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Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

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"Butterfly" has one other Trek guest, sort of -- James Shigeta, who played Admiral Nogura in the famous never-completed fan film Yorktown II: A Time to Heal with George Takei, which was covered in a Starlog article back in the '80s. (At least, never completed at the time. I gather someone's been working on completing it recently.)
It's coming out next month. I gave notes on a complete cut a few months back.
Color correction on the film is now complete. We have 4 additional VFX shots to finish up, which should be done by Dec 1st. Work continues on the music score. The film will premier on Dec 25th, and we also have a "special surprise" that will be released online 4 weeks before the actual film.
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Trek BBS thread here.


Mayyyybe. There's a noticeable difference between the two sounds. The Trek torpedo sound has a sharper attack (beginning) and is more resonant. The Martian plasma bolt effect sounds more muffled to me. I suppose it's possible that they're the same recording processed in two different ways, or maybe two different takes from the same recording session, but they're not exactly identical. (Ben Burtt later used much the same process, striking a taut metal cable, to create blaster sounds for Star Wars.)

However, the whistling sound of the Martian War Machines' levitation beams is the same sound effect as the phasers, but slowed down to a lower pitch. And I'm pretty sure I recall the "zee-zee-zeew" sound of the Martian heat ray showing up in ST:TAS. It was definitely used often in Filmation shows.
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Okay... I've been wrong all these years. That is the same torpedo sound effect. I guess it sounded different to me because it repeats so quickly and the different blasts blend together, while in Trek you tend to hear just one at a time and can hear the attack and decay more clearly.
 
"Victor Perrin" seeks vengeance in the 2nd episode of Wanted Dead or Alive.

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Welp...
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Continuing our Saturday night movie exploration of the classics, the wife and I watched Splendor in the Grass this week. I was surprised to see Gary Lockwood, as Warren Beatty's friend "Toots," attempting to access Natalie Wood's splendor!

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Tony Caruso as a Mexican padre trying to prevent some frontier justice on Wanted: Dead or Alive, "Miracle at Pot Hole."

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Caught part of an old Mannix last night, and it was like a TOS guest stars reunion hour. This single episode featured Laurel Goodwin (only thing I can ever remember seeing her in besides "The Cage"), Barbara Babcock, Lee Meriwether, and Logan Ramsey.
 
Don’t think this has been identified before.
Watching a John Wayne movie, The War Wagon so I went to IMDb to check it out.
Seems that Star Trek extra Miyako mayama was in an uncredited roll (not on her IMDb)

War wagon
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062472/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

YouTube clip with her in the movie
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An early post-OS role for Walter Koeing, also with a heavy accent (German this time). And the character's even named Paul. "Crooked Corner," The Men From Shiloh (Season 9 of The Virginian), 1970. shiloh_koenig.png

Michael Forest (as Gerald Charleboise) and a serious Stanley Adams in Cheyenne, "The Dark Rider," 1956.
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Speaking of westerns, Bill Schalert tries a lame double-cross on Steve McQueen on Wanted: Dead or Alive, "Till Death Do Us Part."

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