I happened to have the sound muted when this episode came on tonight, and was reminded of a couple things that don't seem as noticeable when you put some of your attention onto what Kirk and Spock are saying etc.
First, there is a (probably attractive, young) blonde woman at the Engineering (Scotty's) station on the bridge. James Doohan does not appear in the episode. I haven't seen any indication of who it was, but if it was possible to identify the woman who played Isis the cat in human form from the set "extras" log or whatever, maybe this person can be identified too?
Second, when Kirk and the others first beam down, it looks like the colonists managed to have built a lot of barns and stuff, for people who supposedly would have died in rather short order from exposure to Berthold rays. But nobody seems surprised.
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Reply by Nexus71
on December 4, 2019 at 10:56 PM
Those barns and houses are all prefab and if the animals died shortly after they arrived why would they need to build barns anyway?
Reply by Knixon
on December 4, 2019 at 11:12 PM
Like Sulu and Kelowitz found, the barns were designed and built just for storage. Which would indicate that the animals were already dead or dying before the buildings were begun. Prefab or not, that's pretty hard to swallow that the people would still be alive and well enough to plan and build and complete all the barns etc, before themselves dying. And why would they have PREFAB building stuff for buildings NOT housing animals, if they didn't know about Berthold rays yet?
Reply by Nexus71
on December 4, 2019 at 11:14 PM
Well it depends on how many colonist were send down and how many have died by Berthold rays.
Reply by Knixon
on December 4, 2019 at 11:34 PM
From what Spock said, the colonists would have begun dying after about a week. And it's not that I'm talking about that they did survive, etc. My original point was that nobody expressed any surprise about all the completed buildings and fences and all the rest, when they first beamed down, when it was evidently known that the colonists wouldn't have survived much longer than ONE WEEK. We know/find out what really happened, because of the spores. But at the start, I found it odd that Kirk et al didn't seem to think there was anything odd about finding all those buildings etc.
Of course the "real reason" was they were using a set that had been built for something else.
Reply by Nexus71
on December 4, 2019 at 11:36 PM
Well if you already knew the answer why did you ask the question?
Reply by Knixon
on December 5, 2019 at 12:23 AM
But the "real reason" is exactly why there should have been some mention of its oddness.
Reply by Nexus71
on December 5, 2019 at 12:26 AM
Like I said many times before don't focus too much on the science and credibility but on the stories
Reply by Rudd-12
on December 5, 2019 at 3:26 AM
The blonde could be Jeannie Malone. Apparently she was a stand in for Grace Lee Whitney but appeared as background characters through all 3 seasons. She can be seen climbing in to the transporter after the “this is mutiny, mister” scene but she is in the back shadows there too.
Reply by wonder2wonder
on December 5, 2019 at 8:40 AM
There are pictures of her at Memory-Alpha.
Reply by Rudd-12
on December 5, 2019 at 12:15 PM
yeah, there is just not a very clear shot of her face in this episode and she was made up heavily and with very different hairstyles throughout episodes.
Reply by Nexus71
on December 5, 2019 at 9:35 PM
That is usually the case with these background extras.I am surprised that you actually was able to find out who she was.
Reply by wonder2wonder
on December 13, 2019 at 1:09 PM
It's incredible that she was an extra (uncredited) in 37 episodes and a stand-in in 66 episodes.
Last known appearance was in "Greencastle (2012)".
Is she still around?
Reply by Nexus71
on December 13, 2019 at 1:22 PM
According IMDB she is still around
Reply by wonder2wonder
on December 13, 2019 at 1:30 PM
IMDB doesn't provide any biographical information. The last update is from 2012.
Reply by Nexus71
on December 13, 2019 at 1:34 PM
Well they haven't mentioned she had died on any other outlet so we must assume she is probably still around.