What was Dax's species in ST VI?

[Solarbaby]

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Dax_(Crewman)


Just wondering if anyone ever wrote about him in Novels or such to establish his species.

 

[Dukhat]

Webfeetsian.

 

[horatio83]

The MA article claims that according to the script the fellow is a Megazoid. Seems like a rather strange name for a species.

 

[Solarbaby]

oh duh missed that lol thanks

 

[Therin of Andor]

Just wondering if anyone ever wrote about him in Novels or such to establish his species.

JM Dillard calls him a Zeosian in her novelization of ST VI.

The MA article claims that according to the script the fellow is a Megazoid. Seems like a rather strange name for a species.

Not in my copy of the script (Premiere Collectors Edition, 1994). He is simply "an alien".

I also have an earlier version of the script, where Valeris is Saavik, but I don't recall "Megazoid" used there either.

 

[C.E. Evans]

The MA article claims that according to the script the fellow is a Megazoid. Seems like a rather strange name for a species.

His homeworld could have been called Megazed IV or something like that.

 

[FormerLurker]

He's a catfish.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

If you click through the Memory Alpha article in the OP, to the article http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Megazoid, you'll find a link to http://www.st-minutiae.com/academy/literature329/tuc.txt, purportedly to the Fifth Draft dated 12/28/90. Whether it's authentic or not, I can't say. In any case, in that screenplay, you'll find:

137B BACK TO SCENE 137B

SPOCK
(continuing)
You were clever about the boots,
Lieutenant - too bad you were in
such a hurry you planted them on
a Megazoid...

 

[Shazam!]

LOL@ the idea of Spock saying "too bad"

 

[Finn]

Is it me or has Tuvok said "too bad" once on Voyager?

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ Tubad is his brother's name. Honest.

 

[Therin of Andor]

purportedly to the Fifth Draft dated 12/28/90. Whether it's authentic or not, I can't say. In any case, in that screenplay, you'll find...

Yeah I followed that link. I'd love to know if the makeup guys gave him a species name.

Similarly, in ST:TMP, Billy Van Zandt's character's species is called a "high-domed Vegan" in the script (and that's what he was told he was at casting), while his dialog is for "Alien Ensign". In the credits, he's "Alien Boy". And in Robert Fletcher's wardrobe notes the species is "Rhaandarite".

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Which draft is your collector's edition script, Therin? Is that scene, 137B, still in it, and if so how does it read? Obviously, 137B didn't make it into the final film.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Which draft is your collector's edition script, Therin? Is that scene, 137B, still in it, and if so how does it read? Obviously, 137B didn't make it into the final film.

The commercial script is essentially as screened, but with Valeris spelled "Val'eris". The scenes are renumbered to match what plays onscreen. The relevant bits:

103 ... as CREWMAN DAX enters the area. He is an alien.

104 ... CAMERA PANS DOWN DAX'S LEGS
No way those webbed feet could make it into those boots. Expressions of chagrin on everyone's face...

 

[CorporalCaptain]

So, based on this, there's no way to know whether the name "Megazoid" was even intended, in the end. By the way, scene 137B would have occurred after Valeris was taken into custody, on the bridge at the start of her interrogation. The scenes you refer to, Therin, are numbered 107 and 108 in that Fifth Draft.

We've had this discussion before, in relation to the unnamed copper-skinned aliens in Journey to Babel, but this case here appears to be more of a stretch than that, all just for Memory Alpha to have a name assigned to something unnamed.

 

[Therin of Andor]

By the way, scene 137B would have occurred after Valeris was taken into custody, on the bridge at the start of her interrogation.

Okay. 137 is A FIGURE entering sick bay: ie. Valeris investigating who is in the dark. 138 is the reveal.

The bridge scene is 139.

 

[Silvercrest]

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Dax_(Crewman)


Just wondering if anyone ever wrote about him in Novels or such to establish his species.

Trill, of course! That was Torias Dax.

 

[CoveTom]

^ Exactly. And it was immediately after that mission that Dax decided it was time for foot reconstruction surgery.

 

[tafkats]

"Megazoid" would be one effing stupid name for a species. Sounds like something out of a parody of bad '50s sci-fi.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Or from Power Rangers. "GO MEGAZOID!"