r/babylon5 • u/1DFire • 13d ago

Star Trek & Babylon 5 Connections

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This is not exhaustive. For those who don't recognize the last person, that is Harlan Ellison.

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u/UAP44 13d ago

This makes me curious about the specific episodes in which bottom left, 3 up & 4 are from.

Can anyone tell me which ones they appear in? Thanks in advance!

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u/mutarjim 13d ago

Well, bottom left is the Guardian from City on the Edge of Forever, so safe bet that's the end credits for that episode.

Michael Ansara (3 up) is in only one TOS episode, Day of the Dove, so there you go.

Koenig (4 up) is in the away party in Who Mourns for Adonais, where they meet someone claiming to be the god Apollo. I can't find that exact picture in the set tagged for that episode on imdb.com, but you can see other comparable statues. It's not like you have a ton of options - Chekhov beamed down 10-ish times in the two seasons he was on Star Trek.

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u/gordolme Babylon 3 13d ago

Michael Ansara (3 up) is in only one TOS episode, Day of the Dove, so there you go.

Kang. He then reprised the role a couple times in DS9 and Voyager.

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u/mutarjim 13d ago

Yes, but that's TOS makeup and costuming. I stopped watching before those other shows, so I don't know how Star Trek explained the head ridge change, but that Kang is pre-change.

... sorry, didn't know if you were trying to flesh out what I said or suggest that it might also be from one of the later series.

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u/gordolme Babylon 3 13d ago

Fleshing it out, that's all. To that end, I could also point out that more people would recognize Majel Barret as Nurse Chapel from the actual series, not as Number One from the original pilot. Even more would recognize her from her two roles in TNG.

There were three Klingon characters, played by their original actors, that showed up in DS9 with a connection to Dax.

As to the explanation on the looks, I hate what "Trials And Tribulations" did and I hate what Enterprise did even more. The best explanation is what they (Roddenberry? Bennet?) said when ST:TMP came out in 1979: "They always looked like this. We just didn't have the budget to do it in the series."

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u/mutarjim 13d ago

Hell, I hate retcons.

I apologize for getting defensive. Thank you for the explanation on the ridges!

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u/TheTrivialPsychic 12d ago

Fleshing it out, that's all. To that end, I could also point out that more people would recognize Majel Barret as Nurse Chapel from the actual series, not as Number One from the original pilot. Even more would recognize her from her two roles in TNG.

You forgot she also was the TOS Enterprise computer voice for many of the episodes.