Recent Pictures of the Old Casts

[Timofnine]

Occasionally I come across new pictures of TNG and TOS cast members and I think to myself wow, they've changed so much! I've not seen too many though , especially from the later series so was wandering if anybody had any fairly recent pictures of the TNG, VOY and DS9 cast? I'm just curious what they look like now after all these years! Has time treated them kindly?

 

[Nardpuncher]

Not to stir up a honet's nest, but it seems like the entire cast of Voyager gained 20 pounds each. I'm not trying to start anything, but there was a picture in some other thread about 2 months ago and someone else said the same thing. Like I'm one to talk!

 

[Astraea]

After I saw the Star Trek exhibit at the Detroit Science Center, I knew I had to bring this up the next time I saw one of those "Voyager people got fat" posts:

The costumes, particularly for Seven and Kes, are tiny. Impossibly, horrendously, unbelievably small. Any adult human being small enough to fit into those costumes should probably gain a couple pounds - at any rate, they're not going to lose anything, because, at that point, there's no excess body fat left to lose. (And, while I know that a couple of the actors from Voyager have put on a lot more than 20 pounds apiece...those costumes were so frakkin' tiny that I can understand it.)

 

[JustKate]

^ That is so true. I haven't seen the costumes you describe, Astraea, but I've seen the costumes of other actresses, and all of you who complain about people gaining weight have no idea how underweight some of your favorites, particularly actresses, are when they are on your favorite shows. We are not talking about fitness here, at least in many cases - we are talking about starving themselves to appear thin on camera. On-camera hotness can come at a pretty high price.

Obesity is a major problem in the U.S. and elsewhere, and sometimes I think that encourages us to forget that being underweight is also extremely unhealthy. The old saying "You can't be too rich or too thin" is only half true.

 

[TedShatner10]

Jeri Ryan still has quite a nice figure on Shark and lost weight quickly after having her baby, although she likely wouldn't fit into her old catsuit and corset anymore.

Garret Wang looks bigger but not ridiculously so, unlike Lien or Beltran to a lesser extent.

 

[JustKate]

Jeri looks lovely (I haven't seen Shark but I did see her when her husband was on Iron Chef America) - and I hope she can't fit in that catsuit. No grown woman should have to wear an outfit that literally allows people to see if she's gained two pounds. Personally, I think Beltran looks fine, too, but then, I am well past my first youth, so I'm a bit more forgiving than some of you younger folks.

I haven't seen the Jennifer Lien photos that everybody talks about - no time to look for them today - but she was a tiny little thing, so it wouldn't take too many pounds for her to look a lot different then she looked on Voyager.

 

[Deckerd]

I agree about Beltran. I so would.

 

[JustKate]

^ Deckerd, I can't pretend to be working if you keep writing things that make me laugh aloud.

But yeah. I don't know if I would, but I'd sure be tempted.

 

[teya]

^ That is so true. I haven't seen the costumes you describe, Astraea, but I've seen the costumes of other actresses, and all of you who complain about people gaining weight have no idea how underweight some of your favorites, particularly actresses, are when they are on your favorite shows. We are not talking about fitness here, at least in many cases - we are talking about starving themselves to appear thin on camera. On-camera hotness can come at a pretty high price.

Okay, I've seen Jeri Ryan up close in person. She's thin, but not unhealthily so--she's simply very small-boned. She's the same size she was reported to be when she was on Voyager--about 125 lbs. At 5'8" that's thin but not unhealthy.

 

[Finn]

*ahem* pictures?

 

[plynch]

^ That is so true. I haven't seen the costumes you describe, Astraea, but I've seen the costumes of other actresses, and all of you who complain about people gaining weight have no idea how underweight some of your favorites, particularly actresses, are when they are on your favorite shows. We are not talking about fitness here, at least in many cases - we are talking about starving themselves to appear thin on camera. On-camera hotness can come at a pretty high price.

Okay, I've seen Jeri Ryan up close in person. She's thin, but not unhealthily so--she's simply very small-boned. She's the same size she was reported to be when she was on Voyager--about 125 lbs. At 5'8" that's thin but not unhealthy.

She never seemed small on tv, but actresses generally must be thin because we don't see them in 3-d on tv. Boy, does that sound dumb as I read it! But you know how it is in pictures: a 3-d torso is smushed flat into 2-d, making it look wider, unless there is special lighting. (I never thought I would use "flat" and Jeri Ryan in the same paragraph.)

 

[teya]

^ That is so true. I haven't seen the costumes you describe, Astraea, but I've seen the costumes of other actresses, and all of you who complain about people gaining weight have no idea how underweight some of your favorites, particularly actresses, are when they are on your favorite shows. We are not talking about fitness here, at least in many cases - we are talking about starving themselves to appear thin on camera. On-camera hotness can come at a pretty high price.

Okay, I've seen Jeri Ryan up close in person. She's thin, but not unhealthily so--she's simply very small-boned. She's the same size she was reported to be when she was on Voyager--about 125 lbs. At 5'8" that's thin but not unhealthy.

She never seemed small on tv, but actresses generally must be thin because we don't see them in 3-d on tv. Boy, does that sound dumb as I read it! But you know how it is in pictures: a 3-d torso is smushed flat into 2-d, making it look wider, unless there is special lighting. (I never thought I would use "flat" and Jeri Ryan in the same paragraph.)

The first time I saw her I was actually struck by how much more delicate she looks in person.

 

[Cyke101]

There was an episode of Voyager on Spike a couple days ago, which opened with Paris and Torres coming out of the holodeck (what else?) in skin tight leotards, apparently from some workout routine. I haven't seen any current photos of Robert Duncan McNeill so I don't know what he presently looks like, but back then in the leotard, I was thinking, "Damn, he's in good shape. Size 30 waist and very well developed arms and chest."

...I never thought of Paris as attractive (or unattractive, for that matter), but seeing him in tights? My, how opinions change.

 

[JustKate]

He got a little...just a little...puffy as the show went on. Seven years is a long time to keep a 30-inch waist.

 

[teya]

Recent (mid January) picture of Jeri. She turned 41 last Sunday.

 

[TedShatner10]

She's seems a lot younger than she is.

 

[KiraDax]

None of them are what could be considered 'fat'...not for their ages and history.

Mulgrew and Beltran are merely finally being caught up to by Father Time...you can't hold it off forever (well, you can...but you lose more credibility with every scalpel nip). I admire Kate for not attempting to hide the fact that she's not twenty any longer...and do we really think Robert gives a hoot what anyone thinks of him?

Robbie went through a phase, but he's was never unpleasant to look at and if recent pictures are any indication, he's at least back to season seven size. Doubt he cares either. He's happier now behind a camera, where it doesn't matter.

Jennifer Lien gets the most flack, and while she does look entirely different from her Voyager days, I still don't think it's fair...she looks a lot like any non-celeb, non-liposuction, seen both good and bad days woman you might see walking down the street. It's sad that 'normal' becomes 'fat and ugly' just because someone used to have their face on a tv screen.

 

[Astraea]

^ That is so true. I haven't seen the costumes you describe, Astraea, but I've seen the costumes of other actresses, and all of you who complain about people gaining weight have no idea how underweight some of your favorites, particularly actresses, are when they are on your favorite shows. We are not talking about fitness here, at least in many cases - we are talking about starving themselves to appear thin on camera. On-camera hotness can come at a pretty high price.

Okay, I've seen Jeri Ryan up close in person. She's thin, but not unhealthily so--she's simply very small-boned. She's the same size she was reported to be when she was on Voyager--about 125 lbs. At 5'8" that's thin but not unhealthy.

I'm not entirely sure if I buy that 5'8'', 125 lbs. thing. I'm 5'8'', and at my lightest, I was 135. I know 5'8'', 135 lbs. is a size 8. So 5'8, 125, might be a 6? The costume I just saw was definitely not a size 6 - at least two sizes smaller than that, even with the built-in corset.

5'9'', 125, maybe.

 

[teya]

^ That is so true. I haven't seen the costumes you describe, Astraea, but I've seen the costumes of other actresses, and all of you who complain about people gaining weight have no idea how underweight some of your favorites, particularly actresses, are when they are on your favorite shows. We are not talking about fitness here, at least in many cases - we are talking about starving themselves to appear thin on camera. On-camera hotness can come at a pretty high price.

Okay, I've seen Jeri Ryan up close in person. She's thin, but not unhealthily so--she's simply very small-boned. She's the same size she was reported to be when she was on Voyager--about 125 lbs. At 5'8" that's thin but not unhealthy.

I'm not entirely sure if I buy that 5'8'', 125 lbs. thing. I'm 5'8'', and at my lightest, I was 135. I know 5'8'', 135 lbs. is a size 8. So 5'8, 125, might be a 6? The costume I just saw was definitely not a size 6 - at least two sizes smaller than that, even with the built-in corset.

5'9'', 125, maybe.

She's a size 4, with alterations at the waist. Like I said, *very* small-boned. And she's no taller than 5'8".

Again, this is not an unhealthy size for her.

It's hard to compare person-to-person as we all have different body compositions.