Quem inventou as costeletas de Star Trek e por quê?

Há uma seção sobre isso em "The Making of Star Trek", de Stephen E. Whitfield.

De acordo com a história, os produtores (que eram basicamente Gene Roddenberry) queriam penteados "futuristas". No entanto, os atores apontaram que eles tinham que viver no mundo real e não passariam seus dias de folga parecendo aberrações do futuro. A costeleta pontuda foi o compromisso.

Não há um registro de exatamente que surgiu com a ideia. Presumivelmente, alguma combinação de Roddenberry e o departamento de cabelos.

Na autobiografia de Leonard Nimoy eu sou Spock , perto do final do capítulo 2, Nimoy afirma que ele teve a ideia de Spock só para ter as costeletas pontudas, mas que depois as deram para todos.

An interesting sidebar: I had suggested pointed sideburns as a specifically Vulcan look for Spock. Apparently Vulcans are intergalactic trendsetters, because you'll notice everybody in the Federation now sports those pointed sideburns.

Gustav diz que Richard inventou isso para Spock, não para toda a equipe que mais tarde a usou, então essa parte é agora de duas fontes.

Laurel Goodwin, que interpretou Yeoman Colt em ST: TOS "The Cage", disse em uma entrevista que ela criou as costeletas apontadas para Nimoy - seu amigo e ex-treinador de drama:

The thing that took the thorn out of my paw really was Leonard, because I was so pleased for him, and I knew this was going to give him some liquidation, that he could then do what he really wanted to do. And I was very pleased with all of that. And I had come up with the pointed sideburns. And a few other things. But that, very specifically.

[Interviewer] You suggested that?

Oh, yeah. When I was in makeup, Leonard's going, "You know, I’ve got to play this non-feeling alien, and all that." I said, "Honey, trust me. When they get these ears right and they get that right, we get that look just right, you're gonna be the sex symbol of the '60s." He brushed it off because he was a serious actor. So, even though I was crushed not to be on the show, I was delighted for Leonard. And, when the show started, not being sour grapes, I took a look at it. The first moment that William Shatner walks on, I go, "He's got Leonard's pointed sideburns." That did it. I turned it off and never watched it again.