General Trek Questions and Observations

[Nerys Myk]

Age Test: Do you see Kruge as Klingon Reverend Jim or Klingon Doc?

I see him as Klingon Doc.

John Bigbooté

 

[Oddish]

Couldn't he be Klingon Uncle Fester?

 

[Lord Garth]

Couldn't he be Klingon Uncle Fester?

Damn kids.

 

[Oddish]

My days of being a kid are over 30 years behind me.

 

[Tracy Trek]

Was the Trill homeworld already part of the Federation when Ambassador Odan was on the Enterprise?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Been watching DS9 and just completed a TNG rewatch. I like to visit Memory Alpha to read up on the development of each episode. One thing that gets mentioned is how certain make ups can trigger claustrophobia. Nana Visitor was especially bother by the Cardassian she wore in "Second Skin". Never really thought about that aspect of such elaborate prosthetics.

 

[tesral]

Been watching DS9 and just completed a TNG rewatch. I like to visit Memory Alpha to read up on the development of each episode. One thing that gets mentioned is how certain make ups can trigger claustrophobia. Nana Visitor was especially bother by the Cardassian she wore in "Second Skin". Never really thought about that aspect of such elaborate prosthetics.

Are you claustrophobic? I do not think I could wear the Darth Vader helmet we have for long. It's only my head, it is not for long and I know better...BUT!

Phobias are listed as "unreasoning fears" for a good reason.

 

[Oddish]

I'm claustrophobic, but only about total confinement in a very small space. I get agitated even thinking about it.

 

[Quinton]

Age Test: Do you see Kruge as Klingon Reverend Jim or Klingon Doc?

I see him as Klingon Doc.

Truth be told, I've always seen Doc Brown and Reverend Jim... as human Kruges.

 

[Jadeb]

Age Test: Do you see Kruge as Klingon Reverend Jim or Klingon Doc?

I see him as Klingon Doc.

I don’t know who Reverend Jim is. And I see Lloyd’s other characters as Kruge or Uncle Fester.

 

[fireproof78]

I don’t know who Reverend Jim is. And I see Lloyd’s other characters as Kruge or Uncle Fester.

That definitely confirms the age test

And I see him as Doc Brown.

 

[Lord Garth]

I don’t know who Reverend Jim is. And I see Lloyd’s other characters as Kruge or Uncle Fester.

Reverend Jim was an ex-hippie on Taxi, who became a cabbie. Taxi starred Danny DeVito, Tony Danza, some other people who I don't remember off-hand, and then Christopher Lloyd joined the cast in the second season as the wacky character. He partied hard, did a lot of drugs in the '60s, and somehow he became a Reverend. They got a lot of gags with him on the show.

Taxi ran from 1978-1983, and I used to watch it when I was a little kid on reruns in the late-evenings in the mid-'80s. It was usually the show that was on before I went to bed. But I wasn't really thinking about actors at that age. And I didn't really remember much about it.

Fast-forwarding to later: I was 10 when I first saw the Back to the Future Trilogy, this was when II and III came out. By which point, I was thinking about actors. And he's so memorable to me as Doc that I have a hard time associating Christopher Lloyd with anyone else.

So this ended up having a Boomerang Effect. Later on, when Taxi was airing on Nick-At-Nite, when I saw Reverend Jim, I thought "That's Doc!"

 

[Nerys Myk]

No one for "Max Taber" in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest?

 

[Henoch]

When I saw Back to the Future, I remember thinking that the actor who played Doc Brown was "that weird guy who was on Taxi", but I couldn't recall his name because I wasn't a fan of Taxi. So, he's Doc Brown to me.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

No one for "Max Taber" in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest?

Coming to post that.

 

[Oddish]

He's done voice work, too. Turned up in several kid's movies, though none of the really big ones.

 

[fireproof78]

He did a lot on PBS, as a villain in a kid's show.

 

[Oddish]

Jonathan Frakes did that too, but I don't think he was on PBS.

 

[fireproof78]

Jonathan Frakes did that too, but I don't think he was on PBS.

He was pretty great as Xanatos on Gargoyles.

 

[Oddish]

He was pretty great as Xanatos on Gargoyles.

Especially compared to most one-dimensional kid show villains.