a movie prequel around the very first meeting between
the humans and the Vulcans as a result of humans developing their very first warp drive the creator of the drive was zefram Cochrane the episode actually fills us in on the fact that he invented the warp drive and then just kind of sailed off into the sunset never to be seen again until the event of this episode I do want to point out that space seed spawned Star Trek 2 the Wrath of Khan and that metamorphosis spawned Star Trek first Contact it is no coincidence in my opinion that the two most popular movies released about Star Trek were both based on characters and story lines created by Gene L decades after his passing now in bread and circuses Jean Kuhn brought us a prime satirical example of a parallel world one in which the Roman Empire was still dominant at a point when television existed which would allow them to televise the gladiatorial combat and then monetize it with
sponsors sort of like what we do here on YouTube today like John d f black before him had become tired and overworked while working on Star Trek the constant need to rewrite literally every story that came in was simply too much for him to handle in 2016 his secretary Andrea Kindred told wired that he was relying on amphetamine drugs just to keep going added to that was the constant battle that Gene rineberry raised at him because Roddenberry believed that the humor that had cultivated in such episodes as The Trouble with Tribbles I mud and a piece of the action was diluting the science fiction that rodberry had created the entire Spock McCoy Dynamic had come about as a direct result of Jean kuhn’s writing and Gene had simply taken about as much as he possibly could so he literally resigned in the middle of a work day walked out and never returned As Told by William Shatner in his book Star Trek Memories One of the last things Gene did do on his way out was to
walk up to John Meredith Lucas in the writers room and say why the hell don’t you take over you produced The Fugitive and Ben Casey and all that with a piece of the action airing last of his episodes this would be the last time Gene Coon’s story and or writing credits would be seen on Star Trek now after leaving Star Trek he moved to the Universal Studios company and signed a contract to work on it Takes a Thief now while he was under that contract he is not allowed to write for any other production company but he had agreed to supply four episodes of Star Trek during that third season in order to do so he used a pen name Lee Cronin box brain what can I say in this case the less said the better right okay all right okay okay I have to admit I watched part of
this again as I Was preparing this video and it wasn’t quite really as bad as I remembered it being maybe not quite as bad because I remember it being and it gave us one of the very best lines in Star Trek history I shouldn’t have done it what’s that I should have never reconnected his mouth [Music] now in the wink of an eye actually managed to slip something past the network sensors for the first time there’s a scene here in Kirk’s quarters where he is sitting on the side of his bed pulling on his right boot while she is brushing her hair back into place in front of a mirror this is the most obvious portrayal of post-sexual activities that has ever been seen in the original Star Trek television series I’m shocked the sensors didn’t catch it and then again and maybe Kirk was just putting his boot back on after taking it off for some other non-sexual reason and maybe she was just taking a moment to check her
hair and makeup in his room because it had the closest available mirror uh yeah right Lee Cronin won Network sensors zero in let that be your last Battlefield this is the last contribution to Star Trek that Gene would ever make he would be contacted again during the animated series about writing but he declined the offer foreign just in case you thought I had miscounted let’s take a moment here to discuss the 13th story that Gene was involved in here you can see that original title card from the episode the Apple now in this case I have no video clip to show you because even though he received teleplay credit for the rewrites he did the gene was never actually listed in the credits of this particular episode you know if you thought our little story was over well you were wrong there’s a lot more to know about this
hi there this is Jim from Trek World join me today as we look back on yet another of the overlooked but incredibly talented people whose work literally shaped our very lives through the original Star Trek television series so if you’ve been a fan since day one sit back and prepare for a fond remembrance of an old friend however if your Trek Journey began much later then please pull up a chair as we introduce you to someone who was long gone before you even became a fan you may be quite surprised to see just how much of the Trek you love was a result of his work [Music] the following program is brought to you In Living Color on NBC now they say that when you go it doesn’t matter what you take it’s what you leave behind with this video Gene becomes the
very first person to be inducted in Trek world’s Hall of Fame this particular playlist is going to be dedicated to the fallen heroes of Star Trek that most fans will never be aware of it’s my hope that that playlist and the videos within it will always serve as a reference that people can stumble on in the future when they want to know not just what this person did for Star Trek but more importantly what kind of person were they what were their other personality traits Hobbies endeavors the Klingon Empire and their sworn 23rd Century foe Starfleet command which was the peacekeeping and exploration arm of United Federation of planets the arganians and their imposed cessation of hostilities between the Klingons and the Federation an ingenious plot solution which allowed for a classic axis and allies competitiveness without dragging the entire TV series into a war thus allowing the show to still focus on its theme of exploration the universal translator which allowed
the crew of the Enterprise to speak to aliens without ever having to know their language from the deepest depths of Khan noonian Singh and the Eugenics Wars to the incredible Heights of zefram Cochrane and the discovery of the warp drive and towering above it all starfleet’s prime directive Gene was responsible for each and every one of these Concepts oh well this is this is kind of awkward it seems that might have been a little careless in my setup for this that is a photo of Gene but not the right Gene there now that is much better join us after the break as we take a look at the life and career of Gene L the Forgotten Gene from the original Star Trek television series please be sure to check out these other popular videos from season one in our series covering Star Trek in the 1960s
also please be sure to hit that like button just below this video so that YouTube will recommend this video to other folks who may not yet have discovered it let me set the stage for where our Story begins one month before the show’s Premiere geneberry took a vacation his producer just walked out on him so he hired television veteran Gene L an ex-marine to a very large degree Kuhn was going to be the one who would definitely fill the show’s creativity in the coming months the Star Trek that has imprinted itself on fans for decades is Gene L Coons his shows deepened the relationships between Captain Kirk Mr Spock and Dr McCoy he created the Klingons there was more humor with him David Gerald said Gene L created the noble image that everyone gives Roddenberry the most credit for Bill Shatner put it this way Jean Kuhn had more to do with the infusion of life into Star Trek than any
other single person so as I said Gene Runway hired Gene Kuhn in August of 1966. to contribute stories and help overseas Trex production after John d f black quit the series in frustration from working with Rod Murray this Exodus was to be the first in a series that would stretch out over believe it or not the next 20 years into Star Trek the Next Generation as much as everybody loved Gene rinbury’s Vision working closely with him always resulted in a badly fractured relationship now Gene worked full-time on Star Trek from the first season episode Miri to the second season’s episode a private little war and he would go on to contribute periodically for the third season under the pseudonym Lee Cronin now like John d f black before him he left the show in the second season due to exhaustion and a personal clashes with Roddenberry over how regularly
interjected the show with comedy and lighthearted banter during his tenure he would contribute more writing outlines and rewrites than any other person other than Gene reinberry so now let’s take a look at the 13 actual episodes that either wrote rewrote or co-wrote now in the episode Arena the Federation was first revealed Gino Kuhn wrote the script at the last minute over a weekend to be ready to shoot on Monday morning this kind of weekend writing spree was commonplace for Gene while he was there now apparently an almost identical story had been printed over 20 years before an astounding science fiction magazine a lifelong science fiction addict Gene had apparently read that story and didn’t realize that his story so closely followed the earlier story also called Believe It or Not Arena when this was discovered by someone who worked for Kellum DeForest they reached
out to the original author Frederick Brown and they paid him for the story rights which he gladly accepted if you’ve never really understood who Kellum De Forest was don’t feel too bad a lot of people don’t really understand his input into Star Trek so keep an eye open in the future for another video to let you know about this lesser-known contributor to Star Trek now a few episodes later in a taste of Armageddon and the full name of the Federation was used for the very first time the United Federation of planets in space seed Gene introduced us to the Eugenics Wars and the augments that started them this story was so rich in potential that it would inspire a movie sequel in Star Trek The Wrath of Khan almost 20 years later in addition to the movie The augments and their use of genetic manipulation would continue to be told and expanded upon significantly by Star Trek Deep Space Nine Star Trek
Enterprise and Star Trek strange new worlds over the next 50 years as originally recorded in the book The World of Star Trek by David Gerald the devil in the dark had a strangely unique beginning actually wore the horda costume into Gene’s office one day Gene looks at he goes well that’s great what is it and prohaska says I don’t know what it is it can be anything you want to which replied I’ll write a script around it and that he did in four days he wrote the script for the devil in the dark now in errand of Mercy we are introduced to the Klingons a race of Warriors that want nothing better than to conquer anybody they meet the Federation knows this and they offer to provide protection to a small planet whose residents appear to be in the mid-1600s of Earth’s development what neither side suspects is that our hosts are in fact highly evolved beings that only took physical form to interact
with our heroes and their enemies after revealing themselves they enforce a peace treaty upon the Federation and the Empire they also reveal that in the future the Klingons and the Federation would be good friends which did in fact happen just before Star Trek the Next Generation now Star Trek needed a new suite of bad guys while the romulans were complex and interesting they were also very expensive and had time-consuming makeup requirements so the Klingons were introduced as a far more stereotypical group the actual notes that still survived today simply described them as a hard-faced oriental people consider this amazing comparison between John calicosa’s Core and a famous painting of Attila the Hun in Metamorphosis Gene had created yet another character that was so story Rich that he would spawn a movie prequel around the very first meeting between
the humans and the Vulcans as a result of humans developing their very first warp drive the creator of the drive was zefram Cochrane the episode actually fills us in on the fact that he invented the warp drive and then just kind of sailed off into the sunset never to be seen again until the event of this episode I do want to point out that space seed spawned Star Trek 2 the Wrath of Khan and that metamorphosis spawned Star Trek first Contact it is no coincidence in my opinion that the two most popular movies released about Star Trek were both based on characters and story lines created by Gene L decades after his passing now in bread and circuses Jean Kuhn brought us a prime satirical example of a parallel world one in which the Roman Empire was still dominant at a point when television existed which would allow them to televise the gladiatorial combat and then monetize it with
sponsors sort of like what we do here on YouTube today like John d f black before him had become tired and overworked while working on Star Trek the constant need to rewrite literally every story that came in was simply too much for him to handle in 2016 his secretary Andrea Kindred told wired that he was relying on amphetamine drugs just to keep going added to that was the constant battle that Gene rineberry raised at him because Roddenberry believed that the humor that had cultivated in such episodes as The Trouble with Tribbles I mud and a piece of the action was diluting the science fiction that rodberry had created the entire Spock McCoy Dynamic had come about as a direct result of Jean kuhn’s writing and Gene had simply taken about as much as he possibly could so he literally resigned in the middle of a work day walked out and never returned As Told by William Shatner in his book Star Trek Memories One of the last things Gene did do on his way out was to
walk up to John Meredith Lucas in the writers room and say why the hell don’t you take over you produced The Fugitive and Ben Casey and all that with a piece of the action airing last of his episodes this would be the last time Gene Coon’s story and or writing credits would be seen on Star Trek now after leaving Star Trek he moved to the Universal Studios company and signed a contract to work on it Takes a Thief now while he was under that contract he is not allowed to write for any other production company but he had agreed to supply four episodes of Star Trek during that third season in order to do so he used a pen name Lee Cronin box brain what can I say in this case the less said the better right okay all right okay okay I have to admit I watched part of
this again as I Was preparing this video and it wasn’t quite really as bad as I remembered it being maybe not quite as bad because I remember it being and it gave us one of the very best lines in Star Trek history I shouldn’t have done it what’s that I should have never reconnected his mouth [Music] now in the wink of an eye actually managed to slip something past the network sensors for the first time there’s a scene here in Kirk’s quarters where he is sitting on the side of his bed pulling on his right boot while she is brushing her hair back into place in front of a mirror this is the most obvious portrayal of post-sexual activities that has ever been seen in the original Star Trek television series I’m shocked the sensors didn’t catch it and then again and maybe Kirk was just putting his boot back on after taking it off for some other non-sexual reason and maybe she was just taking a moment to check her
hair and makeup in his room because it had the closest available mirror uh yeah right Lee Cronin won Network sensors zero in let that be your last Battlefield this is the last contribution to Star Trek that Gene would ever make he would be contacted again during the animated series about writing but he declined the offer foreign just in case you thought I had miscounted let’s take a moment here to discuss the 13th story that Gene was involved in here you can see that original title card from the episode the Apple now in this case I have no video clip to show you because even though he received teleplay credit for the rewrites he did the gene was never actually listed in the credits of this particular episode you know if you thought our little story was over well you were wrong there’s a lot more to know about this