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[LightningStorm]

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http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=63206

 

[Marie1]

Terry Farrell is six feet tall, Suzie Plakson is six feet, one and a half inches. My intention was for Choudhury to be 5'10"-5'11", "nearly as tall" as Jadzia and K'ehleyr. Although it's possible she could be more like 5'8"-5'9" and just seem taller because of the way she carries herself.

Is Terry Farrell really 6ft though? I know it says so on IMDB, but it also says that Brooks is 6'1." And despite TF's kinda... raised hair, and usually in DS9 her boots had a bit of a heel... she doesn't look like she's only an inch shorter than Brooks. But I could be insane. I'm not sure when they're that close and side by side it would be a camera angle... Not sure if this is relevant to anything...

http://ds9.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/1x01/emissary149.jpg

 

[Chris McCarver]

Actually, she was said to be critically injured. Would Estee Chandler who played Oliana in the TNG episode fit in the Destiny trilogy. She looks more than twenty years older than someone who was apparently in her teens back then.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/a/ab/Oliana_Mirren.jpg

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/c/c6/Estee_Chandler.jpg

Unfortunately, kinda hard to tell, since Chandler's age isn't listed on her Memory Alpha page, IMDB page, or anywhere else I can find. Presuming she was 17-25 ballpark at the time "Coming of Age" was filmed, that would make her 38-46, which seems consistent with that newer photo of her. Late thirties seems a good estimate for Mirren, 'course she would have to be 34-35 by the time of Destiny. (Age 18 in 2364 -> Age 35 in 2381)

 

[Christopher]

Is Terry Farrell really 6ft though? I know it says so on IMDB, but it also says that Brooks is 6'1." And despite TF's kinda... raised hair, and usually in DS9 her boots had a bit of a heel... she doesn't look like she's only an inch shorter than Brooks. But I could be insane. I'm not sure when they're that close and side by side it would be a camera angle... Not sure if this is relevant to anything...

http://ds9.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/1x01/emissary149.jpg

Film and TV have all sorts of tricks to obscure actors' relative heights, and those are often used to make men seem taller and women shorter. So you can't really tell from that.

 

[Enterprise1981]

Is Terry Farrell really 6ft though?

Her Actress Archive page says she is 6 feet tall.

 

[KRAD]

Film and TV have all sorts of tricks to obscure actors' relative heights, and those are often used to make men seem taller and women shorter. So you can't really tell from that.

Actually, that's not quite true -- usually the tricks are to make the women seem taller. For instance, you can watch all four seasons and one miniseries of Farscape and never know that Ben Browder has half a foot on Claudia Black.

 

[JD]

And Stargate SG-1. I watched all of those and never noticed it until just now. But that could just be me, I'm not always the most observant person.

 

[Christopher]

Film and TV have all sorts of tricks to obscure actors' relative heights, and those are often used to make men seem taller and women shorter. So you can't really tell from that.

Actually, that's not quite true -- usually the tricks are to make the women seem taller. For instance, you can watch all four seasons and one miniseries of Farscape and never know that Ben Browder has half a foot on Claudia Black.

Oh, okay. I was thinking in terms of cases where a leading lady is taller than the leading man, which is something that conventionally just "isn't done." And I guess I'm influenced by the Monty Python "Scott of the Antarctic" sketch, with the box and the trench and all that...

 

[DimesDan]

Film and TV have all sorts of tricks to obscure actors' relative heights, and those are often used to make men seem taller and women shorter. So you can't really tell from that.

Actually, that's not quite true -- usually the tricks are to make the women seem taller. For instance, you can watch all four seasons and one miniseries of Farscape and never know that Ben Browder has half a foot on Claudia Black.

Oh, okay. I was thinking in terms of cases where a leading lady is taller than the leading man, which is something that conventionally just "isn't done." And I guess I'm influenced by the Monty Python "Scott of the Antarctic" sketch, with the box and the trench and all that...

I've never actually seen that sketch!

Also and I'm working from my memory here, but on Firefly isn't Alan Tudyk taller than Gina Torres, but the way the camera is positioned, she is taller than him.

 

[KRAD]

^ Yup. Alan is six feet, and Gina's 5'10".

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ Still off topic, but in The Godfather, Diane Keaton walks in the gutter, while little Al Pacino is up on the footpath, so as not to make him look like the shortarse that he is!

 

[Marie1]

Is Terry Farrell really 6ft though? I know it says so on IMDB, but it also says that Brooks is 6'1." And despite TF's kinda... raised hair, and usually in DS9 her boots had a bit of a heel... she doesn't look like she's only an inch shorter than Brooks. But I could be insane. I'm not sure when they're that close and side by side it would be a camera angle... Not sure if this is relevant to anything...

http://ds9.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/1x01/emissary149.jpg

Film and TV have all sorts of tricks to obscure actors' relative heights, and those are often used to make men seem taller and women shorter. So you can't really tell from that.

True... my favourite example of this is One Little Ship, where at some points, Sisko goes up to the Jem'Hadar's shoulder or so, and 2 seconds later, I'm sure he's shorter than the second in the turbo lift... hee hee.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Thelin from The Chimes At Midnight (in Myriad Universes):

Michael Fairman

(I don't know if this is intentional, but the book cover's image of Thelin definitely looks like this man)

 

[Kermett]

Enterprise - E

Cmdr. Miranda Kadohata - Maggie Q
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3274153216/nm0702572

Lt. Dina Elfiki - Kimberly Kardashian
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3218248704/nm2578007

Lt. Jasminder Choudhury - Kate Matchett
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2533530880/nm0558182

Lt. T’Ryssa Chen - Lindsay Price
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm850957312/nm0697010


Titan

Cmdr Christine Vale - Portia de Rossi
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2361498368/nm0005577

Cmdr Xin Ra-Havreii - Pierce Bronsan
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2271119872/nm0000112

U.S.S. Excalibur
Captain Mackenzie Calhoun - Michael T. Weiss
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1252102400/nm0919117

DS9

Ruriko Tenmei – Kimora Lee
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1867881216/nm0454042

Tenmei T’Prynn - Golden Brooks
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm359635456/nm0112001

Treir – Charlotte Ayanna
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm832673792/nm0043662

Councilor zh'Thane - Tilda Swinton
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1128110848/nm0842770


U.S.S. Aventine

Cmdr. Samaritan Bowers - Michael Jai White
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2175570432/nm0925227

Lt. Oliana Mirren - Déborah François
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1630050304/nm1918862

Lt. Mikaela Leishman - Olga Kurylenko
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1943704320/nm1385871

 

[TJ Sinclair]

^Wow. I don't think I agree with a single one of those.

 

[captcalhoun]

definitely not Weiss. only Flanigan can portray my awesomeness, but the fact is, I'm too badass to be allowed out of the books.

 

[Christopher]

Enterprise - E

Cmdr. Miranda Kadohata - Maggie Q
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3274153216/nm0702572

Conceivably.

Lt. Dina Elfiki - Kimberly Kardashian
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3218248704/nm2578007

Hmm... appearance-wise, marginally in the ballpark, except Armenian isn't Egyptian. Reputation-wise, good gods, no.

Lt. Jasminder Choudhury - Kate Matchett
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2533530880/nm0558182

Judging from your link, you apparently mean Kari Matchett, and why in the world would you suggest a blue-eyed blonde to play a woman who's ethnically Punjabi?

Lt. T’Ryssa Chen - Lindsay Price
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm850957312/nm0697010

I don't see it. No idea what she's like as a performer either.

Cmdr Christine Vale - Portia de Rossi
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2361498368/nm0005577

Cmdr Xin Ra-Havreii - Pierce Bronsan
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2271119872/nm0000112

Hmm, conceivable.

Tenmei T’Prynn - Golden Brooks
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm359635456/nm0112001

Her name is Prynn Tenmei; T'Prynn is the person she was named after. And she's half-Asian, not black.

Cmdr. Samaritan Bowers - Michael Jai White
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2175570432/nm0925227

I can see that.

 

[Kermett]

Earth


President Nanietta Bacco - Glenn Close
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4819456/nm0000335


Enterprise - E


Lt. Jasminder Choudhury - Tharini Mudaliar
http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rv_cmp/rv_bios_mudaliar.html

T’Lana - Shannyn Sossamon
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3355285760/nm0815370


Titan


Lt. Cmdr/Dr. Shenti Yisec Eres Ree - Hugh Laurie
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4054293248/nm0491402

Lt./Counselor Huilan Sen’Kara - Martin Klebba
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2068484096/nm0458514

Ens. Torvig Bu-kar-nguv - Christopher Gorham
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3890976512/nm0330913

Lt. Cmdr Ranul Keru - John Cena
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3430718208/nm1078479


Defiant


Prynn Tenmei - Michelle Saram
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a380/bubbles-away/showbigphoto13_asp.jpg

 

[DS9Continuing]

I think John Cena playing gay is a fascinating idea.

 

[KRAD]

Glenn Close might be good for President Bacco in another 20-30 years or so.