What if you could've been an Extra?
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I said security guard, because I did it in real life, and because I'd probably be able to convincingly act surprised when the villain escapes from the detention cell and stuns or kills me.
Runner-up is "crewman in corridor." There's a lot of latitude there--who am I, and where am I going? That would be a lot of fun.
Runner-up is "crewman in corridor." There's a lot of latitude there--who am I, and where am I going? That would be a lot of fun.
Bridge officer. Star Trek bridges were pretty cool and it would be a nice place to spend the day.
I'd want to be a redshirt (or yellow if it was new Trek) to get a stupid death. Exploding console would be a fun death but I think being keen to go on an away mission and then getting killed right away is the classic.
Science would be my next choice to wear a nice blue shirt.
Science would be my next choice to wear a nice blue shirt.
I'd be a helm officer! (In the later TNG movies, the helm ones always get killed. 
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First impulse was helm officer, but then I considered I've been (not-so-extensively) trained in the field of acting. It requires a certain level of skill to make the helm officer role believable (I saw an episode of TNG the other day, can't remember which, but the poor young lady at the helm just wasn't believable at all) but it would be more interesting to walk down the corridor alongside someone else as a couple of senior officers pass, and do something odd and noticeable.
I was thinking I'd shoot the idea at the powers-that-be in which I'm telling a joke, or better yet, my partner is telling a joke and I'm going through a broad range of facial expressions clearly indicating I either didn't get it or wasn't impressed. It's things like this that interest me most in tiny roles: do something a little off and enjoy pointing it out to friends in the coming years.
"See? There's Riker and Geordi... oh, oh, there we are. She's telling the joke... telling the joke... well, camera just focused on Geordi. There we are again, in the background. Watch my face, watch my face. Yep, I totally didn't think it was funny. Oh, poor girl is heartbroken. Well, there was that. Time to watch Riker's lips move for fifteen seconds... and we're gone."
I was thinking I'd shoot the idea at the powers-that-be in which I'm telling a joke, or better yet, my partner is telling a joke and I'm going through a broad range of facial expressions clearly indicating I either didn't get it or wasn't impressed. It's things like this that interest me most in tiny roles: do something a little off and enjoy pointing it out to friends in the coming years.
"See? There's Riker and Geordi... oh, oh, there we are. She's telling the joke... telling the joke... well, camera just focused on Geordi. There we are again, in the background. Watch my face, watch my face. Yep, I totally didn't think it was funny. Oh, poor girl is heartbroken. Well, there was that. Time to watch Riker's lips move for fifteen seconds... and we're gone."
Science crewman.
Do you have any idea how awesome it would look in my résumé for any astrophysics research fellow position?
Do you have any idea how awesome it would look in my résumé for any astrophysics research fellow position?
One former Star Trek extra went on to be an astronaut.
Another one became a King.
I chose bridge crewman, but actually I could be anything, as long as with some fancy alien make up 
Hey, I have small dreams. A fancy supercomputer, an office with a view on the female volleyball court, and tenure. Especially tenure.
Science/medical... just so that I can jab the hypo into someone
I'd want to be a crewman in corridor -- preferably one in either The Cage or Where No Man Has Gone Before since the females got to wear cool pants.
Science crewman.
Do you have any idea how awesome it would look in my résumé for any astrophysics research fellow position?
I'd be a medical officer - that way I could hand an instrument to the doctor during surgery when asked with a stiff, self-conscious look on my face. That's all the medical extras do right?
Helm officer. If not that then a redshirt. How fun!
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