I’m looking at today’s calendar page from the Star Trek desk calendar. It is
a picture of Gary Seven’s cat Isis in woman form.
Who is this actress? The Star Trek website doesn’t list her. Nor soes IMDB.
I don’t know, but last night I rented “Wink of an Eye” and Kathie Brown’s costume as “Deela” was downright scandulous!
:eek:
The only thing I could find said that Barbara Babcock was the voice for the cat. Perhaps she was also the woman? I don’t recall it looking much like her…
Seems she was uncredited in hte original cast list. I’m trying to find more detail. Some Trekkie must know someehere. Here’s a picture of her.
.http://allyourtrekarebelongto.us/isis.htm
Is that Karen Valentine?
I’m pretty sure I’ve read older threads on this topic and so far, no one has been able to say for certain who she was. It truly is one of the mysteries of TOS.
(Oh, and god bless William Theiss. Mm… panda.)
Wow, I find it mid-boggling that after nearly 40 years of Trekdom that no one knows this.
Not likely.
An earlier thread on this subject. I found an cite included therein; however, it has never been corroborated.
In a similar subject, when Isis the cat first meows, I still maintain that it sounds just like Teri Garr.
Yeah, I know. I checked it out after I posted that. I think it was the cleft chin that made me think it. Unfortunately, the Isis actress’s eyes are blue, and Valentine’s are brown, and while I still think there’s a more-than-vague resemblance and contacts could have changed the color (even back then), it’s probably not her.
I have no idea who Karen Valentine is (other than the pics on the link provided by kunilou), but this picture sure looks a lot like patr100s link…chin, shape of the mouth, shape of the nose…the eye colour is the only big difference. I have no idea on the history of contact lenses…were coloured lenses available in the '60s?
I know they were available because ST:TOS used them several times (for the silver eyes of the affected crewmembers in the 2nd pilot). Whether they were subtle enough at the time to change eye colors so they looked natural, I don’t know.
OP here.
I can attest to the fact that our Isis is not Karen Valentine. Karen was a teen fantasy of mine and I know her face too well.
Karen Valentine, and I agree, that’s not her as Isis. Karen was more an ingenue than sultry. To answer another question, yes colored contact lenses were available as early as the 1950s. (But that’s still not Karen Valentine.)
I don’t think it is her either.
Hey, wait a minute. Maybe she is Barbara Babcock, who also supplied the voice of Isis. Open those two photos in separate windows and place them side by side. Allowing for different wigs and makeup, the faces look very similar, especially the intense gaze and the nose and chin. She appeared in two Star Trek episodes, and did voice-overs in three others.
I vote for Barbara Babcock being the human Isis.
It would make sense, since she was given credit for the voice of the cat.
Barbara Babcock is still around. Does she have a fan club?
Wow, and I was the first to call it. Go me!
If it’s true of course…
I have to disagree. I just compared the linked picture of Barbara Babcock with
the calendar picture.
The human Isis has a distinct cleft in her chin. Barbara does not. Also Isis’ face is rounder.