Vem uppfann Star Trek sideburns och varför?

Det finns en del om detta i "Making of Star Trek", av Stephen E. Whitfield.

Enligt berättelsen ville producenterna (det var i grunden Gene Roddenberry) "futuristiska" frisyrer. Men skådespelarna påpekade att de var tvungna att leva i den verkliga världen, och skulle inte spendera sina dagar som ser ut som freaks från framtiden. Den spetsiga sideburnen var kompromissen.

Det finns ingen registrering av exakt som kom upp med idén. Förmodligen en kombination av Roddenberry och håravdelningen.

An interesting sidebar: I had suggested pointed sideburns as a specifically Vulcan look for Spock. Apparently Vulcans are intergalactic trendsetters, because you'll notice everybody in the Federation now sports those pointed sideburns.

Detta tyder på att spetsiga sideburnar var Nimoys idé, men det kan fortfarande vara i linje med Gustav Mendoza påstående att hans far Richard Mendoza kom på stilen för Spock och Nimoy godkände och föreslog att det bara var för Vulcans. Eller kanske de kom upp med idén tillsammans.

Gustav säger att Richard kom med det för Spock, inte hela besättningen som senare sportade den, så den delen är nu från två källor.

Laurel Goodwin, som spelade Yeoman Colt i ST: TOS "The Cage", sade i en intervju som hon kom fram med spetsiga sideburns för Nimoy - hennes vän och tidigare drama coach:

The thing that took the thorn out of my paw really was Leonard, because I was so pleased for him, and I knew this was going to give him some liquidation, that he could then do what he really wanted to do. And I was very pleased with all of that. And I had come up with the pointed sideburns. And a few other things. But that, very specifically.

[Interviewer] You suggested that?

Oh, yeah. When I was in makeup, Leonard's going, "You know, I’ve got to play this non-feeling alien, and all that." I said, "Honey, trust me. When they get these ears right and they get that right, we get that look just right, you're gonna be the sex symbol of the '60s." He brushed it off because he was a serious actor. So, even though I was crushed not to be on the show, I was delighted for Leonard. And, when the show started, not being sour grapes, I took a look at it. The first moment that William Shatner walks on, I go, "He's got Leonard's pointed sideburns." That did it. I turned it off and never watched it again.