STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK:Was "Woman In Cafeteria" Janice Rand?

A person and I disagreed over a certain cameo in Star Trek III. Was Janice Rand in Star Trek III?   When I was a child, my mother and father pointed out that the woman within the Spacedock scene watching the Enterprise enter was Janice Rand.  In the credits, she is listed as “Woman in Cafeteria”.  The late Grace Lee Whitney is playing the woman in a Star Fleet uniform.  Director Nimoy added her to the scene because he wanted to include her, and she showed up in his IV.  I think Nimoy felt bad for the way Hollywood treated her.  

Anyway, since that moment, I always felt it was Rand.  But, I had no idea some fans didn’t believe it was her.  Whitney is just playing another character.  For me, I believe it is Rand.  If you look closely, “Woman in Cafeteria” gives a disapproving look and shakes her.  The head shakes and her expression says, “There they go again” as she looks at the damage.  Rand was in battle aboard the Enterprise, so she knows its reputation.  

Now, her rank is all over the place in the movies.  She was a commissioned officer in the show and TMP, but her appearance in III shows she is an officer.  However, she wears a noncom uniform in IV.  Yet, she is a high-ranking officer in VI.  

Side Note:  I’ve been looking at old photos of Whitney and her post-TOS days.  After cleaning herself up and getting more close to fans, she seemed happier.  She hated her experience during the filming of TOS but loved the Trek universe.  She even came back to Voyager with a larger role.  Google her convention photos. She loved how kind the fans were.

RIP, Grace, you were the best.

The not so Mighty Zoe Quinn

Just think: GG would have died on the vine if she hadn't made a false copyright claim.  

I went through Zoe Quinn’s KF with GG being ten years old.  Since her grift on GG, she keeps stumbling upward and downward.  She had an anti-harassment site, which she lost interest in and abandoned.  She decided to become a professional wrestler, realizing the hard work, lost interest in it and abandoned it.  

Furthermore, she got 85K to do a stupid FWV videogame based on some Chuck Tingle books.  Get this, she lost interest and abandoned it.  She hasn’t even bothered to log into her Kickstarter account since Feb 27, 2021.  So, yeah, 85K for a project that went nowhere.  You have to love the irony that her backers were some of her defenders during GG and have been thrown aside.  I won’t get into Alec Holowka’s suicide, but she was involved in that too.  

Given her post-GG history, Zoe has done more damage than even GG could imagine.  It is like she is one blue-haired tornado campaign of hate.  She was a carpetbagger who duped some people out of money, and no one from her side would take her to task for it.  

She's burned more bridges than a retreating army.

Happy anniversary, Zoe. 

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle DVD Menu

These two are breaking that fourth wall.  Remember, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castles is twenty years old.  I remember watching this menu screen thing way back in the day.  A lot of DVDs will have hidden things like this one.  I love how Kumar gets angry with you if you don’t hit something. 

In the Mummy DVD, the original release, you can hear the entire Jerry Goldsmith score in the menu screen of the listening options.  

I also like the Zoolander DVD menu too.  Zoolander will talk to you during the menu sequence.   Mugatu’s dance will change if you let it run through the cycle.  His dances are sillier in the second round.  Did Will Ferrell film these just for the DVD? His dancing is in step with the music on the menu.  

Ohio Cop Sparta Kicks Suspect: This is Sparta Ohio

Well, this is “actually” Sparta, Ohio.  I’ve been waiting for this meme to come to life with an actual Sparta kick.  While I don’t care about the political bullshit, the Sparta officer is being investigated for this Greek kick.  The comments are amusing.  

It happened, the meme has become life.  

Neverending Story Gmork Scene Extended

The first thing I noticed about this scene cut is that Gmork's voice is different.  It has a raspier voice in the German cut.  The international version has a stronger voice.  

Depending on which cut you watch, you may get different iterations of the creature.  In the German cut, you almost feel sorry for him.  The Gmork reveals that The Nothing has drained most of his power, and he has just enough to attack.  The Nothing has used Gmork.  The international cut, has him being more pure evil and shady, hiding in the shadows.  

The “leave me alone” is not in the International version.  It shows that he is weakened.  

Both versions of the Gmork are a representation of depression and despair.  I love that it recognizes that taking away hope and imagination means it can control people.  As a child, some of these deeper concepts fly over your head.  

Dr. Dre Beats but they're MEDIEVAL

What if Dr. Dre’s songs were written in medieval times?  It would sound like this.  I love this because many of Dre’s beats are from India and the Middle East. My favorite is California Love it kicks ass.  

Don’t forget about Dre.  

OLYMPICS Fail: Breaking Break Dancing.

Why does the song I Can’t Dance come to mind? Again, I am not into Ompyltics stuff, but this had to be mentioned by me because it is so cringe-worthy.  This woman entered the breakdance competition and won zero points, but won a medal in the memes. 

I love her expression of pride in every picture.  

Look here, I can’t dance or do anything worthwhile, but I know my limits.  It seems in this “you’re all special” world that people that don’t even bother working their asses off in their crat can make it.  You have to work hard to get to the big leagues.  This is not it.  

You have reached mega-meme status when late-night shows are dunking on you.  She embarrassed herself and made me laugh.  Now, we’re getting the side effects with all the old 2014 SJW shit with some people sweeping and defending her.  Just laugh, meme, and move on.  

TNG The Game: A modern day rant

Not to be confused with HHH or the Micheal Douglass movie The Game.

While on that subject, it reminds me of all the young people who are buried in the phone screen and ignore everything around them. They walk around playing mindless shitty phone games that don’t matter or not even fun. The TNG episode The Game has the entire crew staring into a VR set playing a stupid game.  Now, go to the mall and watch everyone buried in their phones.   I’ve seen couples ignore each other while they farted around their overpriced machine.  I got an old Android phone that I only use for work and research on my blog and pop culture subjects.  

An alien woman uses the game to set suggestions in the minds of the crew to control them.  The game is just a honeypot.  Star Trek was ahead of its time.

Patti Yasutake Star Trek RIP

I just found out that Patti Yasutake passed away a few days ago.  It is interesting because many Trek reaction channels are getting to her episode debut on TNG.  Patti played the popular character Nurse Alyssa Ogawa.  She was also up for the role of Keiko O'Brien, but that didn’t happen.  She was also by Dr. Crusher’s side during her five years and two movie appearances. Her biggest role was in the fan-favorite Lower Decks.  I am surprised the Lower Decks TV show didn’t bring her back.  

Not only that, but she had some major and sometimes funny moments. Remember her scene in The Game?  She was in countless movies and films.  Her TV career blew up in the early 2000s.  Heck, she was even in the horrible Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.  I would have loved to have talked to her about the BTS stuff there.  She was even in BioShock: Infinite as a VO actress.  

She died from T-cell lymphoma which is a form of cancer.  It isn’t good and can form and grow fast.  That is probably what happened to her.  She died at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center.  She will be missed.  

Here is her Hallmark commercial. I remember this ad.

SUCCULENT CHINESE MEAL MAN HAS PASSED AWAY

This is the first I have heard of this guy.  He was a dude that just passed me by.  The meme never crossed my path.  That is strange, given I love Chinese food.  This happened in 1991, and it was over a guy who was known as Dine and Dash criminal.  It became famous in 2009 when it was posted on YT.  Why did I miss this meme?  

Anyway, he passed away recently and it finally crossed my path.  

By the way, I would never use the word “Succulent” in any manner that involves food.  It has too many sexual sounds for me. 

Yeji Kim Word?

Why am I turned on by this lady shooting a gun?  It is like Kim Yeji was born with a pistol in her hand.  I don’t care about the Olympics, but YT suggested this fine-ass woman.  Always date a woman who can handle a gun, because she will have your back.  Just don’t piss her off.  

I don’t follow sports, but Yeji won the silver in this year’s Olympics sports shooting competition.  She reached meme status due to her cool reactions.  I love the term "main character energy" term.  

From the AI search, (("Main character energy" is a slang term that describes someone who has the confidence, charisma, and self-assurance of a main character in a story or movie. It can also refer to someone who wants to be the center of attention or have more focus on them. The term originated on social media platforms like TikTok around 2020, and became a popular way to describe someone who lives life boldly and unapologetically. ))

She is like a DLC character who has her own story in the game you can play.

ALF Child Star Benji Gregory Dead at 46

Let’s face it; ALF wasn’t a good TV show.  Even now, YouTube is streaming the entire show for free, and I can even bother sitting through one episode.  Even through rose-colored glasses, the show is bad and unfunny.  However, I just learned that the youngest star from that show passed away recently.  And, it is even crazier to discover that he was only a few years younger than me.  Benji Gregory died from a heat stroke inside his car alongside his service dog.  

After ALF ended, Benji worked in Hollywood for only three more years and stopped acting.  I don’t blame him.  Acting can be damaging.  He joined the Navy and served as an Aerographer's mate on a ship.  I had to look it up.  It is a job where you observe and study conditions at sea, both under and above the boat.   Since I am a fool, I could not have done it.  I take it his health was failing and he left the military.  

I didn’t think the youngest one from that show would die so soon. 

Tcap Eric Thornton Dead

Did I just write a story about a predator dying a few weeks ago?  Well, thank your lucky stars, another famous predator died recently.  The living ape Eric Thorton.  Thorton is a piece of shit, just like the rest of the TCAP fiends.  However, I like his goofy look and stupid voice.  It is as if he was the living embodiment of a predator.  

Did I mention he drove over four hours to meet this decoy?  Thorton would spend nearly two years in prison and received a shoutout on the RSO listings.  The big-eared predator lived in the famous Predator trailer park.  Thorton had a TikTok account, which is creepy because young people use the app, but his account was banned.  He would die in a major car crash due to his swerving into another lane.  He died at the scene.  

Given that he veered into the path of the F-150, I surmised he did it on purpose.  He wanted to end it all. That is my opinion, so don't sue me sister to Eric. He had no kids, thankfully, and no girlfriend.  He was pretty much shit and he did videos on taking in stray cats and trying to be a boy toy. So, his legacy is TCAP and cats.  He won’t be missed.  Who is next?