Posted on 03/19/2017 4:51:25 PM PDT by EveningStar
StarTrek.com is saddened to report the passing of Lawrence Montaigne, the veteran actor who played the Romulan, Decius, in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Balance of Terror" in 1966 and returned a year later to portray Stonn, a Vulcan, in "Amok Time." The actor died on Friday, March 17, at the age of 86...
He was featured in such films as The Great Escape (with Steve McQueen and James Garner), Tubruk (with Rock Hudson and George Peppard) and The Power (with George Hamilton and Suzanne Pleshette), and later in Captain Sinbad and Damon & Pythias (both starring Guy Williams), The Mongols (starring Jack Palance and Anita Ekberg) and Escape To Witch Mountain (with Ray Milland and Donald Pleasance.) He starred in Pillar Of Fire (made in Israel), and in Moby Jackson and Rapina Al Quartiere Ovest (both made in Italy.) He worked, over the course of his career, in Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia, Israel, Spain and the U.S...
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WAAH! No more Mr. Romulan!?
WAAAH!
IslamNazi terrorist mass murders all over the globe...
Obama still allowed to live in USA without any papers...
Nancy Pelosi shooting her crazy mouth off again...
and now THIS!?
WAAAH! the world is truly GOING TO HEL!
“Tubruk” should be “Tobruk”
RIP.
I had to look him up but as soon as I saw the photo, it was clear who he was.
Oddly, I thought he looked a bit Irish but the name suggests French.
Mr Glee the robot at the bank in The Joker’s Last Laugh (1967)
Glorious! Glorious!
(Is that the guy?)
He played Stonn the Vulcan who had the hots for Spock’s fiancé T’Pring in Amok Time. And wound up with her. Much to Spock’s relief.
“My commander sent for Decius?
A message was sent, You’ve broken the rule of silence.
Only in code, commander, to inform our praetor of our glorious mission.
Your carelessness might have ended this mission. You’re reduced two steps in rank. Return to post”
IIRC when the Enterprise was able to take a peek at the Romulan bridge and saw all those pointed ears, every eye was on Spock.
The Romulans talked like ancient Romans, that was a hoot (Romulus & Remus, anyone?) and their invisibility device was called “cloaking”.
Loved the ending when as the dying Romulan ship spun slowly about, their captain opted for mass suicide.
“What? You went over my helmet!!?”
"You'll find that sometimes the chase is better than the capture. It's illogical, but oddly, true." -- Spock
T’Pring was pretty hot but I can’t see her as a wife.
“Stonn, she is yours. After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.”
Considering how she manipulated the whole thing, you’d never be able to trust her.
That must be it. I remember thinking that she was hot but I would not want to be married to her.
My, grandpa, what big ears you have!
That Romulan captain, played by Mark Lenard, would also go on to play a Vulcan. He was Sarek, Spock's father.
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