leslies film career?

[picard]

i have been trying to locate leslies film credits, so i can put a voice and shape to this very important figure in richards books. all i can come up with on the net is her role in for love or money( which she didnt win the 1963 golden globe for, well done tippi in the birds- see the connection?) i'm sure she was in star trek, does anybody know what episode, cus i think she's alovely lady..

[Luke]

Hi there. I went through the same thing. In Bridge Across Forever she is linked to The Manchurian Candidate and Lil' Abner. As for Star Trek; I think he was making that up unless the lady used a different name. Possible.

[Trekker]

You see, I am a trekker. The episode is in the original Star Trek series and is called "Who Mourns For Adonais?". She played Lieutenant Carolyn Palamas (a one-episode-only character), and is rightly credited at the end of the episode. There is a blatant reference to it in the last chapters of One -- but only if you are able to understand the reference, of course: "... At another screen, Captain Kirk and lovely Lieutenant Palamas outwit a space god..." When I first read the book, I was not yet a trekker, so I could not have known that at first.

It was so great when I first saw the episode: the "space god" was there, Lt Palamas was there, so I guessed that must be "the one she was on". And it was...

No other reason why Richard would call the Lieutenant lovely and, of course, the only reason he would mention a one-episode-only character would be her. That is what I rightly deduced when I started being a trekker and realised that there was not a Lt Palamas in Star Trek's main cast. Oh, and I am not sure, but I believe that he misspelled the writing of "Palamas" in the book.

(By the way, when I met Richard in 2000, I could confirm this by asking him up-front: he is indeed a Star Trek fan. Back in the mid-70s, he was also hired to write a Star Trek episode for a then-upcoming new series, but the series was never produced, and the episode never filmed. It was called "Practice In Waking" and is available in the book Star Trek: Phase II: The Lost Series, by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. That should be pretty easy to find at Amazon.com or Simon & Schuster's online store.)

To find more about Leslie's filmography, I recommend looking her name up in www.imdb.com (the Internet Movie Database), which is pretty complete, if not absolutely so. As one example, I have seen her in a B-movie called The Invasion of the Giant Spiders. Though unpretentious, this mid-70s production is awful in all senses. Poor story, nil dialogue, worst effects, all wrong. But I have seen it, just because of her. Unfortunately, I have seen it dubbed over in Portuguese, so I did not get to hear her voice (except when the spider jumped on her and she screamed). Her rôle was that of a drunken, abused wife.