“However, Billingsley does have a not-entirely-serious pitch for a Phlox spinoff: “Maybe you could just bring me back. And it could just be Old Fat Phlox, which is the show I’ve also pitched for many years, where I’m just sitting on a rocking chair on the porch going, ‘Back in the day when I was having intergalactic adventures…’”
I found the bit, it’s the cold open to Time Squared, series 2, episode 13. And I totally got Pulaski’s attitude wrong, she’s looking forward to the eggs and is only disgusted when she tries them - she and LaForge think they’re awful
Mego’s starship Enterprise model, released for Star Trek: the Motion Picture, had one unique feature: the saucer section was removable.
This is because in the original script, the one the toymakers were going by, the original finale of the Motion Picture would have involved an Emergency Saucer Separation, a maneuver that was mentioned on the original series but never seen. Star Trek III’s original script also called for saucer separation at the Genesis Planet before this was rewritten.
This model was only released in Canada, along with a Klingon ship and a Vulcan shuttle, one of the rare times Mego ever made models.
I remember in TNG, for the first season, every time they’d do a saucer separation, it was this HUGE deal… like, they’d spend like 5 whole minutes showing it…
totally true. and then they got tired of it or something??
going to fight the borg? everybody hang on! ( oh yeah, and make sure to wave on our strafing runs. kids and the people drinking at the bar are right out in front. best foot forward and all. )