She'd be perfect for a role in pretty much any vehicle, movie or otherwise...just in general. I doubt she'd sign on for a tv series unless she was the lead but the girl's a Trekkie, who knew? She proclaimed it on tv awhile back and said some words in Klingon. Talk about someone who would jump at it and have a blast. I was surprised that the search engine didn't pull up threads on this--surely she'd be a big name that would appeal to the horny male demographic plus she's a strong young woman. I think she'd be fantastic. What would appeal to her more? Big bucks for the starring role on television (movie actors are doing more and more tv) or a movie in the future?
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Future of Trek, anyone?
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That girl has definitely been on a few casting couch sessions...but, I think she should continue with the films. TV is a last resort when your movie career is taking a nosedive (Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Kiefer Sutherland, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Martin Sheen, etc.)
It's my understanding that big stars usually do Trek either on the way up, or on the way down.
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In the case of Whoopi Goldberg, it has been both.
Up: TNG seasons 2-6 + Star Trek: Generations
Down: Star Trek: Nemesis (Plus all the TNG cast including Wil Wheaton, minus Patrick Stewart)
Only because a large proportion of the cast budget is already earmarked for seven or eight actors before any guest cast is looked at. Being cast in a ST movie has nothing sinister to do with being a rising or falling star. It's mainly budget.
Christopher Lloyd was probably at the top of his game for ST III, but then that led to the high profile "Back to the Future" trilogy. Paramount decided to offer Kirstie Alley less on ST III than she'd earned on ST II, hence we ended up with Robin Curtis. I'm not sure David Warner would like being branded as being on his way up or down. He's simply a solid, hard-working actor. Kim Cattrall was already known in film, but gained lots of fame on TV ("Sex in the City") after ST VI, but comparing film actors and TV actors as if there's a huge difference is a rather 50s and 60s mentality. These days there's less stigma about "doing TV".
If the starship crew of a Star Trek was a cast of (cheaper) unknowns, then the guest villain could be a more expensive actor, but ST fans want to see their old favourites in the main cast.
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^ Is this the main reason why we couldn't afford Tom Hanks for ST:FC?
He was happy to do it, but the timing conflicted with "That Thing You Do".
IIRC, and have the timing correct, his replacement won an Oscar nomination for "Babe", meaning that ST got a recent Academy Award nominee for a budget price, anyway.
Cromwell didn't win the Oscar for Babe, he was only nominated. Landing him for Cochrane was still some good casting, though.
OK. I shoulda checked. But yeah, he was cast in "First Contact", then he got his nomination, but his price for FC was already locked in but would have risen due to his nomination. Fixed in an edit. Thanks.
And I don't think anyone could fairly say that Christopher Plummer or Malcolm McDowell were "on their way down."
In the case of Cattrall, it was such a long period of time between TUC (1991) and Sex and the City (1998) that there isn't really any sort of logical connection, unless Darren Star was a Trekkie.
I think the American cable networks have had a big role in that, with their TV series and TV-movies attracting some A-list heavy hitters. Off the top of my head, we've seen Glenn Close and Forest Whitaker do The Shield, Albert Finney as Churchill in The Gathering Storm, and Kenneth Branagh as FDR in Warm Springs, and I know I'm only scratching the surface here.
What about J. Murray Abraham?
I'd LOVE to see Rosario Dawson in Trek.
She's the perfect embodiment, infact, of the first-officer in my fanfic. 
As for Hanks, would've been a great casting choice for Cochrane, looks the role a bit better than Cromwell does.
She'd make an awesome kick ass Klingon!
Rosario Dawson and Roxann Dawson in...Klingon Girls: The Next Generation!
Shouldn't that be: F. Murray Abraham?
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