I think the drinking music in "By Any Other Name" is new to the episode, and is not a version of the Finnegan music in "Shore Leave" (despite both being in 6/8 time). Nor does it derive from "Tribbles." Nor do I think any other episode reused it thereafter. I love it.

Diana Muldaur
Writing in 1970, Harlan Ellison (in the collection of TV columns The Other Glass Teat) says of Muldaur's role in the Dennis Weaver series McCloud that she "acts as memorably as she looks." She was indeed classy, and still is as far as I know.

Jerry Fielding did also write the music for "Spectre of the Gun," and an interesting and vivid score it is. Dig, for example, the bitonality in the solo honky-tonk piano that's heard when Kirk and company "enter" the "saloon."

Barefoot Jim wrote above, "But no doubt the goofiness factor did start to kick in during Season 2." However, season 2 included overt comedies such as "Tribbles," "A Piece of the Action," and "I, Mudd," plus Scotty's scenes in "By Any Other Name"; perhaps whatever goofiness began to creep into the non-comedy episodes…

The theme for Ruth in Shore Leave is indeed the same as for Jill Ireland's character in This Side of Paradise.

Incorporate animated film nominations
This move would make more sense to me if the Academy were to end the Best Animated Film category and simply include the best animated films among the 10 nominees for Best Picture.

Toby was great…
because Richard Schiff is great. I first encountered him a year earlier in the short-lived series Relativity as Barry Roth, the father of the male lead (and did any series ever have a supporting cast that so outshone the two putative leads as that one did? - including Lisa Edelstein as Richard Schiff's…

Died too young? Windom is still alive and in his mid-80s.

Try the 2005 Carnegie Hall version
A few years ago, PBS broadcast a staged reading of the show (with a full cast of costumed actor/singers holding scripts), including all the songs and incidental music with the original stage orchestrations. It was so good that I bought the DVD from Amazon. My family (including…

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The Organians figured prominently in the first-ever Star Trek novel, which I eagerly picked up as a 13-year-old in 1970: Spock Must Die! by James Blish.