Ahh! Ricky! I wanna be in the Alpha Quadrant!
Ahh! Ricky! I wanna be in the Alpha Quadrant!
For those who don't know- https://www.startrek.com/news/how-lucille-ball-helped-star-trek-become-a-cultural-icon
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Lucille Ball would have made a fantastic captain.
And we thought Janeway was unhinged.
I expect a series of memes with Ball's head sitting on Mulgrew's body very soon.
Bonus points if they also replace Beltran with Arnez.
I kind of want to see Kate Mulgrew in a scene where she's enslaved on an alien planet and forced to work in front of a conveyor belt with chocolates going down it...
"Quickly, Seven, sniff them all and give me the ones that smell like coffee!"
Also, what is Vitametavegamin if not Treknobabble?
I'm hoping the fanfic will start flowing. Not with Ball in her "I Love Lucy" persona, but more "The Dark Corner."
Although, I think Janeway was directed this way, with Lucille's dry wit. It wouldn't surprise me if the scriptwriters weren't paying homage to Ball with the Janeway character.
If she was anything like the real Lucy, she would put up with bullshit for about .0003 seconds before telling the officer to get back to their station.
She would have been a great captain and every episode would have been wrapped up in 3 minutes.
I'm picturing her ship just warping back and forth to the same place... her exacerbated XO is trying to reign Captain Lucy in.
But it somehow works because she realizes they can create a tear in time to stop a Romulan attack and everyone's like "son of a bi..."