Interesting minor Enterprise crewmembers

[ZapBrannigan]

And Paul Carr went on to be killed and killed and killed, as a guest star in series after series. It was like his trademark.

On The Six Million Dollar Man, Paul Carr played a criminal's henchman. Instead of getting killed himself, he accidentally kills his boss, Malachi Throne. This was in "The Bionic Woman, Part 2."

 

[FormerLurker]

And Paul Carr went on to be killed and killed and killed, as a guest star in series after series. It was like his trademark.

He was the Sean Bean of the Sixties and Seventies.

lifted in the air and violently shaken by Gene Roddenberry,

I wonder how many people realize Gene Roddenberry was 6'4" in an era when the average adult man was 5'7".

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

He was the Sean Bean of the Sixties and Seventies.

Had there been additional time yesterday I'd have brought up Bill Paxton's considerable deaths rivalling Paul Winfield's.
I believe four Paxton movie characters bought it in 1990 alone.

 

[M'Sharak]

Which minor (not one of the seven main characters, Rand, or Chapel) should have appeared in more episodes?

I could have watched Lt. Palmer in more than 2 eps.

He was the Sean Bean of the Sixties and Seventies.

Or the Elisha Cook, Jr. -- from the 1930s through the early '60s, as soon as you saw his face, you knew his character had a poor chance of still being alive by the time "THE END" appeared on the screen.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I could have watched Lt. Palmer in more than 2 eps.

MA says her role was originally written for Uhura (same position). Pity there weren't any personality/personal information lines written (one that made sense in context, not just random infodrops.)

 

[Mres_was_framed!]

The redshirt who died and came back but was never featured, definitely.

Memory Alpha claims there are several, if you do not accept that the same actors may have been portraying multiple red-shirts. I think that we need to just accept that there is some kind of error in dialogue and that Leslie did not die in the episode "Obession."

On that note, it might have been nice to have him in that episode in the place of Rizzo, and just let him live.

(Dr. Dehner). I would have liked her as the permanent doctor instead of McCoy.

In my view, she was the ship's counselor, and Kirk just never replaced her. It sort helps balance with the fact that TNG has a command crew structure with offical ship's counselors, but TOS does not. Of course, on the other hand, outside of Project Pathfinder it is hard to find a communications officer in the TNG-era.

 

[M'Sharak]

MA says her role was originally written for Uhura (same position). Pity there weren't any personality/personal information lines written (one that made sense in context, not just random infodrops.)

When you asked "Which minor (not one of the seven main characters, Rand, or Chapel) should have appeared in more episodes?" I didn't get the sense that an already-established backstory was a prerequisite.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Not already, exactly, but something that gave you a sense of who they were/might be.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Not already, exactly, but something that gave you a sense of who they were/might be.

It's a bit embarrassing that Sulu and Uhura were given their first names far later than Chekov, Rand, Chapel and the highest ranking officers were. (Spock has an excuse here, I suppose.)

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Sulu and Uhura interacted on a personal level with characters who might be close enough to call them by their first names a lot less. Christine and Janice developed close relationships with their bosses, that of boss and assistant, someone to rely on regularly.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Sulu and Uhura could certainly have interacted with each other (in non-MIRROR MIRROR ways) and revealed their first names in the process. But they didn't appear to exist until 1982ish, and I believe they were first used in a TREK II ''biographies'' tie-in book. That's why Rand calls Sulu Sulu in MAN TRAP and Chapel calls Uhura Uhura in THE CHANGELING.

 

[FormerLurker]

Or the Elisha Cook, Jr. -- from the 1930s through the early '60s, as soon as you saw his face, you knew his character had a poor chance of still being alive by the time "THE END" appeared on the screen.

That makes me wonder if people thought Kirk was going to need a new lawyer before the end of the episode.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

"Yes?...What century?...10:00?...I'll be there."

 

[Spock's Barber]

I just wanted Bill Blackburn to have one spoken line.

At least Roger Holloway got to say “Aye, sir.” in the last TOS episode.

 

[Phaser Two]

I just wanted Bill Blackburn to have one spoken line.

At least Roger Holloway got to say “Aye, sir.” in the last TOS episode.

Agreed on Billy B. How about in response to asking "Lt. Hadley" to find out what a "heater" was?

Hey, that's a good security formation up there in that pic. If only they had tried that at the door to Khan's quarters, but then I guess the episode would have been too short.

 

[Reymet_2]

Garrovick

 

[VSAFaculty]

Do I get to pick people not on the ship? If so, Sarek and Amanda. So much material there. If not, I second (or third) Charlene Masters, Garrovick and Giotto.