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Who would you have cast as Joanna McCoy?

My choices based on the actresses I'm aware of from that era:
*Angela or Veronica Cartwright
Or if we go older:
*Carolyn Nelson (and I want to say Barbara Anderson next, but Anderson already portrayed the daughter of a character previously).
 
Terok Nor said:
Just how old was Bones supposed to be in TOS anyway? He didn't look like a contemporary of Kirk's to me. I'd put him mid 40's. Kirk looked early 30's. I'd love to have seen McCoy's daughter but not in that episode. It was horrifying. Too bad she didn't show up in one of the movies.
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He was in his 40s? Man, he looks older to me. I thought he was in his 50s.
 
i really like the idea of bobbie gentry as joanna. i like shirley maclaine too, but my favourite is def annie girardot. she lookef perfect for my vision of joanna in 1967.
 
telerites said:
I thought of her too. She was really good in Mod Squad.
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Peggy Lipton would have bee great! She has a perfect, almost timeless beauty.

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Women like Jill Haworth or Shirley Knight (both from classic The Outer Limits episodes) would have been great, too. They had the looks and the acting ability.

PCz911 said:
He was in his 40s? Man, he looks older to me. I thought he was in his 50s.
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Yeah, I always thought he was older, too. Hence why I can see a woman in her 30s as a credible daughter for McCoy.

pepsiRetro said:
^looked (man i wish posts were editable)
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They sure are. But I think you must be a member on this board for a certain time and/or post a certain amount of posts before you get the edit feature.
 
This probably wouldn't/couldn't have been done but what if a mixed-race actress was cast? Then you write the episode as if there is nothing unusual or controversial in this being the case, you don't even bring it up.
 
I always imagined Virna Lisi (one of the most beautiful actresses of the 1960s IMO) as Joanna McCoy, although the Italian accent would have to be explained away (maybe her mother moved to Rome after the divorce).

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Joel_Kirk said:
My choices based on the actresses I'm aware of from that era:
*Angela or Veronica Cartwright
Or if we go older:
*Carolyn Nelson (and I want to say Barbara Anderson next, but Anderson already portrayed the daughter of a character previously).
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Angela would have been 16 when Way To Eden was filmed. so casting her might be problematic.
 
In my mind, during TOS, both McCoy and Scotty are in their mid 40s, Kirk and Spock are mid 30's and Uhura and Sulu are late 20's, real-life and JJTrek notwithstanding.

I also see Phyllis Douglas as Joanna.
 
Push The Button said:
In my mind, during TOS, both McCoy and Scotty are in their mid 40s, Kirk and Spock are mid 30's and Uhura and Sulu are late 20's, real-life and JJTrek notwithstanding.

I also see Phyllis Douglas as Joanna.
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Kirk's age is known because of "The Deadly Years"
COMPUTER: Working. Subject's physical age based on physiological profile, between sixty and seventy two. Aging rapidly.
KIRK: No, I'm thirty four. I'm thirty four years old.
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And it lines up with Kelvin timeline Kirk who was born in 2233.
I think Sulu and Uhura's line up too. They'd be four or five years younger than Kirk, which fits with them graduating in 2258.
 
FWIW, The Making of Star Trek says Kirk "appears to be about thirty-four years old" and that Dr. McCoy is 45 years old. I assume those are supposed to be their ages between seasons 2 and 3, when the book was published.
 
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