Censorship of the navel
Anyone know when that stopped?
In TOS season 3 I noticed Merryweather's was hidden but in Eden and Cloudminder it's being shown.
I once read some where that the censors didn't permit navels to be seen when Star Trek was one the air, and so in a 1970s pilot film - possibly Genesis II (1973) or Planet Earth (1974) - Gene Roddenberry made up for it with a character who had two exposed navels.
Possibly that rule was enforced in the first season but ended by the third season.
But in the first season "Shore Leave" the two chorus girls have uncovered navels. But their navels are not quite exposed since it looks like they are wearing little beads in them.
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&biw=1920&bih=937&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=r0TrXJ2dLse5ggfSqa6QAw&q=star+trek+shore+leave+&oq=star+trek+shore+leave+&gs_l=img.12..35i39j0l2j0i30j0i8i30j0i24l5.2867.2867..7092...0.0..0.80.80.1......0....1..gws-wiz-img.YF4ZkIpxCZI#imgrc=_
Thus I have to wonder if there ever was censorship of the navel in Star Trek.