From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net
Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?

In article ,
 "Mac Breck"  wrote:

> Anim8rFSK wrote:
> > In article ,
> >  Merrick Baldelli  wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:41:27 -0700, Anim8rFSK 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Well, yeah, Gates McMuffin isn't even an actress; that's why they
> >>> fired her after the first season.
> >>
> >> Correction -- she was released so that she could pursue her
> >> role on LA Law, which bombed and they allowed her to come back.  If
> >> she were actually fired, I guarantee they wouldn't let her come back
> >> for Season Three.
> >
> > Ooo, Merrikus, no moe posting before 6am!  'twas Pulaski that left and
> > went to LA Law.  McMuffin's LA Law career encompassed exactly one
> > episode
> 
> So, Gates *was* on LA Law.

Yes.  A one shot.  After she was back on TNG.
> 
> 
> > as "non actress doing worst accent ever heard" a reprise of
> > her literal walk on....
> 
> Good grief, we get it!   YOU don't like her.  What part of  "If she were
> actually fired, I guarantee they wouldn't let her come back for Season
> Three." was wrong?  Hint: None of it.

All of it; he had his actresses mixed up.

  Gates did 154 eps. of TNG, so
> obviously I wasn't the only one who liked her in the role.

Let's face it, the TNG cast was hardly the best or brightest.
> 
> 
> >.... in Hunt (rhymes with..) for Red October.
> 
> Don't be crude.  What'd she do, snub/reject you or something?  The way
> you're carrying on cranky, makes me think of the following line from "A
> Visit from St. Nicholson."
> 
> "....and a stiff drink for Mommy in a nice TALL glass.  She could really
> use something to kill that bug up her chimney."
> 
> Let it go.  Hell, I _can't_ _stand_ Eliza Dushku in most of her TV
> episodes, but you don't se me carrying on about her incessantly every
> time her name is mentioned.

Um, yeah, I pretty much do.  :)

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