Them Star Trek Guys Ain't Dumb

[Martin Eisenstadt]

Do you know the Doohan/JFK connection?

The best man at Doohan's third wedding was actor William Campbell.

Campbell was a versatile actor who had portrayed the faggy Trelane character in "The Squire of Gothos" episode. It was Doohan who did the voice over as Trelane's father.

Campbell also played the antagonistic Klingon captain Koloth in "The Trouble With Tribbles." Aside from the amusing fight scene (in which Doohan punches Campbell), it's also interesting to see all the little tricks Doohan used to conceal his missing digit (hand behind back, hand under table, hand behind chair, etc.).

From 1952 to 1958 Campbell had been married to Judith Immoor, better known later as the notorious Judith Exner. (Often you see her referred to as Judith Campbell Exner.)

Exner was the reputed simultaneous mistress of both JFK and mob boss Sam Giancana, and arranged for a meeting between the two to aid Kennedy's presidential campaign. In her book she claimed to have transported payoffs to the Kennedys, and also that she had aborted a child of JFK's that she carried.

Did Doohan really die of pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease at age 85, or was he hit to prevent him from spilling more dirt on the Kennedys? Why was he cremated when Doohan, a Catholic, knew that the Church did not allow cremated remains to be present in church during the celebration of a funeral liturgy?

[Dickie Billericay]

Other sites say...he was wounded by one of his own Bren gunners.

I tend to believe that story about the jumpy sentry. Six hits, including one to the heart (but for the silver cigarette case)? That's some fine marksmanship. If old war movies are any indication, no German ever put six slugs in anything that wasn't tied to a tree.

Did Doohan really die of pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease at age 85, or was he hit to prevent him from spilling more dirt on the Kennedys?

You may be on to something there. Where was Doohan on July 18, 1969? The last original Star Trek episode aired on June 3, 1969. Connect the dots! Could Doohan have been picking up some extra "piloting" money in Massachusetts?

TK: Er ah, Scotty? Would you er ah drive Mary Jo and I home?
JD: Not in the Oldsmobile, copt'n?
TK: Er ah, yes Scotty, in the Olds. Is there a er ah problem?
JD: Aye, copt'n. Thot thing hondles like a bloomin' Higgins boat!
TK: Well, er ah, try to avoid doing another er ah telephone pole slalom and we should be fine...

[Armando Ramos]

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[Dickie Billericay]

How do the new guys compare to the originals?? Not bad...

Chris Pine--BA English 2002, UC Berkeley

Zachary Quinto--BA Drama 1999, Carnegie Mellon University

John Cho--BA English 1996, UC Berkeley

Simon Pegg--BA Theater 1991, Bristol University

Karl Urban--"attended" Victoria University of Wellington

Anton Yelchin--"enrolled at the University of Southern California in the fall of 2007 to study film"?

Faran Tahir--BA Theater, UC Berkeley; MA Harvard

Ben Cross--BA, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), King's College London

Jennifer Morrison--BA, Theater 2000, Loyola University Chicago

Bruce Greenwood--"studied" philosophy and economics for three years at the University of British Columbia, where his father was head of the Geology Department and his mother was a nurse in the extended care unit.

(As before, "studied," "enrolled," "attended" etc. usually means no degree, but none of these verified with the respective uni registrars.)

[Winston Smith]

Rachel Nichols--BA Columbia University 2003 dual major math/economics.

Like you would need a picture to remember her, but just in case:



Not to be confused with Susan Oliver ("attended Swarthmore College")...



...or Yvonne Craig ("attended Sunset High School in Dallas, TX").

[Dickie Billericay]

...or Yvonne Craig ("attended Sunset High School in Dallas, TX").

Batgirl snuffs it.

Yvonne Craig: Ballerina who went on to become the high-kicking Batgirl in the camp 1960s television series Batman


As Batgirl, Craig was introduced to appeal to young girls as a role model and men over 40 as a sex symbol

Friday 21 August 2015

Yvonne Craig achieved her childhood ambition to be a professional ballerina and shared the screen with Elvis Presley, as well as his bed, but she gained her greatest fame playing Batgirl in the camp, tongue-in-cheek 1960s television series Batman, based on the DC Comics cartoon strips created by Bob Kane.

The programme began in 1966 and Craig was brought in for the third and final run (1967-68) in an attempt to boost flagging ratings. As Batgirl, alter ego of librarian Barbara Gordon, daughter of Gotham City's Police Commissioner James (played by Neil Hamilton), she was introduced to appeal to young girls as a role model and men over 40 as a sex symbol.

Although the high-kicking female superhero failed to halt the decline, she cut a colourful dash as she performed her own stunts and delivered "pows" and "zaps" alongside Adam West and Burt Ward as the caped crusader and his sidekick. Batgirl also had her own cantankerous sidekick, a parrot called Charlie, and rode a purple motorcycle with white lace trim.

"They had taken off the shock absorbers to put on the bat wings," she recalled of the Batgirl Cycle. "So, whenever I went over a bump, it was like jumping off a table stiff-legged." Batgirl was one of TV's first live-action female superheroes, seen a decade ahead of Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman. In 1972 she reprised Batgirl for a US Department of Labor public service announcement advocating equal pay for women.

An appearance in Star Trek in 1969 as Marta, a green-skinned Orion slave girl who wants to kill Captain Kirk and tries to lure him with a seductive dance, cemented Craig's place in cult television history and she remained in demand at fan conventions for most of her life.

She was born in Illinois, moving to Columbus, Ohio, and Dallas when her father, a tool and diemaker, switched jobs. She danced from the age of 10 and was spotted at the Edith James School of Ballet by the Russian ballerina Alexandra Danilova, who helped her gain a scholarship to the School of American Ballet in New York, and she was the youngest member of the touring Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at 17.

Three years later, when Craig was losing her solos and there were rifts within the company, she headed for California and started acting. Her break came in 1957 when director John Ford's son Patrick, a producer, gave her a leading role in The Young Land. She played the love interest of Pat Wayne, son of John, in a Western that also starred Dennis Hopper, but the film was not released until 1959, so she was first seen on screen in the teen drama Eighteen and Anxious (1957).

She was also cast as a femme fatale trying to seduce the jazz drummer of the title in the biopic The Gene Krupa Story (1960), a student befriending Bing Crosby's restaurateur in the musical comedy High Time (1960) and a prisoner of war suffering a miscarriage in a Japanese camp in Seven Women from Hell (1961).

Then came Elvis: in It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) the singer tries to seduce Craig while chasing her around a couch, while in Kissin' Cousins (1964) she is one of the distant cousins being romanced by him. Real-life romance between Elvis and Craig blossomed briefly in 1962.

Before Batman, Craig also appeared alongside Frankie Avalon in Ski Party (1965), ballet-danced during a passionate scene with James Coburn in the James Bond parody In Like Flint (1967) and starred as a Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist in the unintentionally funny low-budget sci-fi film Mars Needs Women (1967).

She appeared in additional footage for two Man from UNCLE films in 1966, when each were made for cinema release from two of the television episodes. In One Spy Too Many, she played the niece of UNCLE chief Mr Waverly, flirting with Napoleon Solo, and in One of Our Spies Is Missing she was the espionage agency's secretary. She was also seen as a character kidnapped by THRUSH, its adversary, in a 1965 episode of the series. There were many bit parts on television, including six different roles (1959-62) in the sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, four (1960-64) in 77 Sunset Strip and three (1969-72) in Love, American Style.

By the end of the 1970s, roles were drying up and Craig became a real estate agent. Later, she and her sister Meridel set up a business producing pre-paid phone cards as fundraisers for charities, as well as promotional ones for the 1995 film Clueless, and Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny cards for Warner Bros stores. There was a return of sorts to the screen for Craig when she voiced Grandma (2009-11) in the Nickelodeon cartoon series Olivia.

Her first husband was the singer Jimmy Boyd, who had a hit aged 13 with "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus". Craig's autobiography, From Ballet to the Batcave and Beyond, was published in 2000. She died of breast cancer that spread to the liver and is survived by her second husband, Kenneth Aldrich.

ANTHONY HAYWARD

Yvonne Joyce Craig, actress and ballerina: born Taylorville, Illinois 16 May 1937; married 1960 Jimmy Boyd (divorced 1962), 1988 Kenneth Aldrich; died Pacific Palisades, California 17 August 2015.

[Martin Eisenstadt]

By the end of the 1970s, roles were drying up and Craig became a real estate agent.

Looks like she expired before her license did.

[dlandersson]

James Doohan, Scotty, was firing phasers on Juno Beach on June 6, 1944 with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles. No real degrees. The Milwaukee School of Engineering granted him an honorary degree in engineering.

At the outbreak of World War II, aged 19, Jimmy Doohan joined the Royal Canadian Artillery, and was eventually commissioned as a lieutenant in the Winnipeg Rifles, 13th Field Regiment, D Company, part of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division sent to England in 1940 for what became years of training in beach assault tactics. His first combat assignment was the invasion of Normandy at Juno Beach on D-Day. Shooting two snipers along the way, Doohan led his unit to higher ground through a field of tank mines and took defensive positions for the night. Crossing between command posts at 11:30 that night, Doohan took six hits from a German machine gun: four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his middle right finger. The chest bullet was stopped by his silver cigarette case; the shot finger was amputated, and on screen he would generally conceal this. Despite his wounds, Doohan remained in the military, trained as a pilot for the Royal Canadian Air Force, and flew an artillery observation plane, though he was once labeled the "craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Forces".

The above bio, which is repeated hundreds of times, says he was an artillery officer and he was wounded 6 times by the Germans. Other sites say he was infantry, specifically D Company, RWR, and he was wounded by one of his own Bren gunners.

Winnipeg Rifles, 13th Field Regiment, D Company, part of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division makes no sense. I suspect it should have said "he was a lieutenant in 13th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery and was attached to D Company of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles on 6 June 1944." Apparently he was a forward observation officer for the artillery who would have spent the bulk of his time with infantry poking his nose in places you really don't want to be.? I believe he was actually commanding D Company RWR as it probably lost most of its own officers.

Kudos to you and kudos to James - my "guessing" is along your lines. Bear in mind that ALL allied seaborn invasions had a "D-Day". 6 June 1944 was the "D-Day" for Operation Overlord. My father landed then also. He started the day as an infantry company commander and at some point was a battalion Cdr (no idea of the time frame).

[Dickie Billericay]

Time for a new thread: Star Trek Perv of the Week.

"Her mother, Delores Lien, was a college professor." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lien
Now there's a surprise.

"I'm taking college courses and trying to keep my mind busy and stay healthy physically and mentally.... I'm going into health. I was thinking about being a nurse...or maybe go into being a dietician or nutritionist.... So I'm working on my associate's degree right now." http://www.startrek.com/article/catching...nifer-lien

I think she might have gotten a little confused in her pharmaceuticals class. If the government has outlawed it, you probably don't want to take it and then go visit your neighbor's kids.

Star Trek actress 'exposed herself to three children' then 'refused to put on clothes as she lay naked on her couch when police came to arrest her'

• Jennifer Lien, who played Kes in Star Trek: Voyager, 'flashed her breasts'
  
• She was allegedly lecturing a neighbor on how to raise her three children
  
• 'All of a sudden, here come up the shirt,' neighbor Carey Smith recalled
  
• Lien then 'lay on her couch naked and refused to get dressed for arrest'
  
• She remains in custody since September 3, she is held on a $2,500 bond
  

By Dailymail.com Reporter
Published: 01:06 EST, 16 September 2015 | Updated: 10:43 EST, 16 September 2015

A former Star Trek actress has been arrested on suspicion of exposing herself to three children under the age of 13 as she lectured their mother on how she was raising them, reports claim.

Jennifer Lien, 41, known for her role as Kes in three seasons of Voyager, allegedly showed her breasts and behind to her neighbour Carey Smith's children outside her home in Harriman, Tennessee.

"All of a sudden, here come the shirt up," Smith recalled in an interview with CNN.


Arrested: Jennifer Lien allegedly showed her breasts to three children outside her home in Tennessee

"She started flashing and, 'Woo hoo,'? and I said, 'And what respect is that for kids?'? There was none. And then she turned around and dropped her pants."

According to police statements seen by CNN, Lien was lying naked on her couch when officers issued a warrant for her arrest on September 3, but she "refused to get dressed".

Eventually, the report claims, the detectives had to dress her and carry her into their car as she threatened to kill them.

Lien, who remains in custody, denies the allegations.

She is being held on a $2,500 bond.


She is known for her role as Kes in the first three out of seven seasons of Star Trek: Voyager

[Martin Eisenstadt]

Arrested: Jennifer Lien allegedly showed her breasts to three children outside her home in Tennessee

Scott: Quickly, Copt'n! There's been a hideous transporter malfunction! Send paper bags to engineering!

Kirk: Scotty...paper bags...why?

Scott: One for her and one for me in case hers falls off!