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Cedric "Flip" Taporco (16 February 194414 August 2021; age 77) was a Star Trek fan who appeared as the Saurian Enterprise crewmember in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. [1]

In Bjo Trimble's book On the Good Ship Enterprise, p. 259, she noted that "Cedric Taporco, one of the handsomest males I'd managed to locate, suddenly became a purple lizard! He enjoyed the day sticking his tongue, snake-like, out at startled girls. We'd hear a "Yeek!" and know where he was on the set."

Taporco was, for a time, a choir teacher at Piux X High School in Downey, California. [2]

Taporco lived in Buffalo, New York, where, in 2005, he was a member of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus [3], and later in 2014, a member of the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus. [4] Later in 2017, he suffered from brain bleed and was supported by a GoFundMe fundraiser. [5]

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