Eddie, of course, disavows any knowledge of these actions....I like to think that the IMF team recruited the real Eddie Paskey to do what he did best.
Early Season 1 Crew
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The only problem with the background characters is that they would inexplicably change positions. Sometimes Lt. Hadley was a navigator, sometimes a security guard.
I supposed it could be explained by Hadley initially getting a promotion and transfer to security, where he quickly heard stories about what happens to Enterprise security guards on planet surfaces, researched the fact that the Enterprise has the highest security officer death rate of any ship in the fleet, and quickly went to Captain Kirk to request a transfer back to navigation.
I supposed it could be explained by Hadley initially getting a promotion and transfer to security, where he quickly heard stories about what happens to Enterprise security guards on planet surfaces, researched the fact that the Enterprise has the highest security officer death rate of any ship in the fleet, and quickly went to Captain Kirk to request a transfer back to navigation.
Hell, Leslie wore all three colors at some point. He's probably the most highly trained man on the ship...
He did?!
I only recall him wearing the red Ship Services shirt.
Anyone have some screen-shots?
Keeps muttering that he should be the captain,
He did?!
I only recall him wearing the red Ship Services shirt.
Anyone have some screen-shots?
He wore "Security"-Blue in Where No Man Has Gone Before...
...not sure when he wore gold, though...
The Changeling - http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/2x03/changeling0062.jpg
Ya, Rilley.
I think Nimoy's stand-in, whatever his name was, wore at least two colors, blue and gold.
Ba dump -- ching!
Leslie is from a planet that forbids sexual reproduction. All children are clones. Leslie, Connors and Ryan are from the same "original."
He did?!
I only recall him wearing the red Ship Services shirt.
Anyone have some screen-shots?
Yep, that's one of the things I really like about season one, the revolving background characters. And they had diverse backgrounds as well, like LaSalle (French descent), Yeager (German descent), Gaetano (Italian descent), Masters (either African or African-American descent) and others. As I recall, that's been a feature of first seasons of a number of shows, in particular TNG and NYPD Blue. Pretty cool! Count me also as a fan of Riley. I also wish they'd had Lt. Cmdr. Giotto (Italian descent) appear again (of course, the actor, Barry Russo, appeared again as Commodore Bob Wesley in The Ultimate Computer.) -- RR
A bunch of people from Western Europe doesn't really count as diversity, considering how tiny that region is compared to the world as a whole. Though we did get the occasional Singh and Tamura and M'Benga and the like.
But TOS was pretty good for its time in suggesting that the Enterprise was crewed from across the whole Earth, not just North America, which would have been the easy option for a series running on a North American network.
In retrospect, the feeling that Spock is the only non-Human aboard is a bit odd, but far less so than some of the faults of the later series (Brannon Braga, we know you grew up in Bozeman, but one starship name is a tribute, everything afterwards is self-indulgence).
The Elephant In The Room is that, by the TNG-(and-later) era, there should be far more starships with weird alien names (named after moments or traditions in their history, like Saratoga, Hood, Yamato) than there were.
It's obvious why there weren't though:
"The Zagunba is coming to our rescue, sir! "Zagunba, chief?" Aye sir, named after the battle where the Zogs won their freedom from the Girks, 500 years ago." "Thank you chief, in the middle of a battle I really needed you to explain that bit of alien history to the audience. By the way, didn't our left nacelle get shot off while you were saying that? Abandon ship!"
Doesn't it make more sense to have a starship named after a small, rinky-dink American town when something of relative importance happened there? I don't, two references (starship, site of first contact with Vulcans) doesn't seem to be excess to me.
Reminds me of when Archie Bunker was trying to claim diversity in some campaign to Meathead. The quote was, roughly, "An Irishman, an Italian, and a regular American. That's what I call a balanced ticket."
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