Remember Space Cases? What does that have to do with Jewel Stait?

[Caligula]

Jewel Staite was the reason I loved Space Cases. So it was only natural that I became an instant Firefly fan years later.

 

[diankra]

Oh yes! IIRC, there was a B5 episode by PAD that ended with a toy bear ("Ba-Bear-lon 5," part of an ill-advised marketing campaign -- or was it "Bear-bylon 5"?) getting jettisoned into space, and later there was a Space Cases episode where the same bear was seen drifting through space (or hit the ship's viewport or something).

The bear hitting the [Starfury] viewport was at the end of the B5 episode; I think in the Space Cases ep, the crew retrieve the bear and wonder 'What sort of idiot would space a perfectly good bear...'

 

[Valin]

I completely remember this show! Also, if you read TrekLit, Peter David kept slipping Space Cases references into his New Frontier novels - actor and character names pop up all over the place.

I don't remember any from New Frontier, but there's a big one in his The Captain's Daughter -- Sulu's first officer on the Excelsior is Anik of Matern, named for the actress who played the android Thelma.

The two that come into my mind immediately are Catalina City on Titan (Saturn's moon; Jewel Staite's character was Catalina and came from Saturn) and a helm officer named Kristian Ayre (actor who played Radu.)

Also, didn't one of the Space Cases (Catalina?) use the swear word:"Grozit" as Calhoun later did in NF?

 

[cb31]

Oh yes! IIRC, there was a B5 episode by PAD that ended with a toy bear ("Ba-Bear-lon 5," part of an ill-advised marketing campaign -- or was it "Bear-bylon 5"?) getting jettisoned into space, and later there was a Space Cases episode where the same bear was seen drifting through space (or hit the ship's viewport or something).

The bear hitting the [Starfury] viewport was at the end of the B5 episode; I think in the Space Cases ep, the crew retrieve the bear and wonder 'What sort of idiot would space a perfectly good bear...'

If I remember right the bear was actually part of a trap that ended up turning Radu against the rest of the crew...