FWIW: In the hardback collected version of the IDW comic adaptation of his original "City" script, he stated that he wrote the part of Trooper, the legless WWI veteran, hoping to play the part himself.
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The Guardian of Forever
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FWIW: In the hardback collected version of the IDW comic adaptation of his original "City" script, he stated that he wrote the part of Trooper, the legless WWI veteran, hoping to play the part himself.
Sir Rhosis
Also FWIW, and IIRC, TNG novel The Devil's Heart centers around archaeologist discoveries at the Guardian of Forever site leading Picard on an adventure eventually discovering GoFs were
grown from crystal seeds. I think Iconians are also involved.
I may lose my geek cred, but... what happened on that date and time?On February 12, 1987, from approximately 11:01:01am through 11:03:16am. But, he always denied it!
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I just checked IMDb, and I don't see any acting credits for Ellison prior to 1971. Was he a SAG member? Would casting him in a speaking role have been problematic?
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0255196/
I think they sold it to some donut shop in LA.
That was the point of writing the Trooper character, I'd say: so a TV series producer would ask the actors' union to admit Harlan Ellison. That's a way in, and another means of earning money from then on.
IIRC, Ellison acted as a child and teenager in Cleveland, Ohio, and he claims that he sang in the chorus on some Broadway musical album, the name of which escapes me. Other than that, no credits I'm aware of.
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EDIT; The show/album was KISMET. See the Whitewolf Edgeworks Vol 3 bio on this page: Harlan Ellison Webderland: Surreal Biographies Although some of the bio is acknowledged as false, members on his FB fan page assert that the Kismet entry is true.
Sir Rhosis
EDIT; The show/album was KISMET. See the Whitewolf Edgeworks Vol 3 bio on this page: Harlan Ellison Webderland: Surreal Biographies Although some of the bio is acknowledged as false, members on his FB fan page assert that the Kismet entry is true.
IMDB cites him nine acting credits, so I think it was something he wanted to do for the extra money when he could get it:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0255196/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1
David Gerrold wrote the part of Ensign Freeman (and his two lines) in "The Trouble with Tribbles" so that he could make a semi-cameo -- stuntman Paul Baxley got the role. The part of Trooper was more important speaking part, I wonder if the producers would have given it to someone with limited acting experience.
He wrote himself in as a relatively major guest character? Oh, brother.
I hadn’t ever heard that Ellison wanted to play Trooper, nor did I notice that the artist drew Ellison in that comic, lol.The part of Trooper was more important speaking part, I wonder if the producers would have given it to someone with limited acting experience.
So, the long feud over COTEOF finally revealed.
David Gerrold wrote the part of Ensign Freeman (and his two lines) in "The Trouble with Tribbles" so that he could make a semi-cameo -- stuntman Paul Baxley got the role. The part of Trooper was more important speaking part, I wonder if the producers would have given it to someone with limited acting experience.
I thought it was Danzig
Although Gerrold finally got the walk-on he wanted when DS9 did Trials and Tribble-ations (he was one of the security guards on K-7).
I don't think the Russians ever reached as far as Danzig in the First World War.
Actually, Gerrold's first walk-on was in TMP, where he stood prominently in the rec deck scene, and he had already voiced Em/3/Green on "TAS".
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/David_Gerrold#Star_Trek_appearances
But I agree that the DS9 guard was a casting homage to the desire to walk-on to the original episode.
I think he means the usician Glen. DANZIG
So, what was the agenda of the Guardian of Forever? Why did he allow random passers-by such as Spock, Kirk and McCoy access to their planet's past, risking them to change everything?
(That he didn't have one, that he was simply a device created to do so, I don't believe, given that the Guardian himself indicates that he is far beyond their 'primitive' classifications of machine and being. I could live with his motives being beyond our primitive understanding).
(That he didn't have one, that he was simply a device created to do so, I don't believe, given that the Guardian himself indicates that he is far beyond their 'primitive' classifications of machine and being. I could live with his motives being beyond our primitive understanding).
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