# Skip Homeier: May he have found his way to Eden **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 12, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skip-homeier-may-he-have-found-his-way-to-eden/793409 "2017-08-12T04:53:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skip-homeier-may-he-have-found-his-way-to-eden/793409/1 "2017-08-12T04:53:13Z")
One of my Facebook friends (whom I’ve never met) is a filmmaker. (I have some of his DVDs.) One of his FB friends is the son of Skip Homeier, known to many as [Dr. Sevrin](http://img.trekmovie.com/tosrem/waytoeden/new_tosr075_extra_03.jpg) on the _Star Trek_ episode ‘The Way To Eden’. Homeier’s son posted on my contact’s timeline that his father, Skip, had died. I could not find any information on his death, and IMDb and Wikipedia both did not report him dead. I was just looking to see what episodes were coming up on BBC America, and saw that ‘The Way To Eden’ is coming on later. Upon doing a new search, I see that Skip Homeier died of spinal myelopathy on June 25th, at the age of 86. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skip-homeier-may-he-have-found-his-way-to-eden/793409/2 "2017-08-12T05:03:15Z")
Interesting that he was both space-hippie Dr Sevrin in “The Way to Eden” and neo-Nazi Melikon in “Patterns of Force.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skip-homeier-may-he-have-found-his-way-to-eden/793409/3 "2017-08-12T14:25:01Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Homeier’s son posted on my contact’s timeline that his father, Skip, had died. I could not find any information on his death… To clarify, the son posted right after Skip Homeier died, and I found nothing in the news, IMDb, or Wiki about it at the time. IMDb and Wiki do now show that he had died. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skip-homeier-may-he-have-found-his-way-to-eden/793409/4 "2017-08-12T14:59:41Z")
Mr. Homeier’s role as space Nazi Melakon was a nod to his career start as boy Nazi Emil Bruckner in stage and screen versions of “Tomorrow the World.” He is also memorably pwned by Gregory Peck in “The Gunfighter,” and was always good for creep value (e.g., “Stark Fear”). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skip-homeier-may-he-have-found-his-way-to-eden/793409/5 "2017-08-12T15:06:42Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > … was a nod to… Username is a nice nod to _Santa Claus Vs. The Martians_. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skip-homeier-may-he-have-found-his-way-to-eden/793409/6 "2017-08-12T16:30:02Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Username is a nice nod to _Santa Claus Vs. The Martians_. [https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/2014/07/25/dropos-amazing-12-hits-row-remain-baseball-record/](https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/2014/07/25/dropos-amazing-12-hits-row-remain-baseball-record/) Randomly remembered trivia from my misspent youth… ---
**Author:** ![drmark7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba8739/32.png) [@drmark7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark7)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2017, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skip-homeier-may-he-have-found-his-way-to-eden/793409/7 "2017-08-13T05:31:40Z")
Skip was in one of my most favorite movies of all time… THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN! starring Don Knotts. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skip-homeier-may-he-have-found-his-way-to-eden/793409/8 "2017-08-13T22:32:45Z")
Yaaaay, brother!