How Gene Roddenberry has to choose between Spock and a woman.

When we started out in �64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship. Now that was innovative, but of course NBC got ahold of it and �You�ve got to get rid of the broad. No one will believe a woman second in control of a big star ship�.

They said, �You�ve got to get rid of the guy with the ears �cos he looks too Satanic�. But the third thing was you�ve got to make it more men than women, because otherwise they�re going to think there�s a lot of hanky panky going on in the star ship.

Gene, realising that he was hitting his head against a wall, and realising what the mentality of the people who were making those decisions was, figured he would do in my case, although he knew it was going to break my heart, figured he would fight and keep the Spock character and marry the woman.

So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that�s how we ended up with our crew.