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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:03:49 EST
- From: <SML108@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92357.000349SML108@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
- Subject: Re: Quarc
- References: <(Robert> <Fletcher)> <lj61914@pro-smof.cts.com>
- <1h2npfINN46a@savoy.cc.williams.edu>
- <1992Dec22.023858.3879@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Dec22.023858.3879@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>,
- quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) says:
- >
- >In <1h2npfINN46a@savoy.cc.williams.edu> 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young)
- >writes:
- >
- >>I remember / have reminisced about with the only other Quark fan I
- >>have ever found about the show. Wasn't there some kind of alien first
- >>mate? I believe he was "demonstrating his native sexual practices" to
- >>one of the women in the show. They both lay down with limbs in the air
- >>(totally separated) and she asks
- >> "What do we do now?"
- >> "Wait for the bee"
- >
- >FICUS!!!!! The pollination sequence, one of my favourites. You have to
- >include the sounds that go with it.
- >"Beeeeeeeee beeeeee bee bee be be be bebebebebebebebebe"
- >(rising in pitch and tempo.)
- >
- >Ah, this brings back memories. Here's the crew, incomplete but all I
- >can remember:
- >
- >Quark: Captain, played by someone reasonably famous. (Name anyone?)
- >Gene/Jean: Uncertain as to his/her gender - sorta like two
- >personalities in the one body.
- >Betty: Actually Betties - Betty 1 and Betty 2. Identical, played by
- >identical twin sisters, each is convinced that the other one is the
- >clone.
- >Ficus: A humanoid plant life form. Seems to act vaguely like Data out
- >of ST:TNG, but this series was made years before 1987.
- >Any others?
- >
- >I loved the outside-ship shots - cheaper than the BBC. (I think the
- >series was made in Canada. . .)
- >
- >Tim Pickett
- "Ficus! The BEE!"
-
- Adam Quark: Richard Benjamin
- Ficus: Don't know
- Gene/Jean: Tim Thomerson of Trancers I & II and Cherry 2000 & Iron Eagles fame
- Betty/Betty: Cyb and Trish Barnstable, one of the few times I have ever
- had the hots for blondes and I was only 12...
-
- and don't forget
- Otto Bob Palindrome: Conrad Janis of Mork and Mindy and Kids from Caper fame
- The Head: Alan Caillou
-
- Scott
- "The Galaxy Ad Infinitum"
-