It must also be famous that Roddenberry had an equally prolific TV profession previous to “Star Trek” as Kelley. Most notably, he wrote 24 episodes of “Have Gun — Will Journey.” He, like Kelley, took the roles in entrance of him and aspired to bigger initiatives. He and Kelley labored collectively for the primary time on “333 Montgomery Avenue” in 1960, after which once more in a pilot for one more unsold TV sequence referred to as “Police Story.” In “Police Story,” Kelley performed the lab technician character for the LAPD. The sequence additionally starred future “Star Trek” actors Grace Lee Whitney and Malachi Throne.
In 1986, Kelley recalled his early Roddenberry gigs and credited their failure for the eventual rise of “Star Trek.” Kelley stated:
“I had, in 1960, executed a pilot [‘333 Montgomery Street’] for Gene Roddenberry, wherein I portrayed a felony lawyer from San Francisco, who was a grasp lawyer. It was a wonderful sequence, however like loads of issues that Gene does, it was a bit far out and the community didn’t settle for it. In order that was my first expertise with Roddenberry. I did one other pilot for him referred to as ‘Police Story.’ For the good thing about these of you who do not know, Gene was a cop for about eight years. He wrote a beautiful pilot that we made. Once more, it did not promote.”
For the time, Roddenberry was fairly progressive, and it is seemingly the studios had been just a little skittish about making exhibits that overtly lambasted the dying penalty. Kelley identified that, maybe paradoxically, he wasn’t in both of the “Star Trek” pilot episodes, neither “The Cage,” nor “The place No Man Has Gone Earlier than.” Within the former, the Enterprise’s physician was performed by John Hoyt. Within the latter, Paul Repair.
