If there's a fact to get wrong, the Cush will be there.
Why was Mabel Barret really dropped as Number One?
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If there's a fact to get wrong, the Cush will be there.
I demand a Grapes of Wrath meme of this!
Well, it wasn't the Cage, but it was still from an unreleased pilot..... TNG not only uses Number One and Engage, but the whole concept of Ilia/Decker shadowed with Troi/Riker (telepathic sexual alien, the past relatoinship, the name William...) and Data as Xon, curious about human emotions. TNG was a collection of all unused material from the past, it seems. Lol!
Oops.
This thread needs a catchy theme song....
What's she called at that point, Number Zero?
With a good dose of THE QUESTOR TAPES as well.
Captain
Captain Zero?
That sounds kinda pulpy--CAPTAIN ZERO AND THE SPACE PATROLLLLLLL!
That sounds kinda pulpy--CAPTAIN ZERO AND THE SPACE PATROLLLLLLL!
Ma'am. But only when it's crunch time.
Now I've got an appetite for Crunch Berries....Ma'am. But only when it's crunch time.
That was a Voyager reference. And now I've got the beginnings of a Janeway/Number One fanfic in my head...
I remember the reference...but it gave me the appetite nevertheless. Crunch time, indeed.
Big difference to opening credits cast and semi-regular (perhaps one-episode?) guest.
I seem to recall an anecdote whereby Majel turned up on the set in a blonde wig to convince Roddenberry she was now unrecognizable, and could play a new role - and Gene was, at first, fooled.
Yeah, right.
A "Star Trek Mysteries... Solved!" article in "Best of Trek" suggested that Number One and Christine Chapel were sisters, so some old fanfics used "Hudec" or "Chapel" as her surname, and "Leigh" as a first name.
When I used the character in a fanfic in the 80s, I called my promoted Number One "Admiral Certaine" (I looked up synonyms for "one" in a thesaurus for inspiration). Not long afterwards, I was reading Brad Ferguson's "A Flag Full of Stars" installment of "The Lost Years" saga, and suddenly thought I recognized that a woman he named Timothea Rogers (commentating an event with Robert April) could easily have been Number One. Blow me down if Brad didn't email me and confirm that the character had been tweaked by the Star Trek Office. In his original manuscript (once downloadable from his website), she was indeed Number One!
Peter David has often teased about the identity of Morgan Primus (get it?) and, when the "New Frontier" book characters first went to comics, the artist hid Morgan's face with a hand mirror (WildStorm), and then drew her as Number One (IDW).
Marvel/Paramount Comics gave her surname as Robbins (coincidence; Morgan Primus was later revealed as Robin Lefler's mother in "New Frontier" - EDIT) and, in one scene, Pike starts saying her first name and is interrupted, the balloon text starting as "Eure-".
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Seems unlikely, since Star Trek: Early Voyages debuted before New Frontier. The first issue of EV had a February 1997 cover date (which would mean it was in comics shops in late 1996), and New Frontier debuted in 1997 and didn't debut Lefler's mother until sometime later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Early_Voyages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_New_Frontier
Or maybe her name is actually Number One.
Number Leigh One, daughter of Steven Michael One and Nora Adele One (née Chapel), sister of Ember Andrew One and Kimber Charlotte One, almost identical cousin of Christine Chapel.
This sounds completely believable and not like a made up story at all.
Yeah she was very familiar in looks to Nurse Chapel! Wonder how they explained that if ever? 
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