# I just realized who Star Trek's Tranya Boy is **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2003, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238 "2003-07-27T08:21:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/21 "2003-07-28T00:03:22Z")
He was also a mission controller in **Apollo 13**. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/22 "2003-07-28T00:06:05Z")
He was also a dancer on **Solid Gold** ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/23 "2003-07-28T04:02:16Z")
I think we ought to patent a recipe for Tranya. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/24 "2003-07-28T04:03:39Z")
Oh yeah, Clint also played one of the Ferengi in the Enterprise first season episode “Acquisition.” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/25 "2003-07-28T04:16:37Z")
He didn’t even need the prosthetic teeth for the Ferengi costume. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/26 "2003-07-28T06:07:12Z")
I’ve had people try to tell me Tranya Boy was played by Kurt Russell. I mean, come on. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/27 "2003-07-28T06:13:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vivalostwages \* > \*\*I think we ought to patent a recipe for Tranya. \*\* It’s pink grapefruit juice. I saw an interview once with Clint; he said he couldn’t stand the taste, and asked them if they could use something else. They said yes, but didn’t change it; that’s why he’s making a funny face in the scene when he drinks it. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/28 "2003-07-30T14:29:40Z")
Okay, what can we mix with pink grapefruit juice that people would actually order at a bar…? Maybe some Schnapps? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/29 "2003-07-30T17:32:24Z")
Greyhounds are vodka and grapefruit juice. Personally, I’d rather drink the grapefruit juice than the isopropyl that they try to pass off as ethanol. God, I hate vodka. ---
**Author:** ![zeldarae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f14d63/32.png) [@zeldarae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zeldarae)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/30 "2003-07-30T18:20:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aesiron \* > **Greyhounds are vodka and grapefruit juice.** Put some salt on the rim of the rocks glass and you’ve got a Salty Dog. Ummmm good. The only mixed drink of which I’ll partake.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/31 "2003-07-30T18:52:09Z")
You can get Tranya, along with Romulan ale, bloodwine, and other exotic Trek drinks at Quark’s bar. The one in Vegas at the Hilton. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/32 "2003-07-30T19:23:13Z")
**astorian** : > [@](#): > > You’re thinking of Rance Howard, who was Ron & Clint’s dad. He also played small parts in several of Ron’s films (he was the Lovell family’s clergyman in “Apollo 13,” for instance. And he was in an episode of the _Buffy_ spinoff _Angel,_ playing an old man who can swap bodies. He swapped bodies with Angel for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/33 "2003-07-30T22:14:05Z")
I thought he died in Viet Nam! 😃 * * * _“Lets get them meek bastards **NOW!** ”_ ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/34 "2003-07-30T22:22:54Z")
I think CH is one of very few actors to have appeared in all TV incarnations of Star Trek. He was also in [Cotton Candy](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0077374#comment), directed by RH. He played the manager of the band. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/35 "2003-07-31T04:45:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Steelerphan \* > \*\*You can get Tranya, along with Romulan ale, bloodwine, and other exotic Trek drinks at Quark’s bar. > > The one in Vegas at the Hilton. \*\* Ah yes, I’ve been on the Experience, bought some stuff in the Emporium but astoundingly I did not partake of any food or drinks there, though I did rub noses with a Ferengi staff member. Thanks for the travel tip! **Aes** : I’m with you on the wodka. The creamsicle martini is a most ghastly drink. ---
**Author:** ![GTPhD1996](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/97f17d/32.png) [@GTPhD1996](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GTPhD1996)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/36 "2003-07-31T05:18:45Z")
I find it mildly amusing that the older Ron gets the more he looks like Clint GTPhD1996 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/37 "2003-08-01T22:21:37Z")
And now for a REALLY awful drink: Gentlebeings, I give you [the Nicotini.](http://gershkuntzman.homestead.com/files/Tobacco_in_Your_Tiramisu.htm) I’d rather have [this amusing wine](http://www.fatbastardwine.com) instead. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/38 "2003-08-01T23:04:05Z")
Rance Howard was the chaplain who married Steve Hiller(Will Smith) and Jasmine(Vivica Fox) in _Independence Day_. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238/39 "2003-08-02T05:04:41Z")
Nicotini? Christ… people have some serious problems when they have to put nicotine in their food and drink. Gah. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-who-star-treks-tranya-boy-is/191238.md?page=1)