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Cast the Characters of Trek Literature

I'm always willing to put a foot forward. In my head, the Caeliar always looked like this:

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Sorta. Or maybe not.
 
Here's a thinker for you - anyone got any ideas for SecondGen White Blue? (and yes, haha, trash can, tricorder, refridgerator, etc.).

Although he looks nothing like the description in the books I always imagine SecondGen as Robot 1-X from Futurama:
http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Robot_1-X

Heh. Actually, I always thought of White-Blue as looking a bit like the Tachikomas from the anime series Ghost in the Shell: http://www.robotsnob.com/pictures/tachikoma.jpg
 
If it doesn't, then why bother? :)

I'd also love to see one of Lawrence Miles' conceptual entities show up on Titan, but you really can't "cast" that. (Ensign Shift, anyone?)
 
I'm always willing to put a foot forward. In my head, the Caeliar always looked like this:

caeliar_b.jpg


Sorta. Or maybe not.

Looks like a cross between a salarian and a turian from Mass Effect.


Leslie Wong
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Grace Park
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Bianca Wilder from Alien Spotlight Gorn:
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Gina Torres
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Here's a thinker for you - anyone got any ideas for SecondGen White Blue? (and yes, haha, trash can, tricorder, refridgerator, etc.).

Although he looks nothing like the description in the books I always imagine SecondGen as Robot 1-X from Futurama:
http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Robot_1-X

Heh. Actually, I always thought of White-Blue as looking a bit like the Tachikomas from the anime series Ghost in the Shell: http://www.robotsnob.com/pictures/tachikoma.jpg

I pictured him as looking like a Monitor from the Halo games: http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Monitor
 
^Right. I'm going back through Synthesis now trying to grab details.

Spider-like, with a haphazard framework built from recycled parts. Head that can rotate, multiple eye lenses. Antennae I believe? And multicolored lights set inside a frame that's the size of a cargo drum, and "as much art as technology" in its design.

Would you wanna do a sketch? I think you're the only one qualified to get it right.
 
^Right. I'm going back through Synthesis now trying to grab details.

Spider-like, with a haphazard framework built from recycled parts. Head that can rotate, multiple eye lenses. Antennae I believe? And multicolored lights set inside a frame that's the size of a cargo drum, and "as much art as technology" in its design.

Remember that White-Blue has multiple "outfits" throughout the story, though!
The 'multicolored lights set inside a frame that's the size of a cargo drum' is just his core intelligence module. The first spider-body is built around that from recycled starship parts (but with a 'patchwork' rather than 'scrapyard' kind of look, I felt) and the second spider-body ("My droneframe has been upgraded") is a lot more smooth, kinda iMac styling.

I imagined White-Blue - in fact, all of the Sentries - in a very anime mecha style, drawing influence from my favourite artists like Masamune Shirow, Kenichi Sonoda and Shoji Kawamori...

Would you wanna do a sketch? I think you're the only one qualified to get it right.
I can't draw, that's why I write...
 
I pictured him as looking like a Monitor from the Halo games: http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Monitor

He has legs, though - I describe him in Synthesis as being "spider-like"...

Ok, I don't remember how I pictured him in Synthesis, so by the time I read Seize the Fire (where I pictured him as a Monitor) I must have forgotten the description from Synthesis. I'm pretty sure I remember Seize the Fire describing him as floating around, using anti-grav technology, at some point, but I could be wrong. If I remember that correctly, maybe that was just one of his "outfits".
 
Ok, I don't remember how I pictured him in Synthesis, so by the time I read Seize the Fire (where I pictured him as a Monitor) I must have forgotten the description from Synthesis. I'm pretty sure I remember Seize the Fire describing him as floating around, using anti-grav technology, at some point, but I could be wrong. If I remember that correctly, maybe that was just one of his "outfits".

He can float around too, if he needs to. He'd have anti-gravs for moving around in microgravity environments, but its not his usual mode of locomotion...
 
I put a bunch of these together a while ago, and I can't remember if I've ever posted them here.
DS9 Relaunch cast
Starring:
Nana Visitor as Col./Capt. Kira Nerys
Bruce Boxleitner as Cmdr. Elias Vaughn
Alexander Siddig as Dr. Julian Bashir
Nicole de Boer as Lt. Ezri Dax
Aron Eisenberg as Lt. (jg) Nog
Michelle Forbes as Lt. Ro Laren
Grace Park as Ens. Prynn Tenmei
Vincent Kartheiser as Ens. Thirishar ch’Than
Christopher Judge as Taran’atar
Armin Shimerman as Ambassador Quark
Penny Johnson as Kasidy Yates
Cirroc Lofton as Jake Sisko

Guest Starring:
Vladimir Kulich as Admiral Leonard James Akaar
Suzie Plakson as Treir
Roger Cross as Lt. (?) Sam Bowers
Stockard Channing as Councilor Charivretha zh’Thane
Marge Helgenberger as Counselor Phillipa Mathias
Spencer Garrett as Dr. Simon Tarses

Special Guest Stars:
Camille Saviola as Kai Opaka Sulan
Liam Neeson as Vedek Yevir Linjarin
Marc Alaimo as Gul Akellen Macet
Andrew Robinson as Elim Garak
Colm Meaney as Cheif Miles O’Brien
Rosalind Chao as Keiko O’Brien

And:

Avery Brooks as The Emissary


I've also got ones for Destiny, Terok Nor, SCE, and Vanguard if you want to see them too.
 
I put a bunch of these together a while ago, and I can't remember if I've ever posted them here.
...

Wow. Those all work really well for me. I particularly like the guy you have down for Akaar.

I, for one, would love to see the rest of your lists. :)
 
The rest of my lists:
SCE:
Starring:
Lycia Naff as Commander Sonya Gomez
Charlie Lang as Lieutenant Kieran Duffy
David Ogden Stiers as Lt. Cmdr. Mor glasch Tev
Marjorie Monohan as Lt. Cmdr Domenica Corsi
Bari Hochwald as Dr. Elizabeth Lense
Maura Tierney as Crewman Carol Abramowitz
Jay Baker as Crewman Fabian Stevens
Katy Boyer as Soloman
Tress MacNeill as the voice of Crewman P8 Blue

With

Harry Morgan as Capt. David Gold

and

James Doohan as Capt. Montgomery Scott




Destiny (Enterprise-E, Titan, and Aventine):

Starring:​
Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Michael Dorn as Commander Worf
LeVar Burton as Commander Geordi La Forge
Charlene Choi as Lt. T’Ryssa Chen
Stephanie Jacobsen as Cmdr. Miranda Kadohata
? as Lieutenant Jasminder Choudhury
Sarah Shahi as Lt. Dina Elfiki
Jonathan Frakes as Capt. William Riker
Marina Sirtis as Cmdr. Deanna Troi
Amanda Tapping as Cmdr. Christine Vale
Adam Baldwin as Lt. Cmdr. Ranul Keru
James Callis as Dr. Xin Ra-Havreii
Daphne Ashbrook as Lt. Cmdr. Melora Pazlar

and

Derek Jacobi as the voice of Dr. Shenti Yisec Eres Ree

with


Nicole De Boer as Capt. Ezri Dax
Roger Cross as Cmdr. Sam Bowers

? as Lt. Cmdr. Gruhn Helkara
Spencer Garrett as Dr. Simon Tarses
Lena Headey as Lt. Lonnoc Kedair
Milena Govich as Lt. Michaela Leishman

Starring:

Nathan Fillion as Darrah Mace

David Anders as Gar Osen
Neil Pearson as Jaz Holz
Sean Pertwee as Kubus Oak
David Tennant as Syjin
Indra Ove as Darrah Karys
Peta Wilson as Tima
Eve Myles as Gwen Jones
Craig Kelley as Bennek
Gareth Thomas as Hadlo
Lucy Lawless as Rhan Ico
Sean Maher as Pasir Letin
Danny Goldring as Kell


Vanguard:

Starring:
Esai Morales as Commodore Diego Reyes
Mako as Admr. Heihachiro Nogura
Jodi Lynn O'Keefe as Lt.Cmdr. T’Prynn
Ewan McGreggor as Tim Pennington
Morgan Freeman as Dr. Ezekiel Fisher
Jet Li as Lt. Ming Xiong
Necar Zadegan as Cpt. Rana Desai
Billy Bob Thorton as Cervantes Quinn
Katherine Heigl as Anna Sandesjo
Robert Wisdom as Ganz

Guest Starring

Paul Ben Victor as Cmdr. Vondas Milonakis
Emily Kuroda as Dr. Hua Sun Lee
Callum Blue as Lt. Kevin Judge
Catherine Bell as Cmdr. Atish Khatami
Amanda Tapping as Capt. Hallie Gannon

Jude Law as Lt. Thanashal ch'Shonnas
Monica Belluci as Lt. Oriana D’Amato
Sir Ben Kingsley as Captain Adelard Nassir
Jack Black as MCPO Mike “Mad Man” Illuci
Alyson Hannigan as Ens. Vanessa Theriault
Liev Scheiber as Ens. Stephen Klisiewicz
 
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