Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 15:18:23 -0700
From: Deborah Capuano (magneto@bcfreenet.seflin4tag.lib.fl.us)
Subject: Bringing back oneshot characters

  All this discussion about Simmonds has gotten me thinking...I'd like to
put this question to the list: which characters (aliens or non-regular 
Alphan crew) would you have liked to have reappear in more than the one 
episode they did appear in?



Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 15:59:30 -0700
From: mpoindexter@class44train.com (Marshall Poindexter)
Subject: Re: Bringing back oneshot characters

Great question, Deborah! I've always thought that Dorzak from the Second
Season episode of the same name should've reappeared in a Third Season of
S1999, if it had ever been produced. The same could be said for Balor, from
First Season's "End of Eternity". Heck, why not have 'em both come back in
the same two-part episode! Wouldn't that be a challenge for our plucky
Alphans...



Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 15:49:11 -0700
From: Sfcafeguy@aol4tag.com
Subject: Re: Bringing back oneshot characters

Good question.  Offhand, Lou Picard and Annette Fraser from "The Metamorph"
-- though since Picard died on camera it's a bit difficult.  All the
interesting ones died:  Kelly in "Space Brain," Mateo in "The Troubled
Spirit," Cellini in "Dragon's Domain."  I also liked Anna Davis and Luke
Ferro in "Testament of Arkadia."

One I don't want to see is that Irish cowboy from "All that Glisters" -- too
forced or over the top in my opinion.

How about you Deborah, which would you like to see again?

Robert



Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 20:01:42 -0700
From: jquimby@utmmg.med.uth.tmc4tag.edu (Jeanette Quimby)
Subject: Re: Bringing back oneshot characters

Robert is right about the one shot characters and death.

I think it would be interesting to bring Dionne back in Season II (even
though she died in Season 1) or even Vana (who was left intact) to see how
it would affect J. Koenig and H. Russell's relationship, as well as Tony and
Maya's considering my perception of Tony being a ladies man.  Also
concerning Vana, it would be interesting to wonder if after being in command
for over two years at that point, given the opportunity again - would John
Koenig this time decide to stay and forget about the responsibility after
having held it for so long.

Other possibilities could include:

Another possibility is to bring Arra back sporadically.  She knew the
Alphan's future in Collision Course - could she help guide them or direct them.

The Darian ship is a possibility.  They were still alive when last seen.
They were technologically more advanced in some areas, yet backwards in
others.  Would the "elite" group seek vengence on the Alphans since if it
weren't for the Alphans - Naman would still be alive and their gene bank intact.

Back to lurking (Thank goodness it's Friday - I actually had a few minutes
to read some of my mail!).

Jeanette Quimby



Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 20:21:41 -0700
From: "Gina L. Prosch" (glprosch@cs1.presby4tag.edu)
Subject: Re: Bringing back oneshot characters

I'd like to see more of Cellini before "Dragon's Domain." Since he and 
Koenig obviously have a history, it might've been nice to explore their 
relationship before his death. Besides Bergman, he may have acted as 
occasional council for our beleaguered Commander. 

Anna and Luke too would have been welcome. As people who, in the space of 
an hour, underwent an almost religious conversion, it might have been 
nice to know them better before-hand.

Were there ever ANY recurring alien races (other than Psychons?)

Richie



Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 10:08:18 -0700
From: Ronald Dudley (dudleyrd@expert.cc.purdue4tag.edu)

> I think it would be interesting to bring Dionne back , , , 

How about a spacewarp splits her into multiple beings, 5 of whom arrive
on Alpha, and are known as the "Dione Quintuplets".

(Hint: I am neither serious, nor ridiculing Jeanette's ideas).


I would like to see Koenig having more nightmares about those bogeymen whom
Vana's father Raan sent to attack him.  Those bogeymen ruled!

> Another possibility is to bring Arra back sporadically.  She knew the
> Alphan's future in Collision Course - could she help guide or direct them.

Sort of like the Great Gazoo from "The Flintstones" ? 
Every week, she appears, and calls the Alphans "Dumb-Dumbs" ?
(Check out the Flintstones site at:
 http://www.chickasaw.com/~cchamber/flipic.html)

Or maybe she could be a nicer version of Q from ST-TNG ?  Q's Auntie Arra ?

> The Darian ship is a possibility.

Those 13 "true Darians" would have been exterminated by those hoary mutant
survivors.  Such a small minority would have long since been eliminated in
some Darian version of "The Final Solution".  The ship ran on automatic,
(somehow ?) so it would be supreme irony that Neman's mad schemes to keep
his race "genetically pure" came to an absolute end when the mutants inherit
the new Daria, and worship Koenig, Alan, and Helena as gods instead of Neman.

Ronald



Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 17:24:52 -0700
From: PatriEmb@aol4tag.com
Subject: Re: Bringing back oneshot characters

>Another possibility is to bring Arra back sporadically.  She knew the
>Alphan's future in Collision Course - could she help guide them or direct
>them.

That's a great idea!! She could communicate through either Koenig or Carter.
 Maybe her contact with Koenig could spear another "Mutiney on the Moonbase"
themed episode, only with a little more depth to it, and a real challenger to
Koenig's leadership. . 



Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 06:39:54 -0700
From: Patricia Sokol (sokolp@war.wyeth4tag.com)
Subject:  Bringing back oneshot characters -Reply

Having gotten to the bottom of todays' e-mail reminded me that
Winters from The Infernal  Machine is one I'd like to show up again. 
Yes, he did make Morrow seem warm and cuddly by comparison...but
that's the great thing about him.  He was absolutely expressionless. 
Couldn't you see him and Carter getting into some really great
arguments?  Arguments are so much more effective when one person is
hopping mad and the other doesn't even raise his voice.  Winters
shows up in other episodes in the first year, passing out files and
the like, but if WE could choose a replacement for Morrow in the
second season, instead of having one thrust upon us (i.e. Tony) I'd
vote for Winters.

Carolyn Powell - the psychopath from The Lambda Factor - is another
I'd like to see.  Seems like she had an attitude even before the
squiggly telepathy-enhancing thing came on the scene, stealing her
roommate's beau and all.  She could be a thorn in peoples' sides now
and then.

-PTS.



Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:58:00 -0700
From: brian.dowling@drug44net.co.uk (Brian Dowling)
Subject: Bringing back oneshot cha

Season one: Jim Haines from "Voyager's Return".  I'd like to know how
the work he'd been doing with Dr Linden/Queller carried on after Queller
took out those Sidons, and how that incident affected him.

Season two: Dave O'Reilly from "All That Glisters".  The concept of an
Irish cowboy (with a wavering accent at that! :-) ) fascinates me - I'd
love to see how that developed, and whether he had any success in his
woman chasing.  Visions of Dave and Tony squaring up to each other over
Maya...

 * OLX 2.1 TD * Born to raise hell... and chickens



Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:25:07 -0700
From: Steve Wilson (wilsons@howa.lib4tag.md.us)
Subject: Re: Bringing back oneshot characters -Reply

> Winters from The Infernal  Machine is one I'd like to show up again. 
> Yes, he did make Morrow seem warm and cuddly by comparison...but
> that's the great thing about him.  He was absolutely expressionless. 

Interesting choice.  Since that was on this weekend, I noticed some new 
things about him.  I always really disliked him, then I realized he was 
just reading lines written for Paul (When I was ten, I didn't understand 
stuff like that).  I think my dislike came from the way he ordered others 
about and challenged Alan when he'd just come out of left field.

Actually, the line about "execution of a hostage" would be more chilling 
if they'd established him a little better as someone we could trust.  
Makes you think -- why didn't they just give his lines to Sandra or Kano?

Still, I can see why you'd like to see him again.  He's obviously someone 
Koenig trusts, so why not see more of him?

> Carolyn Powell - the psychopath from The Lambda Factor - is another
> I'd like to see.  Seems like she had an attitude even before the

Definitely.  I always liked Carolyn.  She obviously enjoyed being a 
bitch.  It would have been interesting to see her "re-educated."

My own vote goes to Shermeen Williams, on whom I had a tremendous crush 
when I was twelve and "Matter of Balance" aired (or erred, as the case 
may be).  Silly plot, but I liked her.



Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 18:37:52 -0700
From: Deborah Capuano (magneto@bcfreenet.seflin4tag.lib.fl.us)
Subject: Re: Bringing back oneshot characters -Reply

actually one of mine, that I may not hacve previously mentioned...and I'm 
sort of wondering what anyone else l on this list thought of him...was 
Magus from "TNATNE"....I mean you do realize that he could've easily 
gotten himself out of the breakup of New Earth...all he'd need would to 
be to have a little light enter the pit where Koenig et al an had trapped 
him and with everything coming apart it's almost a gfi given that that 
would've occurred...