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Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, William Shatner guest stars in "A Time to Kill," episode 18 of the first season of The Big Valley (original air date January 19, 1966). Nobody kills or gets killed in this episode, so I can only assume they picked the episode title by playing that game where you open the Bible to a random page and point to a line without looking.
Shatner plays Brett Schuyler, Jarrod Barkley's old law school roommate, who comes to visit with stories of having made his fortune in shipping and real estate. The truth, however, is that without family money or connections, and being unwilling to start at the bottom of a legitimate business, he has fallen in with a gang of counterfeiters and bank robbers. They're using the visit as a pretext to swindle the local bank, where Jarrod has vouched for Schuyler's good character and credit. In the end, he can't go through with betraying his old friend and attempts to put the bank's money back. But when the rest of the gang tries to stop him, he sounds the alarm so they'll all be caught. The episode ends with Jarrod agreeing to represent him at the the trial.
Other Trek connections: Bill Quinn, who played Dr. McCoy's dying father in one of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier's flashback sequences, plays a Secret Service agent pursuing Schuyler's counterfeiting ring.
#star trek#star trek tos#star trek the original series#star trek v#star trek movies#the big valley#1960s tv#tv sci fi#tv westerns#william shatner#richard long#bill quinn#rhoda williams#image heavy
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I once heard someone singing "Imagine" on some awards or variety show, and they changed "And no religion, too" to "And all religion's true." If you disagree to that extent with the premise of the song, why not just sing something else?
when christian artists change the line in hallelujah from “maybe there’s a God above” to “I know that there’s a God above” >:c
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Leslie Howard in ‘Pimpernel’ Smith for Dan <3
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this wouldn’t show up on mobile…could be the links, could be all of the
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Childhood memories unlocked! We used to pile into Grandma's convertible and go to the the A&W in the next city all the time.
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Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Leonard Nimoy guest stars in "The Tiburcio Mendez Story," episode 26 of the fourth season of Wagon Train (original air date March 22, 1961). If you're playing along at home, you probably remember that Gene Roddenberry originally pitched Star Trek to the studio as “Wagon Train to the stars.”
Nimoy plays Joachin Delgado, the protégé and future son-in-law of the titular character. Mendez is the leader of a ragtag group of Californios who were displaced fifteen years earlier when the United States annexed California at the end of the Mexican-American War, and the Gold Rush brought a wave of prospectors and settlers west into the new territory. They've been living rough in the hills at the edge of the desert and robbing the occasional wagon train, partly to survive and partly to try to stem the tide of Anglo settlers.
A magistrate traveling with the wagon train believes he can get the group's original land grants restored to them if the individual members who actively committed the robberies agree to turn themselves in and stand trial. Seeing how his people, especially the children born in exile, are suffering from the harsh life in hiding, Mendez agrees to the plan. But the younger men, led by the hot-headed Delgado, resolve to stay and keep fighting.
Armed conflict breaks out between the two sides, and Mendez is fatally wounded. In tears at the deathbed of his surrogate father, Delgado promises to take Mendez's place as leader of the reunited group and see them back to California to reclaim their land.
Other Trek Connections:
This episode was written by Gene L. Coon, one of the Founding Fathers of Star Trek. He wrote or co-wrote 13 episodes of The Original Series and produced 33. Working closely with Roddenberry and Justman, he introduced such elements as as the Klingons, the United Federation of Planets, and the Prime Directive into the Trek lore.
Tiburcio Mendez is played by Nehemiah Persoff, who also played the delightfully bitchy Palor Toff in the Next Generation episode “The Most Toys.”
#star trek#star trek tos#star trek the original series#star trek the next generation#wagon train#1960s tv#1990s tv#tv sci fi#tv western#leonard nimoy#nehemiah persoff#lisa gaye#terry wilson#david garcia#gene l coon
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Ric Ocasek, The Cars, by Lynn Goldsmith (1982)
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This looks like something a lady in an Edward Gorey illustration would wear.
1928 c. Evening dress, the upper body of a thick white cotton to the lowered waist and extends over the skirt into eight narrow strips that are rounded at the bottom until just above the hem. The skirt is made of thin black cotton, scalloped at the bottom and is a little longer in the back. From the Amsterdam Museum.
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Spock, observing the proper form of the "protective body lean over the imperiled body of Dr. McCoy" from Captain Kirk
Spock, putting his "protective body lean over the imperiled body of Dr. McCoy" lessons into practice.
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Rey and BB8
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One Christmas when I was a kid we gave the cat his own roll of toilet paper to shred without interference. The house had a long corridor with red carpeting, and he shredded that roll from one end of it to the other. Went through the whole roll in one day with the power of his mighty jackrabbit legs. What a happy boy he was.
her happiness is more important than anything
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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
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Afternoon Dress, 1895
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Jim Henson and his Muppeteers from the first season of The Muppet Show 1976
#the muppets#the muppet show#publicity photo#jim henson#frank oz#richard hunt#dave goelz#jerry nelson#steve whitmire#louise gold
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Jack Torrance's sister.
So, it's over then?
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