News Rapelye Passes

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A new news article has been published at TrekToday:

Mary Linda Rapelye, best-know to original series fans as Irina in The Way to Eden episode, is dead at the age of...

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[Ssosmcin]

Ugh, f'n cancer. She was a so great in the New Voyages "To Serve All My Days." She seemed like a really nice lady.

 

[Ronald Held]

RIP. Cancer is not a good way to die.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Damn. Cancer is evil. RIP, Mary Linda.

 

[Phaser Two]

That's sad. I quite liked her performance of a nuanced character in Way to Eden, an episode I've come to appreciate more and more over the years. She was very good. RIP. May her memory be a blessing.

 

[Grant]

Just got done re-watching the episode in her honor. I do that whenever an original series actor passes. I do enjoy the episode in spite of the hippie theme. Really would have worked so much better as a simple cult rather than being so blatantly a copy of the hippie culture in 1968. I really enjoyed her performance and it couldn't have been easy trying to emulate koenig's accent with all this same strange pronunciations. Rest in peace.

 

[johnnybear]

Very sad. Cancer is an abomination for the good people it takes! RIP
JB