Hey, I never noticed that before....
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I'm doing a rewatch of Classic Trek right now, and when I got to WNMHGB, I wondered if any other crew personnel stayed on board like Spock (or actors from The Cage showing up in the background). Yep, sure enough there are. The young guy who offers Pike a report, then stands beside the captains chair as Pike goes to his quarters to talk to Boyce.....that guy is seen sitting at the first station to the left as Kirk, Spock and Mitchell enter the bridge at the beginning of that ep.
Also, I never noticed that the guy that played geologist Fisher in "The Enemy Within" was the same guy that beamed down with Pike and Co. on Talos IV. His hairstyle is different so I never really noticed it until now. I like to think they were the same characters and stayed aboard like Spock. Of course in reality they were just background and bit parts, but it was a nice bit of visual continuity in the early eps, like seeing Cage era uniforms in the background and women wearing trousers.
Also, I never noticed that the guy that played geologist Fisher in "The Enemy Within" was the same guy that beamed down with Pike and Co. on Talos IV. His hairstyle is different so I never really noticed it until now. I like to think they were the same characters and stayed aboard like Spock. Of course in reality they were just background and bit parts, but it was a nice bit of visual continuity in the early eps, like seeing Cage era uniforms in the background and women wearing trousers.
The guy who played Geologist Fisher in "The Enemy Within" wasn't just in "The Cage" landing party. He's also on the bridge and tells Pike, "Geological lab report ready, Captain."
When they set out to cast a geologist in "The Enemy Within," apparently they thought of the actor who'd already been one.
I don't think they called him Fisher in "The Cage," though, did they? It seems unlikely for it to be the same character, as a human would show his age after 13 years much more than Spock did. Maybe "The Enemy Within" guy could be the son of "The Cage" guy?
Let's go with "younger bro."
He’s just called the geologist in all the production material I’ve seen from the pilot.
Johnny, I think a 30 geologist would look about the same as a 45 year old geologist, at least in the 23rd century.
Maybe a good geologist is hard to find.
Yeah, it could easily be the same character. He's not very ambitious, to still be just a technician for over a decade, but that happens in real life. And it fits with a Star Trek trope that came in with the movies: the idea that the same guys would be on the same ship doing the same things, even sitting at the same bridge stations, for fifteen or twenty years. Fisher may be the character who pioneered this whiffy concept. [Edit: Spock did, as well. What was I thinking?]
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The geologist appears to be an officer in “The Cage”. Maybe he was reduced in rank (two steps) for some reason.
Of course, an explanation might be that Star Fleet tradition of being demoted so you could stay on the Enterprise.
I'd say they were two different characters and dammit, I hadn't really noticed but somehow I had if you get me!
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Nice screenshots, folks. I am not the world's most renowned Cage expert so I had missed this as well. But hey, a career sitting at the navigation subsystems station couldn't be all bad, right? You could even star in a "Lower Decks"-type episode - still one of the best things TNG ever came up with!
Not everyone is cut out to be a captain.
A scientific specialist that's mostly concerned with research about new alien planets could do a lot worse than being assigned to a starship that routinely visits strange new worlds. Well, until the captain's transporter clone beats you for trying to stop him from doing bad things.
And I'm going to assume that his bridge uniform and his work clothes are different.
A scientific specialist that's mostly concerned with research about new alien planets could do a lot worse than being assigned to a starship that routinely visits strange new worlds. Well, until the captain's transporter clone beats you for trying to stop him from doing bad things.
And I'm going to assume that his bridge uniform and his work clothes are different.
Good steady work. They'll always need somebody to do it. On the other hand, it doesn't have to be you.
Zactly. Not sure why I am insisting on talking about TNG eps here, but that is the only thing that ever bugged me about the otherwise magnificent "Tapestry" - Q turning Picard into a junior grade science lieutenant was played as though those people have pitiable existences and just rubbed the wrong way.
Nope! I'm at the hypercool engineering station all day long.
His hair was more of a fifties style (coiffed) and as technician Fisher it was more of a flat top look as I remember! That way you wouldn't necessarily know it was the same guy from The Cage, even though they hadn't showed that one at that time or might never have, but...
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Simply the difference between a 1964 style and a 1966 one. I still see both styles today. The '64, especially.
Sir Rhosis, who has worn both styles
Sir Rhosis, who has worn both styles
The second pic does make it seem as though he went to a Vulcan/Romulan barber in the TNG era.
A more likely influence:
Your worst nightmare isn't necessarily someone else's.
