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Most Underused Secondary?
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Thank you!
1 - Dr. M'benga, he seemed to fit right in with the main cast. A great moral dilema episode would've been nice for him
Agreed. It's nice, though, that so many characters who we only see a couple times get the full "tip o' the iceberg" treatment.
2 - Lt. Cmdr. Giotto - Just seemed like here was a character with more of a tough guy story to tell!
Oh, yeah! Giotto was pretty cool. Kinda "John Wayne"-esque, while still deadly serious and devoted to his job.
3 - Lt. Riley - He definitely needed another episode, one where he didn't have to sing
He didn't sing in "Conscience of the King". But yeah...he was one great character!
Woudn't it be cool if we had Riley and Sulu gettin' drunk and singin' away, like Bashir and O'Brien? Maybe that Disney "Pirates of the Caribbean" song!
"Yo, Ho, YO, HO, a pirates life for me...."
Primaries? Sulu and Uhura didn't even get first names.
Well, not until later on in the franchise. But even in VOYAGER we never learned when a few characters were born or even where.
I'd have liked to see that Singh guy a few more times. just 'cos.. you know, I'm Indian and I was kinda surprised to see an Indian crew member in Trek way back in the 60s. I guess they were trying to show diversity anyway, so it'd have been nice if they'd brought him back more often.
Scotty, Sulu, Chekov and Uhura were not primaries, they were just button pushers and easily replaced, when they weren't available for an episode. They are the definition of unimportat secondaries, Chapel had more of a background story than these four combined, at least we know a little bit about her past and why she joined starfleet.
She's also "Lisa" in Turnabout Intruder.
She gets my vote as well!
I'm also sad Rand got the boot so early. Seemed like they coudl have gone somewhere with that character.
Agreed.
I would have liked to have seen Rand get a bridge position.
***(Please, no blue jokes...)
What if she was in sciences?
Agreed.
I would have liked to have seen Rand get a bridge position.
***(Please, no blue jokes...)
Agreed.
I would have liked to have seen Rand get a bridge position.
***(Please, no blue jokes...)
Trouble is, she can't even operate a Transporter without re-creating "The Fly" Vulcan style!
Agreed.
I would have liked to have seen Rand get a bridge position.
***(Please, no blue jokes...)
Trouble is, she can't even operate a Transporter without re-creating "The Fly" Vulcan style!
I hardly think the pile of goo in TMP qualifies as a recreation of The Fly! Although, I always wondered if the Cardassian in The Darkness and the Light hung out with Janice during her later years at Starfleet...
Agreed.
I would have liked to have seen Rand get a bridge position.
***(Please, no blue jokes...)
Trouble is, she can't even operate a Transporter without re-creating "The Fly" Vulcan style!
Hmmmm.. Good point. Well, we'll just have to keep her out of the Transporter Room. TMP be damned.............
I always wanted to see Mr. Leslie in the movies. Does anyone know if that actor passed away during or before the TOS films got underway, or did he just not want to get involved/wasn't asked?
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Originally Posted by erastus25
I'm also sad Rand got the boot so early. Seemed like they could have gone somewhere with that character.
Agreed.
I would have liked to have seen Rand get a bridge position.
Rand has my vote, through and through!
BTW...Vonda's Enterprise: First Adventure establishes that Rand DID have a station on the bridge--the Environmental Systems console (which in the show, was usually manned by Mr. Leslie--maybe they alternated by shift?). It wasn't mandatory--the console was automated--but it gave her a place to sit, and report if anything went wrong.
Well...Kirk noted that it wasn't her fault. Remember, Scotty had noted that they already had "a wee problem". Also, Decker and Scotty had thought they'd fixed it...so there's plenty of blame to go around....
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