Subj : Re: McFadden vs Muldaur
To   : rec.arts.startrek.current,alt.startrek,alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : ANIM8Rfsk
Date : Wed Sep 21 2005 14:36:38

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos

in article dgpap80gtf@drn.newsguy.com, George Peatty at
pttyg47-1230@copper.net wrote on 9/20/05 8:44 AM:

> In article <1126930641.939063.216700@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, The
> Thunder
> Child says...
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> Also, I confess I never did watch much Star Trek: TNG, - usually only
>> when Q was a guest star, frankly! But I watched a few eps with Muldaur
>> and seem to remember getting the impression that the other cast members
>> didn't care for her - like she was never in the same shot with them, or
>> something.
> 
>> Am I imagining that as well?
> 
> Muldaur asked for and received "special" billing, similar to what Edward
> Hermann
> receives today on Gilmore Girls.  That "might" have to torqued some of the TNG
> cast.
> 
> Her replacing McFadden was Roddenberry's choice, and had he lived, McFadden
> would not have returned, I believe.
> 
> Of more interest to me is why so much of the fan community despises Muldaur.
> Yes, she was a McCoy clone, and yes she lacked a certain warmth, but she was
> an
> interesting character, and Muldaur was light-years better than McFadden as an
> actress.  (I just love "..like Achilles sulking in his tent," for example)
> Muldaur never gave a bad performance on TNG, yet she was gone in a year.
> Damfino why.
> 
I think it was the having her pick on Data bit.  Spock vs McCoy was an even
match.  Pulaski vs Data was a schoolyard bully taking lunch money from the
kid that rides the short bus.

It's too bad, since Muldaur was actually an actress, and Pulaski a good
doctor, things that can't be said of McMuffin or Crusher.

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