NBC airs the 22nd episode of the military drama The Lieutenant, created and produced by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and starring Gary Lockwood (2001: a space odyssey) and Robert Vaughn (The Man From UNCLE). Future Star Trek cast members Leonard Nimoy and Majel Barrett guest star; this was Roddenberry’s introduction to Nimoy. 
Lt. Rice is tapped to serve as a liaison between the Marine Corps and a Hollywood studio which has shown interest in a regimental history recently written by Rice, covering a pitched D-Day battle involving the Fifth Regiment. Rice’s history focuses on Lt. Pete Bonney, credited with leading his platoon through a hellish enemy assault, and Rice contacts Bonney with an offer to serve as a technical advisor on the movie. Bonney’s wife gives this news an icy reception, immediately asking Rice not to involve her husband. At the press conference announcing the movie, Rice makes a casual chance remark to a reporter, which shows up in the next day paper out of context as Rice criticizing the Marine Corps for not decorating Bonney for his heroics upon his return. Bonney enjoys the attention, however, regaling his newfound following with old war stories⁄stories which, as it turns out, are no more real than the exaggerated heroics being planned for the movie.
written by Blanche Hanalis
directed by Marc Daniels
music by Jeff AlexanderCast: Gary Lockwood (Lt. William Rice), Robert Vaughn (Capt. Raymond Rambridge), Majel Barrett (Ruth Donaldson), Leslie Barringer (2nd Boy), Martine Bartlett (Stella Bonney), George Cisar (Walters), Russ Conway (Col. Curtis Morley), Tom Curtis (Reporter), Bob Alabama Davis (Sgt. Arons), Andrew Duggan (Peter Winslow Bonney), Chris Hughes (1st Boy), Michael Macready (Lt. Kenneth Grady), Dorothy Morris (Mrs. Gates), Leonard Nimoy (Gregg Sanders), Don Penny (Lt. Stan Harris), George Petrie (Photographer), Justin Smith (Mr. Gates), Albert Trescony (3rd Boy)
Notes: Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett (1932-2008) had known each other for at least two years prior to the filming of this episode of The Lieutenant in late 1963; she would, of course, go on to co-star in the pilot episode of Star Trek as Number One, and was then recast as the recurring character of Nurse Chapel when the series was revamped and picked up. She and Roddenberry were married in 1969, and remained married until his death in 1991. Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015) had been acting professionally since the early 1950s, having already starred in Zombies Of The Stratosphere (1952), Them! (1954) and The Brain Eaters (1958), with TV guest appearances on The Twilight Zone, Wagon Train, Rawhide, and Sea Hunt already on his resumé, and he too would join the Star Trek pilot cast as an alien named Mr. Spock – virtually the only character to survive nearly unchanged from The Cage to Where No Man Has Gone Before. In an interview at EmmyTVlegends.org, Leonard Nimoy described his audition for this episode as the most important audition he ever went on.
LogBook entry by Earl Green