Who do you think was the worst actor among the TNG cast?
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Hmmm... I gotta switch a few of those for my tastes. Plus, I'll add a few of the other regulars in the mix too
Denise Crosby
Wil Wheaton
Whoopi Goldberg
Marina Sirtis
Gates McFadden
Levar Burton
Michael Dorn
Jonathan Frakes
Michelle Forbes
Dwight Schultz
John deLancie
Brent Spiner
Patrick Stewart
Exactly. Yar was a stereotype of what some men think a no-nonsense type of woman is. Ro was done much better.
Did you watch a different show than the rest of us? Patrick Stewart was nearly always top notch; I'll agree with that. But the rest? No way. There is no way you can convince me that all of them were "really good" in the movies, or even in the last season of TNG.
Marina Sirtis went from overacting to not-bad-occasionally to drawling her lines in a really sloppy way, and I saw no improvement in Gates McFadden's acting, either. Wil Wheaton's best episode was the one in which he left the show, and Brent Spiner just hammed it up in the movies.
Thank goodness they didn't do more movies. They got progressively worse, both in terms of story and in terms of the supporting cast's acting.
DS9 did not need a movie. They'd pretty well wrapped up everything that needed wrapping up in the series. The show that got cheated of a proper ending was Voyager.
DS9 most definitely did need a movie. And the plot would have been to have SIsko return from the Prophets as he said he would and to start the next phase of his life. Because the time when he would do this was left open-ended, they could still do the movie, but it would need to be soon, before any of the main cast or important supporting cast dies. They could bring in Voyager characters for that - have Seven of Nine as first officer on the station, for example.
Sorry, but I honestly never cared about Sisko that much. He had some decent episodes and demonstrated some worthy strategic moves... but was for the most part a pretty boring character.
And given the situation with the Voyager crew - the question of how they would re-integrate not only into post-war Starfleet, but back into the Federation itself, and how Seven would be accepted in a society where a lot of people would only see her as Borg and not as a victim trying to reclaim her humanity - why would she end up on DS9, of all places?
Why not DS9? If a movie was done now, it would be more than fifteen years after the end of Voyager and things can change quite a bit in that length of time. Nor would the movie be solely about Sisko and Seven; it would catch up with other members of both shows. Garak could be the leader of Cardassia, Neelix could have found his way to DS9 somehow, back to his old job, having married Dexa, with her and Brax living on the station. Kira could be First Minister - there are so many possbilities!
Wow maybe TNG is not for you. Seems like you really dislike it. When I think of bad acting I think of Shatner.
DS9 needed a crossover movie or one with the Dominion War where the big budget could really show off the space battles.
Sisko is my favorite captain so obviously you and I are far apart in our opinions.
My preferred series are TOS and Voyager. Janeway is a lot more like Kirk than she would ever be willing to admit.
There are some TNG characters I liked and some episodes I liked. But the series overall is just so damn preachy and "Aren't we enlightened and wonderful?". Picard is just so utterly clueless about how people live when they're not in Starfleet or if they're on frontier planets that don't enjoy all the advantages of the core Federation worlds.
I happen to think Patrick Stewart is a terrific actor. It's Picard I don't like that much at times.
Kirk and Janeway are pretty similar made contact with a lot of new species, were rather pragmatic in their idealism.
I also here Mulgrew likes to showboat and is similar in her antics at the convention like Shatner.
Though to give TNG it's due it laid the groundwork that made the worldbuilding of DS9 possible, created the plots, characters, and situations that Voyager would follow on(thematically) and was of course an inspiration on early Enterprise.
TNG makes DS9/VOY/ENT possible without it Trek wouldn't be recognizable.
I also here Mulgrew likes to showboat and is similar in her antics at the convention like Shatner.
Though to give TNG it's due it laid the groundwork that made the worldbuilding of DS9 possible, created the plots, characters, and situations that Voyager would follow on(thematically) and was of course an inspiration on early Enterprise.
TNG makes DS9/VOY/ENT possible without it Trek wouldn't be recognizable.
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The fact that interesting stories could be told that happen after a series ended doesn't mean the series needs a movie. It just means, we'd have reason to watch a movie were it made.
I'd say Sirtis. I haven't seen her in much else so hard to say if she's a good actor in other roles. She's not super convincing in TNG.
I'd say Sirtis. I haven't seen her in much else so hard to say if she's a good actor in other roles. She's not super convincing in TNG.
But when she was in the briefing room with Data and zoicsrd, imitating the guy she was SUPPOSED to be doing it poorly.
Don't you get it?
Haven't you made fun of someone from work or a spouse or someone, and you "over do it" on purpose?
I liked that scene, I thought it was gone all and seemed real.
Only in season 3 did the storylines get good and the characters aswell i wish pulaski stayed longer she was good
Wil Wheaton is a very capable actor. If you want to see him knock a role out of the park, find 'Stand By Me' on Netflix or somewhere. Not only is Wheaton phenomenal in that, it's also just an all around great movie.
As for who was the worst... Nah. Why do we have to fixate on tearing people down? That's not what Star Trek is about.
As for who was the worst... Nah. Why do we have to fixate on tearing people down? That's not what Star Trek is about.
Tearing people down is what vicious mean spirited people exist for.
Whil Wheaton
I never particularly cared for Michael Don as Worf. I felt another actor may have done that role more justice.
I hear he's a gentle nice guy in RL.
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