Star Trek

[Valka]

James Cawley doesn't have any problem getting people like Walter Koenig  or George Takei, and both of them are SAG members. Ditto some of the other people - as I recall, Barbara Luna appeared in one of his fan films. And Star Trek Continues had Lou Ferrigno and Erin Gray guest starring in "Lolani."

[Buster's Uncle]

Yes?  I don't think they were doing it as a free favor - though Mignogna had Ferrigino over for Thanksgiving and reportedly got on like a house afire.

Richard Hatch and the Apollo guy, too.  It's an admittedly long list of actors with not-so-great (or former) star status.

I DO wonder what Chase Masterson is doing in so many projects, mind you - I think I smell a hint of desperation on that one, and we're not talking about a single one making bank in their day-to-day careers, save Takei, and only him later when he made something out of coming out...

[Valka]

I just meant that Cawley and Mignogna don't seem to have much difficulty in getting professional actors to appear. Whatever legal things they might need to do to make that possible is not anything I get bothered about. It might concern me if I were one of the people who contribute to their Kickstarter fundraising campaigns, but I'm not.

However they make it work, I'm just glad they're able to do it.


I only ever saw Chase Masterson in Deep Space Nine and Sliders (she played Wade's sister). It's unfortunate that she's been treated so poorly by some people - they basically ran her off TrekBBS when she joined there, and some of the guys there who are utter sexist jerks made her time there miserable.

[Buster's Uncle]

Agreed.


[blinks] Nerds?  Acting misogynistic in MY fandom?  It's more common than you think.

She was in Of Gods and Men as the green girl on the bridge of the evil Enterprise (I don't think a lot of people recognized her).  My memory gets hazy after that, but I believe she was recently announced as attached to that whiify thing with John Savage as Cpt. Ransome, and is in Rebels if that ever finally gets released -- and I vaguely STR her in some strictly fan thing.

I liked her well enough on DS9 -she didn't hurt my eyes at all, though she didn't have anything interesting to do- but I'm just speculating that it looks like she's definitely not having the career she probably hoped for.  (Incidentally, she really looked just a little too much like Nana Visitor to be on the same show in the same alien makeup but as unrelated characters.  They should have at least dyed her hair or something...)

[Buster's Uncle]

Equinox.  It was Equinox with John Savage I was drawing a blank on.  Has the stank of never-gonna-actually-happen ALL OVER it.

-Radiating off the webpage so hard it hurts the eyes, mind you, like so many Donald [Sleezebag] presidential candidacies, with Ross Perot as running mate, for good measure, and Lyndon LaRoche as campaign manger.  Endorsed by the ghost of transsexual Hitler jailhouse married to OJ and making snuff-scat pron for campaign commercials.

[Buster's Uncle]

This will embed now, so-

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Crap.  That was the latest Continues.  Gamera, there are a lot of fan production videos posted in this thread of astonishingly non-pathetic quality if you care to go back and flip through...

[Valka]

I never thought of her as resembling Nana Visitor before. It might have made an interesting twist that they were related - half siblings, or maybe cousins, and ended up taking very different life paths in dealing with the Cardassian occupation.

[Valka]

YouTube took The White Iris down almost as soon as it was up, and although CBS told them to put it back, they haven't. There's been a lot of complaining about that in the Fan Film forum at TrekBBS, and someone asked why STC doesn't just upload it again. I haven't checked back yet to see what the answer was.

The only place we can see it is on Vimeo (which won't embed here as far as I know) or via the STC website.

[Buster's Uncle]

Vimeo tries to embed here, but only leaves a big empty space where the vid goes.  DailyMotion definitely works, as you know from the Dr. Who thread.  All the previous episodes are on there, but I just checked again, and no joy on this yet.

I never thought of her as resembling Nana Visitor before. It might have made an interesting twist that they were related - half siblings, or maybe cousins, and ended up taking very different life paths in dealing with the Cardassian occupation.

Tend to think making them related is too obvious to be a good move - I would have liked a line about them being a common Bajoran type, though, at least.  -Sorta like Sava looking like every guy in Chicago.

I saw a recent headshot of Ms. Visitor recently - now, I wouldn't mind kissing her 20 years ago, and find her to be rockin' the silver hair today - I could probably be talked into that kiss without giving you a headache with time travel, should she and Sid prove to be cool with that.  Her mother aged very well, too.

[Buster's Uncle]

Walter Koenig  or

[Mart]

Star Trek Borg

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[Buster's Uncle]

Thanks, Mart.



Valka, I don't recognize the new avatar.  More Enya?



It looks like I'll be able to write up the TNG movies today - and I haven't forgotten that thing I promised about breakdown of TNG characters and the intersection of the acting and the writing and how to feed each other over the course of a long serial fiction...

[Valka]

Valka, I don't recognize the new avatar.  More Enya?

Yes, it's a new Enya picture. I cropped this portion from a larger image.

[Buster's Uncle]

Lalla Ward.  Just sayin'.

[Geo]

What does she have to do with Star Trek?