What is your tangential relationship to Star Trek?

[CRM-114]

If you're here on TrekBBS, you have a relationship to Star Trek as a fan. What I'm curious about is your tangential relationship/connection to Star Trek. Are you related to/dated someone/used to live next door to someone who worked on Star Trek in some capacity? I don't mean anything like, you meant your favorite actor at a convention.

Here's an example of what I'm looking for. I went to physical therapy today, and learned that my therapist used to take jiujitsu classes with Rod Roddenberry. He recalled Rod was very good, and even won a couple of tournaments. He also visited Rod's house, which he described as "ginormous".

 

[Greg Cox]

Okay, aside from the obvious, I once took a creative-writing course from Norman Spinrad, who wrote "The Doomsday Machine."

 

[Nerys Myk]

One of my Sunday school teachers was a relative of Gene Roddenberry.

 

[sojourner]

None. Beyond the obvious interactions I've had with various people that have worked on Trek that hang out on this forum.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Don't remember who it was or if they're still here, but there was somebody in these parts whose barber was John Winston (Mr. Kyle from TOS).

 

[sbk1234]

One of my best friends frequently sits in a cigar lounge with Charlie Brill, who played the Klingon spy in Trouble With Tribbles, and Trials and Tribbleations.

My wife used to work at a pre-school where Leonard Nimoy's grandson went.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

No idea, apart from this site and Memory Alpha.

I'm from the country of Canada, like Shatner and Doohan. Does that count? *whoopee*

 

[Cyke101]

I had a coworker whose family counted Harve Bennett as a family friend. Both families had neighboring summer cabins out in the woods and would see each other every year. She left my workplace before his died, though.

Funny thing is, my former coworker wasn't a Trekkie at all, she just knew that Harve used to work in Hollywood but retired some time ago. "I think he was a writer or something." I was too much in awe to facepalm.

Oh, also, I once shook LeVar Burton's hand a couple years ago and have kept that hand unwashed since then.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I share my birthday and state of birth with DeForest Kelley.

 

[alpha_leonis]

I once had the opportunity to interview Marc Okrand for a college linguistics class. He was actually very approachable and helpful for this random stranger who contacted him out of the blue.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/13_February My birthdate. Sadly, nothing happened in Trek history on Feb. 13 1988.

 

[B.J.]

I have a feeling that most people outside Southern California would have difficulty finding any connection.

 

[Greg Cox]

I have a feeling that most people outside Southern California would have difficulty finding any connection.

Not necessarily. James Doohan lived in or around Tacoma, Washington in his later years. And I'm sure others settled elsewhere. (Last I heard, Spinrad is living in France these days.) And, of course, a fair number of actors and writers would call New York home.

Back when I lived in the West Village, I occasionally spotted a STAR TREK guest-star on the sidewalk or subway or hanging out in a bar. And I once shared a dentist with Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

 

[Nebusj]

And I once shared a dentist with Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

I choose to believe Sabrina's dentist is a magical talking raccoon and I won't hear any evidence to the contrary.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I share my birthday and state of birth with DeForest Kelley.

I have the same birthday as Paul Winfield.

 

[Greg Cox]

I choose to believe Sabrina's dentist is a magical talking raccoon and I won't hear any evidence to the contrary.

Did I say he wasn't.

 

[Sakonna]

I met Ellen Albertini Dow shortly before her death. She was lovely. She played Beverly's grandmother in "Sub Rosa" (I know everyone hates it, but it's a favorite guilty pleasure episode of mine). Her one scene is when they exhume her body at the end and she is briefly reanimated by Ronan.

This was probably around 2013 or so (she died in 2015). At the time I remember thinking: 25 years ago, she was playing an old lady on The Golden Girls, and 20 years ago, she was playing a corpse on Star Trek, and here she is today, still auditioning and seeming to have a blast doing it.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Oh, also, I once shook LeVar Burton's hand a couple years ago and have kept that hand unwashed since then.

I shook Paul Fucking McCartney's hand 20 years ago, but I still wash the thing!

 

[marsh8472]

My grandma on my moms side went to the same school as the guy that played Christopher Pike. My ex knew the Wesley crusher acter too

 

[cultcross]

I have a feeling that most people outside Southern California would have difficulty finding any connection.

Quite a few Brits on Star Trek over the years. Not that I've ever run into them at Tesco, of course.