Nana Visitor totally rocked the house as the Intendant. Sooooo deliciously evil.
My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon
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Frankenbuddha - Feb 20, 2008 10:44:46 am PST #366 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
§ ita § - Feb 20, 2008 10:54:12 am PST #367 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought she kept the hard-drive.
She has the hard drive/brain, metal, and a whole lot of skin in bags.
As for TOS, what the hell is a yeoman when it's at home? I remember Kirk bitching about getting a female one, and in whatever was this morning's episode he puts his arm around her as they're about to go into an exchange of phaser fire. Totally inappropriate unless I get to see him do that to Spock too.
sumi - Feb 20, 2008 10:57:58 am PST #368 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
"Inappropriate" has a picture of Kirk next to it in the dictionary.
From wikipedia about "yeoman":
In the Royal Navy and the US Navy, a petty officer with usually clerical duties.
JenP - Feb 20, 2008 10:58:29 am PST #369 of 30001
Oh, did she ever. I just adored the fact that mirror verse!Kira was essentially in love with her other self.
beekaytee - Feb 20, 2008 10:59:48 am PST #370 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
what the hell is a [this] when it's at home?
I have an unholy love for this phrase...since Jonathan Creek introduced me to it. I can't imagine its origins but it just makes me smile.
Yeah, the ST protocols of rank where regularly confusing to me...not the assumed boundaries one might expect in a militaristic function like ship running. I think I just chalked it up to the 'hey man' influence of the 60s.
§ ita § - Feb 20, 2008 11:08:06 am PST #371 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In the Royal Navy and the US Navy, a petty officer with usually clerical duties.
She is basically standing around with a steno pad all the time. I guess the idea that they'd normally have a guy there is...well, the Trek that got approved is so much more sexist than the pilot that failed, with a female #1 in long pants who fires a phaser and even the damsel in distress picks up a morning star and whacks at the bad guy.
tommyrot - Feb 20, 2008 11:08:48 am PST #372 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Speaking of ST:TOS and the '60s - a video of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" starring the Trek crew: [link]
Some parts cracked me up....
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 20, 2008 11:14:22 am PST #373 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Things I loved about Nurse Chapel: she wasn't particularly glamorous; she didn't tend to scream and faint; and in her introductory episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" when there was a cave-in she pragmatically steadied herself against a rock instead of clutching at Kirk for rescue.
I do wish we'd gotten to see a series with Number One rather than the good nurse, however.
SailAweigh - Feb 20, 2008 11:25:54 am PST #374 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I guess the idea that they'd normally have a guy there is...
pretty lame, yeah.
Trivia only important to me. The woman who played Yoeman Rand, Grace Whitney, grew up across the street from my dad. In fact, she was probably older than Shatner when ST was being filmed, which makes me larf because they made it seem like she was supposed to be some cute young thing that he might just eventually get the hots for.
Laura - Feb 20, 2008 5:38:12 pm PST #375 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Ahhhh, Torchwoody goodness.