I'm watching the first episode of TNG where Picard goes onto the holodeck as Dixon Hill. He walked off the holodeck, saved the program and walked away with lipstick on the side of his mouth.
It was a cute touch, but it shouldn't have happened. Nothing on the holodeck is supposed to be able to go out into the real world. Continuity should have caught it.
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Recently, I watched a TV show (Without A Trace) with a guy who looked familiar to me. After 10 or 15 minutes, I realized he was on The Next Generation episode in which the Enterprise crewmen lose their memories. This guy becomes first officer and is urging Picard to attack an almost helpless foe (the Lysians).
Erich Anderson looked older but pretty much the same as he had as CDR Keiran MacDuff in Conundrum. The Without A Trace episode was Silent Partner.
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I was just thinking of the Star Trek movie Wrath of Khan. Kirk was trying mightily to get away from Khan's ship because of an explosive device. There's no air in space. With no medium to carry the explosion, they'd almost have to be right up against each other for the Enterprise to be blown up, too.
But, then, they wouldn't have any drama.
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I knew this day (Leonard Nimoy's death) was coming. We'd already lost Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek) and a few of the stars (DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Majel Barrett Roddenberry, to name three).
And now Nimoy is gone as well.
When I saw the first Star Trek episode (The Man Trap) in 1966, I'd never heard of Nimoy, and I thought that Star Trek was a dumb name for the show.
But I loved Star Trek, even through Spock's Brain and Catspaw.
Nimoy lived long and prospered (83, I believe), and you can't ask much more.
Goodbye, Spock.
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My first Star Trek episode was The Man Trap, the first one aired, and I've seen most of the TV episodes and movies and read many of the novels since. When I first heard of the new TV series in 1966, I was excited, but I thought that Star Trek was a strange name for a TV show. What did a 13-year-old kid know?
The funny thing is that Nimoy and Shatner first worked together in an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Happy birthdays, guys. Peace and long life.
