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George E. Allen (15 January 193625 May 2015; age 79) was a one-time actor who appeared in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "The Devil in the Dark". He was credited as "Engineer #1", and filmed his part on the second day of production, Tuesday, 17 January 1967, and appeared between Scenes #51-65, #67-69 (Level 23 and Checkpoint Tiger scenes). [1]

While there were no additional speaking roles in the episode to correspond with this credit, this fact was reiterated in the Star Trek Concordance and the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 2, p. 540). The Trek Encyclopedia (p. 60), even goes as far as to speculate that Allen played "[t]he engineer in charge of repairs at the reactor plant in the Pergium mines of Janus VI." This however does not correspond with the aforementioned scenes, as the repair engineer appeared in Scene #66, which wasn't filmed that day.

In actuality, Allen played the Guard that accompanied Giotto in Scenes #57-60, where they joined Kirk and Spock in the recovery of the piece of Mother Horta that was phasered off.

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