What's the identity of the role that Beverly Crusher played when in the Dixon Hill world? Is she supposed to be addressed as "the Dame" or "Doc"? In addition, what roles in the Dixon world were Whalen and Lily Sloane play and what are they supposed to be? Does anyone know? Forgive me, but I am intrigued.
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If you have issue with how MA has handled that and want to make a case for a different approach, then the place to be doing that would be on the "Talk" pages of the relevant articles, not here in the general discussions.I have no issues. I was only curious of what is.
Whether or not the identities of the "extra" players in the holoprogram you list are invented by those players or are meant to be actual characters within the Dixon Hill stories, is really left open to viewer interpretation.
Then the only actual character within the Dixon Hill Stories that one of the players played, which we seem to know so far, is Dixon Hill himself.
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The Dixon Hill character was never actually created by any author, so the whole scenarios were fictitious and there probably are no actual characters for them. They were just part of the story.That's not what I asked. And anyway, in the Star Trek universe, Dixon was created by authors. Fictional ones, like Tracy Tormé. In a page of this site, it says Tracy Tormé was a 20th century Human author who wrote the Dixon Hill novels that appeared in Amazing Detective Stories magazine during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Well, as JMills095 already pointed out, "The Big Goodbye" and Dixon Hill in general are all a fictional story invented for TNG and doesn't actually exist outside of Trek, so all we know about it was what was portrayed on screen.I already know the story doesn't exist. And that's not what I asked or meant.
Therefore, there's no way to know for sure whether or not Carlos or Gloria are actual characters within the story, or just identities invented by their respective players that the holoprogram then adapted to keep in consideration for events playing out thereafter.
If I were to guess though, I think they're probably cover identities invented by the players, on the grounds that, going from what we know, the holoprogram probably would've just as readily accepted the players' real names without much protest too, given how it seemed to respond and react to their general presence in a sort "eh, whatever, I can work with this" kind of attitude.If we all don't know, then how come they were added in the Dixon Hill Character list page in this site?
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Likewise, I don't think they were meant to be any specific character in the story, the holoprogram just considered them an extra supporting "player" and had the program's characters assume they were miscellaneous acquaintances/friends of Dixon's he happened to be with at the moment and otherwise treating them as, at most, the equivalent to a "hired goon" for Dixon if they proceeded to actively assist him in solving the case.
Basically, to the holoprogram, they were effectively like redshirts who weren't super relevant to the story overall, and just there to fill, again to the holoprogram, an otherwise minor role. If they ever did anything that forced the holoprogram to treat them as something more relevant than that, then it'd adapt accordingly, but they'd still almost certainly always be treated as "second-fiddle" to the Dixon character, simply because that's what the story demanded. Dixon, after all, is really the sole intended character of focus in The Big Goodbye holoprogram.
As for the identity of their characters, I'm assuming the holoprogram would just use whatever name the person playing Dixon happens to introduce them as, or whatever they themselves happen to introduce themselves as if Dixon doesn't answer for them, so it'd really be up to the players to determine. There's no preexisting character they'd be assigned as, at least not by default--the story isn't geared with that in mind.So does that also mean that Carlos (the role that Data played) was not a specific character in the story too but was made up by Data to cover himself, or are Carlos and Gloria (the role that Guinan played) actually characters from the Dixon Hill story? Just curious.
I don't believe we were told. I always thought they had no specific role. They were just there to enjoy the story.Thanks. I was just curious.
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