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Ah, Kirk, my old friend... (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Who's that planting one on Merritt Butrick?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Think it's Kirstie Alley.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

seems plausiblescreenshot of wikipedia text "Some sources state that Butrick was homosexual.[8] Kirstie Alley, his co-star in Star Trek II, identified Butrick as being bisexual.[9]" with citation 9 saying "Alley, Kirstie (2012). Art of Men (I Prefer Mine Al Dente). Simon & Schuster."

out of curiosity i found her book; it only has two sentences about him:

screenshot of text "I got married in 1983 while I was simultaneously doing a TV series and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof onstage. I’d done Star Trek II in 1981 and I was slightly crushed out on my young, bisexual costar Merritt Butrick, who became my friend. Sadly, he died of AIDS in 1989 at the young age of 29."

... and one photo:

photograph with caption "Merrit Butrick and I goofing around on the set of my first movie, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the informative read. Unfortunately, since everything is wrapped in a spoiler tag, none of the links/pics show appropriately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it renders fine for me on the web.

which client are you using? if images in spoilers don't work, that is a bug.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm on Connect, guess they haven't figured out how to keep those connections separated yet.