Talk:Loom Aleek-Om

I own a copy of the script. In the cast list, he is listed as ALEEK-OM (Aurelian). In the "Star Trek Log" adaptation, Alan Dean Foster specified a given name of "Loom". In the stage directions, "Aleek-Om is a native of the planet Aurelia, and he is a bird-like creature of blue-green hue." (Not the colours eventually used, of course.) I always thought he was a homage to the bird creature of "The Cage". Curt Danhauser, who runs a TAS website, also did the captions and cardback text for the anniversary TAS trading cards a few years ago, and he's always called the Aurelians and Skorr as the one species. -- Ian Mclean, aka Therin of Andor, 13 July 2007