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Hunter made a better Jesus than Enterprise Capt.
I thought Andy Dick was pretty amusing as EMH Mark II. It couldn't have been someone subtle—not to play off Picardo the whole time. So it worked.
I'll go with Luckinbill also—not because he was terrible, but because the whole thing was written around the gravity that Sean Connery (or David Warner) could have brought to it, and he just wasn't right for that. Mark Lenard may not have been a huge movie star, but he is an example of someone who did very effectively bring that kind of gravity to his performances. Vulcans...it ain't easy being green. It takes a good actor!
I was trying to think of a main cast member who I believe was miscast, but I really can't. Trek has had pretty dynamite casts.
You could say that Rene Auberjonois was a "WTF?!" choice for the character of Odo as he was originally conceived (a sort of super-powered Clint Eastwood loner type), but he gave it something special and, as was typical of the character-driven stuff on DS9, they pretty much reoriented everything around that so it worked. In no way am I criticizing the end result.
Someone's gonna say Scott Bakula, but I don't think he was miscast so much as sort of forced to take the character in a different direction than I wish he'd gone.
I'll go with Luckinbill also—not because he was terrible, but because the whole thing was written around the gravity that Sean Connery (or David Warner) could have brought to it, and he just wasn't right for that. Mark Lenard may not have been a huge movie star, but he is an example of someone who did very effectively bring that kind of gravity to his performances. Vulcans...it ain't easy being green. It takes a good actor!
I was trying to think of a main cast member who I believe was miscast, but I really can't. Trek has had pretty dynamite casts.
You could say that Rene Auberjonois was a "WTF?!" choice for the character of Odo as he was originally conceived (a sort of super-powered Clint Eastwood loner type), but he gave it something special and, as was typical of the character-driven stuff on DS9, they pretty much reoriented everything around that so it worked. In no way am I criticizing the end result.
Someone's gonna say Scott Bakula, but I don't think he was miscast so much as sort of forced to take the character in a different direction than I wish he'd gone.
I would say Anthony Montgomery as Ensign Travis Mayweather. As originally proposed, "Lieutenant Joseph Mayweather" was an older character who could stand toe-to-toe with Captain Archer as the most experienced space traveler on Enterprise. The role was retailored (and demoted) to suit Montgomery's youth and the character lost most of its steam to T'Pol, IMO...
I always thought Kate Mulgrew as Janeway was bad casting. There was something about her that just didn't say "Starfleet Captain" to me. Granted sher was the runner up but from the little footage I've seen of Geneviève Bujold in the role she wasn't any worse.
The Intrepid-class starship that played the role of Voyager.
Um, Famke Janssen started off as a model too. Quite honestly I see no difference in their acting abilities.
Even after they rejigged the character (from the little I saw of him), he didn't make much sense - he was suppose to be have grown up on a cargo ship right?
He was played like the son of a vicar!
"more tea sir?"
I understand the circumstances around the choice, but I'll always prefer Jadzia to Ezri. She just didn't seem as mature as she was trying to be, nor as mature as she should have been. Shock of a joining aside... she threw temper tantrums and... just... didn't seem as "there."
Hmmm, other than that... I'm not sure...
Hmmm, other than that... I'm not sure...
Why? There are many guys who look nothing like their father. They might take after their mother, or one of their grandparents, etc...
Also, I've seen pairs of siblings (FULL sibilings, mind you) who looked like they came from different nationality/ethnic backgrounds.
I can never put my finger on why, but I never bought Bakula in that role at all. Part of it was that to me he always seemed as if he was reading off a script instead of feeling the lines he was delivering. Just something unnatural about the way he spoke.
Jason Alexanders guest role didn't click for me at all, that could be as I was so used to Seinfeld, but he just didn't feel convincing or real to me. Maybe a little like a parody of SF without anything funny.
Overall though I can't think of anyone else that I didn't like in a main or supporting role.
And even though it's not released yet - and I don't want to seem as if I'm bashing it as I won't judge 'till I see - the new Sulu in Star Trek XI. It's going to take a lot to make me think anything other than MILF when he's on screen.
I agree. They have done such a good job of casting every crew from TOS to ENT, but looonnnnng time for me to accept her in that role.
Runner up for me is Jonathan Frakes. I hated his character the first year of TNG. Like Archer on Enterprise, I think that was bad writing rather than bad casting or acting. The first season or so of TNG can compete with the third seaon of TOS in being the worst of Star Trek.
Now that I think of it, I bet Katie Sackhoff would've made an excellent Yar.
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