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pokerfan

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1. I came up with a couple...
Thu Dec 6, 2012, 06:35 PM
Dec 2012
Karl Jaeger was a meteorologist who served in the science department aboard the USS Enterprise during James T. Kirk's five-year mission. He had German ancestors. Upon hearing Karl Jaeger's German name in 2267, Trelane asked him in German if he were a German soldier and reenacted part of a German marching song. (TOS: "The Squire of Gothos&quot

Kurt Mandl was a senior member of the Federation's Terraform Command during the mid-24th century who was assigned as director of the terraforming mission, coordinated from the Velara Base, on the planet Velara III. (TNG: "Home Soil&quot According to the shooting script, Kurt Mandl was intended to be of German descent; he was played by the German actor Walter Gotell.

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