The Amazing Kimberly Ryusaki!

[Captain Clark Terrell]

Anyone who's seen TWOK or TSFS has seen this young woman standing on the Enterprise bridge; imagine my surprise, however, when I discovered that she also ended up on the Enterprise-A at the end of TVH (you can see her standing aft of Kirk's chair).

The things one notices about Star Trek, even after so many years of watching it.

--Sran

 

[JRoss]

How do you know it's the same lady? Can you read people like a zoologist reads okapis? Anyway, cool for you to find it. Looks like Greg Cox and Christopher now have a new background character to turn into an Excelsior-era starship captain. Oh, and is Kimberly Ryusaki the actress' name? Is she known for something else?

 

[Franklin]

Kind of an interesting piece of trivia. On Memory Alpha, it says that besides being an Enterprise crewman in TWOK, TSFS, and TVH as Sran mentions, she was also a stand in as a bar alien in TSFS, and one of the tourists in Kirk's group at the Cetacean Institute in TVH.

Link to Memory Alpha piece about her:

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kimberly_L._Ryusaki

 

[T'Girl]

Anyone who's seen TWOK or TSFS has seen this young woman standing on the Enterprise bridge

Nice butt.

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

^She does appear in a number of shots in which only her backside is seen.

--Sran

 

[Indysolo]

Star Trek background extras are the best!

Neil

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

^My favorite is the police officer who stares at Chekov while he's asking about the location of the naval base.

--Sran

 

[FormerLurker]

The best part about him is that he was a real San Francisco cop who got too close to production.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

I knew exactly who you were referring to before even clicking on any of the links. She has a PHENOMENAL ass and is very cute too boot. I think the best view is in Kirk's personal log at the beginning of The Search For Spock

 

[SicOne]

That is a nice ass.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Guys, discuss the actress a bit more rather than her physical attributes. This is not acceptable.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Guys, discuss the actress a bit more rather than her physical attributes. This is not acceptable.

I do have to agree with Peach Wookiee here...

However, if I'm allowed: Based on Miss Ryusaki's last name and her phenotype...I'm going to assume she's Eurasian.

*be still beating heart*
*sigh*​

Now, in regards to her work:

On her IMDB page, it was mentioned that she was a 'Bar Alien.' Is she the one who asked McCoy what 'poison' he wanted to order?

I also found it interesting that she -Ryusaki - was a stuntperson on "The Golden Child" with Eddie Murphy. I wonder if she did stunts for Charlotte Lewis?

Furthermore, Ryusaki seems to be similar to Lorine Mendell and Marjean Holden (and 'that guy' in the background during the bar scene in "Star Trek III" - the guy who portrays a Starfleet officer) who were also stuntpeople or background extras either on Trek and other films, and possibly had speaking roles on a Trek episode or two.

(And yes, I do realize I remembered all the names to the female stuntpeople, yet forgot the name to the male stuntperson. However, I do remember he - the male stuntguy - also portrayed a non-speaking Romulan in TNG, possibly in the 'Redemption' two-parter).

 

[FormerLurker]

If one looks at her Memory Alpha page, one will see the makeups she wore in ST. No, I don't believe she had any lines in SFS.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^My favorite is the police officer who stares at Chekov while he's asking about the location of the naval base.

--Sran

The best part about him is that he was a real San Francisco cop who got too close to production.

Really? I always thought that was an urban legend, i.e. that the cop (and everybody else in that scene) was pre-planned to be a part of it...

Besides, film crews would have noticed if the cop wasn't supposed to be there, wouldn't they? The one film I ever saw actually being made (one of the Spider Man ones), they raised these huge screens up all over the place when filming commenced so that passersby couldn't accidentally stumble across the shoot.

 

[Karzak]

Were they blue screens?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ No.

 

[Franklin]

^My favorite is the police officer who stares at Chekov while he's asking about the location of the naval base.

--Sran

The best part about him is that he was a real San Francisco cop who got too close to production.

Really? I always thought that was an urban legend, i.e. that the cop (and everybody else in that scene) was pre-planned to be a part of it...

Besides, film crews would have noticed if the cop wasn't supposed to be there, wouldn't they? The one film I ever saw actually being made (one of the Spider Man ones), they raised these huge screens up all over the place when filming commenced so that passersby couldn't accidentally stumble across the shoot.

The version I've heard is it was more or less a spontaneous moment, but not exactly by accident, either. Nimoy was going for a "Candid Camera" effect in the scene, with him and the camera crew shooting form a van. Extras told to react were mingled in with the unaware public (one of whom ended up in the film when she now famously uttered the "Alameda" line when she did stop to answer Koenig). Because it was so open and public, the policeman was hired to provide security for Nichols and Koenig. Nimoy liked his reaction to what was going on, and used it in the film.

 

[SicOne]

Guys, discuss the actress a bit more rather than her physical attributes. This is not acceptable.

Was I not discussing her "body" of work?

 

[SicOne]

^ I'm sorry, Peach. I was outta line. I fine myself one infraction and suspend myself from the BBS for five minutes to go get some cookies. Stern rebuke assimilated.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

You're forgiven. Just keep it clean and discuss the actress. Please don't turn this into the banned threads.