Something I only found out recently ...

[CoveTom]

Who was it that Leonard Nimoy originally wanted to play Kruge in TSFS before Christopher Lloyd was chosen? Was that Olmos as well?

 

[Anwar]

He was approached for the part, yes.

 

[JustKate]

I'm still wondering what would've happened in Jeffrey Combs got the Riker part when he auditioned. Would that mean Frakes would've played Weyoun and Brunt?

I just heard this maybe a year ago. I think it would have been great, mostly because...well, mostly because I am not a big fan of Frakes. I hate to say that because he's always seemed like such a nice guy and all, but I am not an admirer of his acting in general or in TNG in particular. With the help of the writers, his was a very boring Riker, IMO.

But the other thing I like about this idea is that it had the potential to change the...the formula so much. TOS had an action-hero kind of captain with an intellectual first officer while TNG ended up with an action-hero kind of first officer with an intellectual captain. So a crew in which neither the captain nor the first officer is the action-hero type - assuming they weren't planning on turning Combs into an action hero - might have been kind of cool.

But he was great as Weyoun, so it's all good.

 

[Lt.Cmdr.LaForge]

Aye, Patrick Stewart made that character in a way no one else could have, and i dnt believe anyone else could have done a better job. I love Patrick.

*Aside* Patrick Stewart is the chancellor of my uni and i get to see him turn on the xmas lights in my town a week on thursday =D

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Cygnus, just wondering if your username comes from a certain song or two from a power trio in the late seventies ?

 

[Voyagerian]

I was not aware of the EJO possibility, but I feel that Patrick did Jean-Luc every bit of justice the character required. Some press person once remarked early on in TNG, about how could he, a Shakespearean actor, do a program like this, and he responded that all those roles merely prepared him for that one. Excellent answer! And ST is like that classical lit, so I have heard it compared...I can't picture anyone else but him, as I do Kate M. for Janeway, etc....they always seem to find the right fit for all our favorites. I've only seen two BSG 'telefilms' on NBC, and I recall his 'Miami Vice' role, but, who's to say he would not have done well. Maybe if we ask the Guardian of Forever for a looksee into an alternate timeline...You know, I was just reading back over the posts, and inspired to add, that Patrick played what I guess was the closest to something I assume you might call a modern BSG commander in 'Yesterday's Enterprise' where he was so intently driven by war, and an impending defeat by the Klingons...bursting out at Guinan, who's trying to tell him 'This is all wrong'....which has always shocked me, coming from one-in the normal timeline-cool collected, controlled...I assume Adama's had plenty of 'Extreme moments'...imagine a ST:TNG series set in a dark, postwar era....Hmm....Jean-Luc, the leader of a Rebellion? Would not suprise me....

 

[Anwar]

They did a comic series set in a timeline where the Klingons ruled the Federation where Picard WAS a Rebel Leader. Pretty good one too.