Talk:Ryan (Lieutenant)
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[edit] Leonard's mistake
I've restored my comment about Leonard Nimoy's gaffe concerning Eddie Paskey's character name. It is perfectly clear that he says "Rand." The "d" at the end is clearly pronounced, and no long "y" sound is to be heard. Also, watch Nimoy's lips (slo-mo on your DVD player), and you can easily see what he is saying. I first noticed this twenty years ago, and modern digital stereo makes it even clearer. Grace Lee Whitney would be at the helm in a different scene and Leonard just made a little boo-boo. Since the character had only a few lines of dialogue, it wasn't deemed worth a re-take or no one noticed it at the time. For those of you who want to verify, it's at 18:19 in the episode.- Kurt of North Bend
[edit] Removed
It was getting kind of deep in there:
- Some believe that Connors and Ryan are indeed one and the same person [1] represented in the character of Leslie. This is due to the fact that Paskey's character was regularly addressed by the surname of Leslie on "The Conscience of the King" and afterwards, and that Connors and Ryan were not definitively established on screen in either "Mudd's Women" or "The Naked Time" as a character surname.
- Since Ryan was not called "Mister Ryan" or "Lieutenant Ryan" in "The Naked Time", some have speculated that Ryan could be Leslie's first name, and the character's full name could be Ryan Connors Leslie. [2]
- However, others believe that Connors, Leslie and Ryan are each separate individuals. [3] In the case of Ryan, it should be noted that according to the studio cast list for "The Naked Time", it appears that the episode scriptwriters had intended to make Ryan a character surname. With regards to Connors, it seems possible that the scriptwriters for "Mudd's Women" also intended to make Connors a character surname since it is an unlikely first name. On this basis, it is entirely possible that all three characters were, in fact, separate people.
- Further supporting the idea that Connors, Leslie and Ryan are three separate individuals is the fact that Paskey can be spotted in multiple places at the same time within the same episode.
- In "The Squire of Gothos", Paskey remains behind in the transporter room after he beams up Kirk, McCoy, Sulu, DeSalle and Jaeger. In the next scene, he is sitting in the command chair as Kirk and the rest of the landing party enter the bridge.
- For "The Menagerie, Part I", Paskey is seen both at the engineering station wearing a red Starfleet uniform and standing in a corridor wearing a gold uniform as Spock addresses the Enterprise crew through the intercom. In the "The Menagerie, Part II", he is sitting at the engineering station and the navigation console when the Enterprise enters orbit around Talos IV.
- For "Amok Time", he is walking in the corridor wearing a red uniform as Spock heads towards sickbay, and in the next scene, stands next to McCoy while wearing a blue jumpsuit. In "Assignment: Earth", Paskey is seen in a corridor wearing a gold uniform as Kirk addresses the entire crew through the intercom and, seconds later, wearing a red jumpsuit in main engineering as the captain speaks with Montgomery Scott.
- For those who believe that Paskey represented one character and not three, it could be argued that these multiple appearances were the result of simple continuity errors on the part of the film editors. On the other hand, for those who believe that he portrayed three separate characters, these sightings confirm that Connors, Leslie and Ryan are three different people.
- Since all three characters were played by Paskey, there is some speculation [4] whether Connors, Leslie and Ryan, if they were separate characters, were clones or blood-related family members, like brothers or cousins, since they all resembled one another. Assuming that all three characters were addressed by their respective surnames, it is unlikely that they would be brothers, unless they were all half-brothers. However, there is no information to verify this speculation. Nor is there any information to support or refute the theory that the three characters could be blood-related family members or clones.
- Given the fact that other Star Trek actors played multiple roles throughout the Original Series, like Majel Barrett, Diana Muldaur and David L. Ross, it is also possible that Ryan was simply nothing more than a coincidental look-alike of Connors and Leslie.
Yup. --Alan del Beccio 00:27, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] PNA-inaccurate
Not sure where "Ryan" came from, but Spock clearly said "Rand"... as mentioned above. I think this article is giving way too much credit to "Spock's mistake" and not enough to the fact that Spock screwed up and said "Rand" and Leslie, who may have simply not wanted to argue with Spock about his identity (for all we know!), acknowledged in that time of crisis. I'm very tempted to post this page for merge/deletion and end its misery. --Alan 00:09, 31 August 2008 (UTC)