Trivia / Star Trek S1 E3 "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

• Creator's Favorite Episode: Gene Roddenberry named this as one of his ten favourite episodes.
• The Danza: Gary Lockwood as Gary Mitchell.
• Enforced Method Acting: Gary Mitchell's Glowing Eyes of Doom were achieved by Gary Lockwood wearing silver contact lenses. Very primitives ones, with very small holes that he could only see through by raising his head and looking down his nose at everyone else, making his A God Am I act more believable.
• Out of Order: A number of peculiarities in the uniforms, characterization, lack of characters and general tone of the episode is because it was the second pilot episode but the third to air.
• Production Posse: Gary Lockwood had previously played the lead character, Lt. William Rice, on Gene Roddenberry's previous series, The Lieutenant. (Several of the regulars had also appeared in minor roles in the earlier series as well.)
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: During production, Gary Lockwood found the silver contact lenses painful and difficult to see through. Gary Mitchell's imperious stare is a result of Lockwood having to look down his nose through the pinholes in the lenses.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The cut of the episode originally shown to the network ditched the show's signature theme tune in favor of a shorter, more ominous theme. The network preferred the original theme that had been used on "The Cage", and had it brought back for the actual series.
  • Just as had been the case for "The Cage", Gene Roddenberry had wanted to cast DeForest Kelley as the ship's doctor, but he was once again overruled by the director. Roddenberry thought Paul Fix didn't work out well in the role, and decided that if the show became a weekly series, he would cast Kelley as the ship's doctor. And the rest is history.

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