aaron stempel and moar time travel!

[prof_pangaea]

has anyone ever seen Here Come the Brides? was aaron coded as jewish in the show, as he was in Ishmael?

btw imagine 14-yr-old me reading about here come the brides for the first time and getting very confused about how a bunch of the characters from a star trek book had been in a television show nearly twenty years before the book was ever published.

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[neadods.livejournal.com]

I was sort-of lucky in that I wasn't familiar with Here Come the Brides at the time and thus took the story more or less at face value. I'm expecting the reread this go around to be a MUCH different experience!

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

i'm sure i've re-read it since finding out about its origins, but i've still never seen here come the brides so the characters are pretty much still the book characters in my mind. i was thinking about it because i was looking for some mark lenard clips on youtube and there was an episode of here come the brides up which i tried watching but it was waaaaaay too dull. but i noticed some things about how aaron's clothes were different deom everyone else's, and the makeup people kept him looking pretty dark and semitic in comparison to all the square-jamed blond heroes, so i was wondering, especially since i've heard that aaron is supposed to be the "villain" of the show.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be wildly surprised if they were, considering the times.

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

Imagine a 24-year-old me having the same reaction. Ishmael was a cross-over? *weirded out for some reason*

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

mark lenard played aaron in the television show, which i imagine was the impetus behind hambly's interest in the telling a story set in that place with those characters. i found out when i was reading the school library copy of "on the good ship enterprise" and bjo trimble was describing some fans getting together to visit the set and give mark lenard a homemade gift (some kind of fanonical vulcan cloak type thing) and she described the show and the characters and i was like, "...WHAT."

i need to read it again because i haven't in a loooong time and it's wonderful, and apparently there are several cameos from different regenerations of the doctor as well, which i missed out on back before i'd ever heard of doctor who. i noticed the doctor who reference in my enemy, my ally but that was definitely on a re-read.