Wow, why so?
Other than TOS cast members, are there other shows' cast members who didn't get along?
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Wow, why so?
They resented her taking over from Gates McFadden as the ship's doctor.
It's a shame. I loved Dr. Pulaski, once she got over her bigotry toward Data.
Though in the beginning no one (other than maybe Dax) liked Bashir in the beginning--I'm still amazed Kira didn't wipe the floor with him in "Emissary"
I read a story/interview about when they were at a pub in Dublin. Siddig remarked on how other folk at the pub seemed to give him the cold shoulder, something like that because he was an Arab. Meaney corrected him by saying it was because he was British.
And I believe Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating both bought a house across from each other, late in the Enterprise's run or right after.
Interesting since Siddig is Sudanese
And also Malcom McDowell's nephew.
According to his wikipedia article he has been living in Britain since he was two and his mother was a British woman named Gloria Taylor.
Does not automatically make a person pro English when it came to the Irish question.
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You are right with that of course. Nor do all Irish and British people necessarily need to define themselves over the "Irish Question" when they interact.
But being born in Sudan doesn't make somebody automatically Sudanese either.
Sorry that's just a topic I struggle a lot with myself, which prompted my reply in this.
I always think it's hilarious that so many people seem amazed that people who don't get along in person can work together on screen. I've been with enough actors to watch how many of them literally flip a switch and become another person and then switch it right off again. They train to do that, and the reason you see them in the shows is precisely because they can do that. Any takes they do where they can't end up on the cutting room floor.
Neither does being English.
It really doesn't matter how he identifies, where he was born, what his citizenship is, or who accept him as their own. A group of people picked up on a particular trait of his--probably his accent--and made him a representative of that country and a standard-bearer for its policies. In the midst of the Troubles, a group of Irishmen saw Siddig as the representatives of British imperialism.
The irony is, in England if it was known that Siddig was part Arab, in the 60's he would share the no Irish, no dogs and no coloured welcome mat. Oh well
Anyway, good to read Meany and Sid became friends
Or just professional in their work.Almost like they were acting....
Ironic or not, it's par for the course. Prejudices are not universal (although prejudice is). When I was in France in Winter 2003, it didn't matter that I was half-Mexican or registered as a Democrat. What mattered, as George Bush trying to convince other nations to invade Iraq, was that I was American.
Siddig has himself admitted that he was not fully cognizant of what being Sudanese meant and that he largely felt like an assimilated Brit ("I was totally English. I certainly wouldn’t have described myself as Arab."). Moreover, he was keen on being ambiguous about the ethnicity of Bashir, asking the writers to avoid anything identifiable (hence he had a Mongolian middle name, and a grandmother (or mate, if his suppositions from Trials and Tribble-ations are true) who has an English surname, not to mention the identities of the actors who played his parents). It's been through self-reflection, driven by the changing politics of the 2000s, that he has been more willing to talk about his Arabness.
That's certainly the more realistic approach, there will be fewer and fewer people who will be over 50% any ethnicity, especially in 300 years.
I liked her difficulty accepting Data... it gave her character a place to go. Maybe even created a little conflict, too.
Somehow we expect the actors in our favorite shows to magically all be best buddies and hold hands and sing kumbaya in real life behind the scenes. But what we see on our TV screens is just a performance. The whole thing is a job, plain and simple. And at any job there's a chance that you will get along great with some people (hopefully), while there are other people you just can't stand, even after working with them for many years. That's just the nature of working with people.
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In 300 years what it is means to be Arab will not be so restricted. Also there will be Africans who look like Charlize Theron since their ancestors would have lived there for 600 years and Swedish people who look like Uhura. And in the Trek universe French people who look like Andorians
I've read fanfic that wrote her as a great-granddaughter of Leonard McCoy, who grew up hearing about McCoy's Starfleet adventures and absorbing his dislike of androids, AI, and so on. I would think that she'd have had the same opinion of the Doctor on Voyager - seeing him as merely a computer program and not a sentient personality.
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