Also, y'know, people in real life do gain weight over time. Even though health habits are better, that still hasn't changed by the 24th century. Look at Riker in Farpoint vs. Riker in Nemesis. So I don't think Kirstie Alley being a bit heavier when she appeared on the Bozeman would have been a big deal.
How and why was Kelsey Grammar on TNG?
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The scheduling conflicts are true, but if Saavik were on the Bozeman, that would've caused one huge continuity gaffe -- for one thing, she never would've been in Star Trek II. IIRC, the Bozeman came from a year that predates TWOK. Of course, the production crew might have noticed this and changed the script ever so slightly.
As for Kelsey Grammer, weren't the sets for Cheers and TNG right next to each other at Paramount as well?
As for Kelsey Grammer, weren't the sets for Cheers and TNG right next to each other at Paramount as well?
According to Eric Stillwell at a convention, Picard wasn't talking about Spock in "Sarek." Then again, I don't know how he would know.
I thought Kelsey Grammer did a great job on his one and only episode of Star Trek The Next Generation in "Cause and Effect" I would enjoy seeing him in other TREK adventures.
Before a live studio audience?
If memory serves, that was the time he was having renewed trouble with his substance abuse and crashed his car - he went missing from Frasier for two weeks while he went into rehab. Pretty sure that was late 1996.
I read in an interview with Grammer that the sound guys were working on that scene, knew that he was a huge fan and had played the captain of the Boseman in "Cause and Effect". They had the idea to use Grammer's voice. Supposedly they rang him - and he delivered the single word over the telephone. And for no charge.
It wasn't necessarily Spock. The writers ended up leaving it as a tease for the fans. (In fact, they had to fight to get the name "Spock" mentioned in the scene where Sarek was "losing it".) In an interview about the episode, Gene Roddenberry answered the same question about "Was it Spock?" with an enigmatic "I think perhaps it was..."
Yep. It was his idea to have that skit written, IIRC, but Kate Mulgrew had to perform all his lines at the last minute when Grammer was raced off to rehab again.
Huh, and I liked the idea of Mulgrew leading the Frasier cast on the bridge
But all this time I always thought Grammer was the Klingon, hence the loud audience reaction. I hadn't seen the entire program so I inferred that it was him. I guess I'm wrong here, but Grammer as a Klingon would've made for a great surprise.
I thought that the Klingon in that episode of Frasier sounded pretty genuine too.
Yep. Made it a very awkward skit, too.
Exactly. Like one of those National Enquirer stories. I'm sure the Malcorians have publications like that, so Neuwirth's character probably sold the story of her affair with the alien to the Malcorian Tattler.
Be nice!
There were scheduling problems; Ms. Alley had penciled in that time to eat the Alpha Quadrant.
Alley was thin was she was doing substances. When she quit all of that, she blew up and has had weight problems ever since, not unlike Stevie (Mama Cass Elliot Lookalike) Nicks of Fleetwood Mac.
IIRC K.G. did Cause and Effect for Scale because he was a huge Trek fan and just wanted to be in an episode. Not much different from Mic Fleetwood playing a holographic Klingon. They just wanted to be a part of Trek.
Several different sources point to him doing that single word of dialog for F.C. for the same reason. I haven't been able to find proof one way or the other, but it wouldn't be too far of a stretch. K.G. has been doing voice work for years. Just look at Sideshow Bob on the Simpsons.
Did he do it for scale? I remember reading somewhere that they had to forgo some special effects to "pay Grammer's salary"
IIRC K.G. did Cause and Effect for Scale because he was a huge Trek fan and just wanted to be in an episode. Not much different from Mic Fleetwood playing a holographic Klingon. They just wanted to be a part of Trek.
Several different sources point to him doing that single word of dialog for F.C. for the same reason. I haven't been able to find proof one way or the other, but it wouldn't be too far of a stretch. K.G. has been doing voice work for years. Just look at Sideshow Bob on the Simpsons.
Did he do it for scale? I remember reading somewhere that they had to forgo some special effects to "pay Grammer's salary"
I always thought he did it for scale. I never pegged Grammer to be one of those super-demanding Marlon Brando/Jennifer Lopez types. Besides, the FX in that episode positively rocked