"The Girl Who Controlled Gene Kelly's Feet" was a short story published in the anthology Strange New Worlds I in 1998. It was written by Paula M. Block, one of the collection's editors.
Summary
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A yeoman aboard the Enterprise escapes her monotonous life through 20th century movies...though not exactly as her psychiatrist initially believes she does.
ReferencesEdit
CharactersEdit
- Master Computer • Minnie Moskowitz • Scarecrow
- Referenced only
- Agbadudu • Angie • Fred Astaire • Bartholomew • Amusement Park Planet Caretaker • Castanuela • Cowardly Lion • Jiminy Cricket • Aunt Em • Dorothy Gale • Garvey • Harrison • Hunk • Ix • Marty • Gene Kelly • Leonard McCoy • The Wizard • Tin Woodman • Zeke
Starships and vehiclesEdit
LocationsEdit
- Omicron Delta region (Amusement Park planet)
- Referenced only
- Argelius II • Earth (Kansas • Michigan) • Oz • Renan VII • Tantalus V • Vulcan
Races and culturesEdit
States and organizationsEdit
Science and technologyEdit
- chronometer • computer • dance • forcefield • lobotomy • Pythagorean theorem • robot • strait-jacket • trans-droid • umbrella
Ranks and titlesEdit
- chaplain • counselor • crewman • dancer • doctor • Federation Starfleet ranks (2260s) • first officer • policeman • psychiatrist • wizard • Starfleet ranks
Other referencesEdit
- 20th century • ant • beaver • bird • brain • catalpa • chapel • coffee • corn • cow • cracker • crow • dandelion • desert • dragon • dwarf • firefly • flower • foods and beverages • fried chicken • galaxy • genie • grass • headache • humanoid • library • lion • logic • manure • mildew • mile • minute • month • movie • orchestra • parsec • picnic • picnic basket • polymer • popcorn • potato salad • psychiatry • rain • recreation room • ruby slipper • shore leave • silver • singing • Singin' in the Rain • song • steel • tornado • tree • tuxedo • universe • wine • The Wizard of Oz • year
ChronologyEdit
- Takes place slightly less than one year after the events of The Animated Series episode "Once Upon a Planet," with the Enterprise due to return to Beta Omicron Delta III within that timeframe in order for the sentient planetary-computer Caretaker to receive new updates from Federation crews traveling the galaxy.
AppendicesEdit
Related storiesEdit
- TOS episode & Star Trek 12 novelization: Shore Leave
- TAS episode & Log Three novelization: Once Upon a Planet
ConnectionsEdit
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous story: The Man Who Sold the Sky | Strange New Worlds I
| Next story: last story |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous Adventure: From the Depths | Memory Beta Chronology | Next Adventure: Savage Trade |
| Previous Adventure: Pawns and Symbols | Next Adventure: Crossroad | |
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