In April 1990 Bibi Besch talked to Starlog about playing Carol Marcus in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. I feel disappointed that I never got a chance to complete my relationship with Jim Kirk vis-a-vis the death of our son [David, played by the late Merritt Butrick]…My sense about it was that they …
Whitney remembered Roddenberry’s description of Janice Rand. She would be as Gunsmoke’s Miss Kitty was to Matt Dillon. The Marshal could always talk his problems over with his favorite saloon girl, she knew him better than anyone else. That was the relationship Roddenberry wanted Rand and Kirk to have. The Captain could confide in her, …
This is one of the big episodes we discussed in our recent episode of All Things Trek on men and masculinity in Star Trek, because it’s about the qualities that make a man a leader. In a transporter accident at the beginning of “The Enemy Within”, Kirk gets split into two, in the vein of Dr. …
“Turnabout Intruder” is the very last episode of the Original Series, but unfortunately – I felt – one of the weakest. On the plus side, it did give us some of the best Shatner overacting reaction .gifs in the entire series: And of course… Wait, you say, with all that awesome, what can there possibly …
Kirk is on a colony planet, taking in a production of Macbeth with Doctor Thomas Leighton, who is convinced the lead actor, Anton Karidien, is a former brutal dictator called Kodos the Executioner. Kirk says Kodos is dead, but if Leighton’s right, it would be a big deal because Kodos killed 4,000 people. Only nine …
The Enterprise has just detected an Earth-style distress signal but they’re hundreds of light-years from Earth. The guys work intensely, hunched over their consoles. Yeoman Janice Rand stands in the background with her portable tricorder over shoulder. If her job is just to stand there while shit’s going down, what does she do on slow …
The Enterprise arrive at the planet Exo III to find a scientist, Dr. Roger Korby, who hasn’t been heard from in five years. Turns out he’s also Nurse Chapel’s fiance. Kirk and Spock don’t think he’s alive because two previous expeditions found no trace of him. They must not have been looking very hard, though, …