My wife just finished watching the first seaon of the original series, she's behind me in her chair spouting "Pike was first televised, didn't test well. Shatner tested well so they went with him. The actor who played Spock's father was originally up for the part of Spock. They had to do more extensive makeup to make him look older than Nemoy. Spock also smiled when he thought he had killed Kirk, and didn't - when he was sufferring the Pung-Far (sp?)."

"Pike's episode was not the first TELEVISED - he just went to testing (side note: Majel Barret was the first XO but executives couldn't deal with a woman in a power position), though he was filmed first. Only used in later episodes as references - 16th episode called "The Menagerie"."

Apparently, "The first reference to Kirk's middle name is James R. Kirk, not T. It was on a tombstone in one of the episodes - they never said what it was, but later everyone claimed his name to be James Tiberious Kirk - T."

Other little trivia - the DP Jerry Finnerman, had one standing rule for closeups of women - never have the camera low enough to look up their nose. More often than not he used a soft filter for closeups because he believed all women should be glamourized.

She argues that if you wanted to get technical, as mentioned above, Scott Bakula's character was the first Cap't of the Enterprise, but not originally intended by Rodenberry.

My own little Trekkie - I'm so proud!

Yeah, I've heard the Bilbo Baggins song as well - disturbing but hilarious!

I've also heard that many of the panels were painted cardboard so they could quickly change them out for different schematics.
-Lew ;-)