Memories

was Roddenbury's blatant attempts to milk every possible scent from Star Trek, even at the expense of our scripts. For example, Roddenbury's Lincoln Enterprises was beginning to sell mail-order Star Trek merchandise. We just began shooting an episode entitled, Is There In Truth No Beauty, which would shortly become a battlefield upon which creativity and naked mercenary

opportunism would duke it out. The story starts when an unexpected script revision arrives in Fred Freiberger's office. It's been sent by Gene Roddenbury, who hasn't personally rewritten anything all season. Freiberger's puzzle by this unsolicited rewrite, and even more puzzled when the script change consists of one additional scene which is both pointless and talky. In it, Captain Kirk speaks the

praises of a medal of honor known as the I dig, which stands for infinite diversity from infinite combinations. And he then bestows this beautiful adornment upon an absolutely thrilled recipient. Now, none of this stuff had anything to do with our episode storyline, and with that in mind, Fryberger was stuck in a no-win situation. Fred continues.

Gene Roddenberry had turned his back on the show, and we really hadn't seen her heard much from them all season, so when we got the script change I just read it and said, what the heck is this? But since it came directly from the executive producer, I was in a tough spot. I ultimately decided not to argue about it and had the change sent down to the set.

I got my script change in the red than you've seen and I called Fred down to the set asking what is this Ithic thing all about. I knew that Lincoln Enterprises was now selling these things and there was no way I was going to muck up a perfectly good story line just so