 Filming of " Space Seed " began December 15 , 1966 , and concluded on December 22 after six days of shooting . Roddenberry , Coon and Wilber 's rewrites resulted in a shooting script of nearly 60 pages and 120 scenes . Marc Daniels was hired to direct the episode ; he had previously worked on The Lieutenant . The first day 's filming coincided with the airing of the episode " Balance of Terror " , and Daniels allowed the cast and crew to go home early to watch it . The other five days ran to schedule , to the extent that there was an early finish on the final day of filming , allowing cast and crew time to return home to watch a repeat of the episode " What Are Little Girls Made Of ? " which had replaced " Arena " on that evening 's schedule . A scene filmed but later cut from the episode depicted a discussion between McGivers and Angela Martine ( Barbara <unk> ) , intended to show that McGivers was looking for a forceful man . Further scenes were trimmed after filming following input from NBC . For example , scenes shot on the Botany Bay were cut as executives felt the costumes worn by the newly awakened crew were too revealing . 
