Star Trek passings

[Maurice]

47 is far too young to die, but also tens, hundreds, and thousands of times as old as many members of the species Homo sapiens lived tot be.

And the award for most crassly dismissive post goes to...

 

[JediKnightButler]

Actress Marsha Hunt has died at age 104. She appeared in the Next Generation episode Too Short a Season.
She was the oldest currently living Trek actor and by all accounts the oldest living actor in Hollywood until her passing. She also was the second longest living actor to ever appear in Star Trek after Norman Lloyd who passed away last year. She also had appearances in the original Outer Limits and the original Twilight Zone. Along with obviously hundreds of other credits. I believe she was also the last living actor to have been born in the 19 teens.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_Hunt_(actress,_born_1917)

I like TSAS a lot and looked her up fairly recently and was stunned to learn that she was 100+!

 

[Richard S. Ta]

47 is far too young to die, but also tens, hundreds, and thousands of times as old as many members of the species Homo sapiens lived tot be.

Goodness gracious me...

What kind of a thing to say is that?

 

[MAGolding]

I'm sure that would be of great comfort to family and friends as they mourn the untimely death of their loved one.

No it won't.

 

[Tango]

No it won't.

Okay, that's it for me. Putting on ignore.

 

[1001001]

Okay, that's it for me. Putting on ignore.

It's considered trolling to announce this. If you want to put someone on ignore, that's fine, but don't post about it.

Please don't do it again.

Thanks.

 

[Mudd]

No it won't.

No. And it's an observation of no earthly use or relevance to anyone or anything. It doesn't constitute insight, or helpful perspective.

It may be true, but it's a banal commonplace.

It's exactly like posting "It rains, sometimes."

 

[Tango]

I'm very sorry. It won't happen again, be assured.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

No it won't.

Yes, that was what we call "sarcasm", MAelia Bedelia. You don't need to take everything literally.

I was pointing out that it was a totally unhelpful, callous, thoughtless thing for you to say about the death of someone at such a young age.

Both my parents died relatively young (though not quite as young as Ms. Hicks), and the last thing I'd want to hear when my Mom passed at 57 is some cold and dismissive "Welp, it could have been worse." Of course it could have, but how does saying that benefit anyone in their time of grief?

Granted, you don't know Ms. Hicks and you're not saying it to a loved one of hers themselves, and hopefully you'd have enough wherewithal not to say this to somone actually grieving, but still, a young, vibrant person has been taken too soon, show some compassion and respect.

 

[Grant]

Little known fact, apparently the Queen played CMO Sarah April in an early unfinished Trek pilot. Sadly her duties didn't leave time to assume the role if it had been picked up. This picture was an attempt to incorporate the existing footage into a later episode ala Menagerie.
By the way, she passed on September 8.

 

[Vale]

Speaking of showing some compassion and respect...

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Speaking of showing some compassion and respect...

I have to admit, her dress does vaguely look like a TOS science division uniform with one of the old varied starship/starbase emblems.

 

[1001001]

This would go better in the photoshop thread.

Let’s move on from the Queen, shall we?

 

[Grant]

Now they are saying Marva Hicks was actually 66. I' ve never heard a mis-reporting of somebody's age being off by that much. 19 years?

 

[Kor]

Now they are saying Marva Hicks was actually 66. I' ve never heard a mis-reporting of somebody's age being off by that much. 19 years?

I'm not sure where the birth year of 1975 came from. She was releasing music in 1978, as an adult. This is a version of her single from that year with her photo on the cover, over at Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/release/4760191-Marva-Hicks-Looking-Over-My-Shoulder
Strangely, Discogs itself lists her birth year as 1975. You would think that somebody would have caught the discrepancy by now.

Kor

 

[t_smitts]

Now they are saying Marva Hicks was actually 66. I' ve never heard a mis-reporting of somebody's age being off by that much. 19 years?

Yeah, 1975 never sounded right. As I said before, she would've been only 20 or 21 when they filmed "Persistence of Vision".

 

[Kor]

Yeah, 1975 never sounded right. As I said before, she would've been only 20 or 21 when they filmed "Persistence of Vision".

And 3 when she released her first music single.

Kor

 

[Grant]

Sad to report that DS9 actor Louise Fletcher has passed away. R.I.P.

Louise Fletcher - Wikipedia

 

[Turtletrekker]

Kai Winn actress Louise Fletcher, gone at 88.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadli...ckoos-nest-oscar-best-actress-1235126266/amp/

 

[keel]

As she once said, "I played Kai Winn, a character everyone loved to hate." And she loved that.