I remember Victoria/Angela from Playboy. I watched “Assignment Earth” and the other episodes I mentioned last winter, and thought that Barbara was credited as Isis. (I remember being surprised to learn that.) But if Memory Alpha says it was Vetri/Dorian, it must have been her.
It seems to me someone in the other thread claimed Kirk’s middle name wasn’t canon. As I recall, Dorothy came up with “Tiberius” after TOS was cancelled and before the animated series debuted. I believe it was in response to a fan’s question at a Trek con (or at least that’s what I read, maybe in one of Gerrold’s books).
So, it’s likely that Shatner himself never knew what the “T” stood for until about 1973.
Apparently, the claim that she was Isis has never been confirmed, though it has been picked up by other websites.
Admittedly, she does look like Isis (and Isis doesn’t look like Barbara). But if you look closely, Isis’s eyes are blue; Victoria/Angela’s are black or brown.
Colored contacts? Maybe. But I think until there’s been independent confirmation, we have to list Isis’s real identity as “in doubt.”
Memory Alpha was the first site to list a credit for Human Isis, iirc. The other sites are probably picking it up from there.
A long time ago, I asked Larry Nemecek (author of some Trek books) about who it was. He basically said it was likely a producer’s girlfriend or mistress and he doubted we’ll ever know for sure. This conv was in the late 80s/early 90s.
If that other guy on the dot.ca page wants to take credit for putting her name to H.I., I guess we’ll let him. I first saw it on Memory Alpha some time back (but after the trivia thread) and was quite surprised.
But this brings up another question. Don’t they go pon farr every 7 years anyway? What did Spock do for the whole rest of his life?
And I read that *droit du seigneur *actually didn’t exist. Everyone claimed it happened in some other country, but never their own. The French said the English did it, but never had themselves any record of it in their country. The English did the exact same.
What, just because he no longer has a wife, you think he can’t get any? Part of Spock’s backstory is that human women at the academy were essentially throwing themselves at him, as he was so hard to get, and that creates a challenge. (And, in the new continuity, apparently Uhura succeeded.)
In other words, Spock only went back to Vulcan because he was married and didn’t want to commit adultery.
Voyager even adds a bit to the story, showing an unmarried Vulcan (not Tuvok) who, because he was going through pon farr, wound up mind melding with a human-klingon hybrid and putting her in a temporary pon farr. Enterprise kinda messes with this though, as T’Pal has a pon farr, too, so apparently it’s not always induced. Maybe they just induce to synchronize, but that means that Spock’s wife was not chosen because their pon farr coincided.
My 3 girls grew up with Star Trek - all of them. It was that bad that when my 4 year old asked how Santa got into our house and left the snow footprints even if it was not snowing outside and we did not have a chimney. I told her he Teleported in from the North pole - no need to explain - she understood
They had been “joined” as children: “Less than a wedding, more than a betrothal,” and “Parted from me, but never parted. Never and always touching and touched.”
Apparently some link had been established between them, or they both wouldn’t have been ready to boogie at the same time.
What I always wondered about was Spock’s age. He was, what, between 35 and 40 when ponn farr finally caught up to him? He had never been in rut before?
Granted, not living among his own people could have thrown his biological clock off. But getting the urge more than 20 years after you hit puberty?!? Come ON…! :dubious:
