The Governor with the balls and paddles comes to mind.
“Spocko, why don’t you pass out some of these to the crew in lieu of pay?”
What I’d like to see as a starship captain is a few more aliens. To me, Starfleet appears to be a homo sapiens only club.
Quite possibly. Scotty was at least briefly in Sciences (http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110408144615/memoryalpha/en/images/9/91/Montgomery_Scott%2C_2265.jpg). LaForge is shown as a captain in a VGR near-future episode, and he spent time at the helm in TNG-era Command red, as well as a lot of time in Engineering gold. O’Brien started out in red and also ended up in gold, although they finally decided he was a noncom.
The captain of the USS Saratoga, Sisko’s ship at Wolf 359, and the USS T’Kumbra in the DS9 holodeck-baseball episode, were both Vulcans. There was also Capt. Rixx, a Bolian, in the TNG episode “Conspiracy.” I can’t think of any other aliens who commanded Starfleet vessels, although there ought to have been some over all these years. An Andorian and a Tellarite would be a good start.
Carrie Fisher
Harrison Ford
Mark Hamill
That sound you just heard was the absolute final end of the Star Wars-Star Trek debate, that of a million million fanboys’ heads asploding.
An ship full of Vulcans was destroyed by the Giant Ice Cream Cone.
Ned Flanders.
David Tennant or Christopher Eccleston.
Hey, why not?
Oddly enough, the Enterprise is *smaller *on the inside.
You’re correct if by “Giant Ice Cream Cone” you mean the very colorful space amoeba from “The Immunity Syndrome.”
If however, you mean the planet killer from “The Doomsday Machine,” that was not the Intrepid, it was the Constellation, Matt Decker’s ship.
Indeed, I stand corrected.
Yes, that was the Intrepid’s crew the space amoeba killed. ISTR in the episode it’s stated that the ship had an all-Vulcan crew, but the Memory Alpha wiki said it was a mostly-Vulcan crew. The captain’s name was not provided.
Is there an echo in here?
Originally, that was a Vulcan Science Academy (not Starfleet) ship.
I believe the fan-wank* as regards starship crew homogeneity has been that it’s easier to populate a starship with a crew that pretty much all needs the same environmental parameters. Vulcans like it warmer than humans, so having a ship that’s all- or mostly-Vulcan makes sense. I just wish they’d have explored it more regularly.
For some reason, I would perversely love it if they would establish it that Romulans actually enjoy colder temperatures than humans, making a very subtle hint that long, long ago, the initial split between the races was over something as petty as who kept changing the thermostat.
*at least, I don’t remember it ever having been stated on screen.
You mean by the giant space amoeba.
Edit: Sorry. I see this has been addressed.
Yes, and I’ve already owned up to it.
I agree - I think that a graduation deterioration would have been better writing, but that isn’t what actually happened, other than in the brilliant “Year of Hell” two-parter.
Well, yes, but not everyone response to those pressures in precisely the same way.
Originally? You mean in the first draft of the script or something? I’ve never heard or read anything to suggest that the Intrepid wasn’t a Starfleet vessel.
Gilbert Gottfried, with Fran Drescher as his “Spock” sidekick.
Full disclosure: I’ve never actually seen Star Trek.
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Originally, that was a Vulcan Science Academy (not Starfleet) ship.
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Not according to Memory Alpha.