Boy, have I got a Q for the TV sci-fi geeks!

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I bet if I poked around for an hour or two I could answer this myself, but what fun would that be for you guys?

While channel surfing I tripped over an episode of the original Star Trek series yesterday: the one where Kirk is vexed by a minuet-dancing alien called “Trelain” [sp?] who turns out to be nothing more than a spoiled child who likes to taunt his pets. (Don’t act dumb. I KNOW you guys know which one I mean.)

Anyway, Trelain’s voice sounded mighty familiar. Is it the same actor who portrays the voice of the old professor in Futurama?

Us non-geeks want to know!

::stuyguy clicks stopwatch, predicting an answer – complete with cites, links, and voice analysis printouts – will be posted faster than it takes to say "Make it so!::

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Billy West does the voice of the professor. He was born in 1960, making him about 16 when “The Squire of Gothos” was filmed, and his first film credit was in 1991.

William Campbell played Trelain.

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Damn hamsters.

Billy West is also the voice of Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan and others. You may also remember him from such voice work as Stimpy from Ren and Stimpy. (He took over the voice of Ren also after John Kricfalusi left the show).

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Thanks RealityC. But you stick to sci-fi TV geekiness. You have no future in math geekiness. [Grinny.]

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Missed it by two hours! Damn! I wanted to play.

Oh well…

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Huh. You mean there’re times when you aren’t here? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Campbell also played the Klingon, Captain Koloth, in “The Trouble With Tribbles” and had earlier starred in Francis Ford Coppola’s Dementia 13.

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Remember, I’m posting from the future. Sometimes the aim of my Time Machine™ (by Ronco) is slightly off.

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I tried doing that once but lost my Time Traveler’s Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations and thus kept confusing my Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjective Intentional verbs with my Future Unconditionally Modified Inverted Plagal Past Objective Intentional verbs and gave up.

Really, it could happen to anyone.

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So, I have to ask; the thread title, was that an intentional pun? I mean, “have I got a Q,” and, like, the question was about Trelane, who was an energy being and possibly a Q? That was on purpose, right?

What?

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points at Terrifel
GEEK!

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That is “We” non-geeks.

–vivaubergrammargeek
:slight_smile:

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While we’re on the subject, I had always thought that guy was WAY too effeminate to play a Klingon. What were they thinking?

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No, it was typing geekiness. Should have been 1950. :smack:

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hanging head shamefully
Not only did I not know the answer to the OP’s question, I’m not even familiar with the TOS episode mentioned. I’m an insult to geeks everywhere.

I’m going to go put on my Geek Dunce Hat and stand in the Loser Geek Corner, now.

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um… nitpick, the alien was dancing a waltz and performing a minuet step , and doing it rather blandly I thought.

Brian

who seems to now be a dance-geek and a Trekkie!

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Taking geekiness one step further:

Some of you may remember Billy West from his brief stint on the Howard Stern Show. That may have been pre-Stimpy.

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I expected the OP to pose a much more obscure and difficult question. stuyguy could easily have used IMDB to answer it.

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Hey Kn*ckers,

If you have what I think your user name implies, then any (male) geek will forgive you.

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He was still on the show when they brought in John K after he split from R&S. Stern tried to get them into a battle over why didn’t West leave the show too, etc.

(Another geek step forward.)