Farewell to Ralph Senensky

The last of the living Star Trek: The Original Series, Ralph Senensky, has died at 102. Obituary here from Trekmovie. And here’s the one from Hollywood Reporter.

He was a consistently excellent director in televison for a long time. He also stayed active until the very end, and his own website is full of memories from throughout his storied career, including of his Trek episodes.

He was fired halfway through “The Tholian Web” because the new spacesuits slowed down production, and Paramount was being dirt cheap. (BTW if you want to read something freaky, check out the death story behind the director who replaced him, Herb Wallerstein. Yikes!)