Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uok.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uok!dwhitney From: dwhitney@uok.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: QUARK Message-ID: <7600023@uok.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 01:22:00 EST Article-I.D.: uok.7600023 Posted: Fri Feb 8 01:22:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 06:48:03 EST References: <479@topaz.UUCP> Lines: 24 Nf-ID: #R:topaz:-47900:uok:7600023:000:1109 Nf-From: uok!dwhitney Feb 8 00:22:00 1985 Quark was one of my favorites, and the unforgettable character in my mind was played by Conrad Janis (who later went on to dubious notariety as Mindy's father in Mork and Mindy..) He played a bureaucrat, if I remember correctly, but I cannot remember his exact title. This program premiered only a year or two after I had become a big-time Trek fan, and I couldn't help but notice the devices borrowed from Trek in the series. The most obvious was, of course, Captain Quark, but there were dozens of subtle little lines and props which were simply stolen right out of the Trek set when no one was watching. I always thought NBC treated the show unfairly, it was entertaining, funny, and totally harmlesss. I secretly hoped it was all part of a cloak-and dagger plan by the big-wigs at NBC to segue into a new Star Trek series, the similarites in shows, etc.... Oh, well, so much for nostalgia. Now all we have to enjoy any more is that awful (in my opinion) "V" -- a giant step backward in Science Fiction, I mean LIZARD CREATURES??? Give us all a break... David Whitney ctvax!uokvax!uok!dwhitney