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Cast the Characters of Trek Literature

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

Love those lists, great choices!
I was also thinking Terrence Howard would do good as Sam Bowers.
 
My top pick for Mac is still Joe Flanigan.
What do you guys think of Korean actress/singer Hyun Jyu Ni for Trys? I saw her in the KDrama Iris on Hulu, and I thought she would be a pretty good match for how I picture Trys. I tried to find some clips from scenes with her, but couldn't find any.
 
For "Blackjack" Harriman (John Harriman's father, in The Captain's Daughter and the second Lost Era book)--I've long imagined Jack Nicolson.
 
Re-reading the Star Trek: Vanguard series, I used to imagine T'Prynn as played by Amy Acker in full-on "Illyria" mode. Yet now, I find myself imagining Yvonne Strahovsky, of Chuck fame, with hair dyed black. (Strahovsky often was called upon to do the cheesecake in that show, but she's actually a really talented actor capable of being very menacing when needed.)
 
I find both Acker and Strahovsky too soft as type. I think T'Prynn needs the coldness of a Jodie Foster.
 
I find both Acker and Strahovsky too soft as type. I think T'Prynn needs the coldness of a Jodie Foster.

Well, I can see where you might come away from Chuck thinking that Strahovsky is too "soft." Her character's arc on that show is to go from cold and aloof to warm and affectionate. But if you look at the early episodes, she's more than capable of being quite cold.

But I can't imagine looking at Acker's performance as Illyria in Season Five of Angel and not thinking she's perfectly capable of being cold and hard. She's absolutely chilling as Illyria.
 
I found Illyria to be chilling as well, but mostly because of what her existence meant in terms of the transformation of Fred (the episode in which it happens was nothing sort of gut-wrenching - I'm not normally easily emotionally disturbed, but memories of that episode are very actively unpleasant to this day). I don't think Acker acted her all that well - I just don't buy cold and evil from her.

As for Strahovsky, I actually only have her voice to go by, to be honest. I have only vague memories of the Chuck pilot at this point and never watched more. But she voices (and lends her physical likeness to) a key character in Mass Effect 2 who is trained paramilitary, and even then doesn't seem particularly hardassed.
 
I found Illyria to be chilling as well, but mostly because of what her existence meant in terms of the transformation of Fred (the episode in which it happens was nothing sort of gut-wrenching - I'm not normally easily emotionally disturbed, but memories of that episode are very actively unpleasant to this day). I don't think Acker acted her all that well - I just don't buy cold and evil from her.

Well, your mileage may vary, but I literally don't know how you could say that. Chalk it up to different aesthetic tastes.

As for Strahovsky, I actually only have her voice to go by, to be honest. I have only vague memories of the Chuck pilot at this point and never watched more. But she voices (and lends her physical likeness to) a key character in Mass Effect 2 who is trained paramilitary, and even then doesn't seem particularly hardassed.

I can't speak to anything related to Mass Effect.
 
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