Avery Brooks

[Nyotarules]

Its not a sense of entitlement, it's a fact.

This is like all the customers of the former firms I worked for demanding I return to work for my former employers just because they paid me money at the time to do so...

 

[Nyotarules]

I remember a time when the Trek actors successfully hid behind the plausible deniability that the reason they were there was to thank the fans for keeping the franchise alive and enabling them to have a career. That was back when the basic convention fee covered the autograph and there were not tiers or the indignity of handing over cash directly to these people in exchange for faux pleasantries.

Now it's a cash-cow and fans are treated like ATMs.

I and a friend went to my first and last convention at ExCel centre London October 2014. Ms Nichelle Nicols was wonderful, she let us take a photo of her even though we weren't supposed to without paying money, she was like don't worry about that take your photo, and she chatted with us for at least ten minutes, Bruce Greenwood was also there, he acted excited to be at his first convention and spoke to us for longer than we expected as well. LeVar Burton stopped when he saw us for a chat. Poor Karl Urban was sitting at his desk looking all forlorn, I should have checked him out since I have a crush on him in his McCoy persona lol
I must add as a disclaimer there were not many people like me there (2 black ladies lol) so maybe that is why the actors were so accommodating.

 

[Infern0]

This is like all the customers of the former firms I worked for demanding I return to work for my former employers just because they paid me money at the time to do so...

Put it this way.

Say you worked somewhere for 7 years, they treated you really well, you made friends there, you were payed well and taken care of.

Then 10 years later after you left they say oh hey we are having a reunion everyone's getting together.

Then you turn around and act like "nah im better than that place now"

In the court of public opinion you'd be in the wrong.

Again it's YOUR CHOICE but you also can't control people's opinion of that.

If Brooks doesn't want to take part in the documentary thats onviously entirely his choice but I think it's a little sad that he didn't care to be "part of the team" one last time.

 

[Nyotarules]

Put it this way.

Say you worked somewhere for 7 years, they treated you really well, you made friends there, you were payed well and taken care of.

Then 10 years later after you left they say oh hey we are having a reunion everyone's getting together.

Then you turn around and act like "nah im better than that place now"

In the court of public opinion you'd be in the wrong.

Again it's YOUR CHOICE but you also can't control people's opinion of that.

If Brooks doesn't want to take part in the documentary thats onviously entirely his choice but I think it's a little sad that he didn't care to be "part of the team" one last time.

Yeah but I would not expect them to use the 'You owe us cos we paid you very well when you were here' line. Especially when I choose to no longer attend work reunions having done so in the past.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Put it this way.

Say you worked somewhere for 7 years, they treated you really well, you made friends there, you were payed well and taken care of.

Then 10 years later after you left they say oh hey we are having a reunion everyone's getting together.

Then you turn around and act like "nah im better than that place now"

In the court of public opinion you'd be in the wrong.

Again it's YOUR CHOICE but you also can't control people's opinion of that.

If Brooks doesn't want to take part in the documentary thats onviously entirely his choice but I think it's a little sad that he didn't care to be "part of the team" one last time.

Brooks has been to conventions with his fellow DS9 actors. You can look it up on youtube.