Cast members who disliked each other

[Paradise City]

Some of them where pretty upset that Crosby was leaving. Sirtis reports that her RL reaction mirrored her reaction at the funeral scene. I tend to take Crosby's departure at face value personally.

Mulgrew and Ryan in Voyager.

Oh, really? Well props to them, because I never picked up on it in the show.

I wonder why they had issues?

Mulgrew was enjoying being the first female captain and being a strong female role model. She enjoyed a strong bond with Lein. Lein left to be replaced by "eye candy" in a cat suit. The press elbowed the pioneer Captain out of the way to snap Ryan. Very bitter feuding erupts that apparently lasted the series run. Ryan was very perplexed by it all. They subsequently reconciled. And, yes, there is zero hint of all this on-screen, so full marks for acting ability.

http://trekcore.com/blog/2014/11/ryan-mulgrew-feud/

http://trekcore.com/blog/2015/04/wang-voyager-tensions/

What was the issue with Diana Muldaur?

Whilst not as well documented, recurring anecdotes indicate Muldaur didn't gel well with the crew. She got the same pay as Stewart, she got a unique uniform as opposed to the others who where lumbered with the uncomfortably tight ones and she needed and got cue cards for the technobabble. McFadden was also well liked and the manner of her departure was very abrupt. Muldaur apparently left work on some days in a state of some distress.

 

[T'Girl]

What was the issue with Diana Muldaur?

She was a old friend of Gene Roddenberry's, with the exception of Patrick Stewart she was making more money than the other actors, meaning she made more than the actress she replaced.

There was a feeling that Roddenberry pushed for her to be given more screen time than McFadden had been getting.

To be fair, Muldaur was a more experienced actress, with lot's a screen credits going back a couple of decades. And while some dislike the character she play, few cast doubts on her acting abilities.

Personally I liked her and would have enjoyed her being on the show longer. It (imho) might have been interesting if the show had made a policy of replacing the doctor every other year or so with a new one.

 

[indycar]

I also want to say that I read somewhere that Shatner and Doohan didn't get along very well either.

The tension between Shatner and Doohan is well known. Doohan once said something to the effect of "I like Captain Kirk the character, but I've never been able to stand Shatner."

There are reports suggesting they reconciled within the last few years before Doohan died, however.

I think I remember reading or hearing that Doohan would not speak to Shatner unless they were doing a scene in character.

What was the issue with Diana Muldaur?

I've heard that the only one who got along with Muldaur was Michael Dorn.

 

[indycar]

Though I get a sense Gates never really got along with everybody and kind of doesn't care for the fans too much.

Why do you say that?

 

[XManRCJ]

Watch the special Chaos on the Bridge on Netflix. Muldar pretty much tells Shatner she didn't care for any of the cast and Stewart pretty much says the same about her. He's the one that got Gates back on the show after Muldar left.

As for Crosby, I don't think it's a love/hate thing, it's a "I quit" thing. She left, they moved on and bonded for 14 more years. It's one thing to see someone outside of work, it's another to work with a group of people 14 hours a day for 5 days a week. Of course the Mag 7 bonded.

Jeri Ryan and Kate Mulgrew were pretty well known not liking each other. The other cast members talked about it all the time. Jeri had to date Braga to get the crap to stop, and even then, if you watch the scenes, you can tell a bit here and there the two just wanted to get the scene over with.

I do hear the Enterprise crew aren't fans of Riker and Troi, lol

 

[The Wormhole]

I do hear the Enterprise crew aren't fans of Riker and Troi, lol

Actually, Frakes said the Enterprise cast were very polite to both him and Sirtis when they were on set, adding he wouldn't have been had something like that been done on TNG.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

This isn't a pissing contest. Youtube is free to use. Go there, check out ones where she's with multiple cast members and how she acts. Then check out ones with multiple cast members and she's not there and how they act together. Then go check out videos where there's two or three cast member, including her, and see how she suddenly acts differently.

No thanks. I feel no need to go do homework to prove a theory I don't believe in in the first place.

You're free to believe whatever you like, of course. Just as I'm free to think it makes no sense whatsoever.

As for Crosby, I don't think it's a love/hate thing, it's a "I quit" thing. She left, they moved on and bonded for 14 more years. It's one thing to see someone outside of work, it's another to work with a group of people 14 hours a day for 5 days a week. Of course the Mag 7 bonded.

^ This is what I'm saying. Of course 14 more years of working together and mutual ups & downs yields closer relationships.

 

[T'Girl]

Frakes said the Enterprise cast were very polite to both him and Sirtis when they were on set,

adding he wouldn't have been ...

Says something about Frakes, doesn't it?

 

[Tim Thomason]

Frakes said the Enterprise cast were very polite to both him and Sirtis when they were on set,

adding he wouldn't have been ...

Says something about Frakes, doesn't it?

That he likes to engage in hyperbole? I imagine that, realistically, Frakes would've been quite the professional himself if the roles were reversed. I don't recall him having any issues with James Doohan or Leonard Nimoy.

 

[Salinga]

Though I get a sense Gates never really got along with everybody and kind of doesn't care for the fans too much.

Gates is most interactive with her fans on Twitter. Your opinion is formed by prejudice.

 

[TheSubCommander]

As far as DS9, I've heard that when Worf came on board, some of the cast members didn't like the idea.

 

[Commishsleer]

Probably a lot of the female guest stars on TOS and Shatner.

 

[The Wormhole]

I don't recall him having any issues with James Doohan or Leonard Nimoy.

That's not an accurate comparison at all. What Frakes was referring to was the fact that him and Sirtis were usurping the Enterprise cast in their final episode. Nimoy appeared in an episode meant to celebrate Trek's 25th anniversary, while Doohan was in an ordinary episode. And neither usurped the TNG cast in those episodes.

 

[2takesfrakes]

If anything, Leonard Nimoy should've been offended at the cheapness of his 2 parter on TNG, and the truly uninspired writing and story. I honestly don't know how Unification was handled, but it does seem like the writing staff were burnt out and that they'd blown so much coin just getting Lenny to sign on that they couldn't even afford him a decent costume! The lame climax and the ultimately important investigation into the Vulcan ship that just ate up precious time really seemed like amateur night, when compared with the legendary guest star and character this was all done for. It had its moments, like Spock's reveal, that was kind of cool. Sarek is always cool, he's my favourite Vulcan. Uhm ... Amarie the chubby 4 handed singer offered unrealised possibilities ... after that, I don't know. It kind of, uh ... well, it sucks, really. I'm sorry to say. But to my knowledge, Nimoy never complained, was a team player and all that ... everyone got along wonderfully.

 

[FormerLurker]

Well, the story I heard was that Nimoy agreed to do one episode, but to amortize his fee they needed to do a two-parter to get the cast budget up to where they could afford him. He then agreed to do that one, final, two-second appearance at the end of the first part to give the fans "Spock in a two-part episode" that would hopefully ameliorate any complaints. That's why the first part is anything but "Spock on TNG", except that last scene.

 

[Paradise City]

Unification is a great two parter. We see Picard with the dying Sarek. Other strong scenes are Spock battling with Picard as Sarek's proxy. We see Data and Spock met and go through some issues. Some smooth scenes there, they work well together and it's not a hackneyed encounter between the two. Spock didn't seem dumped on this two parter like Kirk was dumped on the Generations film. And the drawing on some of the aspects of TUC, which was a project underway at that time, was elegantly done.

The overall plot is untidy and dog-eared on the Enterprise side and the investigation/hunt or whatever they were up to comes across as padding rather than scenes with purpose in retrospect. But even so, this two parter, are a pair of strong episodes overall.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Yours may, in fact, be a more even-handed review of Unification. Perhaps, I have lost my objectivity on it. I remember whenever I first saw it that I was moved by Sarek's condition ... and demise. A very dignified statesman played by such a class act as Mark Lenard, Sarek seemed to deserve a more fitting end than being afflicted with Alzheimer's and wearing Depend undergarments. But Spock's need to turn away and collect himself on receiving the news of his father's death is still moving. Spock's desire to keep some part of Sarek alive around him, through Picard, suggested his inability to accept death as "just" a natural, logical part of Life, which was very appropriate, considering his Human half. However, Spock's acceptance of Picard's offer to meld seemed more for the fans, than for Spock. That is, that they would want Spock and his father to have one last "contact" which they'd find touching. But Spock, as in the truth of his character, would probably not want to experience his father's insanity, even if some of his blabbering was about how much he loved His Only Son ...

But the Romulan people, the ordinary citizenry that is, did not seem to be overtly oppressed. No more spied on, or harshly governed, frankly, than us poor Americans. And why ReUnification, anyway? Is a peaceful, cultural interchange not enough? It's like England & America talking about becoming a single government again. What for? What advantage is there to any of that? It rang very hollow in comparison to Spock's role in saving the Klingon Empire, which was logical and necessary and met with understandable resistance, enough to drive that particular story with. But this? Loosen the Immigration Laws, or something like that ... ReUnification does seem shoehorned, I'm sorry ... as does Spock's illogical support and encouragement of it. And I maintain that the episode's thrift is profoundly evident and detrimental to the scope they were seemingly after, with this story. As well, Spock's creating holograms in an office to win the day seems kind of small time for such an important figure to the franchise.

 

[Paradise City]

Romulan Empire is a surveillance society. It's like wartime Japan, where, yeah, sure you could do civilian politics to a certain degree, but if you got 'imaginative', you came to the attention of the Tal Shiar, you were spied upon and could be kidnapped and killed. Remember the Romulan commander's father in that Troi Tal Shiar episode?

So, yeah, politics is a very dangerous there in a way that it just isn't on Vulcan. Romulans are constantly stitching each other up. Jarok gets stitched up, Pardek himself is some sort of long term informant/sleeper agent. Romulus is clearly a tough distrustful society heavy on intrigue. They are also keeping a slave race on Remus. Vulcans have a philosophy that wouldn't allow that.

Vuclan offers a higher philosophy altogether and it's not that surprising that many Romulans are 1. sick of their own show 2. crave the high philosophy of their roots. Romulans are, afterall, ex-Vulcans.

 

[Cyke101]

For Gates, her son's godfather is Brent Spiner, and she seems to be close to everyone, but especially Stewart and Sirtis.

Your last name *must* begin with the letter S to earn her good graces. Get out of here, Dorn!

(Oh alright, Wheaton. Come on in.)

 

[Amasov]

Shatner-Takei, obviously.

I've listened to Takei go on endlessly about it over the years. What I don't fully understand is why Takei is so rough. I've not read every piece or literature of interview on this subject, so I could be off in my conclusions, but, Shatner as well as Nimoy and Kelley were the series leads.

Takei was a supporting castmember. He isn't even featured in every episode. I can understand if Takei is miffed about Shatner stealing camera-time here and there, but my god, George, it was 40+ years ago.

And again, George is not the lead actor of the series.

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