Wink of An Eye — the "mystery woman"

[Bud Brewster]

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The old thread which focused on the uncredited blond in Wink of an Eye generated a spirited discussion about the attractive Scalosian lady and who played her, but no one ever solved this tantalizing mystery.

The thread was finally locked, but I thought maybe a better look at the actress might help someone recognize her and put this interesting puzzle to rest. I made several screen shots and enhanced them as much as I could.

Hopefully someone will look at these pictures and suddenly exclaim, "Hey, I know who that is!"

Good hunting folks! I hope these help.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Wasn't she the twin sister of Pamela Anderson on Baywatch?

 

[Bud Brewster]

One of the members of my own board, All Sci-Fi, made an interesting suggestion. He wondered if the lovely lady might have been one of Gene Roddenberry's mistresses.

Is there any way we could research Gene's secret love life and find the name of the woman who told Gene, "Gee, Mr. Roddenberry, I'd do just anything to get into show business!"

Wikipedia has an article about Gene's personal life, and it's obvious that he was (to put it diplomatically) a sucker for a pretty face. After reading it I'm more convinced than ever that the Mystery Lady was either someone whose career he help (just a little), or a lady who rejected Gene's advances and got shot down career-wise because of it.

If so, it wouldn't be the first time Gene photon torpedoed a lady's career because she wouldn't cuddle up with The Great Bird of the Galaxy.

 

[Poltargyst]

One of the members of my own board, All Sci-Fi, made an interesting suggestion. He wondered if the lovely lady might have been one of Gene Roddenberry's mistresses.

Is there any way we could research Gene's secret love life and find the name of the woman who told Gene, "Gee, Mr. Roddenberry, I'd do just anything to get into show business!"

Wikipedia has an article about Gene's personal life, and it's obvious that he was (to put it diplomatically) a sucker for a pretty face. After reading it I'm more convinced than ever that the Mystery Lady was either someone whose career he help (just a little), or a lady who rejected Gene's advances and got shot down career-wise because of it.

If so, it wouldn't be the first time Gene photon torpedoed a lady's career because she wouldn't cuddle up with The Great Bird of the Galaxy.

Without any evidence to support it, I wouldn't even go there.

 

[Shawnster]

Wasn't she the twin sister of Pamela Anderson on Baywatch?

Would be more like her look alike mother

 

[FormerLurker]

^What he said. This episode was shot circa the time Pamela Anderson was born.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Chekov : I vas makeeng a leetle joke, sir.
Spock : Extremely little, ensign.

 

[johnnybear]

Can't say I recognize her outside of the episode and why would Gene have had her as one of his mistresses?
I wonder if anyone has ever composed a list of Mr.Roddenberry's conquests by the way?
JB

 

[Spock's Barber]

I wonder if anyone has ever composed a list of Mr.Roddenberry's conquests by the way?
JB

Justman and Solow said that Roddenberry was prone to exaggerating, but I imagine that his list was very long. He was a Hollywood producer after all.

 

[johnnybear]

And the women of the sixties and seventies were very, very beautiful as I remember and have noticed on Trek and many other television classics, so who could blame him?
JB

 

[CrazyMatt]

The payment is in the mail, Bud.

 

[Phaser Two]

Since Wink of an Eye is one of my top 5 or so episodes, I'm happy this came up again. I've always wondered who this pretty gal was. Interesting that the Scalosians and the Kelvans each worked in five-person teams with the same gender breakdown, BTW - I've never made that connection before.

 

[Qonundrum]

Since Wink of an Eye is one of my top 5 or so episodes, I'm happy this came up again. I've always wondered who this pretty gal was. Interesting that the Scalosians and the Kelvans each worked in five-person teams with the same gender breakdown, BTW - I've never made that connection before.

"Wink of an Eye" is great stuff. Top 10 for me. There's one flaw in it, the same sort that also exists in "Tron Legacy" but I don't let the gaffe bug me. Especially for being written in the 1960s with time and other constraints...

Oh, if you like "Wink", have you seen Voyager's "Blink of an Eye"? That is a phenomenally good episode that takes a similar premise (multiple time zones/accelerated existence) but does something much bigger, and they don't commit the same temporal flaw. That and Olaf Pooley (who was in a Doctor Who episode in 1970) is in it and is fun to see.

 

[johnnybear]

Good old Olaf! Did he make it to 100, I can't remember? In Doctor Who he played an aggressive scientist who existed in two universes, ours and a parallel one where humans were being transformed into rabid anthropoids and the world was dying! But Jon Pertwee saved our planet from that fate after seeing the alternate reality destroy itself!
JB

 

[Phaser Two]

"Wink of an Eye" is great stuff. Top 10 for me. There's one flaw in it, the same sort that also exists in "Tron Legacy" but I don't let the gaffe bug me. Especially for being written in the 1960s with time and other constraints...

Oh, if you like "Wink", have you seen Voyager's "Blink of an Eye"? That is a phenomenally good episode that takes a similar premise (multiple time zones/accelerated existence) but does something much bigger, and they don't commit the same temporal flaw. That and Olaf Pooley (who was in a Doctor Who episode in 1970) is in it and is fun to see.

Strangely, although Voyager is most likely my second-favorite of the series after TOS, just ahead of DS9, I have indeed never seen Blink of an Eye. I was in grad school and then starting my career when Voyager was on, and that was a few years before DVRs, so there's a whole swath of eps I missed, mostly in S5, S6, and S7. I've made up a lot of them over the years but am still missing a few. I will watch Blink soon. Thanks for the rec!

 

[1001001]

Strangely, although Voyager is most likely my second-favorite of the series after TOS, just ahead of DS9, I have indeed never seen Blink of an Eye. I was in grad school and then starting my career when Voyager was on, and that was a few years before DVRs, so there's a whole swath of eps I missed, mostly in S5, S6, and S7. I've made up a lot of them over the years but am still missing a few. I will watch Blink soon. Thanks for the rec!

Blink of an Eye is a top-10 VOY episode. Awesome stuff!

 

[FormerLurker]

Is that the one that Daniel Dae Kim was in as the astronaut that boarded Voyager?