hi this is jim from trek world and today we are taking a look at a very special connection between star trek and the outer limits you will be fascinated as we look at five separate instances and we’ll take it quite a bit further than you may expect so join us after the break is we look at five things star trek beamed out of the outer limits please be sure to check out these other popular videos about season one on our series covering star trek in the 1960s and also please be sure to hit that like button below the video so that youtube will recommend this video to other folks who have not yet discovered it a viewer recently told me if you had a gorilla suit in the 1960s you could get work anywhere janos prohaska had not one gorilla suit he had eight each with its own name as you can see in the flyer that he used to leave at every studio office that he could find he began his career in 1959 playing an ape
on the tv series riverboat and he never looked back this video is actually going to serve us on two fronts one yes we will be looking at five things that star trek used that originated in the outer limits but secondly we’re also going to take a look at the fascinating body of work that janos had in star trek in other places the first creature that we will visit with is when we take a look at the mugato from a private little war now the mugatta was actually a white guerrilla costume that ianos had used several times in his career fort houston star trek he borrowed the horn and ridged spine from another one of his suits that he had originally called brutus this would be the only time in star trek that janos would be listed in the credits but what’s this the name gumato was actually used in the later scripts of this episode however deforest kelly could not pronounce the name correctly so they changed it to mugato but unfortunately during the entire filming
both shatner and kelly pronounced the name as mugat2 all the way through the episode now five decades later all the different words and pronunciations were covered by the star trek lord x episode mugato gamato which made the fact that the ape is known under several slightly different names canon no i’m sure a lot of you out there will probably tell me that you already knew that and i’m very happy if you did but i will admit to you i didn’t when i actually did the screenshot of the credits i couldn’t believe what i saw which is the whole purpose of me making this little extra thing here about the name so moving on the creature first appeared in voyage to the bottom of the sea in 1967 then in the very same year it appeared in star trek although it had been modified to include obviously we spoke about it a moment ago the dinosaur styled horns and skeletal fins along the back finally it showed up one last time and here’s lucy in 1969 it was one of
several ape suits that janos owned and it actually had its own production name snow puff now the second creature that we’re going to take a look at has somewhat of a legendary backstory among star trek fans one day janos arrived to see bob justin and jean with a custom designed creature the costume was a large pancake shaped glob of with a thickened raised center and fringe around its circumference that’s the way that bob justin described it jean and bob were completely unprepared for what would happen next bob justin would describe it this way suddenly the blob skidded around the corner making straight for us then it stopped curiously backed away and rotated completely in place the blob gathered itself up quivered made a whimsical up and down movement grunted and skidded away again leaving behind a perfectly round white egg so obviously the star trek episode that
it inspired was the devil in the dark however the creature was never used again in star trek but most importantly at least to me is several years later as a boy of only eight this episode introduced me to star trek and would forever change my life the next creatures we’re going to be taking a look at were two of the alien races that were kept in cages by the telosians to the right of the photo you can see one of publicity shots that janos used to promote the bird costume that he had originally created for outer limits and his self-promotion worked this was his second most popular creature right behind the gorilla suits now as filmed for the cage we would only see it briefly as pike prepares to escape the menagerie the creature moves around a little bit but it never actually turns to face the camera full on also it only actually occupied four seconds of screen time the reason the director robert butler
said that every time he saw the creature to him it just looked like a giant chicken and he felt that that meant that it didn’t fit in the atmosphere of the scenes he was trying to shoot moving on to another one a year before it would be seen in the cage the creature we’re now looking at was introduced in the outer limits as a megazord now interestingly enough when we see this creature for the first time in outer limits it is being kept in a zoo where alien creatures from different worlds are put on display through a reinforced clear window this turns out to be the exact same way it would be handled for the cage now at the same time during the second season of star trek the creature will show up in the first of two episodes of bewitched as a macedonian dodo bird the second appearance of the creature on that show in 1972 would mark the very last time that it would be used but until then it still had a couple other appearances the creature was featured in a 1966 episode of lost in space and
perhaps one of the rarest janos appearances of the creature was in a 1966 tv show called it’s about time a comedy series by sherwood schwartz from gilligan’s island and brady bunch fame the basic plot of the series was about astronauts who find themselves stuck in the past the series came in went in a single season and most people have no memory that ever existed at all which is nothing short of a miracle that i was actually able to find however small at least some part of the video clip showing you its use now next up is the empyrean from the outer limits episode second chances it was briefly seen near captain christopher pike in other cages in the star trek pilot unlike the bird creature it would end up with more time on the screen a grand total of about 13 seconds during which we get a really really nice look at this creature and of course the creature initially appeared in the outer limits just before the cage was filmed but noticed that from the nose down on
the face mask it’s completely different than what was used in star trek my thoughts were that they wanted the snout-like nose to make the creatures seem more dangerous on a guttural level now the last few items we’re going to take a look at are claims that have been made that something appeared in outer limits before it appeared in star trek and unfortunately there’s no cut and draw answers we’re going to take a look at each one of them and determine whether the actual rumor is plausible or not for instance imdb indicates that the black mask used by the character dr layton in conscience of the king is the same mask used by a character shown here in the outer limits the legend got started because gerd oswald was the director of both episodes and both episodes feature a character whose entire left side of their face is covered by a black mask to hide their injuries however this kind of coincidence would have required some knowledge of the author of the script in order to be setting up the story properly but more tellingly if you
simply focus on the masks themselves you can see that they have two completely different designs the outer limits one is almost like a skull cap that covers the left side of his head from its perch on top of his head but the trek version is literally just held in place by straps so some people could say they were one in the same items but i think we have more than enough reasonable doubt here to simply let the assertion pass and finally the next two things that are associated between outer limits and star trek are both prosthetic design the same man frederick beauregard phillips who made the pointed ears for spock also made an almost identical set of ears while he was working on the outer limits you can clearly see here that the shape size and the design of the ears are in fact the same here you can take a peek at the makeup process that fred used with leonard nimoy however we have a small conflict here as there’s a well-known story
actually spoken of by bob justin and even fred phillips that there were several failed attempts for fred to make those ears for nimoy so fred reached out to a former colleague of his that still worked at mgm and that colleague made the first set of ears and molds it does however make sense that fred would have sent an example over of how he wanted the ears to look and that would explain the similarities the last connection we’re going to make here is between the telosians shown in the cage and a very similar alien used in the outer limits episodes the telosians were created by wah chang who also did the alien designs and the builds for the outer limits here you can actually see the outer limits version of an alien race with an enlarged head and beside it you can see the final creature design from chad so because everybody who was actually involved in this is now dead and nobody ever really commented it on so we haven’t really been able to dig up a whole lot this one i’m gonna call
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5 Things Star Trek Beamed Straight From The Outer Limits – YouTube
hi this is jim from trek world and today we are taking a look at a very special connection between star trek and the outer limits you will be fascinated as we look at five separate instances and we’ll take it quite a bit further than you may expect so join us after the break is we look at five things star trek beamed out of the outer limits please be sure to check out these other popular videos about season one on our series covering star trek in the 1960s and also please be sure to hit that like button below the video so that youtube will recommend this video to other folks who have not yet discovered it a viewer recently told me if you had a gorilla suit in the 1960s you could get work anywhere janos prohaska had not one gorilla suit he had eight each with its own name as you can see in the flyer that he used to leave at every studio office that he could find he began his career in 1959 playing an ape
on the tv series riverboat and he never looked back this video is actually going to serve us on two fronts one yes we will be looking at five things that star trek used that originated in the outer limits but secondly we’re also going to take a look at the fascinating body of work that janos had in star trek in other places the first creature that we will visit with is when we take a look at the mugato from a private little war now the mugatta was actually a white guerrilla costume that ianos had used several times in his career fort houston star trek he borrowed the horn and ridged spine from another one of his suits that he had originally called brutus this would be the only time in star trek that janos would be listed in the credits but what’s this the name gumato was actually used in the later scripts of this episode however deforest kelly could not pronounce the name correctly so they changed it to mugato but unfortunately during the entire filming
both shatner and kelly pronounced the name as mugat2 all the way through the episode now five decades later all the different words and pronunciations were covered by the star trek lord x episode mugato gamato which made the fact that the ape is known under several slightly different names canon no i’m sure a lot of you out there will probably tell me that you already knew that and i’m very happy if you did but i will admit to you i didn’t when i actually did the screenshot of the credits i couldn’t believe what i saw which is the whole purpose of me making this little extra thing here about the name so moving on the creature first appeared in voyage to the bottom of the sea in 1967 then in the very same year it appeared in star trek although it had been modified to include obviously we spoke about it a moment ago the dinosaur styled horns and skeletal fins along the back finally it showed up one last time and here’s lucy in 1969 it was one of
several ape suits that janos owned and it actually had its own production name snow puff now the second creature that we’re going to take a look at has somewhat of a legendary backstory among star trek fans one day janos arrived to see bob justin and jean with a custom designed creature the costume was a large pancake shaped glob of with a thickened raised center and fringe around its circumference that’s the way that bob justin described it jean and bob were completely unprepared for what would happen next bob justin would describe it this way suddenly the blob skidded around the corner making straight for us then it stopped curiously backed away and rotated completely in place the blob gathered itself up quivered made a whimsical up and down movement grunted and skidded away again leaving behind a perfectly round white egg so obviously the star trek episode that
it inspired was the devil in the dark however the creature was never used again in star trek but most importantly at least to me is several years later as a boy of only eight this episode introduced me to star trek and would forever change my life the next creatures we’re going to be taking a look at were two of the alien races that were kept in cages by the telosians to the right of the photo you can see one of publicity shots that janos used to promote the bird costume that he had originally created for outer limits and his self-promotion worked this was his second most popular creature right behind the gorilla suits now as filmed for the cage we would only see it briefly as pike prepares to escape the menagerie the creature moves around a little bit but it never actually turns to face the camera full on also it only actually occupied four seconds of screen time the reason the director robert butler
said that every time he saw the creature to him it just looked like a giant chicken and he felt that that meant that it didn’t fit in the atmosphere of the scenes he was trying to shoot moving on to another one a year before it would be seen in the cage the creature we’re now looking at was introduced in the outer limits as a megazord now interestingly enough when we see this creature for the first time in outer limits it is being kept in a zoo where alien creatures from different worlds are put on display through a reinforced clear window this turns out to be the exact same way it would be handled for the cage now at the same time during the second season of star trek the creature will show up in the first of two episodes of bewitched as a macedonian dodo bird the second appearance of the creature on that show in 1972 would mark the very last time that it would be used but until then it still had a couple other appearances the creature was featured in a 1966 episode of lost in space and
perhaps one of the rarest janos appearances of the creature was in a 1966 tv show called it’s about time a comedy series by sherwood schwartz from gilligan’s island and brady bunch fame the basic plot of the series was about astronauts who find themselves stuck in the past the series came in went in a single season and most people have no memory that ever existed at all which is nothing short of a miracle that i was actually able to find however small at least some part of the video clip showing you its use now next up is the empyrean from the outer limits episode second chances it was briefly seen near captain christopher pike in other cages in the star trek pilot unlike the bird creature it would end up with more time on the screen a grand total of about 13 seconds during which we get a really really nice look at this creature and of course the creature initially appeared in the outer limits just before the cage was filmed but noticed that from the nose down on
the face mask it’s completely different than what was used in star trek my thoughts were that they wanted the snout-like nose to make the creatures seem more dangerous on a guttural level now the last few items we’re going to take a look at are claims that have been made that something appeared in outer limits before it appeared in star trek and unfortunately there’s no cut and draw answers we’re going to take a look at each one of them and determine whether the actual rumor is plausible or not for instance imdb indicates that the black mask used by the character dr layton in conscience of the king is the same mask used by a character shown here in the outer limits the legend got started because gerd oswald was the director of both episodes and both episodes feature a character whose entire left side of their face is covered by a black mask to hide their injuries however this kind of coincidence would have required some knowledge of the author of the script in order to be setting up the story properly but more tellingly if you
simply focus on the masks themselves you can see that they have two completely different designs the outer limits one is almost like a skull cap that covers the left side of his head from its perch on top of his head but the trek version is literally just held in place by straps so some people could say they were one in the same items but i think we have more than enough reasonable doubt here to simply let the assertion pass and finally the next two things that are associated between outer limits and star trek are both prosthetic design the same man frederick beauregard phillips who made the pointed ears for spock also made an almost identical set of ears while he was working on the outer limits you can clearly see here that the shape size and the design of the ears are in fact the same here you can take a peek at the makeup process that fred used with leonard nimoy however we have a small conflict here as there’s a well-known story
actually spoken of by bob justin and even fred phillips that there were several failed attempts for fred to make those ears for nimoy so fred reached out to a former colleague of his that still worked at mgm and that colleague made the first set of ears and molds it does however make sense that fred would have sent an example over of how he wanted the ears to look and that would explain the similarities the last connection we’re going to make here is between the telosians shown in the cage and a very similar alien used in the outer limits episodes the telosians were created by wah chang who also did the alien designs and the builds for the outer limits here you can actually see the outer limits version of an alien race with an enlarged head and beside it you can see the final creature design from chad so because everybody who was actually involved in this is now dead and nobody ever really commented it on so we haven’t really been able to dig up a whole lot this one i’m gonna call
hi this is jim from trek world and today we are taking a look at a very special connection between star trek and the outer limits you will be fascinated as we look at five separate instances and we’ll take it quite a bit further than you may expect so join us after the break is we look at five things star trek beamed out of the outer limits please be sure to check out these other popular videos about season one on our series covering star trek in the 1960s and also please be sure to hit that like button below the video so that youtube will recommend this video to other folks who have not yet discovered it a viewer recently told me if you had a gorilla suit in the 1960s you could get work anywhere janos prohaska had not one gorilla suit he had eight each with its own name as you can see in the flyer that he used to leave at every studio office that he could find he began his career in 1959 playing an ape
on the tv series riverboat and he never looked back this video is actually going to serve us on two fronts one yes we will be looking at five things that star trek used that originated in the outer limits but secondly we’re also going to take a look at the fascinating body of work that janos had in star trek in other places the first creature that we will visit with is when we take a look at the mugato from a private little war now the mugatta was actually a white guerrilla costume that ianos had used several times in his career fort houston star trek he borrowed the horn and ridged spine from another one of his suits that he had originally called brutus this would be the only time in star trek that janos would be listed in the credits but what’s this the name gumato was actually used in the later scripts of this episode however deforest kelly could not pronounce the name correctly so they changed it to mugato but unfortunately during the entire filming
both shatner and kelly pronounced the name as mugat2 all the way through the episode now five decades later all the different words and pronunciations were covered by the star trek lord x episode mugato gamato which made the fact that the ape is known under several slightly different names canon no i’m sure a lot of you out there will probably tell me that you already knew that and i’m very happy if you did but i will admit to you i didn’t when i actually did the screenshot of the credits i couldn’t believe what i saw which is the whole purpose of me making this little extra thing here about the name so moving on the creature first appeared in voyage to the bottom of the sea in 1967 then in the very same year it appeared in star trek although it had been modified to include obviously we spoke about it a moment ago the dinosaur styled horns and skeletal fins along the back finally it showed up one last time and here’s lucy in 1969 it was one of
several ape suits that janos owned and it actually had its own production name snow puff now the second creature that we’re going to take a look at has somewhat of a legendary backstory among star trek fans one day janos arrived to see bob justin and jean with a custom designed creature the costume was a large pancake shaped glob of with a thickened raised center and fringe around its circumference that’s the way that bob justin described it jean and bob were completely unprepared for what would happen next bob justin would describe it this way suddenly the blob skidded around the corner making straight for us then it stopped curiously backed away and rotated completely in place the blob gathered itself up quivered made a whimsical up and down movement grunted and skidded away again leaving behind a perfectly round white egg so obviously the star trek episode that
it inspired was the devil in the dark however the creature was never used again in star trek but most importantly at least to me is several years later as a boy of only eight this episode introduced me to star trek and would forever change my life the next creatures we’re going to be taking a look at were two of the alien races that were kept in cages by the telosians to the right of the photo you can see one of publicity shots that janos used to promote the bird costume that he had originally created for outer limits and his self-promotion worked this was his second most popular creature right behind the gorilla suits now as filmed for the cage we would only see it briefly as pike prepares to escape the menagerie the creature moves around a little bit but it never actually turns to face the camera full on also it only actually occupied four seconds of screen time the reason the director robert butler
said that every time he saw the creature to him it just looked like a giant chicken and he felt that that meant that it didn’t fit in the atmosphere of the scenes he was trying to shoot moving on to another one a year before it would be seen in the cage the creature we’re now looking at was introduced in the outer limits as a megazord now interestingly enough when we see this creature for the first time in outer limits it is being kept in a zoo where alien creatures from different worlds are put on display through a reinforced clear window this turns out to be the exact same way it would be handled for the cage now at the same time during the second season of star trek the creature will show up in the first of two episodes of bewitched as a macedonian dodo bird the second appearance of the creature on that show in 1972 would mark the very last time that it would be used but until then it still had a couple other appearances the creature was featured in a 1966 episode of lost in space and
perhaps one of the rarest janos appearances of the creature was in a 1966 tv show called it’s about time a comedy series by sherwood schwartz from gilligan’s island and brady bunch fame the basic plot of the series was about astronauts who find themselves stuck in the past the series came in went in a single season and most people have no memory that ever existed at all which is nothing short of a miracle that i was actually able to find however small at least some part of the video clip showing you its use now next up is the empyrean from the outer limits episode second chances it was briefly seen near captain christopher pike in other cages in the star trek pilot unlike the bird creature it would end up with more time on the screen a grand total of about 13 seconds during which we get a really really nice look at this creature and of course the creature initially appeared in the outer limits just before the cage was filmed but noticed that from the nose down on
the face mask it’s completely different than what was used in star trek my thoughts were that they wanted the snout-like nose to make the creatures seem more dangerous on a guttural level now the last few items we’re going to take a look at are claims that have been made that something appeared in outer limits before it appeared in star trek and unfortunately there’s no cut and draw answers we’re going to take a look at each one of them and determine whether the actual rumor is plausible or not for instance imdb indicates that the black mask used by the character dr layton in conscience of the king is the same mask used by a character shown here in the outer limits the legend got started because gerd oswald was the director of both episodes and both episodes feature a character whose entire left side of their face is covered by a black mask to hide their injuries however this kind of coincidence would have required some knowledge of the author of the script in order to be setting up the story properly but more tellingly if you
simply focus on the masks themselves you can see that they have two completely different designs the outer limits one is almost like a skull cap that covers the left side of his head from its perch on top of his head but the trek version is literally just held in place by straps so some people could say they were one in the same items but i think we have more than enough reasonable doubt here to simply let the assertion pass and finally the next two things that are associated between outer limits and star trek are both prosthetic design the same man frederick beauregard phillips who made the pointed ears for spock also made an almost identical set of ears while he was working on the outer limits you can clearly see here that the shape size and the design of the ears are in fact the same here you can take a peek at the makeup process that fred used with leonard nimoy however we have a small conflict here as there’s a well-known story
actually spoken of by bob justin and even fred phillips that there were several failed attempts for fred to make those ears for nimoy so fred reached out to a former colleague of his that still worked at mgm and that colleague made the first set of ears and molds it does however make sense that fred would have sent an example over of how he wanted the ears to look and that would explain the similarities the last connection we’re going to make here is between the telosians shown in the cage and a very similar alien used in the outer limits episodes the telosians were created by wah chang who also did the alien designs and the builds for the outer limits here you can actually see the outer limits version of an alien race with an enlarged head and beside it you can see the final creature design from chad so because everybody who was actually involved in this is now dead and nobody ever really commented it on so we haven’t really been able to dig up a whole lot this one i’m gonna call
5 Things Star Trek Beamed Straight From The Outer Limits – YouTube
hi this is jim from trek world and today we are taking a look at a very special connection between star trek and the outer limits you will be fascinated as we look at five separate instances and we’ll take it quite a bit further than you may expect so join us after the break is we look at five things star trek beamed out of the outer limits please be sure to check out these other popular videos about season one on our series covering star trek in the 1960s and also please be sure to hit that like button below the video so that youtube will recommend this video to other folks who have not yet discovered it a viewer recently told me if you had a gorilla suit in the 1960s you could get work anywhere janos prohaska had not one gorilla suit he had eight each with its own name as you can see in the flyer that he used to leave at every studio office that he could find he began his career in 1959 playing an ape
on the tv series riverboat and he never looked back this video is actually going to serve us on two fronts one yes we will be looking at five things that star trek used that originated in the outer limits but secondly we’re also going to take a look at the fascinating body of work that janos had in star trek in other places the first creature that we will visit with is when we take a look at the mugato from a private little war now the mugatta was actually a white guerrilla costume that ianos had used several times in his career fort houston star trek he borrowed the horn and ridged spine from another one of his suits that he had originally called brutus this would be the only time in star trek that janos would be listed in the credits but what’s this the name gumato was actually used in the later scripts of this episode however deforest kelly could not pronounce the name correctly so they changed it to mugato but unfortunately during the entire filming
both shatner and kelly pronounced the name as mugat2 all the way through the episode now five decades later all the different words and pronunciations were covered by the star trek lord x episode mugato gamato which made the fact that the ape is known under several slightly different names canon no i’m sure a lot of you out there will probably tell me that you already knew that and i’m very happy if you did but i will admit to you i didn’t when i actually did the screenshot of the credits i couldn’t believe what i saw which is the whole purpose of me making this little extra thing here about the name so moving on the creature first appeared in voyage to the bottom of the sea in 1967 then in the very same year it appeared in star trek although it had been modified to include obviously we spoke about it a moment ago the dinosaur styled horns and skeletal fins along the back finally it showed up one last time and here’s lucy in 1969 it was one of
several ape suits that janos owned and it actually had its own production name snow puff now the second creature that we’re going to take a look at has somewhat of a legendary backstory among star trek fans one day janos arrived to see bob justin and jean with a custom designed creature the costume was a large pancake shaped glob of with a thickened raised center and fringe around its circumference that’s the way that bob justin described it jean and bob were completely unprepared for what would happen next bob justin would describe it this way suddenly the blob skidded around the corner making straight for us then it stopped curiously backed away and rotated completely in place the blob gathered itself up quivered made a whimsical up and down movement grunted and skidded away again leaving behind a perfectly round white egg so obviously the star trek episode that
it inspired was the devil in the dark however the creature was never used again in star trek but most importantly at least to me is several years later as a boy of only eight this episode introduced me to star trek and would forever change my life the next creatures we’re going to be taking a look at were two of the alien races that were kept in cages by the telosians to the right of the photo you can see one of publicity shots that janos used to promote the bird costume that he had originally created for outer limits and his self-promotion worked this was his second most popular creature right behind the gorilla suits now as filmed for the cage we would only see it briefly as pike prepares to escape the menagerie the creature moves around a little bit but it never actually turns to face the camera full on also it only actually occupied four seconds of screen time the reason the director robert butler
said that every time he saw the creature to him it just looked like a giant chicken and he felt that that meant that it didn’t fit in the atmosphere of the scenes he was trying to shoot moving on to another one a year before it would be seen in the cage the creature we’re now looking at was introduced in the outer limits as a megazord now interestingly enough when we see this creature for the first time in outer limits it is being kept in a zoo where alien creatures from different worlds are put on display through a reinforced clear window this turns out to be the exact same way it would be handled for the cage now at the same time during the second season of star trek the creature will show up in the first of two episodes of bewitched as a macedonian dodo bird the second appearance of the creature on that show in 1972 would mark the very last time that it would be used but until then it still had a couple other appearances the creature was featured in a 1966 episode of lost in space and
perhaps one of the rarest janos appearances of the creature was in a 1966 tv show called it’s about time a comedy series by sherwood schwartz from gilligan’s island and brady bunch fame the basic plot of the series was about astronauts who find themselves stuck in the past the series came in went in a single season and most people have no memory that ever existed at all which is nothing short of a miracle that i was actually able to find however small at least some part of the video clip showing you its use now next up is the empyrean from the outer limits episode second chances it was briefly seen near captain christopher pike in other cages in the star trek pilot unlike the bird creature it would end up with more time on the screen a grand total of about 13 seconds during which we get a really really nice look at this creature and of course the creature initially appeared in the outer limits just before the cage was filmed but noticed that from the nose down on
the face mask it’s completely different than what was used in star trek my thoughts were that they wanted the snout-like nose to make the creatures seem more dangerous on a guttural level now the last few items we’re going to take a look at are claims that have been made that something appeared in outer limits before it appeared in star trek and unfortunately there’s no cut and draw answers we’re going to take a look at each one of them and determine whether the actual rumor is plausible or not for instance imdb indicates that the black mask used by the character dr layton in conscience of the king is the same mask used by a character shown here in the outer limits the legend got started because gerd oswald was the director of both episodes and both episodes feature a character whose entire left side of their face is covered by a black mask to hide their injuries however this kind of coincidence would have required some knowledge of the author of the script in order to be setting up the story properly but more tellingly if you
simply focus on the masks themselves you can see that they have two completely different designs the outer limits one is almost like a skull cap that covers the left side of his head from its perch on top of his head but the trek version is literally just held in place by straps so some people could say they were one in the same items but i think we have more than enough reasonable doubt here to simply let the assertion pass and finally the next two things that are associated between outer limits and star trek are both prosthetic design the same man frederick beauregard phillips who made the pointed ears for spock also made an almost identical set of ears while he was working on the outer limits you can clearly see here that the shape size and the design of the ears are in fact the same here you can take a peek at the makeup process that fred used with leonard nimoy however we have a small conflict here as there’s a well-known story
actually spoken of by bob justin and even fred phillips that there were several failed attempts for fred to make those ears for nimoy so fred reached out to a former colleague of his that still worked at mgm and that colleague made the first set of ears and molds it does however make sense that fred would have sent an example over of how he wanted the ears to look and that would explain the similarities the last connection we’re going to make here is between the telosians shown in the cage and a very similar alien used in the outer limits episodes the telosians were created by wah chang who also did the alien designs and the builds for the outer limits here you can actually see the outer limits version of an alien race with an enlarged head and beside it you can see the final creature design from chad so because everybody who was actually involved in this is now dead and nobody ever really commented it on so we haven’t really been able to dig up a whole lot this one i’m gonna call