Interesting minor Enterprise crewmembers

On The Six Million Dollar Man, Paul Carr played a criminal's henchman. Instead of getting killed himself, he accidentally kills his boss, Malachi Throne. This was in "The Bionic Woman, Part 2."

 

He was the Sean Bean of the Sixties and Seventies.

I wonder how many people realize Gene Roddenberry was 6'4" in an era when the average adult man was 5'7".

 

Had there been additional time yesterday I'd have brought up Bill Paxton's considerable deaths rivalling Paul Winfield's.
I believe four Paxton movie characters bought it in 1990 alone.

 

MA says her role was originally written for Uhura (same position). Pity there weren't any personality/personal information lines written (one that made sense in context, not just random infodrops.)

 

Memory Alpha claims there are several, if you do not accept that the same actors may have been portraying multiple red-shirts. I think that we need to just accept that there is some kind of error in dialogue and that Leslie did not die in the episode "Obession."

On that note, it might have been nice to have him in that episode in the place of Rizzo, and just let him live.

In my view, she was the ship's counselor, and Kirk just never replaced her. It sort helps balance with the fact that TNG has a command crew structure with offical ship's counselors, but TOS does not. Of course, on the other hand, outside of Project Pathfinder it is hard to find a communications officer in the TNG-era.

 

Not already, exactly, but something that gave you a sense of who they were/might be.

 

It's a bit embarrassing that Sulu and Uhura were given their first names far later than Chekov, Rand, Chapel and the highest ranking officers were. (Spock has an excuse here, I suppose.)

 

Sulu and Uhura interacted on a personal level with characters who might be close enough to call them by their first names a lot less. Christine and Janice developed close relationships with their bosses, that of boss and assistant, someone to rely on regularly.

 

Sulu and Uhura could certainly have interacted with each other (in non-MIRROR MIRROR ways) and revealed their first names in the process. But they didn't appear to exist until 1982ish, and I believe they were first used in a TREK II ''biographies'' tie-in book. That's why Rand calls Sulu Sulu in MAN TRAP and Chapel calls Uhura Uhura in THE CHANGELING.

 

That makes me wonder if people thought Kirk was going to need a new lawyer before the end of the episode.

 

"Yes?...What century?...10:00?...I'll be there."