#michael ensign

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GHOSTBUSTERS 1984

We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!

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Up next on my 80's Fest Movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 marathon... Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #Movie #movies #music #musical #pinkfloyd #thewall #pinkfloydthewall #bobgeldof #christinehargreaves #kevinmckeon #BobHoskins #RIPBobHoskins #davidbingham #jennywright #michaelensign #JoanneWhalley #rogerwaters #vintage #VHS #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas6thannual80sfest

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Michael Ensign as N. Tropy | Tuesday, 02.13.24

Let's give this legendary voice actor, Michael Ensign a round of applause (and a happy80th birthday) for his voice acting contributions as Dr. Nefarious Tropy, the master of time and a major antagonist within the Crash Bandicoot games (1998-2004).

Happy birthday! 🎂

Games:

Crash Bandicoot: Warped (1998) - first role as N. Tropy

Crash Team Racing (1999)

Crash Nitro Kart (2003)

Crash Twinsanity (2004) - final role as N. Tropy

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via Trekcore.com

Scott Bakula (Captain Jonathan Archer) and Michael Ensign (Doctor Oratt) 2003 in Star Trek: Enterprise "Stigma���

https://data2364.wordpress.com/2022/01/01/daily-star-trek-1-januar-2022/

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Michael Ensign

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This is something I believe probably happened on the Entiprise at some point.

It was a quiet day (a terrifying concept to everyone in Starfleet) and Chekov is bored so he decides to go around the crew and jokingly ask them if they are the favourite child.

He jokingly goes up to Spock because everyone knows he's an only child and asks him if he's his father's favourite child

Deadpan Spock responds with a firm no.

Years later a confused crew becomes even more confused when they meet Sybok because how the hell is this Crazy emotional Vulcan Sarek's favourite child!

Sybok is amused by this and keeps up the ruse. In memory of his favourite family member.

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No, you're the president of the Hair Club for Men!

Gawds above, but I've seen better wigs in elementary school plays.

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Star Wars: Boba Fett -Twin Engines of Destruction- November 2011

(20-32 of 32)

written by Andy Mangels

pencils by John Nadeau

inks by Jordi Ensign

lettering by Michael Taylor

colors by Cary Porter

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DISC FINALS!

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Ensign Flandry Cover Art by Michael Whelan

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Episode 9

This episoddee i love it so far lmao

Also i love cornwell.

 Oh no airiam oh no

Also i love tilly

And michael and spock fighting, youch

This is so painful 

Spock stoppppp

Ive been yelling at the TV this whole time

Poor michael

Her ability to show one emotion under an entirely different expression is amazing

Oop patar…

 Oo what did michael see

 And how are there 5 injuries in engineering i didnt know there were that many people *in* engineering 

Why are Spock and Paul such an effective duo??

Was that a dead bolian? Tue only bolian seen on disco was a dead one? Nvm just another andorian

Did bolians just disappear???

Oh gosh. This is so good. Poor airiam

Aww tilly her delivery of this scene is so good.

This scene is so sad 😭😭😭

Spock trying to logically convince his sister to open the airlock and pretending that he isn’t a scared boy crying out for his sister to please choose to come home 😖

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👁️ TRANSLATION: "I can see you!"

🎨: @hokuru

Data discovers and rescues Geordi and Ro from their state out of phase with the main ship

(Source)

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February 2024 Birthdays | Thursday, 02.01.24

Here are the upcoming birthdays of February 2024 down below, including:

Thursday, February 1 (Today)

Alison Viktorin

Hynden Walch

Saturday, February 3

Ryan Bartley

Wednesday, February 7

Dan Green

Thursday, February 8

Josh Keaton

Friday, February 9

Crispin Freeman

Saturday, February 10

Krystal LaPorte

Monday, February 12

Martin Burke

Scott Menville

Tara Strong

Tuesday, February 13

Brina Palencia

Erica Mendez

JB Blanc

Kelly Hu

Michael Ensign

Robin Clayton

Wednesday, February 14 (Valentine's Day)

T.J. Storm

Sunday, February 18

Brittany Lauda

Tuesday, February 20

Stephanie Wittels

Wendee Lee

Wednesday, February 21

Doug Erholtz

Zach Aguilar

Saturday, February 24

Bryce Papenbrook

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A man had no right to look like Gerald, an ensign of the fallen Prince of Light, and be shy; but that was always Gerald's trouble, he never was given the credit for being shy, he put himself between you and any sympathy with him, he made it clear that he didn't want your infernal sympathy.

Michael Arlen, The Green Hat

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Gold Strike Hotel & Gambling Hall and Nevada Landing, Interstate 15, Jean, NV.

“Last year, I explored the abandoned Terrible's Hotel & Casino (previously called Gold Strike) ... I found slides and printed photos inside, and brought them back to Australia to be digitized.” - The Telltale Traveler

Gold Strike Hotel & Gambling Hall opened Dec. 1987 right off Interstate 15, adjacent to Pop's Oasis. The owners of Gold Strike Inn, Boulder City – David Belding, Michael Ensign, and William Richardson – bought 200 acres from the family of "Pop" Simon and developed Gold Strike. After it proved a success a sister property Nevada Landing Hotel and Casino was built on the other side of the interstate and opened in ’89.

All of the interior photos below were taken at Nevada Landing.

The two properties became part of the Gold Strike Resorts, which was acquired in '95 by Circus Circus Enterprises, then MGM Mirage in 2005. They closed Nevada Landing in 2007, and sold Gold Strike to the Herbst family in 2015. Gold Strike's name was changed to Terrible’s Hotel & Casino. It closed during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and never reopened. The property was sold to Tolles Development, who began demolition in 2023.

Video: Exploring Terrible's Hotel & Casino.

The first three photos were scanned from prints, showing real casino patrols; the last five photos below were posed with models, and scanned from slides.

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Star Trek TOS crew biographies

There are plenty of detailed biographies of the TOS crew, both online and in reference books. But I wanted to check what actually appears in the Original Series and the six TOS movies about this subject (that is, not counting secondary sources or later series). And the result is... very little, actually. I was surprised by the amount of data that I took for granted, just to find out it came from a novel or wasn't 100% set in stone. This is what I could find about each major character, just judging from the TOS series and movies. Feel free to add to this or correct mistakes.

James Tiberius Kirk:

Although in the series he's referred just as James T. Kirk, his middle name "Tiberius" appears in Star Trek VI. "Tiberius" was also his middle name in TAS episode Bem, and the novel The Galactic Whirlpool (both by Gerrold), as well as in Roddenberry's TMP novelization. So yeah, no doubts about his name.

He was born in Iowa (Star Trek IV) and had one brother, George Samuel Kirk, and three nephews (What are little girls made of?). Sam married a woman named Aurelan (Operation: Annihilate).

Kirk was 34 in The Deadly Years. Assuming each season is a year of the five year mission, he could be 33 at the start of the series. And this is the only reference for his age I could find. As for actual dates, I didn't find anything, except his statement in Star Trek IV that he comes from the late 23rd century. (It wouldn't be until Voyager episode Q2, that a date was given for the end of the five-year mission: 2270. This follows Michael Okuda's Star Trek Chronology, and all other dates for TOS are inferred from this).

At age 13 he witnessed the massacre of Tarsus IV (Kodos was governor twenty years ago, in The Conscience of the King).

At age 18 he had just entered the Academy and was tormented by Finnegan. At this time he also met Ruth (fifteen years before Shore Leave).

He served in the USS Republic as an ensign, at some unspecified time after his Academy years, where he reported Ben Finney for negligency (Court Martial).

At age 21 he visited the planet Neural and befriended Tyree (thirteen years before A private little war).

He teached at the Academy as a lieutenant. One of his students was his friend Gary Mitchell (Where No Man has Gone Before).

He was a lieutenant in the USS Farragut at age 23 (eleven years before Obsession), where he first encountered the cloud creature that massacred his crewmates.

Kirk had a relationship with Areel Shaw when he was 29 (four years before Court Martial).

He became captain of the USS Enterprise after Pike. If we suppose TOS first season happens during the first year of the five-year mission, Kirk was around 37 at the end of this mission.

There's a big gap of fifteen years between Space Seed and the second movie. And apart from the five-year mission, most of those years are unaccounted for. Kirk's been an admiral for two years and a half at the start of TMP. But we don't know if he became an admiral right after the Enterprise's mission, or much later. That is, we don't know at what point of that gap take place the events of TMP. Around this time, both Spock and McCoy had retired from Starfleet, though they both returned when Kirk took the Enterprise again for the V'Ger incident.

By The Wrath of Kahn, Kirk should be 48 years old (fifteen years since he left Kahn stranded in Space Seed). If David is around 30, Kirk's relationship with Carol could have been at the Academy, but it's also possible that David is younger.

The third and fourth films happen shortly after The Wrath of Kahn, but no idea how much time elapsed since then and the fifth and sixth films (though see the info for McCoy).

Spock

Known simply as "Spock". His full name is considered unpronounceable for humans, though the novel Ishmael gives it as "S'chn T'gai Spock".

His parents are Sarek and Amanda (Journey to Babel). Amanda's last name was never given, though TAS episode Yesteryear, some novels, and the 2009 reboot film establishes it as "Grayson". Spock also has a half-brother: Sybok (Star Trek V).

I couldn't find anything about Spock's actual age during the series/movies.

He was betrothed to T'Pring at age seven (Amok Time).

He probably joined Starfleet eighteen years before Journey to Babel, since that's the time he spent not speaking with Sarek. If he joined Starfleet at 18 years old, he'd be 36 by season two (but that's just a supposition).

He was part of Pike's crew thirteen years before The Menagerie, during the events in Talos IV. He'd be 22 by then. Spock served under Pike for eleven years (also from The Menagerie). That means Kirk had been captain of the Enterprise for at least two years before season one.

After that, Spock's career runs more or less in parallel with Kirk's, so I won't go over it again.

Leonard H. McCoy

His middle initial first appears in Star Trek III, as well as the name of his father: David. The novel Provenance of Shadows explains the middle initial as "Horatio", but other novels call him "Leonard Edward McCoy" (???).

Much of his biographical background comes from the "Writer's Guide" by Roddenberry and Fontana, but never made it to the series. That includes the fact he's 45 (by season one?) and born in Georgia. As well as the fact that he's divorced and joined Starfleet as a result of this, and that he has a 20 year old daughter (Joanna). Presumably, the story of his divorce and Joanna would have appeared in The Way to Eden, but the story was severely altered. His daughter is mentioned, but without name, in TAS episode The Survivor, and in several novels. The Gold Key comics call her "Barbara" instead. His ex-wife is given different names in the novels and comics: Honey, Jocelyn, Joan, Gillian...

No idea when he joined Starfleet (that depends on how long was his marriage), or when he met Kirk.

Ten years before The Man Trap, he had a romance with Nancy Crater. Though in the episode he sometimes says he knew her twelve years ago, and other times ten years ago. Either it's a mistake, or the relationship simply lasted two years (though McCoy's doubts about Nancy remembering him, imply the relationship wasn't very long).

At some point, he visited Capella IV for a few months (Friday's Child).

He served in the Enterprise for 27 years (Star Trek VI), but only under Kirk, it seems. If he was 45 when he started, he'd be 72 in the last film, and Kirk would be 60 years old.

Note on McCoy's age in later series

The "Writer's Guide" statement that McCoy was 45 at the time of TOS, was contradicted by later series. In TNG episode Encounter at Farpoint, he's said to be 137 years old. While in the episode The Neutral Zone (also from TNG season one) the year is 2364. As both episodes probably happen in the same year, McCoy would have been born in 2227. Since, according to Voyager, the five-year mission lasted from 2266 to 2270, McCoy would have been 39 at the start of the mission. I'm following the Writer's Guide figure, however, because I consider this document more relevant for TOS itself. After all, many things that are facts in later series, aren't the same in TOS, and viceversa. Also, considering that the age of the characters seems to be close to the age of the actors, I find more likely that McCoy was 45, and not 39, at the start of TOS. To give you an idea, Shatner was 36 in season two (Kirk was 34), Nimoy was also 36 (just as Spock) and Kelley was 47. The twelve year gap between Kirk and McCoy, would be almost the same as the eleven year gap between Shatner and Kelley.

Montgomery Scott

Very little about him, but at least we got his full name in the series. He's supposed to be Scottish, and has lived in Aberdeen (Wolf in the Fold).

Apart from being Chief Engineer in the Enterprise, he was engineer advisor in a freighter, running from Deneva to the asteroid belt (Operation: Annihilate).

Uhura

We never knew her first name in TOS! This is one of the things that surprised me the most. However, "Nyota" is her first name in the reboot films, the new series, and well before that, the novel The Entropy Effect.

She was probably born in east Africa, since her native language seems to be Swahili (the language she reverted to when her memory was wiped in The Changeling). Thanks to user @sapsuckers-and-stardust for pointing this out.

Very, very little about her bio background. Most of it has to be collected from novels or comics, and those never intended to be coherent with each other.

Hikaru Sulu

Though his first name was unknown for a long time, it was revealed to be "Hikaru" in Star Trek VI. But before this, he was also called Hikaru in The Entropy Effect.

Sulu was born in San Francisco (Star Trek IV).

Again, almost nothing of his bio in the series/movies. Though the DC comics explored his character significantly. And in Star Trek: Generations, he had a daughter, Demora.

By Star Trek VI, he was finally a captain of his own ship, the Excelsior.

Pavel Andreievich Chekov

His full name appears first in The Way to Eden, where we also learn he had a romance with Irina Galliulin at the Academy.

Chekov has no siblings (Day of the Dove).

He's 22 by season two (Who mourns for Adonais?).

After serving in the Enterprise, he was first officer in the USS Reliant during The Wrath of Kahn, though he returned with Kirk after the Reliant's destruction.

Christine Chapel

She abandoned her career in bio-research to sign aboard the Enterprise as a nurse, and search after her fiancé Roger Korby (What are little girls made of?) Strangely enough, a few episodes before, she had confessed her love for Spock. She chose to stay in the ship after finding out Korby was dead.

By the time of TMP, she was a doctor in the Enterprise, though she doesn't appear as part of the crew in the later movies.

Janice Rand

She served as a yeoman in the Enterprise during the early five-year mission, but disappears from the series afterwards.

In TMP, she's the transporter chief. And in Star Trek IV, Janice is seen at Starfleet Command, along with Chapel.

By Star Trek VI, she was the communications officer of the Excelsior, under Sulu.