Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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Another possible case of Trek recycling? Remember our friend the Mugato, well check this out:
http://www.hollywoodgorillamen.com/2010/02/crash-versus-flash.html
These were 30 years apart, though, so perhaps not. But the similarity is striking.
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I can readily see the differences, starting with the color. The horn is different, the primate face is different. But the idea; now that may have been an inspiration to our friends at Desilu/Paramount.
I thought Prohaska designed the suit and Roddenberry and Co. worked it into a script.
The suit (without horn) had been used previously by Prohaska in at least one other production. (Several other costumes created by him were similarly re-used in multiple productions.)
Prohaska would almost certainly have been familiar with the earlier (Orangopoid) costume used in the Flash Gordon feature and may well have imitated it deliberately in modifying his own costume for the Mugato role.
Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea's Fatal Cargo wasn't it?
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France Nuyen, Paula Crist, David Gerrold, in Battle For The Planet of The Apes (1973)
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Scroll down to end of thread : https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/orangopoid-scarier-than-the-mugato.228019/page-2
William Smithers, Paul Carr, Erik Holland in The Innocent, An episode of The Invaders!
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It's amusing to see the lengths the Invaders are going to, to convince David Vincent that they are pacifists when they could just kill him and be done with it...
The show was very inconsistent about that. In the pilot, it was established that the aliens wouldn't kill Vincent because it would attract too much attention and suspicion if the guy claiming there was an alien invasion turned up dead. But in the very second episode, the aliens crashed an entire plane to kill another guy who was trying to expose them. Which is the sort of thing that would attract one hell of a lot of attention. So their rationale for not killing Vincent lasted exactly one week. And they did often attempt to kill him thereafter. Except somehow, despite being a target of alien assassins, he was able to carry on his regular life as "architect David Vincent" and maintain a listed permanent address where people could contact him with sightings.
But that might alert the people who have read David Vincent's theories in the newspapers! But the Invaders were scattered across the planet in groups and seemed to have different directives it seemed! And in this episode they do try to kill him and William Smithers by forcing whisky down his throat and then putting him in a car and aiming it down a hillside after their attempts to brainwash him and get him on their side failed!
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The thing is that they have the disintegrator, that would leave nothing but burn marks... I mean they disintegrate entire factories, including all their people inside them and all because of D. Vincent's intervention!
I guess there's a reason why The Invaders is not remembered as one of the great '60s sci-fi series...
Well, I think of it as one (maybe just out of nostalgia), but I recognize it has faults.
I think it is one of the greats from the sixties myself! It is a product of episodic television just like Star Trek was! You can't mention any details that would have a direct effect upon another story because it might contradict the earlier one if that channel hasn't screened that episode just yet!!! There are many other shows, sci-fi and others that were made like that! Vincent can't even mention that Michael Rennie's character Per Alquist from Summit meeting looks just like Magnus in The Innocent and other returning alien actors unless it is specifically stated! Although in our own minds we can decide for ourselves!
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No offense but "The Prisoner" is from the same years (67-68) and I thought that it was way above it in matters of Sci. Fi, originality, and plots... etc...
I saw much of the first season in a Syfy marathon a few years ago. I don't remember if I ever saw it before then -- maybe when I was much younger. Or I may have just read about it in Starlog.
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