Top Foids of Starshit #3: Lt. Carolyn Palamas from 'Who Mourns for Adonias' played by Leslie Parrish

In this episode, the Enterprise finds the God Apollo (or at least an alien who claims to be him) living on a random planet in the middle of nowhere. Kind of like finding a member of Pink Floyd living random social housing in North London...

Anyway he spies out Lt. Palamas (xenobiology apparently) and flexes on Kirk and the others. Scotty takes exception to this as he has taken a shine to Lt. Palamas to the level of harassment. This isn't just me putting a 21st century spin on things- in the episode 'Wolf in the Fold' McCoy- Scotty's drinking buddy mind you- has some interesting things to say about Scotty...

Apollo flexes for the ladies:

Apollo takes Palamas off and makes sure she can't wear a bra. This totally wins her over and she returns to tell the boys that they should all accept beta status but Kirk is no beta.

Here Kirk shows us how to deal with foids. One of Shatner's finer speeches IMO:

Palamas does the frick what she's told to do and then the other alpha in the room, Spock, drives the car straight across the lawn and through Apollo's garage:

It's worth mentioning that the actor who plays Apollo is Michael Forrest. He's 95 and still working as a voice actor. He apparently went to the same gym in LA as Ricardo Montalban.

Leslie Parish was supposedly 33 when she played Palamas in 1967 but her first gig was as a 'Miss Color TV' in 1951 aged 19...

_{This is not her but the picture shows what Miss Color TV did- show people how to adjust the color on their TV. She was chosen for her 'natural skin tones'. Mayos gonna mayo.}

...which would make her 35 when she was in Star Trek. She is described on IMDB as an 'environmentalist and political activist'. Oh yeah, she was one of those ones. Never-the-less she was very attractive and was in a whole bunch of other stuff including Mission Impossible (shot across the road from Star Trek) the original Manchurian Candidate and also she was Mr Freeze's sidekick in Batman when Freeze was played by Eli Walach ('the ugly' from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly):

This one's from Mannix but she seems to be wearing the exact same dress as she wore in Star Trek:

An inexplicable production still where a stunt performer appears to be soiling himself:

She is, as of this post, still around today.