Help Mr. Kyle acheive one last honor...

[spockboy]

Apparently the actor John Winston is in his late 80's now and some Trek fans put up a request on Facebook to have him put into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. If he gets enough likes he's in.

Would be nice for the old guy.

All you have to do is like the page.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Put-...of-Fame/133645273348073?sk=info&tab=page_info

Spockboy

 

[Melakon]

Has the "old guy" authorized this campaign?

 

[Kelso]

I'd like to- but I've already promised to endorse Sam Groom for his role as Technician Jerry in five episodes of The Time Tunnel and I'd hate to hurt his feelings.

 

[EnriqueH]

I'd like a little more info as well.

I can't tell you how many times I've gone into something, thinking I'm doing something nice, amazing and great...only to find the person I'm supposed to be being nice to get mad because it's the exact opposite of what they want.

So yeah, I'd love to do something nice for Mr. Winston, but I'm going to hold off until you can tell us more.

 

[doubleohfive]

Wow. Welcome aboard the starship Wet Blanket. Crew compliment: you guys.

Liked.

 

[Commishsleer]

Wow. Welcome aboard the starship Wet Blanket. Crew compliment: you guys.

Liked.

LOL
Liked as well. Whether Mr Kyle likes it or not.

 

[EnriqueH]

Alright, alright, alright.

I'll "like" it too.

I'm sure if he doesn't like it that'll he come around.

 

[Ronald Held]

How do you do that without a FB account?

 

[Commander Balok]

How do you do that without a FB account?

I've never figured out how to do that without an account, and I've tried a few times (not about this project). I dislike Facebook and don't want an account.

 

[tafkats]

I'm skeptical about the statement "if he gets enough likes he's in." Has somebody at the Science Fiction Hall of Fame said that, or is the person who started the campaign just making stuff up? Getting a set number of likes on a Facebook page seems like an unlikely way for a museum to make its decisions.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Has anybody ever explained why he played Mr. Cowl in "The Immunity Syndrome"?

How could they use a name that's so similar, and yet not know that he had played Kyle up till then?

 

[Melakon]

Has anybody ever explained why he played Mr. Cowl in "The Immunity Syndrome"?

Well, let's try... Shatner was intentionally mispronouncing Kyle's name as an in-joke to headgear worn on Batman, which was airing at the time.

 

[Maurice]

No disrespect to Mr. Winston, but does every minor part on Star Trek qualify people for Hall of Fame status? Is his character, in fact, famous?

 

[Melakon]

Tony Young should be nominated for wearing a costume made of plastic placemats and being married to Madlyn Rhue at the time.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Has anybody ever explained why he played Mr. Cowl in "The Immunity Syndrome"?

Well, let's try... Shatner was intentionally mispronouncing Kyle's name as an in-joke to headgear worn on Batman, which was airing at the time.

That's as good an explanation as any I can think of. "The Immunity Syndrome" was filmed in late Oct, early Nov 1967. Batman had been on for almost two years by then, which is about how long Shatner would have taken to become aware of a national craze and make a joke about it.

Another odd bit: as Memory-Alpha notes, Winston starts the episode in a red shirt, but after the teaser he wears the gold.

They say his shirt was changed to match this stock shot with William Blackburn at the helm. And as I look at it, I am wondering if Blackburn's hair was blacked out to make him less recognizable. But they never worried about that in the stock shot with Blackburn in the right-hand seat. It's weird.

 

[Myko]

Kirk is saying Kyle, with his strange accent.

 

[Botany Bay]

The script shows the helmsman to be named "Cowall" I believe.

 

[Grant]

In his defense.....

He appears in 11 episodes--10 times speaking (his lines were cut from Space Seed).

That's more than all but 8 of the main cast and more than Rand.
He is only one of 10 members of the crew to appear in a TOS movie.
Only one of 8 crew members to have a speaking part in all 3 seasons

And his character appears in an animated episode (although voiced by Doohan)

IMO he should have manned the transporter in TSFS instead of Uhura and she should have went with the rest of the main cast.

It would have been a nice touch to show/know that more than just the 5 "main" members of the original crew were willing to help Kirk on his unauthorized mission.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Or better yet, Kyle could have tried to run the transporter, only to have McCoy, infused with Spock's katra, shove him aside and do it himself.

 

[Myko]

Or better yet, Kyle could have tried to run the transporter, only to have McCoy, infused with Spock's katra, shove him aside and do it himself.

That's an aspect of TOS I don't enjoy. That Spock would be better at almost every task on the Enterprise than everyone else, and really the only reason he doesn't do everything is that he can't be everywhere at once. (Except "Wink of an Eye", which is one of the worst offenders.)