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Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

Penny Johnson as a guest on a 1986 episode of Simon and Simon. Also recently saw Robert Lansing on a Simon and Simon written and produced by Michael Piller.
 
Man the "mountains" of "Wyoming" sure do look a lot like the Vasquez Rocks on this morning's "Wanted: Dead or Alive".
 
A lot of states have a Vasquez Rocks. ;)

IIRC, there was an animated show called Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys, starring Babylon 5's Jerry Doyle as the title character and Michael Dorn and Malcolm McDowell as the villains, and one of their running gags was that there was a whole series of "Vasquez [Number]" planets that all had that rock formation.

What bugged me, though, was the bit in Picard where they used Vasquez Rocks as itself -- because they got it completely wrong. They portrayed it as this remote desert location where Raffi lived off the grid, but it's actually a well-frequented park right off a major roadway and less than an hour's drive from downtown LA. The whole reason it's used as a location so often is that it looks remote but really, really isn't.
 
IIRC, there was an animated show called Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys, starring Babylon 5's Jerry Doyle as the title character and Michael Dorn and Malcolm McDowell as the villains, and one of their running gags was that there was a whole series of "Vasquez [Number]" planets that all had that rock formation.

What bugged me, though, was the bit in Picard where they used Vasquez Rocks as itself -- because they got it completely wrong. They portrayed it as this remote desert location where Raffi lived off the grid, but it's actually a well-frequented park right off a major roadway and less than an hour's drive from downtown LA. The whole reason it's used as a location so often is that it looks remote but really, really isn't.
That was before the war.
 
That was before the war.

More like the Hermosa Quake, which destroyed much of Los Angeles in 2047 according to VGR: "Future's End." Although PIC season 2 established that part of the city (the part containing Guinan's bar, conveniently) had survived.

Given that, I suppose it's possible that LA is less populated in the 24th century (and I suppose holosuites have killed the motion picture industry), so maybe Vasquez Rocks is more remote.
 
I mean, even she HAD been confined to a wheelchair at the time, having her thus disabled could have been worked into the plot.
 
A young Leonard Nimoy on this morning's "Colt 45".
I noticed while watching that I wonder how much of Spock's voice was a deliberate choice as well as due in part to being a heavy smoker, because his natural voice was much higher pitched in the episode.
 
Something that struck me about Nimoy's voice in Wrath of Khan, was that it still sounded like his narrator voice from In Search Of, in tone as well as cadence. Like he was narrating rather than acting. Force of habit, I guess.
 
Something that struck me about Nimoy's voice in Wrath of Khan, was that it still sounded like his narrator voice from In Search Of, in tone as well as cadence. Like he was narrating rather than acting. Force of habit, I guess.
Whoa. Now that you mention it...
 
Something that struck me about Nimoy's voice in Wrath of Khan, was that it still sounded like his narrator voice from In Search Of, in tone as well as cadence. Like he was narrating rather than acting. Force of habit, I guess.
In Search Of. . . Khan Noonien Singh.
In 1992, a man known as Khan rose up, and with the help of other genetic "supermen", conquered over 40 nations, before mysteriously vanishing in 1996, along with 84 of his followers.
Tonight on In Search Of. . . we explore the origins of Khan and the other "supermen", their rise to power, their ultimate fate, and where Khan might be today, plotting his return to the throne.​
 
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