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Old November 29th, 2017 #30
Ray Allan
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I'm a sucker for redheads too, and thought Dr. Elise McKennah was hot. Michelle Specht is also married to Vic Mignogna who plays Capt. Kirk. One thing some fans were complaining about introducing McKennah's character as Starfleet's first ship's counselor foreshadowing Deanna Troi in Next Generation was that it cut into the Kirk/Spock/McCoy triumvirate, but that didn't bother me too much. I didn't like her race-mixing with Mirror-Sulu, either. Lt. Palmer (Cat Roberts) was a looker, too. Her character originally appeared in 'The Doomsday Machine' episode. And Smith was first seen in 'Where No Man Has Gone Before,' the second TOS pilot episode where the Enterprise first encounters the galactic energy barrier. McKennah, Smith and Drake were all killed off, so that explains their absence from ST:TMP.

Too bad CBS didn't pick up Star Trek Continues instead of that abysmal Star Trek: Discovery. That would have pleased a great many fans if they did.
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