tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060041.post2953419326974650529..comments2024-03-23T19:30:55.540-04:00Comments on INNER TOOB: LUCY @ 100: THE BALLAD OF LUCY AND THE DUKE... AND LUCYToby O'Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06999037844031101965noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060041.post-51612282413854893042011-08-07T15:53:29.394-04:002011-08-07T15:53:29.394-04:00Wow! Thanks SO much for putting the time and effo...Wow! Thanks SO much for putting the time and effort into that reply. I really appreciate it and I hope other visitors will check out what you have to say on the subject......Toby O'Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06999037844031101965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060041.post-73147249113937017652011-08-07T15:46:33.148-04:002011-08-07T15:46:33.148-04:00Your theory about the televersion seeing something...Your theory about the televersion seeing something different has to be true, and works for other general appearances by the guest where they are different characters--especially in prominent roles. There are two major examples from Star Trek that prove it. (And we can't use the real world excuse of random casting or that they couldn't write it that 'you look like him' because the second episode hadn't been written yet...)<br />1. Mark Lenard as the Romulan Commander in Balance of Terror and as Spock's father, Sarek, in Journey to Babel.<br />2. William Campbell as Trelane, The Squire of Gothos, and the Klingon Captain Koloth in the Trouble With Tribbles.<br />Genetically, the Commander could look like Sarek, because their species are cousins. But Spock didn't comment, except to raise his eyebrows...and nobody else realized he looked like a famous Federation Ambassador, either. Kirk, later, didn't recognize Sarek as looking like the Commander. Spock does state that the Balok puppet from The Corbomite Maneuver has elements that remind him of his father's face (although compared to Sarek, I can't see it...) So, clearly, Sarek and the Commander don't look that much alike to people who see them up close and personal, like Kirk and Spock.<br />For Trelane, I recall seeing a comment in a fan magazine stating that Trelane must have snuck a peek at some Klingons once when he was younger. (Actually, the writer did make the wise comment that it was a compliment to the performer's abilities that they were asked back to do another role....) I guess it's just an optical illusion that Trelane looks like Koloth.<br />But that leads me to another comparison for voices: Trelane's mother was voiced by Barbara Babcock, who also appeared as the voice of Gary Seven's Beta 5 computer in Assignment: Earth and the voice of Commander Loskene in The Tholian Web and as the voice of The Lights of Zetar, plus two full appearances as Mea 3 in A Taste of Armageddon and Philana, Parmen's wife, in Plato's Stepchildren. I suppose you could easily ignore the Beta 5's circuits, and the Enterprise's translator circuits, as coincidental. (Especially since in A Taste of Armageddon, Mea's father, Anan 7, actually used a voice duplicator to pretend to be Kirk and attempt to con the crew.) And nobody would recall Trelane's mother's voice except Kirk and being a human, it would pass. Now, however, Mea 3 and Philana are a different story. Mea was a bit of a love interest, so Kirk should figure that Philana resembled her. Since the Sahndarans/Platonians are thousands of years old, perhaps if she was male, I could say she fathered a child there and passed her genetic material onward. But she wouldn't have left eggs or a child there... So we have to fall back on the races are related business, as seen in the Next Gen episode that explained all the humanoids in the galaxy, The Chase...and that Philana didn't really look like Mea, even if it looked that way to use at home. Your principle stands!<br /><br />Gordon LongPDXWizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10884427889989897626noreply@blogger.com