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Yeoman Rand's Tower of Hair

For first contacts or trade agreements you woud think Yeomen were essential to record the event for prosperity.
Otherwiise wouldn't it be communications job or law or something?
 
Foxhot said:
Everything they can do Spock can do better.

The yeoman who bit the big one in BY ANY OTHER NAME had five lines. The first was confirmed by Spock, so she's redundant. The fourth line asked Kirk a question Rojan already pretty much answered.
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I saw a spoof play called Kirk vs Ming where the female character's only lines were, "Yes", "No", and "I don't understand," unless she was doing a soliloquy. It got to the point where Kirk donned a wig to seduce Ming the Merciless, rather than let the woman do anything useful. It was very funny.
 
I recall an oddity in the Naked Time (I think or possibly footage from the Naked Time used in a different episode) when Spock calls the male helmsman Rand. It would seem really lazy to invent another character and call him Rand, so I wonder if the intention initially was to have her man the helm at an earlier stage in the episode and for longer until someone realised that Kirk would be unable to see the screen past her beehive?
 
Pauln6 said:
I recall an oddity in the Naked Time (I think or possibly footage from the Naked Time used in a different episode) when Spock calls the male helmsman Rand. It would seem really lazy to invent another character and call him Rand, so I wonder if the intention initially was to have her man the helm at an earlier stage in the episode and for longer until someone realised that Kirk would be unable to see the screen past her beehive?
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It was "The Naked Time" and it was Eddie Paskey at the helm. @Maurice has checked that for us, Rand was not at the helm in the script for that scene.
 
Pauln6 said:
Thanks Maurice! What a curiosity. It comes too early in the episode but it's really odd that she ends up there later. Was it a simple mistake on set? Is Spock prescient? Or is Spock drunk?
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Eddie Paskey was all over the place in Season One, before he finally settled down into the character of "Mr Leslie" (named by Shatner after his daughter).
In Mudd's Women Paskey played a character in Sickbay who McCoy called "Connors". So coupled with him appearing as "Rand" in The Naked Time I propose that he played an officer called "Randall Connors" whom Spock just happened to be on first name terms with.
YMMV ;)
 
Mytran said:
Eddie Paskey was all over the place in Season One, before he finally settled down into the character of "Mr Leslie" (named by Shatner after his daughter).
In Mudd's Women Paskey played a character in Sickbay who McCoy called "Connors". So coupled with him appearing as "Rand" in The Naked Time I propose that he played an officer called "Randall Connors" whom Spock just happened to be on first name terms with.
YMMV ;)
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So Paskey is playing clones?
 
Maurice said:
You'd might do those things if you had a time machine and could go back, but you wouldn't necessarily have the same ideas you do now had you been born in 1938 and raised under a far more sexist culture.
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Or he might, at that. It's easy to think of the past monolithically, that people were less enlightened back then. I have often gotten called out for "anachronistic attitudes" toward racism and feminism in the course of doing Galactic Journey. But the fact is folks with modern sensibilities toward racism and feminism existed back in 1966; there were just fewer of them.

Someone who'd seen Number One in "The Cage" and/or read about Rydra Wong in Babel-17 or the strong female characters in Andre Norton's work might be suspicious of a stag future where women were absent from senior positions or positions of responsibility. That the very creator of Trek originally had three women on the bridge of the Enterprise, including a first officer, gives support to that.
 
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Pauln6 said:
Thanks Maurice! What a curiosity. It comes too early in the episode but it's really odd that she ends up there later. Was it a simple mistake on set? Is Spock prescient? Or is Spock drunk?
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I think Nimoy flubbed the line, and it was quickly decided that the audience wouldn't notice or care. They were shooting in color, which was expensive, and keeping on schedule was also a consideration. I suppose it's remarkable that so few mistakes made air.
 
Pauln6 said:
So Paskey is playing clones?
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KIRK: "And you're quite sure this is all of them?
 
ZapBrannigan said:
I think Nimoy flubbed the line, and it was quickly decided that the audience wouldn't notice or care. They were shooting in color, which was expensive, and keeping on schedule was also a consideration. I suppose it's remarkable that so few mistakes made air.
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All us humans look the same to Vulcans.

And haven't everyone called someone by the wrong name once in their life.
 
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