Goldie Hawn on Laugh In broke the belly button rule. It was such a huge hit that the censors backed down.

I had the pleasure of meeting Mariette Hartley several times. I worked at a flight school with her soon-to-be ex-husband. She was always as sweet, kind, gracious and classy as you could hope for. Very genuine and down to Earth as well. No Hollywood ego.

The biggest mystery about this episode is - why did she choose to wear such skimpy clothes when she was stranded in an ice age?

All our Yesterdays was one of my favorite episodes :) . How could you not feel sorry for her character! Hartley played it sooo well!! Thanks for this video Dave

And, who can forget McCoy asking Spock, "Are you out of your Vulcan mind?"

Gene really took "To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before" seriously .StarTrek broke alot of rules and taboos! and Don't forget the sheer force of nature that William Shatner is !

How was the censor like a warship? He was a navel destroyer.

2:50 Mariette Hartley has such subtle beauty. Kinda like the fantasy 'girl next door'. I recall seeing her in shows like Columbo, Twilight Zone and Logan's Run. A quick look at IMDB shows that she has been EVERYWHERE, wow.

I find it ironic that in the decade of free love, that belly buttons and husband's and wives sleeping in the same bed were taboo on TV.

Many episodes in Star Trek had these doorways through time/space (TNG too). Hartley was wonderful. The best part was that Spock reverted back to his ancient past before logic drove the Vulcan psyche. Great video!

What gets me, is, the incredibly high amount of commercial ads on tv that would be rejected by the censors and sponsors from 'the golden rage' of tv. an aside, The librarian in the highlighted episode was aptly named- something id not realized for half a century, until seeing it with captioning. Mr AtoZ.

Uhura's muscled belly was badass in "Mirror mirror"

Reminds me of something I heard about one early rock and roll show that got cancelled. What happened was a white girl got on the stage with singer Frankie Lymon of the Four Teenagers and danced with him. We wouldn't think twice about it now, but back then the producers were so incensed they cancelled the show.

Ha Ha! As SOON as you mentioned 'Genisis II' I saw where you were going! GREAT catch Dave!

Star Trek "alien" women could be wearing the most primitive strip of hide, but their hair is perfectly coiffed with hair spray in 60's style.

Dave, I can't believe you showed Genesis II ! One of my all time favourite 70's Sci-Fi tv movies! I have a copy on my computer. I think Alex Cord from it passed away last year. Mariette has always been great ! Thanks Dave!

Star Trek was one of if not the greatest sci fi show ever! 🙆

I can't picture Hartley without picturing James Garner doing a commercial for Polaroid

The fashions were amazing. The designer had orders to cover up what the censors wanted covered but cut out spaces never shown before.

It seems hilarious to me that mini skirts were so small back at the "strict" 60s but got banned at the 90s and after 2000s Star Trek tv shows. I mean, what the heck was that? 😅😂

Gene's vision of a better world was what really grabbed hold of the fans of Star Trek. Today's Picard is a little more dark and thus the fans are not happy. With all the dystopian visions of the future we see today it would seem like they could have left Star Trek alone.

All our Yesterdays was one of my favorites!! Just awesome!

The thing about Spock (and a tribute to Nimoy) is that Spock was always so cool and logical, so when he did become aggressive, it was frightening, especially with his superhuman strength!

Rodenberry was a visionary, so far ahead of his time. Loved every second of it

He dipped Nichelle for the "none kiss", and the camera zoomed in on his eyes and he crossed them. He kept doing retake after retake of the actual kiss that they only had time for one shot of the "none kiss" and he nurfed it. -source Nichelle Nichols

Mariette Hartley also was a belly dancer in the Columbo episode "Try And Catch Me".

Roddenberry stands far above other 60's producer-directors.

Very interesting!!! All of us who were kids watching these shows back then, missed so many of these hidden gems and themes that were too adult for us to truly understand! It makes me want to watch many of these shows again as an adult!!! It is too bad that some of these episodes are so difficult to find!!!

There are no longer any censors, TV is all crap now.

Gene Roddenberry on Star Trek he certainly pushed many boundaries to the limit. The 60's were certainly a time of change especially for Star Trek. The women that were part of the Enterprise wore short dresses because that's what was taking place in the 60's. The TV Series was just keeping up with the times. The interracial kiss between William Shatner and Barbara Nichols no doubt sent shockwaves through out TV Land. That was marking a change of what was to come later. Now in shows and movies you see interracial couples holding hands and kissing. Back in the 60's that sort of thing was unheard of.

He let hot women be hot, and strong men be bad asses. That's how it should be.

William Ware Theiss was a genius. He was the costume man for Star Trek and figured out endless ways for women to look fine and still have their navels covered. It's a shame that some new shows that Roddenberry wanted never got started, like "Assignment: Earth," a show suggested by an episode starring Robert Lansing and Teri Garr, and of course "Genesis II," which the TV movie was a pilot for. Hartley's character Lira-Ah was a "Terranian," a mutant human born with two hearts, which was the reason for the two navels. To which I say: Sure, Gene, sure, whatever you say. Hartley's characters kept messing things up -- trying to steal Spock in "All Our Yesterdays," acting as a double agent for the bad guys in "Genesis II," and even accidentally threatening to nuke the midwestern United States in a hard-to-find TV movie called "Earth II." I guess it's a tribute to how lovely and charming she was that I always forgave her. Thanks, Dave.

Excellent video; nice touch in the end showing personality when you said "go ahead, I'm done here..." Lol the line caused me to have a gentle gafaw!

Mariette Hartley was just so stunningly beautiful in this show. One of the few really good TOS shows!

I fancy myself a bit of an "pop culture historian" too and this is one fact I was not aware of. Roddenberry was indeed a visionary and we've not seen his like on TV since. BTw, Dave I know you are a fan of the 70s Logans Run show, and I wanted to mention that it's running for free on Tubi right now. Thanks!

I remember Genesis II and the double belly button. Thanks for linking that movie and my favorite TV show. I love these tidbits!

Star Trek was my first look at Mariette Hartley💗 Fun trivia: The first Star Trek episode was about a McCoy love interest. The last two were love interests of Spock and Kirk.

I actually laughed out loud at the second bellybutton! That was a classic move.

Well done as always, Dave. I've always enjoyed this episode a lot myself, and Mariette Hartley's character is a big part of that. I believe Genesis II was one of several pilots Gene tried in the 1970's. None picked up, regrettably. Guess it's a job requirement for TV executives to usually be unable to recognize good things when they see it. PS Trying to spot Barbara Eden's belly button has long been a part of being a "Jeannie" fan! Censors could get hung up on the craziest things, couldn't they?

I have been ping pongy between old TV shows lately. I have a ton on DVD. I got around to watching Star Trek and ended up watching all three seasons in order. It was just that great of a show. That Mariette Hartley episode was in season 3. 2nd to last episode. They don't make em like that anymore.

There are two points that I've seen overlooked about Lieutenant Uhura ; her character a number of times showed that Uhura had authority and had to be respected. I'm thinking of the mirror mirror episode. She actually demonstrated that she had authority and was to be respected. The other point is that as a lieutenant she was in charge of communications. The final point is that she's always she is always respected.

There was a scene in the episode Wink of an Eye that totally slipped past the censors. After a passionate moment it cuts to Kirk putting his boots back on, implying he had sex.

Gene Roddenberry drove censors crazy in the late 1960s, censors would have a heart attack if censorship standards remained unchanged and they had to contend with modern day TV producers.

As I have always heard it, the censors didn't want to show belly buttons due to the connection with reproduction. It has been a long time since I saw _'Genesis 2'_ but if I recall correctly, Hartley's character had two as a result of the mutations people had following the world war. The story's hero was with a scientific enclave that survived and was now trying to restore civilization to the planet. I am pretty certain that Roddenberry tried this idea as a series pilot twice, both times with the hero being named Dillon Hunt. A name that he finally succeeded in getting into a series on a third try when he made _'Andromeda'_ .

Roddenberry wrote “words” for the original theme song taking half of music and composer monies for doing nothing. When Alexander Courage was writing the music Next Generation, Roddenberry tried the same stunt. He was cut out and with a better tune, Courage made more money than ever.

In the 1960's I saw Stark Trek break the barrier on racial equality and that was a breakthrough in America that pretended that racism did not exist.

Good one. When I saw the title I figured it would just be a rehash of the Kirk- Uhura kiss, which, while certainly noteworthy, has been done numerous times over the years. The belly button thing though was a good oddity of 60s TV that is good to inform younger viewers of.

I agree that is HILARIOUS that the SENSORS were so damn worried about seeing a BELLY BUTTON. LOL 😯😁👍

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American TV was in the dark ages compared to British TV in the 1960's.

Stuff doesn't get any "gooder" than this! Thanks Dave.

Mariette Hartley was great in "All Our Yesterdays (March 14, 1969)". I totally fell in love with her on the Twilight Zone episode "The Long Morrow" (January 10, 1964). Talk about setting high expectations!

According to David Gerrold, original series costume designer William Ware Theiss worked on the principle of "visual suspense" -- Will she or won't she fall out of her costume. And Gene Roddenberry demanded less "coverage" even THEN! Lord knows what the costuming would be on the current series if he was still with us today....

My favorite is the one with Joan Collins Kirk Spock and McCoy are stuck in i think the 1930s or something the ending always gets me.

Only Gene would find a way to get a female character in such an outfit on a planet in the middle of an Ice Age! Good on him! :)

One of my favorite episodes. Loved how Yesterday's Son novel continued it as well.

Roddenberry got the last laugh. In his 1973 TV movie “Genesis II” starring Alex Cord, he gave Mariette two belly buttons.

It's all about "going where no man has gone before". As an 11-13 year old boy during Star Trek's original run, I remember being quite impressed with more than a few alien females and their costumes. Too bad my family was still a few years away from it's first color TV, though.

You are a good storyteller. Thanks for always putting a smile on my face!

A title for a Marriette Hartley Autobiography, "My Prosthetic Bellybutton" 😆😆

Don't forget the great work Gene Coon contributed to the series. Regarding "All Our Yesterdays", no doubt Mariette Hartley was great in that episode, and gorgeous as ever.

In the annual from my High School, one of my friends had a candid shot where his naval showed. It caused quite a commotion.

Three of my all time favorite shows come from the 60's as well, only mine are BatMan, Star Trek and Gilligan's Island. But i would have to say that Star Trek is probably my most favorite TV series of ALL time. It's optimism and hope IS still a relevant message which is even all too needed in this decade. My favorite episode of Trek is 'City On The Edge of Forever' followed by 'All Our Yesterdays'. Mariette Hartley was indeed a very beautiful lady and she looked great in that outfit. There were occasions where we got to see a bellybutton flash of Barbara Eden and Dawn Wells, but it wasn't common. Tina Louise did everything she could to expose hers and fight the censor, and most of the time she was defeated, but sometimes, she would do it anyway. Thanks for the video, Dave-it's always great to have that shared passion for classic TV and it's people. I hope you're teaching your kids the values of these TV shows and i hope they listen.

While Hartley is very pleasing to look at, when one considers that Star Trek generally made sincere efforts to be scientifically accurate, how logical is it for a woman expecting to remain in solitude in an ice age environment for the rest of her life would dress in such an impractical and provocative bikini?

Roddenberry wasn't involved with the show at the time All Our Yesterdays was made. Fred Freiberger produced that episode. So, the idea that Genesis II was some kind of revenge for AOY falls flat just on the facts. But even if Roddenberry had been involved, it's obviously silly to say that something that the video admits was no big deal in 1973 somehow drove the censors crazy... despite being no big deal. (Who thought that made sense?) The interracial kiss is also an old myth, long debunked. It wasn't the first (or even the second) and it wasn't even a real kiss (just a stage kiss). Roddenberry wasn't involved with that episode either, of course.

As a European, I must laugh a little when I see this. First there is the belly button taboo, and now we laugh about it. Nowadays however there is a female nipple taboo in the USA. How long will it take before we can laugh about that taboo too?

Sir! There be an elephants in the room! While Star Trek took place in the 23rd century, it couldn’t help sometimes being a product of its time. And while the times they were a changin’, it wasn’t everywhere all at once. And here comes the part where I hope I’m wrong. While showing naval was taboo (and I’m as baffled as anyone), I noticed that the two ladies that “slipped by the censors”, weren’t Caucasian. Perhaps a coincidence, or not. Gene did what he could to be (if you’ll pardon the expression) ahead of the curve, not everyone he had to deal with were as progressive. It was what it was. When I first saw the thumbnail for this video, I assumed it regarded some of the ladies outfits. Often, they were very form fitting and didn’t allow for padding in a particular area. But the censors seemed to be ok with that to some degree. Actress Barbara Luna is the only person to dispute the first interracial kiss on television claim, citing that she and Shattner did theirs before he and Nichols in the Mirror Mirror episode, as the “Captains Woman”.Luna never pursued this, but there it is. Would like to give a shout-out to two other Star Trek actresses we lost this month. Laurel Goodwin (Yeoman Colt from the first pilot) , and Sally Kellerman (Dr. Elizabeth Dehner from the second pilot). RIP folks. A new frontier awaits.

Many TV stations in the South refused to air "Plato's Stepchildren" (the episode with the interracial kiss).

Other examples of network nervousness with clothing in tv shows: in the first episodes of "Happy Days", Fonzie wears a wind-breaker, instead of his iconic leather jacket - it was considered too hoodlum or something. And I remember Mary Tyler Moore discussing the concerns over her pants during the Dick Van Dyck series - where to put the zipper - on the side or on the back; which was more "suggestive"?.

Great info - didn’t know that history of the censor ban. One might also suspect that “All Our Yesterdays” was another kind of revenge by Roddenberry and writer Fontana against Harlan Ellison - Ellison having badmouthed them for doing a necessary and masterful rewrite of his original “City on the Edge of Forever” script. Based on what Producer Bob Justman says, “All our Yesterdays” was likely ghost- written by Fontana and not the author of record Jean Lisette Aroeste - while not a direct rewrite “Yesterdays” borrows similar plot and romantic points from “City”.

I think a lot of the public didn’t mind Kirk and uhruhu kissing because she was considered very attractive even by white people standards. And there’s a strange double standard back then wear a black man in a white woman was offensive but a white man and a black woman was somewhat less offensive

Watching all those old movies and TV shows led me to think my parents and grandparents slept in separate twin beds. How our baby boom generation ever came to be is amazing.

there is a sequel novel entitled "Yesterday's Child".....that part of the story was most certainly censored.....lol...

Gene was a great man, and a great writer. If you take a look at other people’s shows that he wrote for (Have Gun, Will Travel comes to mind) you’ll notice that the use of guns was at a bare minimum, if at all! It was the most intellectual that show ever got. And that’s just one example.

yep! Fan of Gene's work as well! Long time trekkie! However his other stuff was wonderful as well! The Questor tapes was an incredible movie! Genesis ii was great and so was the sequel! Too bad neither became a series!

Hated All Our Yesterdays. Something about being trapped in the past all alone, it’s just too horrible for me.

That double-button was definitely Roddenberry's revenge. 😁

By the time he got to "Star Trek", Roddenberry's attitude was "how bad could it be? It's not like I'll piss off the Pentagon and the USMC". He'd had a similar battle with "The Lieutenant" over portraying racial strife in a Marine platoon in an episode of "The Lieutenant". The USMC said "don't you dare air that one"; the NAACP said "don't you dare kowtow to Whitey"; NBC said "can you quit stirring the pot for a change, Gene?" Gene sided with the NAACP; NBC refused to pay for their share of production of that ep and dumped the total bill on MGM; the Marines and the Pentagon said, "If that's how you want to play, we will no longer provide technical support" thus shutting down production permanently.

I just saw the episode with Joan Collins the other day an i noticed when the landing party beemed down to the planet their were 7 people but it looks like the transporter only holds 6.

We need more sensors - and I'm no prude!!

A different type of "navel warfare" on TV. Gotta love the 60's/70's - and Gene's sense of humor!

In the 1970s I sat in a small room with Doohan and Nichols after a Creations convention as she described getting away with "sorry, neither". The censors didn't catch it until the show aired.

Nancy Kovack was simply stunning!

I'm envious. To my knowledge Genesis II never aired in Australia. Love anything with Mariette in it. It's a crying shame that they didn't pan back when Spock picked her up to include a full leg shot. Would have been an awesome.

I'm a 70-year-old Trekkie who just loves all the old TV shows & films. I didn't realize until now that censorship was happening at such high levels.

They need to release a box set of Gene roddenberry's failed TV pilots/movies.. he had at least three or four made for TV movies back in the 1970s

There is no underwear in an ice age.

I beard that there were dozens of scripts that Gene wrote that were rejected by the network and the sensors for being too racy for the time and had to be toned down and that there were some scripts for the original series that never got made. There were also a lot of antics on the set. Shatner once said in an interview that Leonard Jimmy had a lot of fun being un Spock like. There is some footage around of off camera times some shot by other cast and crew on 8mm film though no idea if any of it still exists because it wouldn't have been allowed. Maybe some of those home movies will resurface some day.

_LOL!_ 😄 I remember the two belly buttons of _Genesis II,_ but even in later years I never made the connection. Well done Dave! 😁

Your analysis is *Spot On!* Gene was an iconoclastic s.o.b. with an absolutely wicked sense of humor. He'd push the limits wherever he could. Majel gave up on trying to keep his impulsive personality "in check". (I couldn't keep up with him, either -- he'd put down two Maker's Marks to my 1 Glenlivet ... I hadn't yet discovered The Glenfiddich or Lagavulin). RIP Gene and Majel -- LL&P, Eugene Jr!

M. Hartley was such a dish. She seemed like a lovely person inside and out. Hard to believe she never had a staring role on her own show.

Apparently while filming the "All our Yesterdays" Shatner became interested in Mariete Hartley (She was a very attractive woman in her prime) but turned him down as she didn't date guys shorter than her (She's 5' 10").

Mariette Hartley said of this that she felt it was a little bit too much, she thought it was ridiculous living in arctic conditions and dressing like that as I do every time I see that episode which I love by the way how many wouldn't love to go to a library like that and visit anywhere back in time.

Good job Dave!

1:08 Good for them. Contrast this with "Batman" the series in which the title character would flirt with Catwoman, but only when she was played by Julie Newmar or Lee Meriweather. As soon as Earth Kitt took over, the flirting was gone.

Never a Star Trek fan. It had 79 episodes in the 1960s. Leonard Nimoy proved to be a better director than actor.

Scotty beam me down to Dave’s studio!

While the Kirk/Uhura kiss definitely wasn't the first interracial kiss on American television -- Barbara Luna and Shatner kissed in the previous season, and there were a lot of Asian female/white male kisses on television before then -- it was progressive. Some of those shows that had some interracial kisses before that Kirk/Uhura kiss were: *An episode of _I Spy_ called 'The Tiger' which had a kiss between Robert Culp and France Nuyen. *An episode of _Sea Hunt_ called 'Proof of Guilt' which had a kiss between Nobu McCarthy and Lloyd Bridges. And the list goes on.

You are great!!! People all around the world would have to follow the behavior from Star Trek, a majestic lesson from Gene Roddenberry (a quiet appreciation would be welcomed). Never forget he is looking us from above, literally!

I had the fotonovel of All Our Yesterdays. Star Trek probably pushed the envelope in regards to women’s wardrobe on some episodes. The censors were either very prudish or nuts. The interracial kiss between Kirk and Uhura was first rehearsed before the studio honchos at NBC because the episode Plato’s Stepchildren would be aired on television stations in the South. According to Nichelle Nichols, the kiss was trick photography using angles to give off the illusion of Kirk and Uhura kissing. But I may be wrong because Both William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols have different accounts of the kiss on Plato’s Stepchildren. I have heard a bit of a story on Gene Roddenberry being an L.A. cop patrolling the more mean streets and then he was a flight engineer aboard a passenger jet liner before writing for television. I guess those two experiences helped him in creating Star Trek and other shows and films. Whether it’s true or not, Gene Roddenberry’s career is truly the stuff of legend.