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Worst Actor By Series

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TOS: Probably George Takei.
TNG: Marina Sirtis.
DS9: Probably Terry Farrell, although they were all very good.
VOY: Wang.
ENT: Montgomery. As Dane_Whitman said, he seems like a nice guy, but he's just not a great actor.
 
Not one stands out as a "bad" actor, as others have said, but I never quite bought into the Dr. Crusher character. TF, well, I just like her too much to be so critical.

Not being a great actor isn't quite the same as being a bad actor.
 
TOS: Koenig

And yet he was so effective as Bester

TNG: Sirtis

They should have let her boobs do the talking; if Crosby had lasted the entire run, Marina would have had serious competition for this dubious distinction

DS9: Brooks, by a mile

Stentorian cardboard

VOY: Wang

Compared to him, Lien was a mistress thespian

ENT: Montgomery

Astonishingly vapid, even when attempting to emote
 
TOS: Koenig, by a mile; Shatner had nothing on him for overacting
TNG: Gates McFadden. She always looked like she was somehow laughing at the rest of the cast and couldn't believe she'd 'lowered' herself to be in the show. Never bought her character; she should've remained a puppet choregrapher.
DS9: Michael Dorn; he only didn't get it for TNG because Gates beat him out. For someone who tried so hard to live his Klingon heritage, he never seemed to have a handle on the language, even when guest stars who were there once could spout it like they were born to it. The make-up didn't help, either, as it always made him look cross-eyed.
VOY: Have to go with Wang, here.
ENT: Bakula! Far and away! I don't care how bad the scripts were, he never managed to add anything to them with a decent performance. Sorry, Scott, Quantum Leap is over and the 'befuddled' aproach just doesn't work when you're the captain.
 
TOS: Shatner.
TNG: Sirtis.
DS9: Brooks and Farrell.
Voyager: Beltran and Wang.
Enterprise: No comment.
 
TOS: Koenig
TNG: Sirtis
DS9: Farrell (tho Alexander Siddig was terrible early on)
VOY: Beltran (tho his snarky comments towards the end were hilarious)
ENT: Montgomery; Bakula was more wildly miscast than bad per se
 
all this hate for Garrett Wang? I dont think he's that bad, its just his character that went nowhere.
 
Temis the Vorta said:
VOY: Beltran (tho his snarky comments towards the end were hilarious)

Agreed. It was a two-way street: He no longer gave a crap (which was understandable and considering how much of the writing seemed on autopilot I doubt he was alone), and the two results were hilariously dead-on criticism of the show's flaws... and an even more lifeless performance than his already stiff-necked Chakotay.
 
TG Theodore said:
No choices. They wouldn't have kept their jobs if they sucked.
Nonsense. There are plenty of bad actors on television and in film who either make major stardom or have fairly successful careers for reasons other than their acting abilities. Looks, for example. Or simple public appeal.

Keanu Reeves, for example. :)

Besides, we all know how attached Trek fans get to characters.
 
TG Theodore said:
Worst implies "really bad." Of all the principal actors there weren't any bad actors.

There might have been weaker or less interesting CHARACTERS, but that's not the actor's fault.

--Ted

Agreed on that front - mostly. I can't understand the actor bashing (and I'm a bit pissed by some of the choices mentioned above :mad: ). However, being a TNGer, let me consider DS9, the show with the most character development: here is where I can tell who made the most delivery out of the character development given to them.

In this case, I'd have to give a thumbs down to Cirroc Lofton. :( When he's around Avery Brooks, it's the latter who shines (but that's expected). When he's around Aron Eisenberg, however, it's still the latter who shines! Heck, when he was around Ashley Brianne McDonogh (the crybaby Chief Petty Officer) in "Valiant," she outshone him!

Even Tony Todd in "The Visitor" conveyed more of who Jake Sisko was - in only one episode - than Mr. Lofton did in the whole series!
 
Kegek said:
Temis the Vorta said:
VOY: Beltran (tho his snarky comments towards the end were hilarious)

Agreed. It was a two-way street: He no longer gave a crap (which was understandable and considering how much of the writing seemed on autopilot I doubt he was alone), and the two results were hilariously dead-on criticism of the show's flaws... and an even more lifeless performance than his already stiff-necked Chakotay.

any links to his comments about the show?
 
TOS - for any kind of emotion other than "She canna take any more", Mr. Doohan. I still remember the ep where he was trying to keep Kirk from putting himself in danger. Talk about wooden.

TNG - first season, Mr. Frakes, all he ever did was walk around and throw out his chest. Overall it's gotta be Crosby by far. Completely unbelievable.

DS9 - Definately Brooks at the beginning, after that, nobody really, Morn?

Voyager - I never bought Dawson as half Klingon. All of her human/klingon conflicts seemed very forced to me.

Ent - I really like Bakula, but what a disappointment he was here.
 
yeah Bakula is pretty awful for such a major role - his concerned look is more like someone straining to pass a stool. He's been good in other stuff so I guess he looked at the quality of the scripts and decided to just take the paycheck and run...
 
MikeH92467 said:
Some actors have more range and versatility, but saying someone "can't act" is really unfair. They can all act. If you don't get what I'm saying look at fan productions. No offense to the people who are doing some great work, it's just that it's taken a lot of hard work on the part of the New Voyages and Exeter crews to raise their skills to where the performances don't detract from the overall production. Acting ain't easy folks.

That's exactly what makes those fan productions unwatchable for me. All that time, trouble and talent, and the onscreen actors are just, just horrible and drag the entire work back down to "fan film" level.

Maybe we should do a poll about them, eh? :)

--Ted
 
TG Theodore said:
MikeH92467 said:
Some actors have more range and versatility, but saying someone "can't act" is really unfair. They can all act. If you don't get what I'm saying look at fan productions. No offense to the people who are doing some great work, it's just that it's taken a lot of hard work on the part of the New Voyages and Exeter crews to raise their skills to where the performances don't detract from the overall production. Acting ain't easy folks.

That's exactly what makes those fan productions unwatchable for me. All that time, trouble and talent, and the onscreen actors are just, just horrible and drag the entire work back down to "fan film" level.

Maybe we should do a poll about them, eh? :)

--Ted

Indeed, I watched "of gods and men" (or whatever it was called) and struck by how poor the professional actors seemed to be once you removed the "gloss"...
 
TOS: Nichelle "yes my name is on the closing credits for a reason" Nichols
TNG: Gates "No, I'm not a robot, I just act like one" McFadden
Ds9 : Michael " watch me growl and sneer" Dorn
Voyager: Robert "I hate this show so I'll just walk through my lines" Beltran
Enterprise: Scott "Golly gee I just can't seem to be commanding" Bakula
 
TOS- Koenig
TNG- Livingston
DS9- Siddig
VOY- Wang (though he did get better as the series went on)
Ent- Bakula
 
Ptrope said:ENT: Bakula! Far and away! I don't care how bad the scripts were, he never managed to add anything to them with a decent performance. Sorry, Scott, Quantum Leap is over and the 'befuddled' aproach just doesn't work when you're the captain.
That's so right a description of his acting in ENT. Absolutely spot on!

I agree with the comments other posters have made about Sirtis, McFadden and Farrell - unfortuntely, I've always thought that they were hired purely for their looks rather than their skills. TNG really suffers from having very poor female lead actors and the poorly conceived characters.
 
TOS: Koenig
TNG: Crosby (Honestly, Stills and Nash were almost as bad.)
DS9: Cirroc Lofton (actually he got better as the series progressed...)
VOY: Robert Beltran (close race with Wang)
ENT: Anthony Montgomery
 
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