Eddie Paskey

Template:Realworld Edward J. Paskey (born 20 August 1939; age 84), better known as Eddie Paskey, is an actor best known for his many appearances as the background character Lieutenant Leslie during Star Trek: The Original Series.

In addition to appearing in 57 of the first 62 episodes – with 56 appearances as Lieutenant Leslie – Paskey was William Shatner's stand-in. He retired during TOS's third season due to recurring headaches, caused by the strong lights on the set, from an old injury. Template:Brokenlink He appeared in more episodes than either George Takei (Sulu) or Walter Koenig (Chekov) .

In the episode "The City on the Edge of Forever", he drove the truck that would hit Edith Keeler. In "Patterns of Force", although Leslie does not appear, Paskey appears as two different Nazis, the first driving a car, the second wearing a mustache and working for the Ekosian underground. He was the hand-double of James Doohan in "Wolf in the Fold" and "That Which Survives". Doohan was self-conscious about the fact that he was missing the middle finger of his right hand (due to a D-Day combat injury while serving with the Royal Canadian Artillery), so Paskey's hands were used in close-ups.

His other television credits include appearances on Ben Casey (1965) (with Marsha Hunt and Harry Landers), The Dick Van Dyke Show (1966), The Lucy Show, and Mission: Impossible (1966, with George Takei, Barry Russo, Vic Tayback, William Smithers, Michael Barrier, Jack Donner, Makee K. Blaisdell, Chuck Courtney, Bob Johnson, and Don Marshall).

Beside his acting career Paskey worked many years in the automotive industry. He started at his fathers shop at the age of twelve and opened his own, "The Air Shop", in 1981 together with his wife Judy. All four of the couple's children started working in the shop the following years. The shop is located in Santa Ana, California. Template:Brokenlink

In July 1988, Paskey was interviewed for an article in the science fiction magazine Starlog. In it, he admitted that he considered auditioning for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but later reconsidered. He said, he was a fan of the films, but not the spin-off series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, on which he "went to sleep".

In January 2004, Paskey appeared in the pilot episode of the fan-produced internet series Star Trek: New Voyages, "Come What May." This time he portrayed Admiral Leslie, the father of Lieutenant Leslie and appeared alongside Trek actors James Cawley, Jeffery Quinn, Larry Nemecek, and TOS co-star John Winston.

Star Trek appearances

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Lieutenant Leslie
Star Trek: The Original Series
Recurring character

Connors
TOS: "Mudd's Women"

Starbase 11 medical care assistant
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I"

Photo double for William Shatner
TOS: "The Devil in the Dark"

Stunt truck driver
TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever"

Ekosian resistance member
TOS: "Patterns of Force"

Appearances as Leslie

• TOS
  • "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (TOS Season 1)
  • "The Corbomite Maneuver"
  • "The Enemy Within"
  • "The Man Trap"
  • "The Naked Time"
  • "Charlie X"
  • "Balance of Terror"
  • "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
  • "Dagger of the Mind"
  • "Miri"
  • "The Conscience of the King"
  • "The Galileo Seven"
  • "The Menagerie, Part I"
  • "The Menagerie, Part II"
  • "Shore Leave"
  • "The Squire of Gothos"
  • "Arena"
  • "The Alternative Factor"
  • "Tomorrow is Yesterday"
  • "The Return of the Archons"
  • "Space Seed"
  • "This Side of Paradise"
  • "The Devil in the Dark"
  • "Errand of Mercy"
  • "The City on the Edge of Forever"
  • "Operation -- Annihilate!"
  • "Catspaw" (TOS Season 2)
  • "Metamorphosis"
  • "Friday's Child"
  • "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
  • "Amok Time"
  • "The Doomsday Machine"
  • "Wolf in the Fold"
  • "The Changeling"
  • "The Apple"
  • "Mirror, Mirror"
  • "The Deadly Years"
  • "The Trouble with Tribbles"
  • "Bread and Circuses"
  • "Journey to Babel"
  • "A Private Little War"
  • "The Gamesters of Triskelion"
  • "Obsession"
  • "The Immunity Syndrome"
  • "A Piece of the Action"
  • "By Any Other Name"
  • "Return to Tomorrow"
  • "Patterns of Force"
  • "The Ultimate Computer"
  • "The Omega Glory"
  • "Assignment: Earth"
  • "Spectre of the Gun" (TOS Season 3)
  • "Elaan of Troyius"
  • "The Enterprise Incident"
  • "And the Children Shall Lead"
  • "Spock's Brain"
  • "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
• DS9
  • "Trials and Tribble-ations"

Further reading

• Kathleen M. Gooch, Lieutenant Who?, Starlog, issue 132, p. 93

External links

• EddiePaskey.com - official site
• Eddie Paskey at Wikipedia
• Template:IMDb-link
• Lt. Leslie archive - documents every appearance by Lt. Leslie