Same, on both counts.
News Jason Isaacs Joins Star Trek: Discovery as Captain Lorca
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Same, on both counts.
The concept was sound. As envisaged the Enterprise-D would almost always be in deep space, but almost immediately the show had to bring drama from people or events the crew knew of, so it was tethered to somewhat familiar surroundings within the range of starbases and outposts. If they had stuck with the idea of just being alone out in the darkness, then bringing families would have been analogous to settlers in the old American West bringing families with them even with the dangers surrounding them.
Star Trek is known for its optimism and I guess nothing exemplifies that quite like everyone in Starfleet thinking nothing of exploring the unknown reaches of space with a similar crew complement as a Disney cruise to the Bahamas.
Yeah he did, I'm just being snarky. lol
Careful, that's how you end up in a two page discussion of cruise ship safety regulations and maritime law.
IMDb is now listing Isaacs as being in all 13 first season episodes.
OTOH, It's IMDb.
They haven't even made 13 episodes yet. How can anyone know?
He, his manager, his publicist, or whomever keeps his IMDb page updated, knows he has been written into all 13 episodes?
If there's a total failure on the D everyone will eventually die if help doesn't find them. On earth....you can still breathe. Hostile environs are different...you die in the desert without water etc....but space is the ultimate hostile environment, no matter how safe your tin can. The hardy astronaut basically. It's inherent to space exploration SF.
The "whomever" is the problematic part.
It's not likely that anyone yet knows what his participation is in all thirteen episodes. They may know what he's contracted for.
I wonder if they plan on doing it like how Sheen's role in The West Wing was originally intended: limited to an obligatory five minutes with the boss every episode. I think it might be neat and change things up to where the captain is on the bridge, but the bridge is no longer the hearth set-piece of the show.
I would so like that. It is Voyager and Deep Space Nine that gave me the appreciation for the rest of the story that's always going on. For me, these two series had me living in the world of the crews; their personal challenges being from disparate backgrounds as they maneuvered, sometimes failing - which was always a story in itself to me - but often working through their disparities to find ways to work together while remaining distinctly unique with all that brings.
While each Big Picture conundrum the ships, captains & bridge crews were called to deal with regularly brought me the, thrills I guess it is, with the ships & captains making the planet sized decisions to the 'do the right thing' under each new circumstance with civilizations and star systems and the big things like the Federation/Klingon/Delta Quadrant/Romulans/et al., Voyager and DS9 nurtured in me the appreciation for those stories worth hearing of all the support and peripheral persons my captains and bridge people rely on to make it so.
My desire to know them in a deeper way like was done on V & DS9 in no way diminishes my attachment to my series' captains and each one's ever enormous choices and challenges they are regularly called on to address because I do very much luv the big picture stories. This series though, you know were I the creator making it to my own specifications to give myself the total show I want
, I'd be making the A plots being the off bridge ship society as they function within the B & C bridge/Big Picture plots.
While each Big Picture conundrum the ships, captains & bridge crews were called to deal with regularly brought me the, thrills I guess it is, with the ships & captains making the planet sized decisions to the 'do the right thing' under each new circumstance with civilizations and star systems and the big things like the Federation/Klingon/Delta Quadrant/Romulans/et al., Voyager and DS9 nurtured in me the appreciation for those stories worth hearing of all the support and peripheral persons my captains and bridge people rely on to make it so.
My desire to know them in a deeper way like was done on V & DS9 in no way diminishes my attachment to my series' captains and each one's ever enormous choices and challenges they are regularly called on to address because I do very much luv the big picture stories. This series though, you know were I the creator making it to my own specifications to give myself the total show I want
, I'd be making the A plots being the off bridge ship society as they function within the B & C bridge/Big Picture plots.
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I'm guessing Isaacs will be an alien. He wears a hairpiece and the current "tech" doesn't hold up so well under HD scrutiny. Especially with darker hair (which is why to me his Malfoy wig was more natural looking than his regular daily rug, albeit only slightly).
They won't play him as a bald human without superficial Picard comparisons. However being bald is a boon when playing an alien since head shaving is minimal and prosthetic attachment less problematic I'd imagine. Or maybe he'll just get a rubber Halloween mask like the "Klingons"
They won't play him as a bald human without superficial Picard comparisons. However being bald is a boon when playing an alien since head shaving is minimal and prosthetic attachment less problematic I'd imagine. Or maybe he'll just get a rubber Halloween mask like the "Klingons"
Yup. Hair/Makeup people can do amazing things these days. The silly-looking topee on the captain is a thing of the past.
Or somebody is just making up rubbish, as often happens on IMDb.
Beyond had a cast role for "Meter Maid" for months.
Rita is quite lovely, though.
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