In a message dated 96-06-07 09:52:33 EDT, scotty@dove.mtx.net.au (Scotty)
writes:
>Subj: Re: naming our MGBGT, Vina or Susan.
>Date: 96-06-07 09:52:33 EDT
>From: scotty@dove.mtx.net.au (Scotty)
>Sender: owner-mgs@triumph.cs.utah.edu
>Reply-to: scotty@dove.mtx.net.au (Scotty)
>To: BLECKSTEIN@SHELL.MONMOUTH.COM
>CC: mgs@autox.team.net, barry.berg@nwa.com
>
>G`Day Mike & Milo,
> your resident expert is right! Originally filmed as "The Cage"
>as the Pilot of Star Trek but thought to be to far out of it for the TV
>viewers of the day "The Cage" was never released for consumption,until
>recently, but was used and spliced into the film,for the two part first
>episode released, "The Menagerie".Vila was played by Susan Oliver and was
>indeed a green colored orion slave girl on Thalos 4,she was the only
>survivor of the S.S.Columbia which crashed on Talos 4 in 2236 and was badly
>injured,but nursed back to health, although physically deformed because the
>Taloains did not know what a human looked like, [corny and hard to believe
>they couldn`t work out that us humans are roughly symmetrical] but `sheez`
>it was only a story,and I`ve heard taller stories at the MG car club when
>every one was still sober![LBC content] I was mesmerized by the show and
>have been a fan since,it`s fun escapisim not to be taken seriously IMHO.
>regards,
>John[Australian Trekker #818]Scott,
>Adelaide,Australia.
>
>lurk mode on!
Live long and prosper...John!
R. Johnson - Dallas
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