Ah Denise, if I had known then what I know now!
Somewhere in a box around here, I have that issue of Playboy. That issue also had a spread on sportbikes, which were becoming popular at that time. I wanted the Yamaha ‘Fizzer’. (A few years later I got a Seca II, and eventually bought a YZF-R1.)
And naked Denise Crosby was nice.
I know Shatner is a ham, but he’s available in a can?
What’s the story on why Gates McFadden came back? Did Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski) get fired or did she leave on her own after season 2?
I think it had something to do with Dr. Pulaski falling down a turbolift shaft or something…
I’m sorry, I’m still agog at the thought of a nymphomaniacal Grace Lee Whitney. She did wonderful things for my puberty.
I always got the sense that her departure was mutually agreeable. From Wikipedia:
That does make it sound like the scales tipped a bit to “fired” (at least de facto), though.
:D. Nobody liked her anyway.
As annoying as her charactor was, at least she never had a son!
The irony of that was that she was the only doctor in starfleet capable of the intricate surgery required to save her from her injuries…
Interesting - I thought McFadden had left to have a baby (I saw a pic of her pregnant in a behind the scenes associated Star Trek book and just assumed that was in her year break). I’m glad she came back, she was a good character.
I was sorry to see the back of Farrell as I thought she portrayed Dax very well, although of course we as an audience got to experience what it really meant to have a Trill on the show getting to know a new host who was a totally different person (and didn’t have to be anything like the last one). I wish they hadn’t had the whole will-they-won’t-they with Worf though, there’s no reason to think that Ezray would be any more interested him than anyone else (plus Worf knew full well that Ezray was not Jadzia, and that was who he had fallen in love with). But that said S7 of DS9 was when the roller coaster car went full into the slurry and never came out again, so these nitpicks are like acne on a leper in the grand scheme.
I got hopelessly hooked on the ST fiction, and tried to buy each new book as it came out. The writing was nothing spectacular (although some books were very memorable for the humor), but the sheer volume of books left me with a feeling that I knew each character intimately. Dr Pulaski’s character benefited from these books, and she developed close ties with the main characters in the ST:TNG books.
And I don’t know what to do with all these damned books! It seems sacrilegious to get rid of them!
~VOW
She actually was pregnant in the time period between filming of seasons 1 and 2, I believe, and used that along with being cast in another gig to help her negotiate her way out of her contract.
Her real reason for wanting off is that she claims she was supposed to be Picard’s love interest, and yet was mostly ignored. She claims the part was offered was much larger than the one she actually wound up playing.
BTW, Nichele Nichols (Uhura) also almost left the show, and only stayed on because Dr. King encouraged her. Yes, that Dr. King. She felt she was setting back the civil rights movement in being just a communications officer, but he convinced her that even being allowed in the show and not treated like a stereotypical black person was a personal triumph.
One more piece of trivia: Crosby was originally trying for Deanna Troi, and Mirina Sirtis for Tasha Yar. I wonder if Crosby would have been happier as Deanna–she always had a part in everything, even if it was just stating the obvious.
I personally think the show just had one too many people for the necessary positions. Before Tasha died, Worf really had no purpose as a character, instead just serving as a sign of the progress of the Federation (in that they were allied with the Klingons).
I don’t know, the division of labor seemed pretty clear to me: Worf was the tactical officer, and hence responsible for violence outside the ship, while Yar was the security officer, and hence responsible for violence inside the ship. The fact that both jobs are violent is about the only thing they had in common.
And Crosby as Troi might have worked, but Sirtis as Yar absolutely would not have.
She was pregnant during season 4. IIRC, she found out she was pregnant during or just after the filming of “Remember Me”, where she was throwing herself around left, right and centre through the vortex to her bubble universe. She spent a lot of the second half of season 4 wearing a large blue lab-coat and being filmed from the chest up - including during her big romance episode, “The Host”.
Really? I loved season 7. It wasn’t perfect, but there were loads of great episodes and for the most part I was really happy with the way they finished the series with that great 10-episode epic. And I was pretty happy with where they left most of the characters, especially where they took Sisko, Kira, Odo and Dax during that final year.
She didn’t fall, she was pushed. Probably by Data (Asimov be damned…)
Nicely done.
What happened to the blond character who was in the beginning episodes of Star Trek Voyager (the trek no one cares about anyway)? She was an alien, had short hair. Was she let go to make room for the curvier 7of 9?
Basically, yes. The writers didn’t know what to do with her.
OK, chiming in…
Gates McFadden is almost certainly the most attractive SF actor to have been onscreen.
Period.
The End.