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^....only if the Captain didn’t teach his bodyguard Kirk-Fu.
Pete Kellett was one hell of a guy!
Plus here he was Farrell, looking nothing like the Farrell of the early episodes in the series and then he was two obviously related people on Sigma Draconis IV in Spock's Brain and later on standing and fighting cowards as a bald Klingon in the classic Day of The Dove! 
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I've noticed on The High Chaparral page that a picture of Pete as a cowboy is on there and it needs to be identified but there doesn't seem to be a way to contact the people who run the site!!! 
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Washburn in DM is excellent. Richard Compton was it? If memory serves he later became a director.
Bart LaRue was awesome as the voice of Yarnek in TSC. They wrote some great dialogue for him and he sold every line.
Bart LaRue was awesome as the voice of Yarnek in TSC. They wrote some great dialogue for him and he sold every line.
He had such a strong and distinct voice didn't he! Marvellous tonal qualities!
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The absolute worst thing about the yesteryear episode of Star Trek the Animated Series was the ridiculous voice they used for the guardian! atrocious!
Bart LaRue with still alive when they "filmed" that episode.
I mean how much money would they have had to pay him to come in and record six lines of dialogue? Or at the very least just find somebody who could do a halfway decent impression of the original Guardian voice. Instead of some third-rate haunted house Scooby-Doo voice!
Bart LaRue with still alive when they "filmed" that episode.
I mean how much money would they have had to pay him to come in and record six lines of dialogue? Or at the very least just find somebody who could do a halfway decent impression of the original Guardian voice. Instead of some third-rate haunted house Scooby-Doo voice!
Did James Doohan do the Guardian's voice? I can't remember...
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More money than Filmation had to spend, most likely. Union rules on animated series allow you to get up to three different voices per voice actor before they have to be paid more. Part of the reason that they hired James Doohan for TAS was because he could do lots of different voices & they could get more bang for their buck. Bringing in an additional actor just to record six lines of dialogue is not a good use of resources, budget wise.
Remember, that the producers behind TAS weren't even planning to hire George Takei and Nichelle Nichols to voice their characters from TOS. The original plan was to have Doohan and Majel Barrett voice Sulu and Uhura. Leonard Nimoy raised a stink when he heard about it, arguing that it would be a very bad thing for TAS to ax TOS' two actors of color just to save a few bucks. And even then, the budget was too low to hire Walter Koenig to voice Chekov. That's part of the reason that Koenig was given a script assignment on TAS, to make up for him not being a regular voice actor on the series.
Ted Knight did a TON of cartoon voices, man. And he did a great job at it. TAS was lucky to have him.
Eh, 1972-1973 was largely a pre-videotape era. It wasn't as easy to double check that stuff. We don't even know for sure if Doohan recorded his lines for "Yesteryear" in Los Angeles, as a lot of the vocal tracks for TAS were recorded in whatever local studios the actors could find when they were doing other acting gigs all around the country.
Honestly, I'm more annoyed that the Guardian of Forever doesn't work in remotely the same way in "Yesteryear" that it did in COTEOF. In the original episode, the Guardian could only display history in one manner & speed, and you had to jump in and hope for the best when you got somewhere close to the era you wanted. In "Yesteryear," Spock orders up a specific day and time in history like he's looking up a movie on Netflix. That's a mistake that could've easily been fixed by double checking the script for COTEOF (an episode that D.C. Fontana rewrote, so presumably she would've remembered). But it was just a half hour cartoon and she probably just decided to do whatever moved her story along the fastest.
Starfleet had some time working on the Guardian before the time in Yesteryear. Maybe they repaired/updated its FWD, REV, PAUSE, STOP features.
The Guardian must have been pretty bored waiting for thousands of years for someone to come ask it a question. 
All Kirk asked for was a playback of history. Spock asked for a specific date, a very different request. I find it unlikely that so powerful a device as the Guardian couldn't do both.
BILLIONS.The Guardian must have been pretty bored waiting for thousands of years for someone to come ask it a question.
Well, he can't.
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And yet Spock still didn't ask the same question as Kirk did. As I said, Kirk asked for a review of history. Spock asked for access to a specific date. That's two different things, not merely two different requests. Spock didn't ask for a review; he asked for specific access. If the Guardian can't grant that access, then it shouldn't be able to accept such a specific request. The fact that it did means it can do both. It's not just what you ask, but how you ask it. Even Harlan Ellison included a line about semantics in his original script.
GUARDIAN: I was made to offer the past in this manner. I cannot change.
^^ Cannot change what? Why the speed at which yesterday passes. Because that is what Kirk asked him to change. Sorry Kirk, old boy, 50 fps is all I can do when showing the flow of history.
They never ask the Guardian if it can send them back to a specific date. And TBH, the Guardian is pretty useless as a time portal if it can't
They never ask the Guardian if it can send them back to a specific date. And TBH, the Guardian is pretty useless as a time portal if it can't