One of any number of early ideas I wish had been given more of a chance. In those early months before the series actually aired and all you had to go on was the various publicity stuff and David Gerold’s column in Starlog, young me built up a cool, high-concept version of What TNG Would Be that the show was never going to be able to match.
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He was never in seaQuest.
You might be confusing him with Royce Applegate, who played Chief Crocker on seaQuest DSV in season 1.
Several actors have told me they do not tolerate ad-libbing at all on Star Trek.
Many of the actors who appeared on the D-Con Chamber (including the hosts) have mentioned that. Even changing a word required divine intervention.
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A great reason for him not to wear blue is because of all the Spock parallels, even if TNG's blue was a little more saturated and shade of blue (which didn't look too bad).
Closer to TNG's blue hue, it clashes yet doesn't? (Hmm, I forgot to go back into Photoshop to clear up the red haze from the quick'n'dirty color alteration, ditto regarding forgetting to add the 4th pip to Captain Pulaski there, whoops...)
That said, with all the Spock/Data comparisons of the time being a good reason to give him gold, since Pulaski having some loose parallels to McCoy via a snipy attitude (but with an original twist). I don't recall her doing what the EMH did on a regular basis, though as he was far closer to a McCoy rip-off and right down to the "I'm a Doctor not a parroted meme" shtick, but by 1995 nobody cared.
Ah yes,
Even in ENT there was no dedicated Science Officer aboard mid-22nd century Earth starships, but T'Pol had the science station and Spock-like pop-up scanner she looked into, so that made her by default the NX-01 Science Officer.
I could be wrong, but I don't think actors in small parts like that are encouraged to ad-lib. Save that for the rehearsals. When the cameras are on, doing it differently gets a dirty look from the director and "Let's try that again." The writers were probably thinking they might make him a regular so they wrote in his full name, but for whatever reason it didn't happen. Which I think is good, Geordi was much better.
I am shocked. I have spent over 3 decades now thinking it was the same guy. How the heck did I miss that!
I remember the Vash actor, Jennifer Hetrick, wanting to make a joke about the tri-corder batteries being dead and someone had to point out to her the device didn't use batteries and I recall Gary Graham talking about being frustrated with wanting to change a line on "Voyager."
What kind of joke? If it was meant to be a flippant suggestion as to why the tricorder wasn't working and not a serious idea, the objection to the joke must've been something else.
I don't recall the details. Not even sure where I first heard it. Could have been a TNG dvd extra or me reading the TNG book companion where you will see people giving some behind the scenes info. I do think it was suppose to happen in the caves setting when she and Picard are looking for the future device thingy. The Tri-corder can't pick up on it or something.
If it was out of character or didn't fit with the mood/pacing of the scene, sure, leave it out. If it was technically inaccurate, it still works as a quip.
I think Berman would turn it down because it would be to much of a modern phrase.
Yeah, I've heard the no ad-lib thing about Trek as well. Even to the point where they couldn't change 'could not' to 'couldn't'.
I'm sure there were exceptions (I've heard it said Robert Picardo liked to ad-lib) but a bit player like the actor playing Leland T. Lynch wouldn't have had the option I'm sure. Especially not in such an egregious way.
I'm sure there were exceptions (I've heard it said Robert Picardo liked to ad-lib) but a bit player like the actor playing Leland T. Lynch wouldn't have had the option I'm sure. Especially not in such an egregious way.
Part of the Ad-Libbing issue might be (somebody correct me if I'm wrong) something to do with the WGA (Writers Guild of America) Rules & Regulations.
If you Ad-Lib, you might get in trouble, and that could cause headaches.
Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool is famous for improvised dialogue. Can that still happen during the writers’ strike?
I don’t think it was that. If that were the case then Robin Williams would never have been able to do Mork and Mindy for example.
I think they were just very, very strict on Star Trek.
I think they were just very, very strict on Star Trek.
They’re better than all but TOS-era uniforms and their Kelvin or SNW derivatives.
Nah.
That’s a bug, not a feature.
Yes.
The thing is I can sort of see why they were strict on ad-libbing. The technobabble had to be precise and also they really wanted the language to have that future, non-contemporary feel to it. We should probably call it it PIllar-speak because I think he is the one most responsible for basically defining the way the characters would talk during the Berman era. Even shows were he had less influence on in later years to no influence like Enterprise still felt very much connected to the language style he created.
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