What is your tangential relationship to Star Trek?

[JWPlatt]

Everyone has a connection within six degrees of separation, right? So the real challenge is to find it.

 

[Kor]

When I was in elementary school, we were assigned pen pals. Mine was some college kid who had sent in a script to TNG under the open submission policy of the time. I don't remember his name, and I doubt the script was ever filmed.

Kor

 

[jamestyler]

I probably do have some connection somewhere. Simon Pegg's the most likely direct connection as his wife works (or used to work) in an industry I've got a lot of friends/contacts in.

Other than that, the only connection would be Doug Drexler who's an honorary member (willingly, we didn't just glue his name on a plaque ) of a club I'm part of or the six degree's of separation thing with various performers/actors I've been on projects with, which is kind of cheating.

....this is going to annoy me now as I've never thought of it....

 

[The Old Mixer]

When I was in elementary school, we were assigned pen pals. Mine was some college kid who had sent in a script to TNG under the open submission policy of the time. I don't remember his name, and I doubt the script was ever filmed.

Well now that you mention it...if Trek BBS associations count, we have a regular poster who wrote/co-wrote a couple of scripts that were filmed for TNG. And Rick Sternbach still pops in from time to time.

 

[DimesDan]

Some one I went to college with went on to study at Huddersfield University while Patrick Stewart was its Chancellor. Other than that, I'm not sure.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

There are at least two Trek actors - Jay Karnes and John Durbin - who are from the same city I'm from (Omaha, NE). Does that count?

 

[TheUsualSuspect]

My wife and I have a friend whose family is friends with the James Doohan family. Our friend refers to him as "Uncle Jim."

My daughter has a friend who dated Anthony Yelchin when she was in high school.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I was friends with Jim Van Over, who worked in the Trek Art Department.

 

[Mojochi]

The audio drama I perform in just had a 50th anniversary episode, with Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig & Robin Curtis reprising their respective roles. I got to meet Robin. She lives near me She's delightful http://starshipexcelsior.com/

 

[22 Stars]

I worked for Paramount for 10 years here in NY, visiting the sets in LA and screening all the films prior to release from '97-'07.

 

[Daddy Todd]

My aunt worked as a script supervisor in Hollywood in the 50's, 60's and 70's. By the late 60's saw was working on sitcoms (Courtship of Eddie's Father, Partridge Family) and in the 70's it was Disney movies of the week. I don't know any specific Trek connections, but she undoubtedly crossed paths with Trek alumni.

The only specific stories I remember are that Danny Bonaduce was a holy terror, and Larry Wilcox (pre-CHiPS) was a perfect gentleman.

 

[Daddy Todd]

Oh, I almost forgot one other connection. I have a friend, in his early 70's, who claims to have had an occasional sexual liaison with Jeff Hunter back in the 60's. There's no way to confirm, of course, but he's told the same story in the same way for over twenty years, so I'm not completely sceptical.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

My friend dated a woman who auditioned to be Kes: small, blond pixie, just like the character description.

The keyboard player for the band I was in has been a film editor since the mid-90s. I would be surprised if he had no connections to Trek.

Finally, I attended the same private school that Ira Steven Behr sent his kids, and I ended up getting my doctorate at Brandeis, where Behr dropped out.

 

[Cyke101]

I shook Paul Fucking McCartney's hand 20 years ago, but I still wash the thing!

Those bacteria are the only thing tethering me to a tangential relationship to Levar! They make me thread-relevant!

 

[Greg Cox]

Nothing personal, but I discovered a fun bit of trivia last night regarding Dean Devlin, the producer of THE LIBRARIANS, INDEPENDENCE DAY, etc.

Seems his mother guest-starred on TOS, as the doomed psychic medium in "Wolf in the Fold."

It's a small world!

 

[Nerys Myk]

But you wouldn't want to have to clean it.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Let's see... I've interviewed Mike W. Barr, Marv Wolfman, Tony Isabella and Bob Greenberger, who were all writers or editors for Star Trek comics, mostly for DC Comics back in the 1980s. Never about their work on Star Trek, oddly enough.

 

[The Old Mixer]

^If tie-in authors count, then so do our resident Trek lit authors.

 

[Nebusj]

Oh! I had forgotten until describing this thread to my love (who likes hearing what's raging on TrekBBS), but I do have an extraordinarily tangential relationship.

Back in 1995 I was at a pizza party with Rob Smigel, the guy who wrote Saturday Night Live's ``Get A Life!'' sketch. Also present: Don ``Father Guido Sarducci'' Novello and two women who'd gone to nursing school with my best friend from elementary school.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Rob Smigel, the guy who wrote Saturday Night Live's ``Get A Life!'' sketch.

And was also one of the Superfans, amirite?