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Captain Braxton

Kilana2

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I'm not a fan of recasting a character. In some cases they didn't have a choice when an actor wasn't available and they wanted a character to reappear.

In this case I love the Journey's End episodes, but I prefer the Relativity Braxton. Both actors don't resemble each other much. I don't know the reason for the restaffing in this case.

Which Braxton version do yo prefer and why?
 
I prefer the Braxton from "Future's End".
I guess it's because he was the "first Braxton" and because I really like those episodes.
 
Well, Warren Munson doesn't resemble Richard Herd, but you're not complaining about Admiral Paris ;p
 
Well, Warren Munson doesn't resemble Richard Herd, but you're not complaining about Admiral Paris ;p

As fas as I remember the different Owen Paris was seen only one time. Richard Herd had more to do to fill the role and is therefore rather linked with Paris than the other actor.
Even the Borg Queen was played by different actresses...
 
Well I don't know about Braxton - I don't mind either actor. As for Tommy's father, as far as I know it was a conscious decision on the part of the producers to change the actor. For some reason they decided to have a less strict (strict-looking?) father figure for him than the first one.

The role of the Borg Queen was offered to Alice Krige from First Contact but due to her other obligations she couldn't accept it so the role went to Lenara Khan from DS9 (Suzanna Thompson). Then, when they were shooting ENDGAME, Thompson was engaged elsewhere so Alice Krige was brought back.

At least, that's what I read somewhere ... I don't know if this is true but that's what I've heard. I mean read ... :lol:
 
Pretty sure "Relativity" Braxton was there because of the actors's previous role in Time Cop.

It's a Trek staple that messing with the timeline leaves you looking different - just look at Kirk and Spock nowadays!:D
 
As fas as I remember the different Owen Paris was seen only one time. Richard Herd had more to do to fill the role and is therefore rather linked with Paris than the other actor.
Even the Borg Queen was played by different actresses...
Once again, Lynx to the rescue to explain a strange event in the sometimes rather weird Trek universe! :techman:

As we could see, the Owen Paris who did show up in the later seasons didn't look the same as the Owen Paris we saw in the season 2 episode "Persistence Of Vision".

The reason for that is that the guy which was seen in the later episodes wasn't Owen Paris but a relative.

That was a result of the "Nick Locarno" affair.

Nick Locarno was the result of an affair between Owen Paris an a woman named Esmeralda Locarno who was not his wife.

Owen Paris tried to keep the whole thing a secret. He helped Nick to join the Academy. It was when Tom found out about this, he really started to hate his father.

When Nick screwed up and was kicked out of the Academy, Owen Paris continued to cover up his involvement in the affair.

In later years, Owen could not stand it any longer and got a nervous breakdown. During his absence and due to the fact that Starfleet Headquarters wanted to cover up everything that had been going on for a long time, Owen's brother Ichabod Paris served as his "stand in" at Starfleet Headquarters until Owen was well enough to return to his job.

So the guy who showed up as Admiral Paris in the later episodes was Ichabod Paris.

As for the Borg Queen, the first one was overthrown, turned into a drone, eaten by the other Borg or whatsoever because she disgraced herself by wimping around Picard like a lovesick schoolgirk in "Firts Contact" and the other Borg Queen took over.
 
Braxton Nr. 2 suffered from temporal psychosis.

Has Braxton ever met someone of the Department of Temporal Investigations?
 
Even the Borg Queen was played by different actresses...

As for these different Borg queens, I can live with that. It could be a different queen - it's never said there is only one queen. Or it could even be the same queen, but just in a different body. For all we know, the Borg could hold a different body in storage for her on each cube, just on the off chance she needs/wants to manifest herself on that particular cube.
 
I did like the "Future's End" Braxton because he was played by Allan Royal who was on the best TV cop show of all time, Night Heat. :techman:

(He's in this clip. After the opening credits, he's getting out of the car at about a minute in. He also narrates.)

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However the Bruce McGill Braxton was a better character.
 
Braxton Nr. 2 suffered from temporal psychosis.

Has Braxton ever met someone of the Department of Temporal Investigations?
In the novelverse, they have a bizarre hierarchy where the time cops from further into the future always have greater authority than those in the present or nearer future. Even though they have no information about them due to the temporal prime directive and they could have evil and nefarious ulterior motives.
 
I like both of them, but maybe have a preference for McGill since he provides more facial recognition for me... (My Cousin Vinny and all) and I prefer his performance in Relativity vs. Royal's in FE.
 
Braxton 2 has the edge. They both can do "crazy."
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Preferences are irrelevant since the actors played the character consistent for me. The issue I had was the Berman writing staff never exploited the changing of an actor; since Rick Berman's Trek Universe felt tinkering with the past has no consequences what's so ever. But what if it did?

Voyager gets swept back in time, on Earth --which was preposterous to begin with-- in the year 1996, but there's no sign or word of the supermen or the Eugenics age, nothing. Voyager or Braxton or Sisko or TNG or Archer or whoever don't give a crap about doing their homework when time traveling caused the Star Trek Universe to be altered.

Not in an Edith Keeler kind of way but just in a way where things and events were altered slightly... like character faces, such as Braxton's, were different. Characters' motivations were altered like Picard acting like a completely different person from the TV series to those crappy movies. Where Archer and the NX-01 crew were never mentioned in any of the Star Trek iterations: TOS, TOS movies, TNG, DS9, and Voyager, wiping themselves out of existence.
 
Where Archer and the NX-01 crew were never mentioned in any of the Star Trek iterations: TOS, TOS movies, TNG, DS9, and Voyager, wiping themselves out of existence.
Hardly surprising since they were written before Enterprise was a thing. ENT has been referenced in the Kelvin movies and Discovery.
 
Voyager gets swept back in time, on Earth --which was preposterous to begin with-- in the year 1996, but there's no sign or word of the supermen or the Eugenics age, nothing.

Since the USA wasn't involved in the Eugenics wars, that is hardly surprising.
 
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