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Let's play 6 degrees of TOS
posted by Dark_SithlordSTAFFMOD on April 18, 2017 at 2:46 AM
With a nod to rudely_murray over at the Kevin Bacon thread, let's play 6 degrees of TOS! The rules: You name an actor, and the next poster has to link that actor to one of the Big 3 (Shatner, Nimoy, or Kelley) in as few moves as possible. Ideally 6 or less, hence, 6 degrees.
Example:
Player 1 names Bruce Lee.
Player 2 responds:
- Bruce Lee starred in Enter the Dragon with John Saxon.
- John Saxon starred in an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man with Lee Majors.
- Lee Majors starred with William Shatner when he guest starred in an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man.
Player 2 then names another actor to link to one of the Big 3.
Feature films or TV shows only. Try not to select names which would be too easy, like linking Shatner to Patrick Stewart is no challenge!
Okay, here goes...
First try: Marlon Brando.
Reply by Nexus71
on October 6, 2018 at 2:35 PM
Mary Stuart Masterson with Donald Sutherland in Heaven Help Us
Donald Sutherland with Leonard Nimoy in The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
Next; Ryuichi Sakamoto
Reply by wonder2wonder
on October 6, 2018 at 7:21 PM
Ryuichi Sakamoto was in "The Last Emperor (1987)" with Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa was in STNG S1E01 "Encounter at Farpoint (1987)" with DeForest Kelley.
Next: Daphne Anderson
Reply by Jetfire59
on October 6, 2018 at 8:18 PM
Mary Stuart Masterson was in "The Stepford Wives" (1975) with Tina Louise.
Tina was in several eps of "Gilligan's Island" (1965) with the late Janos Prohaska who played Momma Horta and the Mugato.
Barry Nelson
Reply by wonder2wonder
on October 6, 2018 at 9:08 PM
Next: Daphne Anderson
Reply by Nexus71
on October 7, 2018 at 5:29 PM
Daphne Anderson with Warren Clarke in Real Life
Warren Clarke with Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange
Malcolm McDowell with Shatner in Generations
next;Kenneth Connor
Reply by wonder2wonder
on October 8, 2018 at 5:23 PM
Next: Holly De Jong
Reply by Nexus71
on October 8, 2018 at 5:32 PM
Holly De Jong with Don Fellows in Electric Dreams
Don Fellows with Donald Sutherland in The Eye Of The Needle
Donald Sutherland with Nimoy in The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
next;Emma Thompson
Reply by wonder2wonder
on October 8, 2018 at 8:38 PM
Next: Leslie Caron
Reply by Nexus71
on October 12, 2018 at 8:37 PM
Leslie Caron with Stratford Johns in Master Of The Game
Stratford Johns with Patrick Stewart in I Claudius
Patrick Stewart with James Doohan in TNG's Relic .
next;Lena Olin
Reply by alanr4447a
on October 14, 2018 at 12:15 PM
While that connects Tuesday Weld to someone who appeared in Star Trek through an intermediary (Robert De Niro), she also has this:
Tuesday Weld (as Thalia Menninger) was in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis alongside Michael J. Pollard (as Maynard's cousin Jerome Krebs) — specifically they were both in the sixth episode, "The Sweet Singer of Central High" — who was Jahn in "Miri".
Reply by Nexus71
on October 17, 2018 at 7:21 PM
Sorry Wonder but Tuesday Weld was already done Lena Olin was the next one.
Reply by alanr4447a
on October 19, 2018 at 11:17 AM
That was just me replying to a year-old post by Wonder concerning a name I had put forward to begin with (Ms. Weld), because I've been gone a year and am still living in the past. Carry on with Lena Olin (but do it in private if you're gonna make out with her).
As far as Leslie Caron goes, I can shorten that as well: She was in Gigi with John Abbott, who was Ayelborne in "Errand of Mercy".
Reply by Nexus71
on October 19, 2018 at 5:33 PM
Sorry mate.
Reply by wonder2wonder
on October 19, 2018 at 7:47 PM
@alanr4447a Thanks for the extra information on Tuesday Weld and Leslie Caron.
Next: Caroline Carver
Reply by Nexus71
on October 20, 2018 at 11:05 AM
Caroline Carver with Martin Landau in The Aryan Couple
Martin Landau with Joan Collins in Space 1999
Joan Collins was in everybody's all time favourite TOS episode City On the Edge Of Forever
next ;Michael Palin.
and a fine weekend everybody...