It’s fair to say Star Trek legend Leonard Nimoy had an inauspicious start to his career. He was required to say little more than “Yes, sir” while playing a Martian sidekick in the zombie-less Zombies of the Stratosphere. He went uncredited as a sergeant in the nuclear monster movie Them! And then he was miscredited as Leonard Nemoy in his first substantial genre role, a missing professor possessed by a parasitic life force blatantly constructed from pipe cleaners, in the Roger Corman-produced The Brain Eaters.
