Who are your two favorite actors from each series.... TOS - Kelley & Koenig TNG - Frakes & Dorn DS9 - Shimerman & Siddig Voyager - Picardo & McNeil Enterprise - Bakula & Blalock Discovery - Jones & Ajala SNW - Mount & Romijn
"TOS" - Leonard Nimoy, Walter Koenig, & James Doohan "TNG" - Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis, & Gates McFadden "DS9" - Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, & Terry Farrell "Voyager" - Robert Picardo, Robert McNeill, Ethan Phillips, & Jeri Ryan
Like all Best Ofs, this is just my gut reaction today. It'd likely be different a week from now or a week ago. And I assume we're only allowed to choose from main cast? TOS - Nimoy and Kelley TNG - Frakes and Spiner DS9 - Brooks and Visitor (This was a struggle for me.) VOY - Russ and Picardo ENT - Bakula and Billingsley DSC - Jones and Isaacs LDS - Wells and Cordero SNW - Mount and Bush (Sounds like a weird porno parody or something. Oof.) PIC - Pill and Brady PRO - Purnell and Noble
Are those choices because of their actual personalities off-screen or how they handled their characters and profession? Mine were based on how I perceived them as human beings rather than their talent or skill. Some of the older show actors I saw at cons and felt they "good-guy" reputation was deserved. Others I go by my gut.
My picks were based on both, for various reasons. I liked all the actors' work with their characters, but some of my personal experiences were different. For example, both Brent Spiner and Marina Sirtis were very kind, while Robert Picardo and Gates McFadden (her assistant, even more than herself) came off very negatively.
TOS: Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan TNG: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner DS9: Rene Auberjonois, Armin Shimerman VOY: Robert Picardo, Tim Russ ENT: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley DIS: Oded Fehr, Doug Jones PIC: Jonathan Frakes, Jeri Ryan LDS: Tawny Newsome, Gabriel Ruiz PRO: Ella Purnell, Kate Mulgrew SNW: Anson Mount, Jess Bush
I am going by the characters they portray on the screen on Star Trek, not my questionable perception of who is kind to his family, loves his dog, and is a great human being generally. Or even how well they act in other roles.
TOS: Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley TNG: LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn DS9: Avery Brooks, Armin Shimmerman VOY: Tim Russ, Jeri Ryan ENT: John Billingsley, Linda Park DIS: Sonequa Martin-Green, David Ajala PIC: Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill LD: Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid SNW: Bruce Horak, Jess Bush PRO: Ella Purnell, Agnus Imrie
TOS: Nimoy and Doohan TNG: Spiner and Stewart DS9: Brooks and Visitor VOY: Don't know, I liked most of them. Which is why I can watch this show, despite how atrociously managed it was. ENT: Park and Trineer DIS: That big honkin' cat LD: Boimler and T'Ana, don't remember the actor names offhand. PIC: Ryan and whoever plays Elnor. And HM for DeLancie PRO: Mulgrew and Ala... the kid who plays Rok-tahk SNW: Mount and whoever plays Ortegas
TOS: Shater (so little love for Shatner here) and Nimoy TNG: Stewert and Spiner DS9: Siddig, Alaimo & Combs Voy: Picardo & Russ Ent: Keating & Trineer DSC: Her that plays Burnham (who else is there?) PIC: Stewert & Ryan SNW: Mount & Peck LD: Boimler & Marriner Don't watch Prodigy.
TOS - Kelley & Nimoy TNG - Spiner & Sirtis DS9 - Visitor & Shimerman Voyager - Mulgrew & Russ Enterprise - Blalock & Billingsley Discovery - Martin-Green & Jones SNW - Peck & Romijn PIC - Ryan & Hurd
TOS - Nimoy + Koenig TNG - Spiner + Stewart DS9 - Brooks + Shimmerman VOY - Mulgrew + Russ ENT - literally never thought about it b4 so i would have to think long and hard DIS - Doug Jones + idk SNW - Idk anyones name but uh. The one who does Uhura + the one who did Hemmer LD - didn't really think about this either. the one who does Tendi + the one who does T'Lyn i suppose PRO - Mulgrew + the one who does Zero
This whole thread looks like a list of lawyers' offices. Okay, I'll take a crack at it for the series I've seen and liked. TOS: Kelley and Takei (for the people who mock him for his feud with Shatner, just read his autobiography; there's a lot more to him than that). TNG: Stewart (I loathe Jean-Luc Picard, but have enjoyed Stewart's other performances in other series and movies, ie. Sejanus in I, Claudius and Henry Grey in Lady Jane, with honorable mention to his cameo in Robin Hood: Men in Tights. A second actor would be Colm Meaney. I've seen him in other things that probably didn't make it to mainstream entertainment platforms in the U.S. and he was very good. DS9: Robinson (love Garak - I have a friend who named her cat after him! True story: Another friend and I went to visit this first friend, and neither of them had met the other. I'd mentioned Garak, and when we pulled up in front of the house, my friend noticed a tall guy out front and asked, "Is that Garak?" I looked around, then realized the confusion. I said, "No, that's her brother. Garak is her cat." I'd forgotten to mention that detail. I also like James Darren (Vic Fontaine). Voyager: Ryan (is there anything she can't do well? And it can't have been easy to put up with the hostile attitude she got from Mulgrew all that time) and Picardo. These two portrayed their characters well to the point that they've inspired me to read and write Voyager fanfic (the TOS cast did likewise, many years previously). And that's something that none of the TNG or DS9 actors managed. The rest of the series... either I can't stand them and quit, or found them so boring that it doesn't bother me that I never saw all of them. I haven't seen any of the last three and don't even care. I could possibly become interested if they ever make a new one based on the ending of the tie-in novel Federation. It's a great jumping off place.
TOS: Shatner and Nimoy TAS: Shatner and Nimoy TNG: Stewart and Spiner DS9: Brooks and Visitor VOY: Ryan and Picardo ENT: Trinneer and Bakula Disc: Green and Mount STW: Mount and Peck
TOS: Shatner and Nimoy TNG: Stewart and Spiner DS9: Robinson and Shimerman VOY: Mulgrew and Ryan ENT: Blalock and Billingsley DSC: Martin-Green and Wiseman PIC: Hurd and Ryan LDS: Newsome and Cordero SNW: Mount and Peck
Ok, the ACTUAL best actors... TNG: Spot DS9: Chester VOY: Neelix the cat and the puppy from Q and the Gray ENT: Porthos DIS: Grudge LD: The Dog and Moopsy (and still T'Ana) PRO: Murf! PIC: Number One