Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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The Boogens was released into theaters first by Taft Entertainment Company (Paramount outside of North America) then it went onto home video and pay TV afterwards.
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Because Takei is getting lots of goodwill for what he's doing now (acting in Alliegence, all of his activism, as well as just acting, generally), while Shatner looks silly singing (as well for what he's said about #MeToo, although I do agree with him about the whole kerfuffle regarding the song Baby, It's Cold Outside here in Canada and elsewhere.) He'd better hope he won't get disinvited from any conventions in 2019 for his statements, like Kevin Sorbo has.
Disinviting the Shat from the conventions would be like disinviting Jesus from the Christian church!
ShoutFactory TV has posted this month's new streaming video releases, and one of them is Baffled!, a 1972 TV pilot movie starring Leonard Nimoy as a race car driver who becomes a psychic detective. I haven't watched it yet, but it seems worth mentioning here.
One wonders if the title referred to his psychic abilities or the air intake on his racecar.
Oh, that hadn't occurred to me, since I don't know much auto terminology. But lots of titles have double meanings, so it could be both.
I need to use emojis more often. 
Ruskin played an evil Middle Eastern leader whose country practices slavery in a two-part Mission: Impossible episode, The Slave (also guest-starring another Trek alumnus, Antoinette Bower [Sylvia in the episode Catspaw]) as his sister-in law, a princess who gets almost sold as a slave.
Well, I've now watched Baffled! It starts out a bit cheesy-looking, with a very fakey shot of Leonard Nimoy sitting in a perfectly stationary race car mockup in front of a rear-projection screen, but once you get past the clumsy opening, it's actually kind of fun. Though I'm a bit surprised an actor like Nimoy, who preferred to stretch himself and avoid typecasting, would choose to play a character with telepathic powers just 3 years after Spock. There are even a couple of very Spock-like moments with close-ups on Nimoy's eyes while mentally influencing someone or the like. (And there's a bit near the end that uses a very familiar Mission: Impossible trope too.)
It refers to the main character's precognitive abilities only.
An uncredited Bruce Watson as "Blue Boy's" tripping buddy in the infamous first episode of Dragnet 1967:
DUHHHN-DUH-DUN!DUN!
("The LSD Story," Jan. 12, 1967)
DUHHHN-DUH-DUN!DUN!
("The LSD Story," Jan. 12, 1967)
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Was Baffled released by Network in the UK? I have seen a DVD with Nimoy and Susan Hampshire on the cover and think I'd read it was the pilot for a series that was never made in the UK! 
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Was Baffled released by Network in the UK? I have seen a DVD with Nimoy and Susan Hampshire on the cover and think I'd read it was the pilot for a series that was never made in the UK!
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Baffled! was filmed in the UK with worldwide distribution by ITC (now ITV Global Studios) and yes, it was most likely released by Network or some other British video company in the UK. And yes, it was supposed to be a TV show, but obviously the pilot never caught fire, so it didn't become a TV series.
Okay, Shaka, but no DVD release in the US as of yet?
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Okay so there is now a Baffled US DVD! 
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