Their other roles...

[RobertScorpio]

Some of our TREK performers either had careers before star trek, or, had some great work after Star Trek. What are some of your favorite performances that some of our more 'regular' actors/actresses did either before or after trek?

For me? Penny Johnson. I am in the process of re-watching 24's first season since I originally saw it all those years ago. GOD I HATE THIS WOMAN!!! I just hate Sherry (Penny's role) with a passion.

Even now, when I watch DS9 and see Kassidy Yates, I'm having trouble seperating my hatred of Sherry from Penny; THAT'S how good she was on 24...

Rob

 

[sbk1234]

Walter Keonig was BRILLIANT on Babylon Five as the asshole Alfred Bester. Such a radical departure from Mr. Goodguy Chekov. It goes to show what a great ac tor Mr. Keonig is.

And how about James Doohan as the commander in Jason of Star Command?

 

[Admiral Shran]

Scott Bakula as Sam Beckett from Quantum Leap. Is there any other competition?

 

[RobertScorpio]

William Shatner as "Denny.....CRANE!"...


Rob

 

[T'Girl]

Oh please. TJ Hooker would so kick Denny Crane's ass.

Crane would try to get away, but Hooker would just jump onto the hood of Crane's car.

 

[DevilEyes]

Colm Meaney in Snapper. I actually watched it before I saw him on TNG and DS9.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Oh please. TJ Hooker would so kick Denny Crane's ass.

Crane would try to get away, but Hooker would just jump onto the hood of Crane's car.

maybe..but then crane would have sex with Hooker's ex-wife and send him pictures..

Rob

 

[caisson2delta]

I remember Michael Dorn from CHIPs, seeing Frakes on a few cop shows (namely on Hill Street Blues), but probably the most memorable was Patrick Stewart in the movie Excalibur.

 

[DevilEyes]

I remember Michael Dorn from CHIPs, seeing Frakes on a few cop shows (namely on Hill Street Blues), but probably the most memorable was Patrick Stewart in the movie Excalibur.

It obviously wasn't so memorable to me, since I can't remember who he played or that he even was in the movie.

I do remember him well, however, as Sejanus in I, Claudius (with a curly wig, and looking big and beefy - his co-stars must have been very small...)

 

[diankra]

I remember Michael Dorn from CHIPs, seeing Frakes on a few cop shows (namely on Hill Street Blues), but probably the most memorable was Patrick Stewart in the movie Excalibur.

It obviously wasn't so memorable to me, since I can't remember who he played or that he even was in the movie.

I do remember him well, however, as Sejanus in I, Claudius (with a curly wig, and looking big and beefy - his co-stars must have been very small...)

I'm British, so despite Bakula, I knew Patrick Stewart from Ic Claudius, Mayberry, the Smiley serials and a stage production or two (the old King David in Yonadab, for instance) before TNG even came on the scene...

 

[ChadHydro]

William Shatner as "Denny.....CRANE!"...


Rob

Hahaha that man MADE Boston Legal

 

[scotpens]

The Shat-man did some excellent work before Star Trek. One of his best roles was in Roger Corman's 1962 social-issue drama The Intruder (aka Shame), in which he played a charming, smooth-talking rabble-rouser who stirs up racial hatred in a small Southern town.

On the other hand, there's also White Comanche.

And who could forget Leonard Nimoy's debut performance in Kid Monk Baroni, in which he played a promising young boxer who becomes punch-shy after he has his schnozzola bobbed?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Zoe Saldana was on Law & Order: Criminal Intent a few years ago.

 

[RobertScorpio]

we're re-watching 24 season three and Zachary Quinto is on this season..totally forgot...and so Kassidy yates!

Rob

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Kate Mulgrew went up against a conspiracy to create deficient weapons in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, a film that is just friggin' full of 80's win, thanks to the greatness of Chiun, played to perfection by Joel Grey.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Wow..i loved REMO, and totally forgot she was in it. I'll have to get it now...


Rob

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

She actually had a very prominent role, starting about 45 minutes in...

 

[Jonas Grumby]

I'll watch DeForest Kelley in anything! But I especially get a kick out of him ragging on Henry Fonda's ass in Warlock (1959). The fact that he also ends up saving Richard Widmark's bacon in the end is just a little extra cherry on top!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Some of the TNG cast showed up on my favorite TZ series, the 80's version. There was one episode with Jonathan Frakes as a sleazy party guest (he hits on Pam Dawber's character but backs off when he learns she's a secretary - this being a universe where secretaries are highly paid celebrities). Also there was "Dead Run" about a truck driver who takes a job carrying damned souls to hell - John DeLancie was the executive in charge of hell, and Brent Spiner played a Vietnam draft dodger.

And of course there's this...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hSnAxvRdmY[/yt]

"Oh, my..."

 

[Andrew_Kearley]

Leonard Nimoy is great in anything, but I always find it strange seeing him without his vulcan haircut! His performance in Mission: Impossible is one of my favourites. And who can forget Baffled!