Trek characters' hobbies and interests

[retroenzo]

It makes the characters' hobbies more convincing if the actor knows how to do it. Can you imagine if, say, Riker had tried to show Data how to dance? I can't imagine Frakes putting in that kind of performance.

 

[exocomp]

Sisko's passion and even obsession at times, is baseball. There's the baseball that never leaves his desk. Plus that's how he breaks the ice with Cassidy the first time they date. We learn that every one in the senior staff has been invited at least once in a holosuite ballgame. That's how Kira get to know Sisko a little better...etc...

 

[The Wormhole]

Riker had tried to show Data how to dance?

That could have been such an awesome scene.

 

[Doom Shepherd]

But Dr. Crusher is most certainly not. lol. It's 1 thing to let actors infuse bits of themselves into their long running parts, but it's kind of silly when the bits they're adding are just actor stuff. It was a stretch when Data was doing Shakespear & such, but at least that could be explained away, as part of all his human experience things. With Crusher, it just flew at the screen like a pie in the face. Still a funny scene though, but by the end of the show, the Doctor is heading up the ship drama club. It's just weird imho

No.
Queen's guitarist is an astrophysicist.
Lynn Swann was a ballet dancer. (As have been a number of other football players.)
Crusher dancing pales in comparison.

 

[marlboro]

O'Brien - played the cello
Chakotay - boxing and paleontology
Picard and Janeway both tried their hand at painting, I believe

 

[UnknownSample]

Ensign Gomez loved throwing hot liquids on superior officers, then claiming it was an accident.

Odo's hobby was spying on Quark when he wasn't doing so in an official capacity.

Bashir was a horndog.

Harry Kim loved replacing himself with himself after he's just been pulled out an airlock into space.

Weyoun loved drinking poisoned canar.

 

[drt]

I always felt that many of the hobbies featured in 'Trek were a bit "white bread" me. I mean, you have access to the gym and the holodeck. Take chances with it. I guess that is why I did not mind AU Kirk was into 20th/21st century hip hop...and driving cars over a cliff at quarries.

I've mentioned it before, but part of the reason for most of the "white bread" hobbies was that giving the crew basically the same interests as Niles and Fraiser Crane is a quick, shorthand way of making the crew seem erudite to the audience.

 

[exocomp]

Dax' hobby was breaking into Odo's quarters and moving the furniture.

 

[retroenzo]

Queen's guitarist is an astrophysicist.

And Professor Brian Cox was the keyboard player for D:Ream. There's a definite music/science link going on here...

 

[exocomp]

Before he went to the academy, Nog's favorite pastime was flicking sand peas at the passing throng (according to Odo).

 

[Gary 11's]

I'm surprised parrises squares hasn't been mentioned yet. Was this the only fictional trek hobbie?

 

[marlboro]

Tuvok liked playing Kal-toh.

 

[exocomp]

Tuvok liked playing Kal-toh.

And he was a bad loser at it.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

It makes the characters' hobbies more convincing if the actor knows how to do it.

In some cases, shows deliberately add interests the actors have to their characters. For the same reason undercover agents add aspects of their own lives to their alias' backstory; it makes for an authentic performance.

 

[exocomp]

O'Brien has a pet spider, and he even shows it to Barclay, once.

 

[UnknownSample]

I'm surprised parrises squares hasn't been mentioned yet. Was this the only fictional trek hobbie?

Fizzbinn..................

 

[Mojochi]

No.
Queen's guitarist is an astrophysicist.
Lynn Swann was a ballet dancer. (As have been a number of other football players.)
Crusher dancing pales in comparison.

I'm not saying it's unbelievable or out of the realm of possibility. It's just weak, when a show wants to add personality to a character by dipping into the actor's tastes, but all the actor's tastes revolve only around acting. It's lame & uninspired. It would've been better if they'd just stuck with dancing. At least that's slightly outside the wheelhouse of just acting stuff. It's takes me out of the show, when I'm reminded that these are actors.

She could've taught a dance class, which would have health benefits too. They could've had a shipwide ball/prom/cotillion type thing, & being a dance expert would make her apt to set it up. C'mon... Be creative. Don' t just put on a play, because the doctor character is played by an actress, whose chief real life interest is... Acting. it's just an off-hand opinion

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Well, obviously, if they have a character put on plays, said character will have to be played by an actor.

 

[The Old Mixer]

My ex-wife used to tap-dance...it never occurred to me that maybe she wasn't really a mortgage broker, but an actress pretending to be one....

 

[Kativa]

What was it that Seven of Nine & Ensign WIldman's daughter used to play? It's been awhile since I've watched Voyager, sorry.