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astra-galaxie · 8 months
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Phoebe Fisher
Biographical information
Full Name: Phoebe Fisher
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Status: Deceased
Age: 50 (season 2)
Birth: 1965
Race: Human
Cause of Death: Shot in the chest by a harpoon
Nationality: American
Origin: Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Residence: Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Profession(s): Ship Auditor
Profile
Height: 4'11" Age: 50 (season 2) Weight: 118lbs Eyes: gray Blood: AB+
Phoebe Fisher was a short, middle-aged woman with pale skin, dark blonde hair, and gray eyes. She wore a simple pink sundress, sandals, and black-framed glasses.
Synopsis
Phoebe was the victim of The Death Boat. She was a ship auditor conducting an audit of the Pacific Princess. However, Phoebe had a malicious plan in mind when she boarded the ship for the cruise. She planned to sabotage the crew by stealing and planting drugs around the boat, making it look like the staff had smuggled them. She did that because, for every ship that she discovered was unfit to sail, she received a large bonus.
She had already done this in the past to Captain Kacy Keller and her ship, stripping the woman of her rank so she would never sail as a captain again. But Phoebe hadn't planned for Kacy to be on board with her, so she thought she would get away with her evil scheme.
But Kelly got wind of the audit from Captain Merrill Stubing and knew she had to save her friend's ship and crew from Phoebe. Kacy confronted Phoebe the night after they set sail, begging her not to sabotage the audit.
Sadly, greed was strong in Phoebe, and all she cared about was her bonuses. She didn't care that she would be running innocent people's lives or marooning one of the world's most popular cruise ships; she loved money and wanted more.
When Kacy realized that Phoebe wouldn't listen to reason, she decided the only way to save the Pacific Princess was to take out the threat. She found a spear gun and waited for Phoebe to come to the lido deck early the following day. Phoebe arrived at the deck unaware of the danger awaiting her and prepared for a dip in the jacuzzi. But when she started to climb into the hot tub, Kacy fired the spear gun, and the bolt priced Phoebe in the heart, killing her instantly.
Phoebe's body floated in the jacuzzi until it was discovered by Adalet, Fili, Ahmet, Captain Stubing, and Julie McCoy. Soon, the investigation would lead them to discover Phoebe's plans to destroy the crew of the Pacific Princess, and while Kacy would be arrested for her crimes, she was happy to know that her friend wouldn't suffer the same fate she did at Phoebe's hands.
Story Information
First appeared: Death Boat
Trivia
The title of the case she appears in is based on the title of the show Love Boat
Likewise, the case is set on the same boat as the show, The Pacific Princess, and many of the suspects are characters from the show
… I don't remember anything else about this OC. Nothing, nada, zip, zilch!
Disclaimer: Character design was created using Rinmarugames Mega Anime Avatar Creator! I have only made minor edits to the design! Background courtesy of CriminalArtist5
Links to my stories:
The Case of the Criminal (Ao3/Wattpad) Killer Bay (Ao3/Wattpad) Where in the World are the Killers? (Ao3/Wattpad)
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aunti-christ-ine · 1 year
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Looks to me like Deputy Barney Fife isn't impressed by Merrill Stubing's outlandish dream of becoming a cruise ship captain ...?
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“𝐍𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐠𝐨, 𝐈'𝐦 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞. 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧.” In memory of Gavin MacLeod, best remembered for his television roles as Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS, 1970-1977) and as Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat (ABC, 1977-1986). Born on February 28th, 1931 in Mount Kisco, New York Died on May 29th, 2021 (age 90) in Palm Desert, California ❤
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lizard-speed · 2 years
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More In-Depth Love Boat Headcanons
I’ve had these for a while and it took me SO LONG to write them AND I’ve put in too much effort for this stupid little tv show so I’m gonna share them 
(also I’ve gotten a few notes on my basic hc rundown post which is weird???? anyway, I digress)
Merrill Stubing: Heteroflexible Man
Stubing never questioned his sexuality. He was raised in a traditional American household. He was barely even aware of queer people. He took no notice of them. Didn’t have any specific bigotry to them— just generally ignorant. He went through life expecting to get married to a beautiful woman and have a few kids. However, the sea was his first love and what he kept going back to. Any prospective partner he had wanted to stay on land, not live and raise a family on a ship. So Stubing remained relatively single. When he hired Doctor Bricker he didn’t think anything of it. Sure the man got many ladies but that wasn’t unusual. They became close friends and he was very fond of Adam. After a few years, he began to have some doubts. His feelings towards his friend had grown. He thought he was handsome, good-looking. Fantasizing about dancing with him in the moonlight. He tried to dismiss it but it wouldn’t go away. And yet he still insisted he was straight. He’d never felt like this for another man before. One night, after a particularly difficult cruise, they hooked up. In the morning, riddled with guilt, Merrill tried to explain to Adam what had happened but to his surprise, Adam wasn’t angry. They mutually agreed that although they were attracted to one another, a relationship wouldn’t be a viable option. Adam also explained his polyamory which Stubing understood surprisingly well. After a few weeks of hookups, however, Merrill found himself thinking of the man more and more. He eventually confessed to Adam that although they had to hide, he wanted them to be together. Properly. He said that he didn’t want to ignore Adam’s polyamory so he’d allow him to continue to be romantic with others (it would also look strange if suddenly he started not seducing women) but Merrill wouldn’t go out with anyone else. They agreed to this and we’re satisfied. Eventually, they told Vicki who confessed her pansexuality to them, and over time and many years, everyone came out to each other.
Doctor Adam Bricker: Non-Binary Polyamorous Omnisexual
Doc had always been a very flirty person, full of charm and charisma. He’d always found most people attractive and had crushes left and right. He’d never felt any guilt over liking men, it was just sort of another fact of life for him. He didn’t hide it per se but he also never had any boyfriends as there weren’t any out gay men in his small hometown. As for his polyamorous nature, he never entirely understood why people were only limited to one partner. He knew it was for religious reasons and since he was rather atheistic, he thought life would be better if he had more than one partner. He tried explaining this to each partner he had but they all just misinterpreted his words and thought he was a cheater which became a sort of reputation of his. When he left his home for college he decided to bury that part of himself to avoid that humiliation. I’m college he found more freedom with being omnisexual. He had a few male partners but overall knew he liked women more. He went to an all-boys medical school and there he started to experience some uncomfortableness with being labeled a man. He knew he wasn’t a woman but liked dressing up in drag and being referred to in feminine ways. He didn’t like feminine pronouns though as they always felt mocking and never right. He didn’t identify as “non-binary” however as that wasn’t really a concept at the time and simply settled on the fact that he was “just Adam”. On the Pacific Princess, he became very good friends with Captain Stubing before becoming attracted to him. After they got together (which was explained in Stubing’s comment), he continued his relations with other women and (rarely) other men. Stubing, he found, was the first partner who genuinely understood polyamory despite his very monogamous ways.
Gopher: Trans Man and Gay
Gopher knew he was a boy from a young age and was always described as being a “tomboy”— a label he didn’t hate because it was technically calling him a boy. He always wore shorts and kept his hair in a baseball cap. He flat out refused to wear dresses until about middle school when he started to get interested in boys and thought he had to be feminine to get them to like him. When he was in high school he discovered queer people in general (mostly due to the Stonewall Riots) and figured out that transsexuality (to use historically accurate terminology) existed. After he graduated high school he went awol and joined an underground queer group where he met doctors and such who gave him hormones and got top surgery. He received bottom surgery a little while later but told any women he ever had a relationship with that he was infertile and thus, unable to get them pregnant.  He gave himself the name Burl after his paternal grandfather who fought in WWI.  The nickname Gopher came from the friends he made before reuniting with his family.  After his physical transition was completed he began living in San Francisco to “test out” his new self in a relatively safe environment.  After he was confident enough, he went back home to a rather shocked mother and father.  His sister Jennifer was quite young at the time so she didn’t find it strange.  As Gopher had always had a strong relationship with his mother, she was more accepting than his father.  She didn’t entirely understand but she realized that it sort of made sense as Gopher had always been a masculine child.  And, she realized, it would be strange for her to keep referring to Gopher as her daughter.  His father, on the other hand, was a lot less accepting.  As he had never really known Gopher as a kid, he didn’t understand why he was trans.  He had always seen him as a feminine girl, not his tomboy side.  In private, he continued to be cold to him though in public he referred to him as “he” and his son– again, to avoid confusion and isolation.  He was touched that Gopher named himself Burl though he would only tell him that years later.  Gopher became more and more distant from his father but deep down all he wanted was to be accepted by him.  He then went to college at an all-boys school where his secret was never discovered. On Mothers Day in 1979, Gopher invited both of his parents aboard the Pacific Princess.  He hadn’t spoken to his father in a few years and hoped to repair the damage.  Things were awkward between them and Gopher spent most of his time with his mother who now saw him only as her son.  His father spent his time watching the two of them and conversing with the crew in an attempt to learn things about his son.  He found that they spoke highly of him and it caused Mr. Smith to reconsider how he saw Gopher.  When they eventually confronted one another, he apologized profusely to Gopher while he explained that all he wanted was to be a good son and do father-son things.  They made up and Mr. Smith called him Gopher for the first time.  He didn’t tell anyone else he was trans until he met Julie and they confided in each other their secrets. Ever since he transitioned he was acutely aware he was only attracted to men but had a lot more difficulty accepting his homosexuality. He consistently fooled himself into “falling for” women as a manner to try to avoid his homosexuality. Only after talking extensively to Julie was he able to finally accept himself.  
Isaac: Bisexual Man
Isaac always knew he liked men. His family was pretty open-minded when he was a kid so he sort of understood that sometimes men liked other men but due to society outside the home he knew the world wasn’t super accepting of it. He wasn’t exceedingly supportive of queer people and did feel slightly ashamed of his bisexuality. He did know, however, that he liked women which helped ease his guilt as he felt like he could sometimes act on his homosexual urges while knowing he was still mostly attracted to women. He had a brief relationship with a man when he was in high school. He had met the guy at the movie theater he was working at. Unfortunately, the boy moved away at the end of the summer and Isaac never saw him again. In his young adulthood, he went to a few gay bars occasionally but mostly hid his attraction to men. When he was hired on the Pacific Princess he almost immediately started crushing on Gopher and eventually, Julie found out. Luckily she was understanding and he was able to confide in her. What he didn’t know was that Julie was also talking to Gopher and that he was in love with Isaac. Eventually, Julie helped them get together.
Julie McCoy: Sapphic-Oriented AroAce
Julie had never liked anyone romantically. She always assumed there was something wrong with her as she wasn’t getting crushes like her friends. Eventually, she came to understand that she simply wasn’t “cut out” for romance and tried to leave that out of her life. She was very popular in high school due to her good looks but would refuse any offers from boys to take her to dances or on dates. This resulted in her getting a reputation of being “cold and callous”— something she resented as she was actually incredibly friendly but simply wasn’t interested in romance. When she went off to college she found that although she still didn’t experience romantic or sexual attraction, she found women more aesthetically appealing. She tried to convince herself that she was a lesbian but it didn’t work as she never did feel like she romantically loved any of her partners. She much preferred to be in the company and live with her friends than bother with romantic relationships. When she got her job aboard the Pacific Princess, she took up a cover of being attracted to men to protect herself from being labeled as cold again. One day, after one too many drinks Gopher confessed everything to her and for once, she felt able to talk to him about it as well. Once they had sobered up they clarified what they had said and made a pact that if society wasn’t better for them by the time they left the liner, they would get married and move in together simply to protect each other’s identities.
Vicki Stubing: Pansexual Demigirl
Vicki was raised very conservatively. Her aunt was a devout Christian and she was told from a young age that homosexuality was wrong. When she moved in with her father, he never mentioned anything about gay people. One day, however, Vicki was sitting with Julie and Gopher, doing schoolwork, when the adults mentioned something vague about gay men. Vicki told them off and said that being gay was wrong because the Bible said only men could be with women. Gopher looked disappointed and left the room while Julie calmly explained to her that it wasn’t wrong and many men liked men and many women liked women. Vicki was struck by this and although it took a while, she eventually got over her prejudice (in an albeit reluctant way). When she became older, hit puberty, and started to be interested in pop culture and such, she found that she liked the actresses in the same way as the actors. Recalling what Julie had told her a few years back, she concluded that she liked both men and women and told Julie. Julie was accepting, of course, and helped Vicki overcome any hesitation she had. She didn’t label herself as pansexual as the term didn’t exist and didn’t use any labels at all. She mostly remained in the closet. At some point, Vicki discovered that although she was very comfortable being a woman, she felt like she was more. Not a man, per se, but not entirely a woman. She confessed this to Julie who didn’t entirely understand. Having to face this herself, she went around confused until one day she overheard a man call a group of people “they” and it settled in her funny. That night, she stood in front of her mirror and spoke to herself, calling herself “them” and “they”. They really liked it and found that it aligned well with the whole “not entirely a girl” thought. She told Julie this who still was confused but enthusiastically supported her anyway.
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some of it is like,,, not really historically accurate (esp with gopher’s transition stuff).  I know a basic amount about physical transitioning esp in the 60s and 70s but because this is a fictional world I can do what I want ha.  And with labels and stuff, most of these didn’t exist back then so technically they wouldn’t really be labeled but for simplicities sake here are their modern labels.  Also, all the stuff with Gopher’s dad I adapted from Third Wheel which is an episode in season 2 where Gopher’s mom and dad come aboard the ship and Goph and his dad have this heart to heart (hits different if you hc Gopher as trans).  ANYWAY- if anyone does see this thanks for reading and if you have any hc of your own PLEASE PLEASE reblog this and comment them because I am desperate to make more friends who like the love boat
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countbassd · 3 years
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Somewhere in Nashville, Count Bass D is making rap records that sound like it's 1978. On his debut, Pre-Life Crisis, Count refuses to speak with the forked tongue of most new-school rappers. Instead of boasting about sipping Möet on his yach or having wads of dough fat enough to choke a pit bull, his "Broke Thursday” is a track most all of us can relate to. Over creeping horn lines and resounding bottom, he drops funny-ass lines like "I'm so broke I can't even pay you no mind." Although he has a tendency to overdose on pop culture references (Elizabeth Taylor, The Love Boat's Captain Merrill Stubing, and Kim Fields as The Facts of Life's Tootie all get called out), his tracks express a humanism-and a sense of humor that has nearly vanished from hip hop culture. On the standout track "T-Boz Tried to Talk to Me," Count details a wild story of meeting soon-to-be funk diva T-Boz (from TIC) at a party in Atlanta. When he says, "Man, really, T-Boz tried to talk to me / You don't have to believe me / It may have been a big mistake / And if it is /My heart will break,” you tear up with laughter. And the sound of Pre-Life Crisis is as refreshing as the content. With the exception of the guitar riffs on the first single, "Sandwiches," Count Bass D plays all the instruments on the album. The only track that baffles is "I Got Needs" the music sounds like the fake jazz espoused at the Kenny G School of Plastic Soul. Pre-Life Crisis is refreshing indeed; it's what's going on in hip hop right now what's old (school) is new (school) again. And in Count Bass D's case, this is an (all) good thing. -Michael A. Gonzales
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eclecticanalyst · 3 years
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We’re Expecting You...To Boldly Go [part 2]
In my last post, I expounded on the similarities in the general premise and structure of The Love Boat and Star Trek: The Next Generation, two shows that on the surface seem not to have much in common but on closer examination have some unexpected similarities. In my follow-up post on this theme, I will be drawing parallels between the main/regular characters of both shows. The crew lineup on each ship can be broken down into six character functions/profiles: The Captain, The Captain’s Confidant, The Big Brother, The Two Buds, The Chick, and The Kid.
The Captain
Star Trek TNG: Captain Jean-Luc Picard
The Love Boat: Captain Merrill Stubing
“The Captain” is...the captain! Beyond his role as the primary authority figure, he can be characterized in the following ways. Being the one to whom the rest of the crew reports, he is a bit socially removed from the rest of the main characters. While they can pal around with each other, they still treat him with a bit more deference even as he comes to be just as integral a part of their found family as the rest of them. The Captain can be rather intimidating at times—especially in the early days, when he had a tendency to be overly gruff with his crew. Part of that gruffness is the fact that he has very high standards for the people who serve under him. At the same time, however, he cares deeply for those people and is willing to put himself on the line for them, even bending the rules a bit in order to help them out of a difficult spot. He’s full of thoughtful advice should one of his crew ask for it, and is the most likely of the crew to give speeches about moral responsibility. He also has a playful streak, which he keeps under wraps but uses to mess with his crew from time to time. In terms of appearance, he’s older than the rest of the cast and he is bald(ing). He’s played by the best actor of the cast—Patrick Stewart is, of course, Patrick Stewart, I don’t think I really need to say more there, and Gavin MacLeod was a veteran actor (probably best known at that point for his role as Murray on The Mary Tyler Moore Show), able to handle both the comic and the dramatic whenever needed.
The Captain’s Confidant
Star Trek TNG: Dr. Beverly Crusher
The Love Boat: Dr. Adam “Doc” Bricker
I could have called this character profile “The Doctor,” following the same pattern as “The Captain,” but there was another aspect to Beverly and Doc that I wanted to draw attention to, beyond their being the respective healers of their crews. Both Beverly and Doc have a slightly different relationship with the Captain than the other members of the crew. They are a bit closer to the Captain, able to address him easily as a friend instead of as a superior officer if the situation calls for it. Notice that when working, Beverly will address Picard as “Captain” and “sir,” but when it’s just the two of them chatting in a more intimate setting she calls him “Jean-Luc.” Beverly is also one of the few people on board that Picard is comfortable with opening up to regarding his own insecurities or worries, while he takes more care to maintain his “self-assured captain” persona with everyone else. The same dynamic plays out between Stubing and Doc: there are several instances of Doc addressing his friend as “Merrill”—which none of the other members of the crew would even consider doing—and the power difference between the two is not as pronounced as it is between the captain and the other crew members. Whenever Captain Stubing has a personal problem, he goes to Doc for advice, and vice versa. Dr. Crusher and Captain Picard have a history, having been friends long before he took command of the Enterprise. In the same vein, Doc seems to know Captain Stubing’s past more intimately than the rest of the crew, as there are a few episodes in which the two of them discuss Captain Stubing’s alcohol addiction and current status as a teetotaler as if this is something Doc has always known about Merrill.
The Big Brother
Star Trek TNG: William Riker
The Love Boat: Adam “Doc” Bricker
So this is cheating a bit because I already have Doc listed under a character profile above, but TNG’s main cast has more people than that of TLB, so a one-to-one mapping wasn’t going to happen anyway. Doc’s “Captain’s Confidant” role deals with his relationship with the captain, and his “Big Brother” role deals with his relationship with the rest of the regulars. The fact that Doc is a bit older than Julie, Isaac, and Gopher means that even though he, like the rest of them, is under the supervision of the captain, he has a slight position of seniority over the other three. He balances the by-turns mischievous and responsible aspects of an older brother figure—he’ll tease Julie about her latest infatuation, and set up elaborate pranks to mess with Gopher, yet whenever Gopher and Isaac get swept up in some not-well-thought-out scheme, he’s the level-headed one who tries to point out that they’ve gotten carried away—or sometimes refuses to get involved altogether. William Riker is, of course, first officer of the Enterprise, and therefore has the same seniority-among-underlings position (in a more official chain of command capacity than Doc does). His big-brother-ness manifests as the poker-playing, jazz-loving guy who will do things like give Worf’s son music recordings that he knows Worf will hate one day but get actively upset and almost personally offended at the idea of Data getting hurt the next.
Not necessarily related to the “Big Brother” role, but another little parallel between Doc and Riker that I would like to point out—they are each the designated ladies’ man of their ships, yet both are able to completely switch to focusing solely on their job responsibilities the moment it is called for. (Honestly, Doc always struck me as going beyond “ladies’ man” and skirting dangerously close to “creep” territory at times, but I did appreciate how he would always drop everything the instant there was any sort of medical issue on the Princess.)
The Two Buds
Star Trek TNG: Geordi La Forge and Data
The Love Boat: Isaac Washington and Burl “Gopher” Smith
Although both the TNG and TLB crews form a group of close friends, The Two Buds are best friends. They are the two most likely people to hang out together in their down time, the two who understand each other the best, the two most sympathetic to each other’s problems and most likely to indulge the other long after everyone else would have put their foot down. When Gopher gets some conspiracy theory into his head about a passenger, Isaac will hear him out and sometimes even help him investigate. When Data wants to do some questionable experimentation on his positronic net, Geordi is there with a tricorder making sure the whole thing doesn’t go completely haywire. Data once said that he didn’t know what a friend was until he met Geordi, and Isaac once told Gopher that he (Gopher) is the only one Isaac would resign in solidarity for. All four men/androids have a tendency to get a little too wrapped up in their obsession of the week—see Isaac’s novel-writing attempts, Geordi’s holographic Leah Brahms, Gopher’s conspiracy theories, and about half of anything Data does.
Each pair also consists of one white guy and one Black guy. (Obviously, Data is an android and therefore is not technically any human race or ethnicity, but he’s played by a white guy and his artificial skin is paler than anyone else’s skin on the senior staff.) The white guy representatives, Gopher and Data, are almost polar opposites—Data is calm and logical, and Captain Picard trusts him implicitly, while Gopher is a goof who freaks out easily and who is often upset with the way Captain Stubing dismisses him (those dismissals are especially prominent in the first few seasons—Gopher does mellow out later on). But they do have some similarities, one of the most striking being that they both struggle with appropriate social behavior as well as their own emotions. This is more readily apparent with Data, of course, who is literally not human and is trying his best to understand the nuances of things like humor and love, constantly asking his friends to explain behaviors they take for granted. Gopher’s struggles are more understated—he has a tendency to make comments and observations that the rest of the crew find slightly tasteless, he goes into several anxious tailspins over the course of the show, and he at one point believes his emotional attachments to his friends compromise his ability to fulfill his job duties. Both Data and Gopher use their respective best friends—each of whom are the more level-headed of the pair—as a steadying force.
Now for the characteristics shared by those respective best friends. The Black guy’s job responsibilities root him in a specific place and often set him slightly apart from the main action. While Geordi can and does go up to the bridge on several occasions, as Chief of Engineering he spends most of his time hanging around the warp core, communicating with the bridge over the com system. Meanwhile, Isaac can be seen wandering hallways and so forth, but he spends most of his time behind the bar, whether that’s in the Acapulco Lounge, on the Lido Deck, or in Pirate’s Cove. The rest of the crew, despite having nominal work stations like the Enterprise bridge or the Pacific Princess purser’s lobby, are seen to roam more extensively. (I’m pretty sure we never see Julie’s office.) Isaac is busy serving drinks in pretty much every episode while Doc and Gopher are chatting and dancing with passengers on the dance floor of the Acapulco Lounge. The Black guy also gets the short end of the stick in the romance department. When you see a Black guest actor on the opening credits of The Love Boat, it’s a good bet that Isaac will be involved in their storyline. If it’s just one Black woman, there’s a 99% chance that Isaac will be involved in her story, and his involvement will be as her love interest. I remember one particularly glaring example of the show going to extreme lengths to avoid even hinting that Isaac could potentially do something vaguely romantic or sexual with a white woman—Julie’s hosting her high school reunion on the ship, and there are a few scenes where everyone is discoing in the Acapulco Lounge. Isaac gets out on the dance floor, and conveniently some random Black woman appears out of nowhere as his dance partner. This woman is not named or acknowledged at any other point in the episode. Over on the Enterprise, Geordi isn’t restricted along race lines like Isaac, but I find it highly suspicious that the one Black guy is the least successful in romance out of everyone on the senior staff. Geordi struggles to even start up a conversation with women he’s attracted to, let alone flirt with them. Data has a better romance track record than Geordi does, and Data usually ends up in a romantic entanglement by accident! It’s as if the show was afraid to let Geordi enjoy those kinds of relationships to the same degree as the rest of the crew, which is a different kind of restriction than Isaac’s, but still a restriction nonetheless.
The Chick
Star Trek TNG: Deanna Troi
The Love Boat: Julie McCoy
The standard lineup for both TNG and The Love Boat consisted two female main characters, thus allowing the ladies to gossip about “girly” things in keeping with gender stereotypes, but Vicki was a preteen/teenager and Beverly had a sort of matron vibe going on, which left Julie and Troi to be the respective sex appeal characters out of the main cast. The Chick has non-standard dress that sets her apart from the others and their status as officers. While Doc, Gopher, and Captain Stubing wore nautical stripes and white uniforms (and Isaac usually had a variation on this outfit, wearing a red or blue jacket), with very little in the way of costume changes whether they were greeting boarding passengers, chatting on the Lido deck, or dancing in the Acapulco Lounge, Julie had no stripes to speak of. She would wear a (feminine) uniform at boarding, switch to a casual outfit during the rest of the day, and was always wearing a gown of some sort in the evenings. Deanna Troi for her part cycled through purple jumpsuits and asymmetrical dresses, her Starfleet badge precariously pinned to her neckline. We didn’t even get to see the pips indicating her rank until she was finally given (in story, ordered into) a normal uniform in season six.
The Chick gets saddled with way too many romance plots, some creepier than others. Giving Troi something substantial to do in an episode usually consisted of making her the love interest of whoever happened to be boarding the Enterprise that week, like the ambassador with the telepathic interpreters or the quarter-Betazoid interplanetary negotiator. Deanna also got her mind invaded by a man who was interested in her, prematurely aged by a man who took advantage of her, and kidnapped by Ferengi (who have a disturbing species-wide infatuation with non-Ferengi women). I’m not as upset about Julie having several romance-related plots, as romance was the name of the game on The Love Boat and the men on the crew had their own share of romantic entanglements—but I do find issue with the fact that when Julie was in love she always seemed on the verge of getting married and leaving the ship, which was a vibe we didn’t really get from, say, Doc or Gopher when their love lives turned particularly intense. In terms of creepiness, Julie had to deal with fending off the extremely aggressive advances of Captain Stubing’s uncle, a computer programmer who rigged his dating algorithm to ensure he matched with her, and a college acquaintance of Gopher who actually came to her door to badger her as she was getting dressed.
The Kid
Star Trek TNG: Wesley Crusher
The Love Boat: Vicki Stubing
For some reason, both of these shows thought it necessary to have a preteen/teenager in the cast whose character has way more responsibility than is realistic for either a cruise ship or a pseudomilitary starship. Instead of Vicki wearing a uniform and checking in guests on the Pacific Princess, we really should have seen Julie’s or Gopher’s staff fulfilling check-in duty (Doc and Isaac were also too often seen checking in passengers, which I will say again is a duty that on a real cruise ship would definitely not fall to either the ship’s doctor or chief bartender, but we’re talking about Vicki at the moment). Wesley, meanwhile, was made Acting Ensign on the Enterprise, saving the ship way more than he should have and probably earning the ire of all the official ensigns who actually went to Starfleet Academy and were losing precious time at the conn due to Picard’s favoritism.
Speaking of Picard, The Captain has a paternal relationship with The Kid—literally in Vicki Stubing’s case, emotionally in Wesley Crusher’s. He is very concerned with imbuing The Kid with strong morals, and has a vested interest in The Kid’s upbringing and making sure The Kid has a bright future. Meanwhile, the rest of the main crew are like an assortment of aunts and uncles, being the cool, approachable sources of advice when The Captain’s not around. In fact, The Kid hardly seems to have any friends their own age. Instead, they hang out with the adult crew members and get involved in their social drama, which may or may not have always been appropriate.
Isn’t there someone you forgot?
The TNG fans among you may now be thinking to yourselves, “What about Worf?” Alas, there seems to be no satisfactory Worf counterpart on The Love Boat. After all, there isn’t really any need for a tactical officer on a cruise ship, so a warrior-type personality is not represented on the Pacific Princess crew. Other Worf characteristics would be that of an outsider, or one who is occasionally not sure if they truly belong on the ship, but everyone on the Princess seems pretty happy to be there. I guess in a pinch I could say Ace, the late-addition ship’s photographer, might serve as Worf’s counterpart, but other than the fact that Ace’s family is rich and it is established that he doesn’t really need a job on the ship to get by, I’m not sure there’s much of an “outsider” status brought to the table here. I also haven’t watched enough Ace episodes to have a really good read on his character.
 Thus ends my Love Boat/TNG comparison! It was nice to finally get this analysis out of my head and onto the page.
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gone2soon-rip · 3 years
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GAVIN MACLEOD  (1931-Died May 29th 2021,at 90).American actor best known for portraying Merrill Stubing, the ship's captain, on the ABC's The Love Boat.A Christian activist, and author whose career spanned six decades, he also appeared as a guest on several talk, variety, and religious programs.MacLeod's career began in films in 1957. In 1965, he played opposite Peter Mann in The Sword of Ali Baba. He went on to play opposite Anthony Franciosa in A Man Called Gannon (1968), opposite Christopher George in The Thousand Plane Raid, and opposite Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, and Carroll O'Connor in Kelly's Heroes (1970).MacLeod also achieved continuing television success co-starring opposite Ernest Borgnine on McHale's Navy (1962–1964) as Joseph "Happy" Haines, and on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977) as Murray Slaughter.His last appearance was on a YouTube Love Boat zoom call reunion with then-fellow surviving cast members,just two months prior to his death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_MacLeod
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jaymalokou · 4 years
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Bienvenue à bord !
Cette semaine forte en émotions vous est présentée par le Captain Merrill Stubing 🛳
#loveboat
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geekinator · 3 years
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So sad about this death! Gavin was a great actor and I think I need to go rewatch Mary Tyler Moore now.
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pasttenselibrarian · 5 years
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1. The original crew of The Love Boat (ABC, 1977-’86) included, from left, yeoman purser Burl “Gopher” Smith (Fred Grandy), bartender Isaac Washington (Ted Lange), Captain Merrill Stubing (Gavin MacLeod), Dr. Adam Bricker (Bernie Kopell), and cruise director Julie McCoy (Lauren Tewes).
2. Jill Whelan (second from right) joined the cast in the show’s third season as Stubing’s daughter, Vicki, while Ted McGinley (third from left) hopped onboard as the ship’s photographer, Ace Evans, in season seven, and Patricia Klous (second from left) replaced Lauren Tewes as Judy McCoy, Julie’s sister, in season eight.
3. The real-life “love boat,” the Pacific Princess, was operated by Princess Cruises from 1975 to 2002.
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Kacy Keller
Biographical information
Full Name: Captain Kacy Keller
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Lesbian
Status: Incarcerated
Age: 55 (season 2)
Birth: 1960
Race: Human
Nationality: Canadian
Origin: New Brunswick, Canada
Residence: New Brunswick, Canada
Profession(s): Ship Captain
Profile
Height: 5'7" Age: 55 (season 2) Weight: 152lbs Eyes: gray Blood: O+
Hailing from Atlantic Canada, Kacy was a middle-aged woman of average height with tanned, freckled skin and short black hair. She wore white pants, a white button-up shirt with epaulets on her shoulders, and shiny black shoes.
As per her suspect appearance in The Death Boat, it is known that Kacy wears sunscreen, reads Kitten Magazine, and drinks Piña Colada.
Synopsis
Kacy Keller was the killer of Phoebe Fisher in The Death Boat. She used to be a ship captain before being unfairly stripped of her stripes and forced to disembark her ship, the Atlantic Prince. After that, she struggled to find work she enjoyed doing as she longed to sail the seas again.
She never forgot about the woman who stole her captain stripes from her. For a long time, Kacy believed that it was her crew's fault that they failed the ship audit, but one day she discovered the truth. A fellow Captain told her how the same thing had happened to them and that Phoebe had been the one to plant the drugs on the ship. But without proof, there was nothing the Captain could do to save their ship.
Kacy didn't believe in coincidences and knew that this meant Phoebe had failed her ship to get the audit bonus. Kacy began keeping tabs on the woman, fearing she would continue her greedy tirade. And her stalking paid off when she got wind that Phoebe was scheduled to audit Captain Merrill Stubing's ship.
Stubing was a long-time friend of Kacy's and one of the only people who believed in and supported her dream of Captaining a ship. So when Kacy heard about Phoebe's up-and-coming audit of the Pacific Princess, she knew she had to stop her from taking her friend's ship.
Kacy boarded the same cruise as Phoebe and confronted the woman about her plans. Phoebe laughed in Kacy's face, openly admitting to sabotaging her ship's audit for money. But she refused to stop her plans to fail Stubing's boat and told Kacy there was nothing she could do to stop her.
But Kacy was willing to do anything to save her fellow Captain and his ship, even kill. She stole a speargun from the ship's cargo hold and hid on the lido deck to wait for the perfect time to attack Phoebe. She knew Phoebe enjoyed early morning soaks in the jacuzzi, so she hid behind the bar until the time was right.
When the moment came to kill Phoebe, Kacy shot the harpoon bolt at her, pricing the woman in the heart. She watched Phoebe's body fall into the water, and her blood turned the liquid deep red. Phoebe never saw the attack coming and died before she hit the water.
Kacy knew she wouldn't get away with the murder, but she was proud of herself for stopping Phoebe's tirade. She knows others wouldn't understand why she did what she did, but all that mattered to her was that no more Captains would unfairly lose their ships and crews. And so, once the ship returned to port, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison for her crime.
Story Information
First appeared: The Death Boat
Trivia
Her surname is a pun on the word "killer." An IRL friend came up with it after I asked for suggestions for names to give a killer. She was very proud of her pun
Her surname is pronounced key-ller, not kell-er; it's supposed to sound like you're saying killer
I couldn't find anything usable for a quote even though she does talk, just not a lot in the chapter!
Her old ship, the Atlantic Prince, is a play on the boat Pacific Princess, which is the location of the murder
Disclaimer: Character design was created using Rinmarugames Mega Anime Avatar Creator! I have only made minor edits to the design! Background courtesy of CriminalArtist5
Links to my stories:
The Case of the Criminal (Ao3/Wattpad) Killer Bay (Ao3/Wattpad) Where in the World are the Killers? (Ao3/Wattpad)
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tumbl4christ · 3 years
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Final Farewell Salute to captain Merrill Stubing. Now on his love boat cruise to heaven RIP ✝️🕊️🙏 https://www.instagram.com/p/CPfZCfinqzU/?utm_medium=tumblr
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dailypapernews · 3 years
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Gavin MacLeod, Best Known for The Love Boat, Dead at 90
Gavin MacLeod, Best Known for The Love Boat, Dead at 90
Shortly after The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Gavin was once again on the small screen, but this time he played Captain Merrill Stubing in The Love Boat. He appeared in 250 episodes during its run from 1977 to 1987. He returned as the captain in 1990 for the TV movie, The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage, as well as appeared in the reunion episode of the rebooted series in 1998, The Love Boat: The Next…
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GAVIN MAC CLEOD: Who Had Played The Most Notable Captain Merrill Stubing Of The LOVE BOAT 1977 To 1986/1987. Gavin Mac Cleod Had Died At Age: 90 After A Period Of Ill Health And Health Issues. I Really Don’t Think That You Would Be Able To Put Anything Past Captain Merrill Stubing. A Stacy Scoggstadt Tried To Attempt To Make Everyone On Board Crew Out To Be Incompetent. Captain Stubing After Stacy Scoggstadt Attempted To Do Unreasonable Inspections Of Ship. So Captain Stubing Without Any Other Course Of Action Had Ordered Stacy Scoggstadt To Her Room. (at With You I'm Born Again) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPelCjxrLcq/?utm_medium=tumblr
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hummingzone · 3 years
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Gavin MacLeod, Known for The Love Boat and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Dead at 90 - E! Online
Gavin MacLeod, Known for The Love Boat and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Dead at 90 – E! Online
Shortly after The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Gavin was once again on the small screen, but this time he played Captain Merrill Stubing in The Love Boat. He appeared in 250 episodes during its run from 1977 to 1987. He returned as the captain in 1990 for the TV movie, The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage, as well as appeared in the reunion episode of the rebooted series in 1998, The Love Boat: The Next…
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Arrivals & Departures 28 February 1931 – 29 May 2021 Allan George See [Gavin MacLeod]
Gavin MacLeod (born Allan George See) was an American actor and Christian activist and author whose career spanned six decades. He also appeared as a guest on several talk, variety, and religious programs.
MacLeod's career began in films in 1957. In 1965, he played opposite Peter Mann in The Sword of Ali Baba. He went on to play opposite Anthony Franciosa in A Man Called Gannon (1968), opposite Christopher George in The Thousand Plane Raid, and opposite Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, and Carroll O'Connor in Kelly's Heroes (1970).
MacLeod achieved continuing television success co-starring opposite Ernest Borgnine on McHale's Navy (1962–1964) as Joseph "Happy" Haines, and on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977) as Murray Slaughter. He also starred on ABC's The Love Boat (1977–1986), in which he was cast as Merrill Stubing, the ship’s captain.
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