Cast the Characters of Trek Literature

[Christopher]

Re: Casting the DS9 Relaunch

KRAD said:
^ In the opening scenes of The Motion Picture. Mark Lenard played the first-ever bumpy-headed Klingon.

Well, one of the first. There were others in the scene with him. But I believe he was the first to speak.

 

[trampledamage]

Re: Casting the DS9 Relaunch

I never knew that! I shall have to go and re-watch TMP now.

 

[Tosk]

Re: Casting the DS9 Relaunch

Christopher said:
Well, one of the first. There were others in the scene with him. But I believe he was the first to speak.

Wasn't Lenard the one closest to camera? So technically, he was first...

Worth a shot.

 

[Hoshi_Mayweather]

Re: Casting the DS9 Relaunch

Tosk said:

Christopher said:
Well, one of the first. There were others in the scene with him. But I believe he was the first to speak.

Wasn't Lenard the one closest to camera? So technically, he was first...

Worth a shot.

Yeah, he was the Captain...

 

[Darth_Pazuzu]

Re: Casting the DS9 Relaunch

A thought just occurred to me while I was watching one of my Babylon 5 DVD's last night:

Mira Furlan as First Minister Asarem Wadeen!

 

[DS9Continuing]

Re: Casting the DS9 Relaunch

Asarem's black.

 

[Cyclonus]

Re: Casting

From Shatner's The Ashes of Eden...

Tielani -- Vannessa Williams
Drake -- John Travolta

 

[Sci]

Re: Casting the DS9 Relaunch

lvsxy808 said:
Asarem's black.

Excuse me? The proper term is African-Bajoran.

 

[RookieBatman]

Re: Casting

Cyclonus said:
From Shatner's The Ashes of Eden...

Tielani -- Vannessa Williams
Drake -- John Travolta

Ooh, that's good! I never really had much of a mental picture for Taelani, but Vanessa works. And I think Travolta would be perfect as that slimeball Drake.

 

[Cyclonus]

Re: Casting

RookieBatman said:

Cyclonus said:
From Shatner's The Ashes of Eden...

Tielani -- Vannessa Williams
Drake -- John Travolta

Ooh, that's good! I never really had much of a mental picture for Taelani, but Vanessa works. And I think Travolta would be perfect as that slimeball Drake.

Very good...does anyone else have suggestions as to who could play other "Shatnerverse" characters?

 

[JWolf]

Re: Casting

I think we'll have Leonard Nimoy as Kirk.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Re: Casting

For some reason I keep seeing and hearing Dick Miller (Vin on DS9's "Past Tense' and a holographic news vendor on TNG's "The Last Goodbye" as Vanguard's Quinn.

 

[RookieBatman]

Re: Casting

Cyclonus said:

RookieBatman said:

Cyclonus said:
From Shatner's The Ashes of Eden...

Tielani -- Vannessa Williams
Drake -- John Travolta

Ooh, that's good! I never really had much of a mental picture for Taelani, but Vanessa works. And I think Travolta would be perfect as that slimeball Drake.

Very good...does anyone else have suggestions as to who could play other "Shatnerverse" characters?

It's been a while since I read them; I can't remember who my fantasy cast was, or even if I really had any.

 

[dukesman]

Has anyone either in this thread or a previous one cast the characters of the Vanguard series? I have several ideas for the characters - Ewan McGregor as Tim Pennington, for example....I wonder what others think?

 

[David Mack]

dukesman said:
Has anyone either in this thread or a previous one cast the characters of the Vanguard series? I have several ideas for the characters - Ewan McGregor as Tim Pennington, for example....I wonder what others think?

Actually, that has been covered at length in the past; my own thoughts for who I pictured while writing Harbinger can be found at the end of my online annotations for that book. (Scroll to the end of the annotations; the casting notes are at the bottom.)

 

[JD]

In fact Ewan McGregor was David's pick for Pennington. I've read through the annotations several times and I agree with all of his picks except I'd cast Edward James Almos (Olmos?) as Reyes.

 

[Dayton Ward]

^ As soon as I saw Dave's notes for casting choices on Vanguard, I was sold on Tommy Lee Jones as Reyes, and he's who I envisioned the whole time I was writing his scenes.


"Cooper, what are you doing?"

"Thinking, Commodore."

"Well, think me up a cup of raktajino and one of those donuts with the chocolate sprinkles on top, while you're sittin' there thinkin'."

Or

"We're searchin' for the meta-genome which has gone hidden for hundreds of thousands of years and has been detected on planets dozens of light years apart. That gives us a search radius of twenty-two light years. What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search of every planet, moon, asteroid, nebula, black hole, white hole, and wormhole in that area. Go get it."

 

[David Mack]

^ or...

Pennington: "We should reveal the truth. People are smart, they can handle it."

Reyes: "No, a person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals, and you know it."

 

[Marco Palmieri]

Pennington: Reyes, did you ever flashy-thing me?
Reyes: No.
Pennington: I ain't playing with you, Reyes. Did you ever flashy-thing me?
Reyes: No.

 

[dukesman]

Ah yes, thank you, David. I was trying to find that on your site yesterday and I couldn't locate it.

I would agree with most of the choices, however, I don't see Tommy Lee Jones as Reyes. For some odd reason, I was inclined to stick Clive Owen's head on the character and it's worked out pretty well for me. I guess that's what I get for reading it first and forming my own opinions before getting to your annotations, huh? It's pretty cool that I had Pennington nailed with Ewan McGregor. And even though I had different actresses picked out, I think Monica Belluci as Oriana and Bridget Moynahan as T'Prynn work out perfectly. (Incidentally, I had Morena Baccarin as Oriana and a Jolene Blaylock clone for T'Prynn.

Just curious, who did you think of as the voice for Jetanien? I keep hearing Christopher Lee underneath all that "makeup"...