Sadly, he died of AIDS at age 29, about the same age my own lover died of the disease. I only just now learned that at some point into his career, Merritt came out publicly (as opposed to people merely assuming he was gay because he died of AIDS).
Rest in Peace, Merritt…
As an aside to cheer the thread back up, I hate it when men tie wear their sweaters around their necks (as “David” did in Star Trek II), especially gay men! Gah!
What?!? A page calling itself The Periodic Chart of Star Trek Babes doesn’t include the hottest element of all: Ewingium (Dianase isotope, of course).
This will not stand! :smack:
Bombard the freak with nerdmails immediately!
I’ll try that CTRL thing–I’m on a Mac, though–who knows what the key does (I don’t!)
No, no, no! Romulans and Vulcans share a common evolutionary history, hence the similarity in appearance. The two cultures are VERY different, though.
Omega Glory is the only TOS ep where I’m embarrassed FOR the actors. I can’t watch it.
Who in hell is Ewingium when she’s at home? If she’s in TNG or late, get her OUT of my thread!
Diana Ewing was Droxine in The Cloud Minders. A much nicer shot of her. (mildly NSFW)
One of the Star Trek sites lists plots and explains how the Yangs and Coms came about - alien abductions from the US and China or something equally lame. Looking back, there are rather too many where some Earth renegade has established control over an alien society - just like that as Tommy Cooper used to say, and at the other extreme involving ‘gods’ of some sort.
Impossible. There are people on Omega IV who are over 1000 years old. At the time of Omega Glory, the US was under 500 years old - the Kohm that Tracey asks the age of is almost as old as the US - and it’s been generations since their war.
They E Pleb Nistaed first.
Yeah, comforting to know we are the alien transplants, isn’t it? 
Link not working for me; blank page.
Try a cut&paste. The image is copyrighted,so it doesn’t hotlink too well.
Hubba hubba.
Is that she?
God, I’m slow today–I just got that Ewingium is a play on the chemical elements of the periodic table. :rolleyes: (that’s for me)
Why is it we are talking about the hot babes of ST? Let’s talk about the hot guys:
Kirk, Kirk, and more Kirk. I may not like his green shirt, but he was HOT back then.
Spock–every girl likes to be wanted for her mind…
I can see the appeal of McCoy, but he’s hot to me.
There’s Apollo, but he’s such a jerk. Any more hot guys?
Jeffrey Hunter had classic good looks. He played Captain Christopher Pike in the original pilot.
Gary Lockwood wasn’t bad looking either. But he was only in the aired pilot.
Roddenberry had 3 or 4 scenarios (maybe full scripts) when he sold the show to NBC. Omega Glory was one of them. Lucky for us it didn’t get made early. Perhaps one of the NBC execs was a super patriot, but I never have seen any evidence for why he wrote this one except sheer incompetence.
Shatner’s reading of the Constitution is right up there with Lucy in the Skies …
Leading to one of my favorite trivia questions, who is the only actor to play a Vulcan, a Romulan, a Klingon, and a gorilla?
It’s all the proof I need that Roddenberry may have had a great idea, but the execution needed to be in other hands…
IMO, Shatner hammed it all up in that scene because what else can you do with such material? Short of full burlesque…
I am reading The Star for Every Wandering right now. And Mr George STILL cannot write!
Actually, that’s Joan Collins, according to this page (left column, about halfway down).
Even better! Without all the goo on the lens (and minus 150 years) she’s not bad on the eyes at all.
I must have Shatner Sickness because neither of them are doing it for me–although Jeffrey Hunter IS quite good looking.
I had the Viggo Virus for quite some time post LOTR. I suppose this, too, will pass.
I’m going to try to watch another episode tonight (if I can stay awake–long day at work today). And suggestions as to which one?
Have you seen Space Seed?
