Old Lke Flint

[Emperor Norton]

One of my problems with the Flint character, btw, is he becomes basically the Forrest Gump of Star Trek; he was actually everyone and did everything.

 

[2takesfrakes]

HIGHLANDER, Forrest Gump ... it seems every show since STAR TREK came out ows this series a debt of some sort.

 

[Metryq]

One of my problems with the Flint character, btw, is he becomes basically the Forrest Gump of Star Trek; he was actually everyone and did everything.

HIGHLANDER, Forrest Gump ... it seems every show since STAR TREK came out ows this series a debt of some sort.

I don't see the Flint/Forrest Gump connection at all. Gump and Chance (from BEING THERE with Peter Sellers) were played as simpletons viewed as insightful geniuses by everyone else.

Single-handedly inventing all of civilization would be more like Ayla from CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR. Also, it is TREK that owes everything to the rest of the literary and movie world, not the other way around. Many of the TOS episodes were treatments on short stories or other existing works.

 

[Warped9]

I've long assumed Spock helped Kirk forget the pain he felt over the loss of Rayna rather than forgetting the actual events that had transpired. Kirk had to be left some memories of those events to gel with what would be in ship's reports that Starfleet would eventually see.

 

[Timo]

...And while Kirk himself probably heavily edits what gets recorded (most of it is dictated well after the fact anyway, apparently), he might need Spock's encouragement to do so in this particular case. Although Spock is established as being one of the Enterprise officers capable of adjusting the logs even without the CO's permission...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Rulius]

Maybe Flint is a relative of this fellow:

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Emperor_of_Mankind

 

[plynch]

I've long assumed Spock helped Kirk forget the pain he felt over the loss of Rayna rather than forgetting the actual events that had transpired. Kirk had to be left some memories of those events to gel with what would be in ship's reports that Starfleet would eventually see.

concur

 

[F. King Daniel]

Maybe he wants Kirk to forget what a prick he was that episode. Kirk grabs Reyna so tightly he leaves finger marks on her shoulders. That must have been painful and doesn't speak well for either the character of Kirk or William Shatner.

 

[Nerys Myk]

He was lost in the part.

I was under the impression actors go through most scenes and tell fellow actors what they plan and the other actor says "yes or no" to the physical stuff. Though occasionally there are surprises and accidents.

 

[publiusr]

Nice to have one's own planet--and a shrink ray the Master would be jealous of.

Where is the starship? On my table.

 

[Metryq]

Kirk grabs Reyna so tightly he leaves finger marks on her shoulders. That must have been painful and doesn't speak well for either the character of Kirk or William Shatner.

I was under the impression actors go through most scenes and tell fellow actors what they plan and the other actor says "yes or no" to the physical stuff. Though occasionally there are surprises and accidents.

I've read of many such "accidents," especially with fight scenes where an actor really gets hit. In some cases, the actors continue the scene and thus deliver a very convincing fight.

Martin Landau was reportedly as "physical" in SPACE: 1999 as Shatner in TREK. "The Full Circle" included some action that actress Zienia Merton (who's only slightly over 1.5 meters tall) found rougher than expected. In a later scene, she is to beat Landau's character with a polystyrene rock. Barbara Bain, Landau's wife, cautioned Merton not to hurt him.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Maybe he wants Kirk to forget what a prick he was that episode. Kirk grabs Reyna so tightly he leaves finger marks on her shoulders. That must have been painful and doesn't speak well for either the character of Kirk or William Shatner.

It was a scene--actors are in the moment, and as such, it is no comment on Shatner or the character. Part of the job. I do not recall Louise Sorel ever complaining about that, so it is a non-issue.

 

[Nebusj]

I've read of many such "accidents," especially with fight scenes where an actor really gets hit. In some cases, the actors continue the scene and thus deliver a very convincing fight.

Probably the most remarkable one, to me, was a Saturday Night Live in which Buck Henry and John Belushi were doing one of the ``Samurai (Profession)'' sketches, and Belushi swung his sword around and accidentally nicked Henry in the forehead. Henry flinches a little bit but carries on the scene, and after the commercial break appears with a bandage on his head.

(Apparently the other cast members put bandages on their heads, too, and they slipped in a joke on Weekend Update about a deranged Belushi attacking Buck Henry with a sword, although I've only seen the episode in its condensed, Best Of Saturday Night Live form, so haven't actually seen that.)