Maurishka taliaferro biography samples
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As this is a pop culture and adventure fiction blog, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the biggest pop culture and adventure fiction event of summer 2009, the STAR TREK movie.
The long and the short of it was that it was pretty darn good. For J.J. Abrams and his writing staff to devote time and effort to setting this movie up as an "alternate timeline" with an actual relationship to traditional Star Trek (as opposed to just a cold reset-button pushing) was a pretty classy decision that respected Trek. inom didn't realize this at the time, obviously, but I later read that they even put an effort to keep the stardates in this film consistent with the stardates in the original series. What's more, the movie had a sense of humor and the characters were recognizably themselves...everyone felt "on."
My favorite character from the series, Dr. McCoy, was played with a snap and teeth by Karl Urban, who plays him as a cynical, sarcastic guy and easily the most entertaining member of the c
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The Creative Life Adventure
(Note: If you haven’t read it yet, my introductory post on this Star Trek: The Original Series rewatch is a good place to start.)
Original Air Date: April 13, 1967
Crew Death Count: 0 (but Kirk’s brother and sister-in-law died, and four entire planetary systems have been subject to “mass insanity”)
Bellybuttons: 0
For years, I’ve referred to “Operation – Annihilate!” as the flying barf episode. That was more accurate than inom realized, because according to Wikipedia, the episode’s villainous organisms “were created by prop designer Wah Chang from bags of fake vomit.” The presence of the unnamed organisms is hinted at in the prologue, when the Enterprise approaches the planet Deneva to investigate what Spock describes as a “pattern of mass insanity destroying civilizations” in this region of the galaxy. The phenomenon has affected four planets prior to Deneva, beginning before recorded history, with the first documented example occurring t
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Real world article
(written from a production point of view)
Maurishka
Birth name:
Maurishka T. Tagliaferro
Place of birth:
French Morocco (now Morocco)
Character(s):
Yeoman Zahra
Maurishka Tagliaferro (born30 June1941; age 83) is a former actress who played YeomanZahra in the Star Trek: The Original Seriesfirst season episode "Operation -- Annihilate!", credited only as Maurishka.
She filmed her scenes on Wednesday 15 February1967 on location at the TRW Space and Defense Park, Tuesday 14 February1967, Thursday 16 February1967 and Friday 17 February1967 at Desilu Stage 9.
She was also sometimes identified, in such references as the Star Trek Encyclopedia and Star Trek Concordance (p. 304) as Maurishka Taliaferro.
Biography[]
Born in French Morocco, Maurishka, who speaks six languages, moved to New York City in the early 1960s, where she started out as a model and later appeared in television commercials. (Frieda Zylstra, "Maurishka Knows Foods o