Posted on 03/03/2012 12:28:47 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Rare Star Trek Photos Show Green Orion Slavegirls Like You’ve Never Seen Them
The original Star Trek pilot, "The Cage," included a lot more of the scenes where Vina is turned into a green Orion slavegirl who dances for Captain Pike — but they were cut because they were too saucy for prime time television. Now, some rare Trek behind-the-scenes pictures include a brand new look at the unshown parts of Vina's dance sequence.
Including a part where the poor slavegirl gets whipped. Turns out being an Orion slavegirl isn't all dancing and quoting poetry.
Tom Redlaw, aka Bird of the Galaxy, has collected tons and tons of behind-the-scenes Star Trek images and rare frames from the show. These were sold as 35 mm film cells at conventions and via mail order through Lincoln Enterprises, a company run by Gene Roddenberry and his wife, Majel Barrett. And now, Redlaw has been scanning and restoring these rare images and posting them on his Flickr page.
Talking to What Culture, Redlaw explains:
In the early 1970s the first Star Trek conventions happened in New York. Those, plus the original Lincoln Enterprises catalogs (you received them when you wrote to Gene Rodenberry or NBC executives) were what started me buying these. Recall, there were no VCRs, DVDs, internet. So being able to project these little slides was as close to on demand Trek images as you could get in those days. And, it was a glorious exercise trying to find your favorites. By 1975 I think I had around 2000 of these things, I guess that was the collection and really what I stopped at for 30 years. Then, one day I bought a slide and negative scanner to restore some of my own 35mm photography and just to test it out I put a scratched and red faded film clip of the Doomsday Machine into it, and I was astounded at the result. A little bit of photoshop work later and I was hooked.
Below are some of our favorite images from Redlaw's collection — dozens more are available on his Flickr page.
An unused shot from the various sensuous dance moves executed by Susan Oliver as Vina for the illusion sequence from the original filming of the first pilot, The Cage.
A clapper from the filming of the first piloit setting up Vina's dance. Susan Oliver's expression, nails, and one of the band members make this an interesting and historical shot from one of the iconic early TOS moments. From The Cage.
An unshown part of the Orion slave dance illusion from The Cage pilot. This pose and sequence was neither shown in the pilot reel nor the subsequent portions shown in The Menagerie. They involved a series of sensual, almost animal like crouching moves emphasizing the wilder side of the character. Note the long nails! Some have drawn parallels between the dance sequence and the movements of a cat (indeed in the original Rodenberry scrip Vina snarls at the servants and has to be controlled by a whip). Here we have Susan Oliver in green, this is how it all started! Filmed in December 1964.
In the Orion slave dance illusion, the script calls for an introduction that shows servants attending Pike, Vina as the slave dancer coming out and acting cat like and snarling at them to chase them away, Pike's personal servant brandishing a whip to settle her down and focus on her dance, and ultimately her doing the dance we see in the pilot. This shot shows the unshown servant whip in hand, attempting to keep Vina in check. Other unused and unshown clips from this sequence are the servants attending Pike before Vina comes out:
A servant feeds Christopher Pike fruit in the Vina as Orion slave dancer illusion from the first pilot, The Cage. This scene and the servants were not shown, even in the pilot reel. Note the multiple eyebrows!
Sean Kenney has makeup applied to his face in order to portray the disfigured and paralyzed Captain Pike for the "wrap" story The Menagerie used in the first season of Star Trek TOS. Could this be the hand of Fred Phillips applying the makeup?
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UGH. Faux Trek.
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The problem with NG was now the character were written,
All the Federation was a bunch of whitebread bloodless socialist weenies....
Funny how the lib writer of NG saw the future ...
so many of NG space races were a repacking of old simple minded cardboard cutout racist stereotypes,
The Ferengis: Space Jews/Capitalist as writer by a NAZI/Commie propagandist,
The Kingons: A lib writer idea of "people of color",
The Kingons were allowed to have blood in there veins and passion but "violent and scarry"
(At least to a Lib, I thought the Kingons were the only ones worth a shit in NG )...
Notice how they would mostly cast black actor as Kingons
But whats his face, the actor that played Crusher The wonder-puss-boy is really ok on Big Bang theory and other stuff ive seen him
What to you mean the condoms aren't free?
Worthy of mention is Star Trek The Animated Series (1973–1974). While the animation was marginal, they used serious plot lines that can be argued are good enough to be considered canon.
According to "Star Trek, Enterprise," the "slave girls" emitted pheromones that "enslaved" the males, and the males actually became the slaves.
Mark
“Yesteryear”, ‘nuff said.
I am old school Star Trek fan, hence my FReeper handle. Live long and prosper.
This is a GREAT thread!
TOS is my favorite, but I also (heresy) enjoyed the last few seasons of DS9. I think that having to compete with B5 made them up their game.
TOS had the best musical score by far, something not usually commented on.
I was in my 20s and married when the original series came on. It was one of my favorite shows. Maybe a year ago, I used a Netflix gift subscription to order dvds of those old shows.
There were some very good episodes, in fact some of them were near great. There were also a few boring ones.
On some of the dvd’s they had comments from the various people involved with the show. I recall one with the prop manager. They had an extremely low budget. He said their favorite place to get props was the Paramount trash bins.
“It’s not easy being green”
Mt older brother used to refer to Counselor Deanna Troi as “The Space Slut” LOL. Funny how what’s old is new again ;-)
Ive never seen an “onion girl”If you watched Lost In Space, you would have seen a "carrot man"
Carrot Man
That's Stanley Adams in the carrot costume. He also played "Cyrano Jones" in the Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles".
Galia in Star Trek '09 was pretty "tame" compared to past slave girls but she was a cadet at Starfleet Academy so that was unusual for an Orion to begin with. The ones in Star Trek Enterprise actually appeared to be more sultry than the ones in TOS:
But the ones that seemed the most "off" to me where the male Orions in Star Trek: The Animated Series. WTH? They didn't even give them green skin. They have the skin tone of Andorians:
IIRC, Orions were supposed to be of at least 3 different subracial groups (green was one, silver was another and I can’t remember the third, red ?). There was a lot of info on that in the books going back to the ‘70s. My big problem with there being an Green Orion Slave girl in “Faux” Trek as a cadet is that Orions were not even members of the Federation (and indeed, Orions were hostile), and she simply shouldn’t have been there. It’d be like a North Korean attending West Point. Of course, that’s what you get when you allow a hardcore Star Wars fan to do a Trek film (and blowing up Vulcan like it was Alderaan).
One more post of another Orion slave girl ... Miss Yvonne Craig as Marta, an Orion slave girl whom was a patient in an underground asylum for the criminally insane in the episode Whom Gods Destroy
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