Star Trek novels frequently explain continuity errors from the shows (especially Christopher's), so I was wondering if there has ever been an explanation for the two biggest continuity errors in all of Star Trek: the resurrection of Leslie after he was exsanguinated in Obsession and the resurrection of Galloway after he was vaporized in The Omega Glory.
Has any novel ever explained the resurrections of Leslie and Galloway?
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Galloway could be easily fixed with an end-credit correction. IIRC, the character is never called Galloway in the episode (and not in the original script), and is even misspelled "Galoway" in the credits. The actor had also played Johnson in a previous episode ("Day of the Dove"), so this appearance in "Turnabout Intruder" is a return by Johnson, not his dead lookalike, Galloway.
As for Leslie in "Obsession", supposedly there was a proposed scene where they realised that the security guards weren't dead after all? (Or maybe only Leslie made it; it was Shatner who insisted later appearances were Leslie, IIRC, as the character was named for his daughter - as was Mr Lemli, named for Shatner's music company, using parts of Leslie, Melanie and Lisbeth's first names.)
Or... the novels' naming inconsistencies suggest twins: Ryan & Edward Leslie. Ryan was the (sur)name of the actor's other character in "The Naked Time", so Ryan Leslie was thus the one who died in "Obsession" and Edward Leslie survived to the end.
As for Leslie in "Obsession", supposedly there was a proposed scene where they realised that the security guards weren't dead after all? (Or maybe only Leslie made it; it was Shatner who insisted later appearances were Leslie, IIRC, as the character was named for his daughter - as was Mr Lemli, named for Shatner's music company, using parts of Leslie, Melanie and Lisbeth's first names.)
Or... the novels' naming inconsistencies suggest twins: Ryan & Edward Leslie. Ryan was the (sur)name of the actor's other character in "The Naked Time", so Ryan Leslie was thus the one who died in "Obsession" and Edward Leslie survived to the end.
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Yes, I've always assumed that was Johnson in "Turnabout." As for Leslie in "Obsession," I just consider it a mistake.
It's the Enterprise. People come back to life on that ship all the time. Leslie and Galloway aren't main characters, though, so their resurrections just happened off-screen.
They had to spend a month dead for tax purposes.
In a draft of A Choice of Catastrophes, Lieutenant Leslie had a good-sized role, helping McCoy and Chapel in sickbay when most of the medical staff has been incapacitated. This was significantly cut down in later drafts, which meant the loss of a passage about hallucinations Leslie was having:
Actually, Ed Leslie would be the one who died, since Ryan Leslie was the Excelsior's chief of security in The Lost Era: One Constant Star.
Galloway popped up again recently literally a week or two ago in a Legacies: Best Defense-cameo, but obviously prior to his disintegration (about a week after "Obsession"). Although he seemed to be working in the Transporter section, not Security for some reason, when he did his thing.
Given how often people outside the main 7 swapped colors, I'm pretty sure everyone worked every job on the Enterprise.
(Only half a joke, I always liked the justification across the franchise that it was some crew purposefully shifting positions in order to make them more well-rounded at lower ranks.)
Yeah, A Choice of Catastrophes makes specific reference to the fact that Leslie did a stint in sickbay (where McCoy was always accidentally calling him "Connors") but now works in security.Given how often people outside the main 7 swapped colors, I'm pretty sure everyone worked every job on the Enterprise.
(Only half a joke, I always liked the justification across the franchise that it was some crew purposefully shifting positions in order to make them more well-rounded at lower ranks.)
I believe that in Forgotten History I specifically mentioned the contingent of junior officers who cross-trained across various disciplines, including Angela Martine and Mr. Hadley.
I'd forgotten that Connors had been a previous Paskey character when a Connors turned up in that comic/record set. But he plays a mean Edoan elisiar!
Edoan Elisiar instrument by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Honestly, I assumed the actors played different background characters, which is supported by the fact that they're sometimes given different names.
Also, the red shirt that Eddie Paskey played in "Obsession" (TOS) was not Mr. Leslie (The Star Trek Encyclopedia).
Also, the red shirt that Eddie Paskey played in "Obsession" (TOS) was not Mr. Leslie (The Star Trek Encyclopedia).
Well, they say that to explain his return from the dead.
Where does the Encyclopedia say that?
Weird fact: If I recall correctly, Paskey's character from "Obsession" is not given a name period. So, there's nothing connecting him to Leslie except the actor (by which reasoning, Sarek of Vuclan was living a triple life as a Vulcan, Romulan, and Klingon -- and cheated death twice). In other words, it's only a fan theory that the two are the same character, by technicality. And on top of that, just assuming that Paskey was playing a different character is a more rational explanation than trying to explain how he magically came back to life.
The article for the Leslie character. They list his appearances. "Obsession" is not one of them.
That article never claims that those 6 episodes were Leslie's only appearances. In addition to those episodes, Leslie definitely appeared in The Ultimate Computer, Assignment: Earth, And The Children Shall Lead and The Enterprise Incident, since he was called by name.
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