Susan Gibney as Deanna Troi or Tasha Yar?

[Ro_Laren]

Did you guys know (or read on StarTrek.com's article yesterday) that Susan Gibney auditioned for the roles of Deanna Troi and Tasha Yar? I never heard that before! I wonder how things would have been different if she would have gotten either of those roles.

 

[2takesfrakes]

I'm aware of it, as I'm sure many here are. But once Marina Siritis auditioned, had I been casting, I would've made sure she was cast some way, for all of the obvious reasons. Denise Crosby too, seems to have had a look that was very up-to-the-minute, for that time. Aside from being statuesque and sexy, she had an interesting face and there seems to have been no bad angle to shoot her from. Whether I would've cast her as confidently as Marina, I'm not sure. But I do know that I would've kept coming back to her and I think she's got a little bit of an edge over Gibney.

Susan's beautiful - obviously - but so are a lot of actresses and I think she'd have more in common with those than with Denise or Marina, in that sense. And the girls weren't the only ones who could've been cast very differently! Data was almost going to be played by a British actor named Mark Chapman. In fact, he came very close to getting the part. His features are so different from Brent Spiner's that it's very hard to see him ever being seriously considered, but from what I've read, he was ...

 

[Mojochi]

She's probably better suited to Troi, but I wouldn't have picked her for it, not exotic enough

 

[Nerys Myk]

It's possible that the role Gibney was auditioning for was Macha Hernandez. Yar only became "Tasha Yar" after Crosby was cast. Sirtis was also up for the Hernandez role.

 

[RAMA]

She would have made a great Janeway, she was just too familiar.

 

[Keith1701]

She's probably better suited to Troi, but I wouldn't have picked her for it, not exotic enough

I agree.

 

[Hober Mallow]

She would have made a great Janeway, she was just too familiar.

They should have just gone and cast her anyway.

 

[balls]

After I read that Star Trek.com article I realizes that she lives about 40 minutes from me in in the Rochester, NY area. For those that don't know, Rochester is not a real big place. Her phone number is in the book. She runs an acting school here. She chose to move back to her childhood town to raise her family. Kind of cool. Doesn't Terry Farrell live in the middle of Pennsylvania in a small town too?

 

[Relayer1]

I wish they'd cast her as Janeway...

 

[varek]

She would have made a great Janeway, she was just too familiar.

They should have just gone and cast her anyway.

I agree. She would have made a great Janeway!

 

[The Old Mixer]

I found Susan Gibney distracting in the Trek roles that she got because she always reminded me of Kirstie Alley.

No offense to the actor, but I don't know if I could have stood seeing the name "Mark Chapman" in the opening credits every week. Guess that's why famous assassins always get referred to with their middle name.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I found Susan Gibney distracting in the Trek roles that she got because she always reminded me of Kirstie Alley.

No offense to the actor, but I don't know if I could have stood seeing the name "Mark Chapman" in the opening credits every week. Guess that's why famous assassins always get referred to with their middle name.

He was up for the role of John Lennon in John and Yoko: A Love Story, but was turned down because of his name. (Though he was going by Mark Lindsey at the time). Later he played Lennon in Chapter 27.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Oh yeah...vaguely recall having heard about that first one.

 

[Danny99]

She would've been a better fit for either role. Early Troi tended to have orgasms when she got a empathic reading and perhaps Yar would not have been so blunt as she was in Crosby's execution.

 

[Hober Mallow]

She would've been a better fit for either role. Early Troi tended to have orgasms when she got a empathic reading and perhaps Yar would not have been so blunt as she was in Crosby's execution.

Those were decisions by the writers and producers. The characterizations probably wouldn't have been radically different.