Where's Mother Wildman?

[F. King Daniel]

The shit would have hit the fan when Naomi found out that a clone doppelgänger of her dead mother adopted and raised her these pat 5 years and didn't have the stones to supply her with a modicum of decency that she's some doll replacement for Samantha own lost baby.

Their relationship is a fricking powder keg that could only possibly end in a gunshot.

It's Star Trek, that kind of thing happens every Tuesday. The Federation alone must have twenty or thirty billion people raising the children of their alternate-reality doppelgangers or time duplicates. And let's not forget the time duplicates of the children of the time duplicates of the time duplicates.

There is a reason why doubles are generally considered to be interchangeable.

In one of William Shatner's Trek novels (where Kirk is resurrected after Generations and lives on in Picard's time), Kirk attends a Federation seminar for "temporally displaced persons". Thousends attend.

 

[antiquityscion]

Until I rewatched the entire series recently, I thought they killed her off in a shuttle accident! No lie!

I was talking about this to someone a few days ago and they thought the same thing.

It has been a while since I have seen episodes of Voyager... I, too, had thought that Naomi's mom had been killed. I think I was actually somehow blending her with the Enterprise D's Lt. Marla Aster from the episode "The Bonding", where little Jeremy was orphaned.

Well there is also an episode where she, Paris, and Tuvok crash land the delta flyer on an astroid, and wildman is critically hurt. She ultimately lives. I can't remember the name of the episode though.

In one of William Shatner's Trek novels (where Kirk is resurrected after Generations and lives on in Picard's time), Kirk attends a Federation seminar for "temporally displaced persons". Thousends attend.

for real?

 

[Admiral Shran]

I always thought of Sam as "adorable" rather than "sexy."

No, she was undeniably sexy.

Well there is also an episode where she, Paris, and Tuvok crash land the delta flyer on an astroid, and wildman is critically hurt. She ultimately lives. I can't remember the name of the episode though.

Once Upon a Time.

In fact, it's the last chronological appearance of Samantha. She does later appear in Relativity, but only in scenes set in the past. It's also the only time she appears with Scarlett Pomers.

 

[Guy Gardener]

She was in 8 episodes out of 170.

1. Elogium (18 September 1995) - Ensign Samantha Wildman
2. Tattoo (6 November 1995) - Ensign Samantha Wildman
3. Dreadnought (12 February 1996) - Ensign Samantha Wildman
4. Deadlock (18 March 1996) - Ensign Samantha Wildman
5. Basics: Part 2 (4 September 1996) - Ensign Samantha Wildman
6. Mortal Coil (17 December 1997) - Ensign Samantha Wildman
7. Once Upon a Time (11 November 1998) - Ensign Samantha Wildman
8. Fury (3 May 2000) - Ensign Samantha Wildman

No respect.

(Checked the transcript, no she wasn't in relativity.)

 

[Admiral Shran]

^ I must have been thinking of Fury. I knew she was in a time travel episode and only appearing in the past.

 

[eepruls]

I bet the shitty Voyager writers forgot that Naomi had a mother on the ship in the first place. Why was DS9 able to get secondary characters back in scripts and Voyager not? Having Samantha interact with Naomi would have given us a bigger reason to care for the entire crew. It's just like Keiko and Molly O'Brien who were in the odd episode but by doing so, helped develop Chief O'Brien's character and made us care about him.

 

[SPCTRE]

How does Ensign Wildman manage to be an absentee mother when they're on a fairly small spaceship?

Until I rewatched the entire series recently, I thought they killed her off in a shuttle accident! No lie!

Yeah, I was recently re-watching all of VOY for the first time in many years and kept waiting for the episode in which Sam was going to get killed

 

[F. King Daniel]

In one of William Shatner's Trek novels (where Kirk is resurrected after Generations and lives on in Picard's time), Kirk attends a Federation seminar for "temporally displaced persons". Thousends attend.

for real?

Yep - Kirk met Captain Bateson from "Cause and Effect"

 

[exodus]

I bet the shitty Voyager writers forgot that Naomi had a mother on the ship in the first place. Why was DS9 able to get secondary characters back in scripts and Voyager not? Having Samantha interact with Naomi would have given us a bigger reason to care for the entire crew. It's just like Keiko and Molly O'Brien who were in the odd episode but by doing so, helped develop Chief O'Brien's character and made us care about him.

Scheduling conflicts
Budget
Specific contract agreements

All valid reason for actirs not to be able to play reacurring characters on a regular basis. I also believe the actress playing Samantha was also studing to become a screenwriter at the time as well.

Why do you think on DS9 Keiko was "away on Bajor" or "At a Botany Seminar" most of the time? Her schedule didn't always allow her to appear in the show at times when she was required.

The fact that the writers wrote Wildman into an episode as late in the series as "Fury", shows they didn't forget her.