# Star Trek (TOS) mystery finally solved after 40 years? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 21, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105 "2006-12-21T19:11:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 1, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/21 "2017-08-01T01:16:34Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Still uncorroborated/uncorroborated, but it seems strange that someone would dig up the name of an obscure actress with _some_ reason to believe it was accurate. Victoria wasn’t just “an obscure actress.” She was _ **Playboy** _’s Playmate of the Year in 1968, under the name Angela Dorian. [![](https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.yEfjjJOmQ4htHVZUnqLOKQDCDl&pid=Api) ](https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.yEfjjJOmQ4htHVZUnqLOKQDCDl&pid=Api) Note the dark brown eyes. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/22 "2017-08-01T01:30:45Z")
Colored contact lenses were around in the 1960’s. In fact, special contact lenses had already been used in Star Trek - the ‘silver’ eyes of Gary Mitchell and Dr. Dehner were made by sandwiching some kind of foil between two layers of contact lenses. So if they really wanted to have the character have a different color of eyes, they had the means to do so. ---
**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 1, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/23 "2017-08-01T02:08:15Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > So if they really wanted to have the character have a different color of eyes, they had the means to do so. Or, they could have just hired an actress with blue eyes. No shortage of those in Hollywood. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/24 "2017-08-01T14:47:56Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Very possible. Just because something’s on the Internet doesn’t mean it’s true. **YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!** :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/25 "2017-08-18T14:47:22Z")
OK, one more post until this gets resurrected again. . . It’s always dicey to give credence to unsourced info, but that appears to be what happened here. A brief timeline (with respect to this board): This question first appeared on this board on [August 25, 2000](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=36018), almost exactly 17 (Jiminy Cricket!) years ago. No resolution, but I had found a source that pointed to “The Star Trek Compendium” (1981) by Alan Asherman as the source of the Babcock story. If there are subtle differences between Vetri and Isis, there are a world of differences between Babcock and Isis (as well as Garr and Isis). At this point, IMDB was showing only the credited cast members. By 2006 (the date of this thread), Vetri was listed in the cast on IMDB. Apparently, from gleaning info from other sites, this appeared to have happened to some random postings (possibly long since lost to history) where some Playboy aficionado(s) noted the similarities between Vetri and Isis. It appeared on the Net somewhere, and it caught on. At some point an IMDB editor came across it, added it, and it then became ‘fact’. The memory-alpha wiki was created in 2007, well after the IMDB entry, and whatever other online postings had preceded it. At this point, it’s going to be hard to extirpate it from the various places, but not impossible. As noted above, and confirmed on other sites, production notes and call sheets have done nothing to resolve the mystery as the name of the actress just doesn’t appear. Unless Teri has something to share (as she is the only actor/actress to have actually appeared in a scene with her), this will be just an enduring mystery. So far as Vetri’s denial of having been in the scene–that may or may not be relevant. It’s not unusual for bit part actors to just show up for work, and forget about whatever role they had just done. And Ms. Vetri has apparently gone thru a few brain cells over the years. The world is still waiting. . . . ---
**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 18, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/26 "2017-08-18T20:59:35Z")
A point of clarification: When I say “principal players,” I mean both the actor \*\*and \*\*the character, i.e., “William Shatner–Capt. Kirk,” “Leonard Nimoy–Mr. Spock,” and so on. At this point, we can only speculate how Isis was listed in the call sheet: “1 shape-shifter cat”? :dubious: 😕 I checked the list of guest stars for this episode in the back of Whitfield’s book, BTW. Terri Garr is the only female member of the cast mentioned. Here’s something I never knew before: If the spinoff series had gone into production, it would apparently have been called _ **The Lincoln Logs** _, and Terri (or Teri, depending on the date) would have been the central character. [https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.u5w6My6hZMSOY7g8N-hJEQEsDE&pid=Api](https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.u5w6My6hZMSOY7g8N-hJEQEsDE&pid=Api) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/27 "2017-08-18T21:26:31Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Unless Teri has something to share (as she is the only actor/actress to have actually appeared in a scene with her), this will be just an enduring mystery. Has anybody thought to contact her and ask? ---
**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 18, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/28 "2017-08-18T21:28:16Z")
THIS is Isis in human form: [https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.kpTRprPyxToyVg1m8Hfk4gEsDq&pid=Api](https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.kpTRprPyxToyVg1m8Hfk4gEsDq&pid=Api) THIS is Victoria Vetri, aka “Angela Dorian”: [https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.ckbWLn1srlNo-nIBH39P2gDhEs&pid=Api](https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.ckbWLn1srlNo-nIBH39P2gDhEs&pid=Api) If they’re one and the same woman, I’m a Morg: [https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.D1BWov\_zESW6\_ARBHx-eUwEsDh&pid=Api](https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.D1BWov_zESW6_ARBHx-eUwEsDh&pid=Api) ---
**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 18, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/29 "2017-08-18T21:30:20Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Has anybody thought to contact her and ask? She won’t talk about her experience on _ **Star Trek** _. Never has, says she never will. She gets kind of agitated when asked about it, so that channel of information would seem to be closed. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/30 "2017-08-18T22:43:39Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/31 "2017-08-18T22:46:34Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > THIS is Isis in human form: > > [https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.kpTRprPyxToyVg1m8Hfk4gEsDq&pid=Api](https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.kpTRprPyxToyVg1m8Hfk4gEsDq&pid=Api) You know what, though? That could be Barbara Babcock in a wig and false eyelashes. She has a long nose like that, and wideset eyes. ---
**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 18, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/32 "2017-08-18T23:12:03Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Here’s something I never knew before: If the spinoff series had gone into production, it would apparently have been called _ **The Lincoln Logs** _, and Terri (or Teri, depending on the date) would have been the central character. > > [https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.u5w6My6hZMSOY7g8N-hJEQEsDE&pid=Api](https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.u5w6My6hZMSOY7g8N-hJEQEsDE&pid=Api) Assuming, of course, this is not a mock-up meant as a canard. 😉 ---
**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 18, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/33 "2017-08-18T23:58:35Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > You know what, though? That could be Barbara Babcock in a wig and false eyelashes. She has a long nose like that, and wideset eyes. Possible, but it seems as though Isis has a little cleft in her chin. I don’t see one on Barbara. [https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.IsIYnqOfag4fD-tzllwuNwD6Es&pid=Api](https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.IsIYnqOfag4fD-tzllwuNwD6Es&pid=Api) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/34 "2017-08-19T00:56:51Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > She won’t talk about her experience on _ **Star Trek** _. Never has, says she never will. She gets kind of agitated when asked about it, so that channel of information would seem to be closed. ☹ Interesting. Does anyone know why; does she not care for the overly-demanding fans, or was there something unpleasant about her time working on the show? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/35 "2017-08-19T01:20:19Z")
I believe there was some sexual harassment/molestation and such by some of the higher ups on the show. She doesn’t talk about it. ---
**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 19, 2017, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/36 "2017-08-19T03:44:39Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I believe there was some sexual harassment/molestation and such by some of the higher ups on the show. She doesn’t talk about it. Read Solow and Justman’s book. That’ll give you an idea. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/37 "2017-08-19T05:45:47Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Interesting. Does anyone know why; does she not care for the overly-demanding fans, or was there something unpleasant about her time working on the show? In an interview published in _Starlog_ Magazine, Garr refused to talk about her appearance in _Star Trek_ and made disparaging comments about _Star Trek_ fans. She was glad that _Assignment: Earth_ was never picked up as a series. > [@](#): > > “Thank God,” Garr told Warren. “Otherwise, all I would get would be Star Trek questions for the rest of my natural life—and probably my unnatural life. You ever see those people who are Star Trek fans? The same people who go to swap meets.” > **[Starlogging With David McDonnell: What Fresh New Interview Hell Is This?](https://www.startrek.com/news/starlogging-with-david-mcdonnell-what-fresh-new-interview-hell-is-this)** > > Starlogging With David McDonnell: What Fresh New Interview Hell Is This? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/38 "2017-08-19T16:21:07Z")
What’s wrong with swap meets? You can find some great merch! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/39 "2019-03-12T23:07:45Z")
Bumping this thread for an update: After 50 years, the “Isis” actress has finally been positively identified. Her name is April Tatro and she confirmed to _The Trek Files_ that she did, indeed, play the cat Isis in her human form. In addition, the article has a screenshot of the casting sheet for that day, with Tatro listed as “1 cat girl.” [https://scifanatic-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/assignmentearth-extracallsheet-m.jpg](https://scifanatic-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/assignmentearth-extracallsheet-m.jpg) > [@](#): > > Along with other familiar “Standing” background extra actors such as Eddie Paskey, there is a listing for “1 Cat Girl” to be on set at 10:00 AM. Importantly, it includes the performer’s name as April Tatro. Tatro herself was contacted by The Trek Files and confirmed she played Isis in human form for “Assignment: Earth.” According to the sheet, Tatro was budgeted to be paid the standard rate for all the extras of $29.15 for the day, plus the cost for time for being fitted with her costume and body makeup. An additional production report unearthed by The Trek Files shows her adjusted rate of $84.51. > **[‘Star Trek’ Mystery Solved – Isis Actress From “Assignment: Earth” Identified](https://trekmovie.com/2019/03/12/star-trek-mystery-solved-isis-actress-from-assignment-earth-identified/)** > > The woman behind the purr has been found and she has a story to tell. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2019, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105/40 "2019-03-12T23:13:30Z")
**YES! I KNEW IT!!!** I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!!! 😛 O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos-mystery-finally-solved-after-40-years/385105.md?page=3)