re: Yay! Another Star Trek!
Actually I thought most of the original ST cast spent most
of their careers trying to get past the series, which most
of them were unable to do, unlike some of the others in the
later series. Same with a lot of other actors in popular TV
series in the 1960s.
Leonard Nimoy wrote I am not Spock - until the $100K speaking
fees he and Shatner got for every appearance at a ST convention
and then all the other cash that came rolling in from the ST wave
convinced him that maybe being a Vulcan all the time was logical
after all.