They didn't get the original ROTJ actor to reprise the role of Bib Fortuna in TPM and though I noticed it didn't bother me. Partly because Episode I is set 36 years before Episode VI and characters age and change appearance with said aging.
Brian Brophy didn’t return?
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If recasting was really a big deal, daytime soaps would have stalled 60 years ago. Maybe 70. 
It doesn't help the argument when you bring up the good stuffIf recasting was really a big deal, daytime soaps would have stalled 60 years ago. Maybe 70.
Honestly, I never would have noticed that they used different Ziyals if I hadn't read about it.
That guy Carl Orff wrote a song about?
To be fair, they could've gotten a mannequin to play him in "The Menagerie".
Saavik never bothered me. But then, I never was much of a fan of the character. I'd have never noticed the multiple actors playing Ziyal if I hadn't read about it.
I wish that weren't true, but...
BEEP. BEEP.
oh we all know that was just the way to get profanity through the censors back in the day. Pike was a pottymouth
You'd be, too, if you were stuck in a motorized wheelchair that only let you communicate with flashing lights and say just two things.
Well, I have only two words to say and both of them get beeped out!
No offense, as this isn’t aimed specifically at you, but I wonder if most people even remembered Brian Brophy’s name before PIC, and are now whining about why he wasn’t invited back just to whine about something. I know I sure didn’t, even though I’m a huge Trekkie and definitely remembered the Maddox character. The actor, I could have cared less about.
I for one had to look up the name of the actor who played him when it came up that Maddox would feature on the show.
Funny how he's become a bit of a name now and he's not even in the show.
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1. It’s not the place for anyone to tell another how they should feel.
2. The Ziyal thing was jarring too. It’s not like when they needed Pine to take over for Shatner.
3. No one is going to sue Brophy for not returning, but hi this is a fan discussion board; one can lament.
4. Brophy changed careers but he’s in theater not chemistry. One could have hoped for his return.
5. This Maddox was in a different place in his life, sure, but Brophy is an actor. This is what they do.
6. Additionally, the part was relatively short and didn’t really require too too much stretching for anyone who’s been an actor.
7. In a series that returned a whole heap load of actors to Trek who haven’t been anywhere near it for decades, why wouldn’t you expect another to return, in what might have been a delightful part — brief, central, and probably lucrative? Plus adding further cache to your theater creds.
8. If Maddox wasn’t going to be another tip to canon, it might have been smoother to put a photo of the replacement in some personnel file earlier in the series or something. When you’re talking about a known entity for five episodes (right from the pilot), yes, expectations will be raised.
EDIT: Also, I posted the other day that I almost want to start a thread about how Evil French Picard needed to see proof of his bounty alive..."I need to see MA'DOX!"
2. The Ziyal thing was jarring too. It’s not like when they needed Pine to take over for Shatner.
3. No one is going to sue Brophy for not returning, but hi this is a fan discussion board; one can lament.
4. Brophy changed careers but he’s in theater not chemistry. One could have hoped for his return.
5. This Maddox was in a different place in his life, sure, but Brophy is an actor. This is what they do.
6. Additionally, the part was relatively short and didn’t really require too too much stretching for anyone who’s been an actor.
7. In a series that returned a whole heap load of actors to Trek who haven’t been anywhere near it for decades, why wouldn’t you expect another to return, in what might have been a delightful part — brief, central, and probably lucrative? Plus adding further cache to your theater creds.
8. If Maddox wasn’t going to be another tip to canon, it might have been smoother to put a photo of the replacement in some personnel file earlier in the series or something. When you’re talking about a known entity for five episodes (right from the pilot), yes, expectations will be raised.
EDIT: Also, I posted the other day that I almost want to start a thread about how Evil French Picard needed to see proof of his bounty alive..."I need to see MA'DOX!"
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I think he is saying the series needs Brian Brophy's star power.
"Ah, the giants".
Brian Brophy in "The Brent Spiner Story."
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