rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) (08/01/84)
The picture of the black cat seen in stills behind credits is probably
Sylvia from the episode "Catspaw". The only "cat-people" in Star Trek
were those from Cait, like M'ress, in the animateds. I really don't
know if Farrendahl is this race, but I wish they would have included
that character in the movie.
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"It's only by NOT taking the human race seriously that I retain what
fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess."
Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoefriedman@uiucdcs.UUCP (08/02/84)
#R:ihnss:-217200:uiucdcs:24900057:000:234 uiucdcs!friedman Aug 2 09:06:00 1984 In the animateds, in addition to M'ress' race from Cait, weren't the Kzinti supposed to be large, cat-like beings? I don't know if either of these would be Farrendahl's race, though, because both seemed to have a distinct homeworld.
rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) (08/02/84)
I can't believe I left out the Kzin in my last note.
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fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess."
Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoewd9get@pur-ee.UUCP (Brandt) (08/02/84)
The Star Fleet Battles game deals with two feline races, the Kizinti and the Lyrans. Both are fierce, clan based cultures, probably from common ancestary(sp?) though I wouldn't mention that theory to either race as they are deadly enemies. As far as episodes with cats, "Catspaw" has a giant cat and "Assignment Earth" has a black cat as Gary Seven's assistant. Keith E. Brandt pur-ee!wd9get
judy@ut-ngp.UUCP (Judy Ashworth) (08/02/84)
There WAS one episode called, I believe, "Assignment: Earth" where the Enterprise goes back in time and meets Gary 7. This person has a pet cat who, at the end of the show appears to Terry Garr as a beautiful female. However, it is never clear whether this is an actual transformation or a humorous illusion perpetrated by a highly intelligent and gifted feline. ut-ngp!judy
guest@proper.UUCP (08/04/84)
One of the animated Star Trek episodes had an alien in it that very closely resembled the on in the STIII novelization. The episode was "The Jihad", in which Kirk, Spock, a lizard-like alien (a Gorn?), a female human with the hots for Kirk, a many-armed insect-like alien, and a bird-like alien were all snagged by someone described as belonging to "one of the oldest races in the Federation". This alien was cat-like, and stood hunched-over as if she would just as soon go around on all fours as stand upright. I wonder if there's a connection...
jay@smu.UUCP (08/06/84)
#R:ihnss:-217200:smu:18200015:000:886 smu!jay Aug 6 15:10:00 1984 Terri Gar was the receptionist, not the cat in "Assignment: Earth." As to the Farrendahl... If the nomenclature serves (the definition definitely does), they are one of the oldest spacefaring races. The entire race now resides in various mobile planetoids scattered throughout the galaxy. They keep mostly to themselves and only interfere in galaxy-wide emergencies. They are portrayed humanoid cats with stooped shoulders (it looks extremely uncomfortable and with all their knowldge you think they could fix it). They once enlisted the aid of the Kirk and Spock (and other races) to retrieve a holy symbol belonging to another culture (name escapes me) before that race began a holy war with the galaxy. This is from an animated episode of Star Trek (I seem to recall the words "Jem" and "Bem". "Bem" is wrong and "Jem" may just be from the episode with the deaf-mute empath...)
naiman@pegasus.UUCP (Ephrayim J. Naiman) (08/07/84)
> There WAS one episode called, I believe, "Assignment: Earth" where the > Enterprise goes back in time and meets Gary 7. This person has a pet > cat who, at the end of the show appears to Terry Garr as a beautiful > female. However, it is never clear whether this is an actual transformation > or a humorous illusion perpetrated by a highly intelligent and gifted feline. Wasn't that episode a pilot for some show ? -- ==> Ephrayim J. Naiman @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6259 Paths: [ihnp4, allegra, ...]!pegasus!naiman
moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (08/08/84)
>Now, was she and her race made up out of thin protomatter by the author >of this novel, or are the catfolks found in any other TV episodes or books? >Reason I ask is that at the end of our local UHF stations's weekly ST rerun, >the random stills from various episodes that they show at the end >(during credits and the theme song) showed a large black cat face. >I know that I have missed many TV episodes in spite of my religious viewing >efforts back in '66--'68. So, anybody see any cat people? Or read of them? The black cat at the end of those credits is either from the Halloween episode with Kirk & company captured by wizards (sorry, forgot title), or Gary Seven's pal Isis. As to Cat People, there are the Kzin, described in the animated episodes and in Alan Dean Foster's novelizations of said episodes... they sound quite a bit alike. Also, one of the communications officer for the animated episodes was of a race related to the Kzin, which sounds closer to the person in McIntyre's book... Lt. M'ress, I believe. "What kind of ANIMAL would DO a thing like this?" "Whoop Whoop Whoop..." Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA
judy@ut-ngp.UUCP (Judy Ashworth) (08/08/84)
I don't recall anyone saying that Terri Gar WAS the cat. Anyway, how could that be possible? There was a scene at the end of the story where the cat APPEARED TO Terri Gar as a woman, but it was never clear if it was a real transformation or just an illusion. Think ut-ngp!judy
wales@ucla-cs.UUCP (08/10/84)
Mention might also be made of a character in Kathleen Sky's novel
"Death's Angel". One of the ambassadors being ferried by the Enter-
prise to a meeting to discuss a Federation/Romulan detente is Neko
of Gyuunyuu -- described as a "gigantic gray cat" with a rather bel-
ligerent disposition. Neko is one of several anti-detente ambassadors
who seemingly will themselves to death in the middle of the night after
seeing their culture's version of the Angel of Death.
"Death's Angel", by the way, is an interesting book (not necessarily
perfect, but entertaining), and I would recommend it to any Star Trek
fan who has not read it.
Larry Niven's Kzinti (a hostile, cat-like race in which only the males
are sentient) make an appearance in an animated episode ("Slaver
Weapon" was the title, I believe). This was nothing more than a re-
writing of one of Niven's earlier stories ("Soft Weapon"?) with Star
Trek characters in the key roles.
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UUCP: ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!walesfrdish@aecom.UUCP (Larry Freund) (08/14/84)
> As to the Farrendahl... If the nomenclature serves (the definition definitely > does), they are one of the oldest spacefaring races. The entire race now > resides in various mobile planetoids scattered throughout the galaxy. They > keep mostly to themselves and only interfere in galaxy-wide emergencies. > They are portrayed humanoid cats with stooped shoulders (it looks extremely > uncomfortable and with all their knowldge you think they could fix it). > They once enlisted the aid of the Kirk and Spock (and other races) to retrieve > a holy symbol belonging to another culture (name escapes me) before that race > began a holy war with the galaxy. > > This is from an animated episode of Star Trek (I seem to recall the words > "Jem" and "Bem". "Bem" is wrong and "Jem" may just be from the episode with > the deaf-mute empath...) The animated story referred to is called "Jihad" as far as I remember. "Jem" is the empath (or is it "Gem"). "Bem" is yet another animated story, about a planet of intelligent colony creatures. -- "It's either believe that, or else believe we're only characters in a series of stories being written by a couple of hacks who need the money." Larry Freund UUCP: {cucard,philabs,pegasus,esquire,rocky2,ihnp4}!aecom!frdish
jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) (08/15/84)
I remember two episodes with black cats in them. One was the episode
with Gary-7. This is the one where the Enterprise is time traveling
back to observe late 20th century earth history. They intercept Gary-7
beaming to earth along with a companion who is a black cat. Gary treats
the cat as an equal (superior) and there are little hints all through
the show that it is not really a cat. Gary's mission is to sabatoge the
first space based atomic weapon, putting a little scare into the 20th
century leaders.
The other episode, the one I think the still shown at the end of the
shows is taken from, involves a man(?) and a woman(?) who are invading
our galaxy. In the end they turn out to look like little baby birds
but at one point the female takes the form of an 8ft tall black house
cat and goes hunting for Kirk and Spock. Kirk smashes the magic wand
just in time, causing the invaders to revert to their natural form.
(Maybe you can tell this was not one of my favorite episodes.)
Jerry Aguirre
{hplabs|fortune|ios|tolerant|allegra|tymix}!oliveb!jerrydas@ucla-cs.UUCP (08/23/84)
... >Mention might also be made of a character in Kathleen Sky's novel >"Death's Angel". One of the ambassadors being ferried by the Enter- >prise to a meeting to discuss a Federation/Romulan detente is Neko >of Gyuunyuu -- described as a "gigantic gray cat" with a rather bel- >ligerent disposition. "Neko of Gyuunyuu", huh. Cute. "Neko" is Japanese for "cat", and "gyuunyuu" is Japanese for "milk". -- David Smallberg, das@ucla-cs.ARPA, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das