The Best Star Trek Guest Appearance

Published on May 13, 2006 By Dr Guy In Entertainment

A while back, I wrote an article about the worst Star Trek Character. Today, I am writing about the best guest appearance on Star Trek. I am watching Star Trek Uncut on G4, and the episode is Friday's child. It is not one of my favorites as it is so cookie cutter (the red shirt died in the first 5 minutes), but yet it is. Why? Julie Newmar!

yes, she starred in one of the Star Trek Original episodes. Remember that movie with Patrick Swayze? "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar"? It really was a crappy movie. Except their adoration of Julie Newmar! How many people reallize she also starred in "7 Brides for 7 Brothers"?

She never was a major star, but boy could she project sexy! She is the best Cat Woman, bar none! She is my pick for the best Guest Star on Star Trek! That is one actress I really would like to meet!

Comments (Page 3)

Rightwinger

on May 16, 2006

I am a mere amature in the presense of the master.

---Dr. Guy

(Blushing)Well, gosh; thank you. +LOL+ Nice be master of something besides "bating". Har-har.

I'm well-versed in TOS and TNG lore; not so much DS9 and "Voyager". I enjoyed DS9 and followed it somewhat, but didn't get totally immersed, for some reason. Avery Brooks is in fact one of my favorite actors. I always liked him asd "Hawk" on "Spenser for Hire". If I ever get to see him at a convention, I'm going to get him to say "Spens-aah". +LOL+
"Voyager" was on UPN, and my cable co. didn't carry UPN for a long time, so I never really got to see much of it. I did like "Enterprise", to a certain extent, but, as I think I told you before, I didn't like the way they messed with the Trek Universe timeline already laid down. It irritated me.

I once found a link on the Trek website to a site set up by Gene Roddenberry's son.
He was trying to make a documentary about the positive ways Trek has affected people's lives. He was asking for submissions, so I sent in my story. I actually got a "form e-mail" from him, or his staff, probably, thanking me for my submission, but that it wasn't really what they were looking for.+LOL+
If it had saved my marriage, I might have gotten on. But then, I'd still be with her......ick.

Dr Guy

on May 17, 2006

I didn't like the way they messed with the Trek Universe timeline already laid down. It irritated me.

Yea, me too. They were introducing concepts that were unknown to ST the original.

Rightwinger

on May 18, 2006

Yea, me too. They were introducing concepts that were unknown to ST the original.

Well, not just that, but they had stuff out of whack as far as when it was "introduced" in the Trek timeline. "Enterprise" took place 150 years before Kirk's time. Yet:
They had "phase guns" and "phase cannons", but in the original pilot, "The Cage", which took place only about 10 years before Kirk's time, they were using laser guns. The Earth of "Enterprise" should still have been involved in the Romulan Wars, but I never heard any mention of the conflict, and when they encountered Romulans in the show, they didn't know who they were. Besides that, Humans and Romulans never even met face-to-face; negotiations to end the war were done by subspace radio. That fact was laid down in TOS Season 1 episode "Balance of Terror".

Ah...forget it. I'm just a Trekker, and we're a very persnickity lot.+LOL+

Dr Guy

on May 18, 2006

Ah...forget it. I'm just a Trekker, and we're a very persnickity lot.+LOL+

No, that is good! I was thinking of the concept of time travel. I remember when the NCC 1701 Enterprise accidently went back in time, and they were wondering how to get forward again. Yet Archer was bouncing back and forth in time like it was nothing (altho he was not doing the bouncing).

Rightwinger

on May 18, 2006

That shows a fan right there. They aren't there for the cameo, they just wanna be a part of it.

---Bakerstreet

John Tesh played a Klingon in the TNG episode (damn---how do like that...I CAN'T REMEMBER!) where Worf goes through his Rite of Ascention, and has to walk a gauntlet of 20 warriors who stick him with "pain sticks", cattleprod-like torture devices that affect the nerves and cause severe agony.
Tesh was on camera for like a second or two, and his only line was "YEARRRGH!" as he stuck Worf in the side, but he was just happy to be there.

Two LA-based radio guys played "wuss-aliens" that run from light; all they did, after spending hours being made unrecognizable in the makeup chair, was run away from the Enterprise crew, into the shadows. They, too, were just happy to be there.+LOL+

Me, I'd be honored to play the "Luckless Security Redshirt Who Stupidly Dies In The First Three Seconds". That would rock.

Dr Guy

on May 19, 2006

Me, I'd be honored to play the "Luckless Security Redshirt Who Stupidly Dies In The First Three Seconds". That would rock.

Hey! Was that you on that episode where they beamed down and...........

on Nov 06, 2006

Famke Janssen has to be my favorite TNG guest star, but Diedrich Bader of Drew Carey/Office Space fame always makes me chuckle when I see him in TNG's "The Emissary".

Dr Guy

on Nov 06, 2006

Diedrich Bader

No offense, but he looks like Bob of Enzyte fame? Is he?

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