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April 13th, 2003, 09:21 PM
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Starbuck and Moby Dick
I always thought Starbuck was an odd name in a show almost entirely composed of names from Mythology. Adam(a), Apollo, Cassiopeia, Athena and......Starbuck...
Sounds odd don't it?
I've been doing a little research on Moby Dick. It turns out that Captain Ahab's first mate was non other than a Mr. Starbuck!
He was a good man who was concerned Captain Ahab was endangering the crew. Unfortunately the ship Pequod was a doomed ship. Starbuck died and almost all the crew died. Only a young recruit would survive to tell the tale of Moby Dick.
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April 14th, 2003, 07:41 AM
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Moby Dick
I read that book as well and remembered the character of Mr. Starbuck. I also remember Dirk in an interview saying thet Starbuck was around allot longer than Han Solo. Han seemed to me to be a take on this Melville character than our own Starbuck.
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April 14th, 2003, 09:17 AM
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Well, Dirk has played two different Starbucks, maybe someday he'll look old enough to play the Moby Dick one.
Maybe not.
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April 14th, 2003, 09:19 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Flamingo Girl
Well, Dirk has played two different Starbucks, maybe someday he'll look old enough to play the Moby Dick one.
Maybe not.
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The Moby Dick Starbuck wasn't that old. Dirk could play the role today.
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April 14th, 2003, 12:50 PM
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Call me Ishmael..................
Ray Bradbury wrote the screen play of Moby Dick, the Melville lines quoted by Ahab & Khan are from Moby Dick. The Bennet/Sowards screenplay paraphrased Melville's Ahab sea based lines into Khan's lines from Moby Dick to make 'em space based.
Alas, Melville's 1st mate Starbuck considered replacing Captain Ahab, but being a Quaker realized he would have to kill Ahab, so everybody but Ishmael died.
Last edited by dvo47p; April 14th, 2003 at 01:35 PM..
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April 14th, 2003, 08:10 PM
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I didn't say Dirk wasn't old enough, I said he doesn't LOOK old enough.
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