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How does Dr.Taylor cope with her new life?


I mean that issue was never dealt with at all. I did hope TNG would have done a sequel story to explain her fate.

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Her commanding officer let someone else do a check-up on the whales, so she slapped him in the face. Now, she's currently waiting tables at Starfleet HQ.

"Oh no...they sent the wrong Spock!"

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I know what you mean, if she had had descendants on TNG that would have been cool.

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I'm thinking Dr. Taylor would have been "promoted" to a guest of Tantalus V. She would have spent the rest of her days enjoying the amenities of the "facility" that was first displayed in "Dagger of the Mind".

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Kirk used Starfleet resources to find her phone number, and she went into hiding.

"After years of fighting with reality, I am pleased to say that I have finally won out over it."

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Non Star Trek cannon suggest that she became the inaugural patient of the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations, Temporal Displacement Division.
She was there for a year and then she began working for the New Cetacean Institute.
Then after 12 years she releases a book about her self and the whales George & Gracie.
One year later she headed an oceanographic study on the planet Pacifica.

But no spouse or kids at any time. She kept working, who stole all her time. The perfect little bussy working bee.

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Damm, I was hoping she was sold as a Sex Slave on Orion.

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Non-canon sources sure are boring

"After years of fighting with reality, I am pleased to say that I have finally won out over it."

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Most folk think she went nuts then.

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She was already nuts. She assaulted her boss because she didn't get to say goodbye to whales.

"After years of fighting with reality, I am pleased to say that I have finally won out over it."

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He should have checked with social networking sites first.

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She could have been mentioned when they un-kahned that 80s businessman in season 1.

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I mean that issue was never dealt with at all. I did hope TNG would have done a sequel story to explain her fate. >>> They address her in the graphic novel "Star Trek: Debt of Honor", http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Honor-Chris-Claremont/dp/1563890232/re f=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372429128&sr=8-1&keywords=star+trek+ debt+of+honor. Gillian is seen on a boat and is sad because of her feeling out of place in the 23rd century. I think Kirk rounds up some items that are vintage 1980s and gives to her and it cheers her up. She doesn't really play into the plot other than being a bookend filler that kicks off the story and wraps it up. It isn't really a very good comic book, to be quite honest, but it does show us Gillian later on, so that's something!

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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

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I thought it was obvious. She decided she hated the time line she was in, used it to attempt to get back to her own time, screwed up on her first attempt and went back to the era of Star Trek the Motion Picture, met Decker, they fell in love and they eventually found a way to return to modern day Earth, where they have seven children, gave their lives to the Lord, Decker starts pastoring a church, and they changed their names to keep from Kirk finding them again.

I mean, what else could have happened?

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Must have worked she doesn't seem as nutty anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kilo6iqi6Pg

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DOn't forget the time she slipped into an alternate reality where homicidal dolls live.

"Oh no...they sent the wrong Spock!"

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For those of you wondering what to get for Christmas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEaO2cocugI

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I forgot about those two on that show.
That's a good show too.

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She's living off the government like everyone else apparently does in the socialist future.

She also pioneered a process that turned whale scat into food for humans. She is held in high regard by her fellow whale lover/tree lovers.

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Um, did you even watch the movie?

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She is held in high regard by her fellow whale lover/tree lovers.
At least whales/trees are loved by someone... by anyone...

In your case, I'd say that a mosquito is your best (and almost certainly only) chance for love.

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In the TV episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday,"Kirk states it would be too hard to retrain 20th century Air Force pilot Captain Christopher for Kirk's era.Dr.Taylor breezily says to Kirk that she has a few hundred years of learning to catch up on & she walks away.Interesting.

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One would think that the tech that Star Trek has would be like a candy store to an USAF pilot.

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Especially when you realize how easy it was for an Air Force pilot to fly an alien craft that had crash landed in the 1950s. Just got to remember which way is forward.

"Live long and suck it, Zachary Quinto!"

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But that Ferengi ship was taken back to the 24th century by Quark, Rom, Nog, and Odo.

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An incredibly stupid movie.

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It's fluff, but occassionally entertaining fluff.


"Live long and suck it, Zachary Quinto!"

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I was just thinking about what if Dr. Taylor was brought back for The Final Frontier (I guess the story that they were going for, didn't require her)? I wonder if Gillian carries any sort of guilt about being transplanted from 1980s era America to the 23rd century? I mean, she must now be aware of future American catastrophes (presuming that real life ones also occurred within the Star Trek universe) like 9/11?

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