Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
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InStar Trek IV : The Voyage Home , directed by Leonard Nimoy , Catherine Hicks plays Dr. Gillian Taylor , a 20th - 100 marine biologist with expertise in Megaptera novaeangliae giant . To pull through twenty-third - 100 Earth from a probe demanding to speak with whales , Admiral James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) , Mr. Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) , andthe crew of the USS Enterprise must take their stolen Klingon Bird - of - Prey ( dubbed the HMS Bounty ) back to 1986 , when humpback whales were not yet extinct . In 20th century San Francisco , Dr. Gillian Taylor , the adjunct director of the Cetacean Institute , is implemental in bringing humpback giant George and Gracie to the time to come .
Part interview surrogate , part possible love interest for Admiral Kirk , Catherine Hicks ' Gillian Taylor is a grounding factor inStar Trek IV . Narratively , Gillian Taylor plays the straight valet de chambre , so to speak , in the fish - out - of - pee comedy that makesThe Voyage Homeone of thebestStar Trekmovies . Despite her initial incredulity at Kirk and Spock ’s story , Dr. Taylor becomes Kirk and Spock ’s guide to navigating the 1980s inStar Trek IV : The Voyage Home . Gillian helps the time - displaced Enterprise crew with basics like money and beat through twentieth - century San Francisco as they cannonball along to save George and Gracie , who have been prematurely released into the wild .
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Catherine Hicks Played Whale Biologist Dr. Gillian Taylor In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Gillian Taylor Introduced Kirk and Spock To Humpback Whales
Catherine Hicks plays whale life scientist Dr. Gillian Taylor inStar Trek IV : The Voyage Home . Dr. Taylor is a consummately professional woman of skill who is extremely well-read and dedicated to the social welfare of the humpback whales in her care . It ’s this dedication that first alerts Dr. Taylor to the military mission of theoriginal Starship Enterprise crew , when Spock enters the whales ' tank in an exertion to commune with George and Gracie . The Institute is fall behind financial support , soGillian is quick to facilitate Kirk and Spock work George and Gracie to the hereafter . Because the 23rd - century whales and their materialisation need a caretaker to expand , Dr. Taylor ultimately joins them .
Catherine Hicks may be best known toStar Trekfans for her role as Dr. Gillian Taylor in 1986’sStar Trek IV : The Voyage Home , though in that same yr , Hicks was also inPeggy Sue Got wed . Prior toStar Trek IV , Catherine Hicks played other professional woman on television . chawbacon played Dr. Emily Rappant in the TV version ofThe Bad News Bears , and Dr. Faith Coleridge in the seventies goop operaRyan ’s Hope , which also featuredStar Trek : Voyager ’s own Kate Mulgrew . Later , Catherine Hicks starred as folk materfamilias Annie Camden in Aaron Spelling ’s family dramedy7th Heaven , and ofttimes appeared in television set client spots and made - for - TV flick .
Catherine Hicks’ Gillian Has A Surprising Star Trek Legacy
Dr. Gillian Taylor Influenced Star Trek’s Cetacean Legacy Character
Catherine Hicks ' Dr. Gillian Taylor has a surprisingStar Treklegacy . InStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2 , episode 5 , " Observer ’s Paradox " , Starfleet Academy hopeful Rok - Tahk ( Rylee Alazraqui ) is assigned to the Cetacean Operations division on the Lamarr - class USS Voyager - A.Rok - Tahk works directly with ( and befriends ) a humpback hulk name Gillian , who communicates through Voyager ’s computer ( Bonnie Gordon).Star Trek : Prodigywriter and co - executive manufacturer Aaron Waltke confirmed thatProdigy ’s whale Gillian is George and Gracie ’s descendent . Gillian the hulk ’s name is a direct court to Dr. Gillian Taylor , express the grandness of Dr. Taylor ’s work with George and Gracie inStar Trek IV : The Voyage Home .
Before the debut of Gillian the hulk inStar Trek : Prodigy , the first cetacean Starfleet officer seen on projection screen were beluga whales key out Matt and Kimolu , inStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 2 , episode 10 , " First First Contact " .
The beingness of the Cetacean Operations division inStar Trek : Prodigyalso finally answers the question , albeit obliquely , of what happened to Catherine Hicks ' Dr. Gillian Taylor after total to the future with Kirk and Spock on the HMS Bounty . As the only marine life scientist in the twenty-third century with expertise in humpback whale , Gillian Taylor became a key physique in developing Starfleet ’s Cetacean Operations program , which school whales and dolphins as navigators on Starfleet starships . humpback whale whales George and Gracie in all likelihood became some of Starfleet ’s first cetaceous navigators afterStar Trek IV : The Voyage Home , thanks to Catherine Hicks ' Dr. Gillian Taylor .
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