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- From: brad@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Brad Barton)
- Subject: Re: Quarc
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:23:20 GMT
- References: <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) writes:
- >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?)
-
- Richard Benjamin?
-
- >Gene/Jean: Uncertain as to his/her gender - sorta like two
- >personalities in the one body.
-
- It's Pat!
-
- >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 think Ficus was meant to be a parody of Spock (which, in turn, is who Data
- is loosely based on).
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