Worst Overacting

[Marsden]

Well, he was a lawyer, but that's no excuse.


I guess this is the wrong place to ask this, but if one Lazerus was made of antimatter, wouldn't he blow up as soon as he touched anything? Maybe that's why he was yelling, but I got the impression the "matter" Lazeri was the nuttier one and the "antimatter" one the soft spoken one.
Crunchy or smooth, they have both kinds.

 

[Jose Tyler]

A few quick thoughts:

Grace Lee Whitney's delivery of "Space Happy" in 'The Man Trap'

Lindstrom in 'Return of the Archons'

Yeoman Mears in 'The Galileo Seven' "It's getting hot"

And if we can give an award for under-acting, Paul Fix in all of "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

 

[johnnybear]

I think the anti Lazarus was transformed into matter once he entered our universe and vice versa for the matter Laz!
JB

 

[FormerLurker]

Because of the nature of the corridor they were traversing, the Lazari were transformed into the state they were entering. But if one were in one universe and the other tried to join him there, the second would arrive untransformed, causing MAD and the end of all things. Oh, and the 'anti' Lazarus was the sane one.

Melvin Belli, being a trial lawyer, should have done a better job. As it was, it was passable. The script, on the other hand, was crap on a crutch. Ten seconds of exposition in act one, probably between Kirk and Spock in the cave, would have explained the whole thing later on.

 

[A beaker full of death]

@ beaker: One trick I learned when cutting radio commercials was keep the microphone close to the mouth and don't put a lot of volume in the voice. But inflection is tricky, because with some words you might overmodulate or pop the mike. That might be what's happening with a lot of television and film, since sometimes whole scenes might be looped on a dubbing stage.

Interesting!

 

[A beaker full of death]

Well, he was a lawyer, but that's no excuse.

That's funny: whenever I deliver a closing or opening to a jury, I channel Shatner as Kirk.
Really.
And it seems to work.

 

[Botany Bay]

But never Shatner as Crane I hope Beaker!

 

[Borg_from_Org]

SPAM

 

[Spock's Barber]

KHAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!


Spock from Star Trek joke

(Spock from Star Trek) in this SCENARIO:
teaching a rubber chicken how to fly

Saying this PHRASE:
Live long and (flap hard against both gravity and logic) until you (invent transporter technology to get you where you're going).

Huh? What? Eh?

 

[EnsignTOS]

KHAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!


Spock from Star Trek joke

(Spock from Star Trek) in this SCENARIO:
teaching a rubber chicken how to fly

Saying this PHRASE:
Live long and (flap hard against both gravity and logic) until you (invent transporter technology to get you where you're going).

Huh? What? Eh?

 

[johnnybear]

Melvin Belli, being a trial lawyer, should have done a better job. As it was, it was passable. The script, on the other hand, was crap on a crutch. Ten seconds of exposition in act one, probably between Kirk and Spock in the cave, would have explained the whole thing later on.

The only scene in the cave between Kirk and Spock was always cut by the BBC here in the UK, so this episode made even less sense to us!
JB

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Wow! The 3rd Season Love Fest. Kirk falls in love (again). Scotty falls in love. McCoy falls in love. Chekov falls in love.

What's wrong with that? Remove characters never exploring that emotion, and you end up with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, where everyone was either grim or acting surprised by alien #10,000 that managed to finds its way aboard the Seaview.

 

[EnsignTOS]

Wow! The 3rd Season Love Fest. Kirk falls in love (again). Scotty falls in love. McCoy falls in love. Chekov falls in love.

What's wrong with that? Remove characters never exploring that emotion, and you end up with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, where everyone was either grim or acting surprised by alien #10,000 that managed to finds its way aboard the Seaview.

I see your point. But I think Spock's Barber is right, too. If season three wasn't Weird Trek, it was like Valentine's Day Trek or something.

 

[AtoZ]

The late William Campbell was good as a Klingon in 'Tribbles', but his acting ability in the Squire of Gothos disappointed me.

Get outta here!!!

Campbell disappointed in Squire???

Holy shit, I thought it was an example of GLORIOUS overacting in its most effective, delightful, and life affirming way!

And despite his overacting, childish, immature ways, he was still giddy (and menacing).

When he gets a phaser in his hand, it's dangerous enough to give me pause.

"Ah! Yes! This won't kill...and this will..."

You don't know what he's going to do and to whom.

Absolutely spot-on!

I will go to my grave believing Campbell was brilliant as Trelane...and his delivery was absolutely perfect!

I will believe it until I am Dead! Dead! Dead!

 

[Spock's Barber]

Wow! The 3rd Season Love Fest. Kirk falls in love (again). Scotty falls in love. McCoy falls in love. Chekov falls in love.

What's wrong with that? Remove characters never exploring that emotion, and you end up with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, where everyone was either grim or acting surprised by alien #10,000 that managed to finds its way aboard the Seaview.

Because it went from Star Trek to Soap Trek. Who falls in love or out of love this week?

 

[EnsignTOS]

The late William Campbell was good as a Klingon in 'Tribbles', but his acting ability in the Squire of Gothos disappointed me.

Get outta here!!!

Campbell disappointed in Squire???

Holy shit, I thought it was an example of GLORIOUS overacting in its most effective, delightful, and life affirming way!

And despite his overacting, childish, immature ways, he was still giddy (and menacing).

When he gets a phaser in his hand, it's dangerous enough to give me pause.

"Ah! Yes! This won't kill...and this will..."

You don't know what he's going to do and to whom.

Absolutely spot-on!

I will go to my grave believing Campbell was brilliant as Trelane...and his delivery was absolutely perfect!

I will believe it until I am Dead! Dead! Dead!

In your "brain and brain!!!"

 

[Spock's Barber]

The late William Campbell was good as a Klingon in 'Tribbles', but his acting ability in the Squire of Gothos disappointed me.

Get outta here!!!

Campbell disappointed in Squire???

Holy shit, I thought it was an example of GLORIOUS overacting in its most effective, delightful, and life affirming way!

And despite his overacting, childish, immature ways, he was still giddy (and menacing).

When he gets a phaser in his hand, it's dangerous enough to give me pause.

"Ah! Yes! This won't kill...and this will..."

You don't know what he's going to do and to whom.

Absolutely spot-on!

I will go to my grave believing Campbell was brilliant as Trelane...and his delivery was absolutely perfect!

I will believe it until I am Dead! Dead! Dead!

Watch out. Trelane might stomp his feet and stick out his tongue at you. Trelane's parents were more interesting and menacing.

 

[EnsignTOS]

^ That Trelane was a silly dude for sure! I like to call him Tra-La.

 

[Zaminhon]

#1 Dr. Simon Van Gelder from "Dagger of the Mind".

#2 Captain Ronald Tracy from "Omega Glory" (Same actor as above, no surprise,lol.)

#3 The old man in "For the World is Hollow.. "

 

[Spock's Barber]

^ That Trelane was a silly dude for sure! I like to call him Tra-La.

Yes he was kind of a jolly fellow. He reminded me of that old comedian dude, Rip Taylor.