Farewell to Ralph Senensky
- Lukas Kendall
- Nov 5
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 6
The last of the living Star Trek: The Original Series directors, 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!)
Your very first sentence, "The last of the living . . . " makes no sense at all due to left out words, bad cut/paste, or just plain bad form and bad wording. Last of the living what? Last of the living to have done what? "Last of the living" would literally mean Mr. Senesky was the last person alive--which he clearly was not, since there are some few cast remaining from TOS. So what the hell were you trying to say? That Mr. Senesky was, until recently, one of the few remaining directors who worked on TOS? That would make some sense.