I was really in to Tuvix before they split.
Iâd enjoy a song called Neelix Can Fuck Off
Is it just me, or is the collection a rather motley assortment? Weyoun? Jellico? Mirror Universe Archer? Tuuvix?
Finally! I can get a figurine of Midshipman Peter Preston, from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan!
Prestooooooooooooooon!
Yeah, these choices are absolutely off-the-wall, like they took all of Star Trek, paused it at random intervals and made an action figure of whoever happened to be on screen at that moment. I actually kind of like it though. You just know thereâs SOMEBODY out there whoâs been hopelessly waiting for an action figure of these guys and this just made their week.
ETA: Me, Iâm still holding out for Phased-Into-The-Floor-LadyâŚ
What about the woman from the TOS episode about Charlie, who had her face removed?
Right? Just weird⌠Iâm kind of interested in the Weyoun, though.
Maybe a whole Jeffrey Combs set; collect them all!
For real! Iâd buy that! All his trek characters, Herbert West, wasnât he also in the original run of the 4400?
Google confirms Herbert West and the 4400.
Ooh and Agent Dammers from The Frighteners
Oh, Iâd forgotten that one!
âwell, actuallyâŚâ (click through for rant)
True story re TNG, but not quite what youâre likely expecting. A little something from the 90s. Duration: Coffee and a donut.
One of the Quality Control inspectors at my first employer, Rocketdyne, appeared on an episode of ST:TNG as a background extra on the Enterprise bridge. How did that happen? Three possibilities: Rocketdyne sometimes allowed the ST:TNG production access to remote/arid/rocky areas at our Santa Susana Field Labs; such areas stood in for some outdoor-on-alien planet scenes. (I actually observed that once from a location overlooking a cordoned-off gully on one of my visits to SSFL.) Thatâs one possibility, although said inspector would very likely not have been at SSFL on company business but, if he had, he would have had to walk onto the set and talk his way into an episode. Not possible? Read on. Second possibility: Our beautiful but short-lived Canoga Park auditorium once hosted George Takei, his visit focusing on diversity, but also lauding and thanking us for our work supporting space exploration. Perhaps that is where Mr. Takei and our inspector met thereby establishing a leg up via a kind word to one of the ST:TNG producers? Third possibility: Our QC inspector was a self-proclaimed authority on Star Trek and he attended as many ST conventions as he could. It was at one of those that he met George Takei. We know this because the meeting was spotted by a newspaper reporter and his photographer covering the event. It ended up in one of the newspapers (I think it was the L.A. Times), a photograph, cut out by someone at work and tacked to a bulletin board in our department. Shown in the photo was the inspector, Takei, and a Rocketdyne test mechanic, side by side and all smiling. The caption identified the two Rocketdyne employees as something they were not: âNASA representativesâ. From what we later learned, Rocketdyne upper management and the actual NASA rep at our Canoga Park campus went through the roof and dressed them down. The misrepresentation did not surprise anyone in our test organization; we knew the inspector and the mechanic quite well. The latter (quick to anger in the oddest scenarios, dangerous to be around) went about telling people that he was a meteorologist even though that was based on his taking a few classes, never graduating, and never being employed as a meteorologist. The inspector? On the job he tended to âplay engineerâ with that causing eyes to roll; his training and skills involved verifying and stamping off printed instructions for test personnel. (Note: He and every other QC inspector at Rocketdyne were generally considered to be NVA, as in Non-Value Added, product-wise.) Said inspector also promoted himself as a spokesperson for Rocketdyne via self-productions and antics. Yep. Thatâs him on YT. George Takei must have had many thousands of photos taken with fans who were just as fanatic as the inspector, but how many were NASA reps and so close to ST-focused studios? Perhaps thatâs what got him on the show. Given Rocketdyne SSFLâs then connection to ST:TNG, the charade, and that involving a Star Trek legend, I wouldnât be surprised if the news had gotten back to Rick Berman and others, and from then on serving as a lesson learned.
Quark in a jar!!!
