Interesting research on Roddenberry

[Armored Saint]

There are plenty of people who are jealous of the man and the only way they can get even is to trash his name after he's dead. Because...well, I don't know that he would sue, but I know damn well that Majel would.

So, Harvey's analysis are based on falsified documents made by jealous people?

 

[Mytran]

I don't see a problem in knowing more about an individual than just their public persona. A flawed Roddenberry is much more relateable to me than some sort of unblemished superman and doesn't diminish his strengths and achievements. He was only human, after all.

 

[Mudd]

Wow! I can't believe how much the truth has been distorted.

I guess I was lucky enough to be alive at the time and experience the thing.

Roddenberry did go to conventions to promote the series. But then he had to, he sunk his last dime into Star Trek and had to promote it to make it work so he could earn a living. Not to mention, I'm sure the network would want him to make the rounds...they had put a percentage into it too.

Another thing, I saw Roddenberry at a number of conventions and was fortunate enough to meet him. Never did he ONCE ever try to elevate himself to the level of legend or visionary at those events.

WE, THE FANS, PUT HIM THERE.

Roddenberry was a shy man who never spoke above a whisper and always stopped to talk to fans and sign autographs. He would purposely walk through the halls to speak to us.

Was he a saint? No, no man is. But he does not deserve to flung through the mud like this, especially since he is dead and cannot defend himself.

There are plenty of people who are jealous of the man and the only way they can get even is to trash his name after he's dead. Because...well, I don't know that he would sue, but I know damn well that Majel would.

Nope.

I was alive then, too and remember a lot of this. A lot of the current research is a good corrective to mythology. Never trust trufans with history.

"Majel," Mrs. Roddenberry, had opportunities to sue and didn't. No grounds.

 

[Marsden]

EDIT: Oh, and one more thing: The James Blish adaptation of the episode does introduce her as "Lieutenant Commander Anne Mulhall." Although that adaptation was published in 1973 and thus probably written in 1972, late enough to be influenced by seeing reruns of the episode, so that doesn't necessarily confirm that it was in the script. It's suggestive, though.

The Blish thing I give more weight to than the costume, but it also suggests to me that at some point during shooting or in post that any reference to her being of higher rank was dropped, just because of the "who are you?" bit, which to me also seems an unlikely thing for Kirk to professs about a ranking officer (and a female one at that.)

I do have to admit I've never looked at her arms in the episode (there were other areas of interest), so it never occurred to me that she would be anything other than a stock lt, no matter how bright she was.

I assumed it was because she was recently transferred to Enterprise. I have nothing else but assumption to base that on, and the fact that people do transfer to different jobs. She might have been apprenticing for a chief engineering job on another Constitution class starship and only needed to complete a set amount of hours with Mr. Scott before taking her position on another ship.

 

[Christopher]

Mulhall was an astrobiologist, not an engineer. Which, come to think of it, makes it strange that she was in red rather than blue. Maybe they figured Muldaur looked better in red?

 

[J.T.B.]

Mulhall was an astrobiologist, not an engineer. Which, come to think of it, makes it strange that she was in red rather than blue. Maybe they figured Muldaur looked better in red?

Maybe it was to bring balance back to the universe after engineer Lt. Masters in blue.

 

[BillJ]

Mulhall was an astrobiologist, not an engineer. Which, come to think of it, makes it strange that she was in red rather than blue. Maybe they figured Muldaur looked better in red?

Maybe it was to bring balance back to the universe after engineer Lt. Masters in blue.

One of Kirk's tactical people also wore blue in "Arena".

 

[Armored Saint]

I don't see a problem in knowing more about an individual than just their public persona. A flawed Roddenberry is much more relateable to me than some sort of unblemished superman and doesn't diminish his strengths and achievements. He was only human, after all.

It's the base of serious biographical works: dispelling myths and avoiding gossiping (in this case, I'm talking about a technician who freshly left the forum, not Anij). Considering Trek marketing's still made on the Roddebenberry's image, it's good to read that kind of stuff.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Mulhall was an astrobiologist, not an engineer. Which, come to think of it, makes it strange that she was in red rather than blue. Maybe they figured Muldaur looked better in red?

Maybe it was to bring balance back to the universe after engineer Lt. Masters in blue.

One of Kirk's tactical people also wore blue in "Arena".

Every department seems to have a tactical expert in that episode.