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Doug Drexler recently shared what he enjoyed most during his time working on Star Trek shows.
For Drexler, the thing that stands out most was the friends that he made over the years. “These people are still my friends, and I still work with many of them, too,” he said. Those friends included Mike and Denise Okuda. “I owe [Mike] much for [taking a chance on me], but the friendship that we have, it’s something you can’t put any price on.”
If Marina Sirtis could go back in time and do Star Trek: The Next Generation again, there is something that she would change about her own behavior.
One of Sirtis’ regrets is that she didn’t think more about Troi’s own story, but at the time she did The Next Generation, Sirtis was content with what was happening. “Hindsight is 20-20, isn’t it,” she said ruefully. “I have to be honest with you and say that, at the time, I was perfectly happy.”
Marina Sirtis would love to do Star Trek: The Next Generation again, but she realizes that if it ever returns as a movie, it would be cast with a new crop of actors, just as the original series has been recast in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek XI.
“I would have done ten more movies,” Sirtis said, when asked if she would have done another The Next Generation movie.
Playing Amanda Rogers, a reluctant female Q, was an interesting challenge for actress Olivia D’Abo.
D’Abo found Rogers to be compelling due to the challenges and potential of the character. “She was actually a lot of fun to play and I think I was more interested and challenged by how she dealt with the obstacles she had to overcome in the storyline,” said d’Abo. “I had fun discovering and revealing her inner conflicts and where the possibilities lived inside her.”
Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Marina Sirtis will be appearing in A Snow White Christmas this holiday season.
Running from November 30-December 18 at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood, California, A Snow White Christmas Carol stars Glee‘s Lindsay Pearce as Snow White.
There will be four conventions, shows or appearances in November and December that feature actors or authors of interest to Star Trek fans. This listing of conventions and shows features actors from all five of the televised series and from several of the Star Trek movies.
November begins with René Auberjonois taking part in A Smut Sampler, at the Harry Ransom Center (Jessen Auditorium) at the University of Texas at Austin on Thursday, November 3 at 7 PM. The program, A Smut Sampler: A Light-Hearted Reading of Selections from Some Notorious Banned Books, is hosted by Isaiah Sheffler and will feature readings from books that were “banned, burned, seized and censored” in the past.
Fans of Star Trek The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine‘s Colm Meaney will be able to see him in a new AMC period piece due to debut this weekend.
In Hell On Wheels, Meaney will play the scheming railroad baron Thomas “Doc” Durant.
Star Trek fans wanting to see William Shatner‘s The Captains documentary who are also Netflix customers can now stream the movie.
Although fans can’t yet rent The Captains on DVD through Netflix, they can stream it if they subscribe to that service.
In The Captains, William Shatner interviewed the other actors who have played Star Trek captains on various Star Trek televised shows.
For those wanting their own copy of The Captains, the DVD was released on October 18th and is available through Amazon and other retailers.
Fresh off of his appearance on The Big Bang Theory last night, Brent Spiner‘s voice will again be heard on television, this time in Young Justice.
Spiner will be voicing The Joker in the Revelations episode of Young Justice. Alyssa Milano (Charmed) will be voicing Poison Ivy.
In Revelations, “a series of attacks by plant monsters around the world triggers the Justice League into action. Their teenage sidekicks — Robin, Superboy, Kid Flash, Miss Martian, etc. — want to help in the fight but are instead dispatched to take out the Injustice League.”
Young Justice airs tonight at 6:30 PM on the Cartoon Network.
In his webseries Fresh Hell, Spiner is having a great time making fun of both himself and Hollywood.
“I did a project with a guy named Chris Ellis, who’s a director, quite by accident,” said Spiner, explaining how Fresh Hell came to be. “We wound up having lunch and I ran this by him. He thought it was a really fun idea and he said, “Let me talk to a friend of mine who’s a writer, Harry Hannigan. I think he’s the perfect guy to write something like this.”
Although Star Trek: The Next Generation has been off of the air for years, Brent Spiner has kept busy, with his recent work including a guest appearance on The Big Bang Theory and his work on his Fresh Hell Internet series.
Spiner will be seen on The Big Bang Theory tomorrow evening, along with Wil Wheaton. “It’s very brief,” he said regarding his role in the episode, where he plays himself. “It’s not even a cameo. It’s a cam.”
Gwynth Walsh, best-known to Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fans as B’Etor, one of two Klingon sisters from the House of Duras, is now starring in Cups, a play focusing on bras.
In Cups, a one-woman show taking place during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Walsh portrays a woman who looks at her life through her bras.
Taking the advice of co-star Brent Spiner, Patrick Stewart hung on to certain items from his time on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
“Throw nothing away,” Spiner told Stewart over twenty years ago. “Save everything.” So Stewart did, and now has a treasure trove of scripts and call sheets from his time on TNG.
Fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation will soon be able to see the series on Blu-ray beginning next year.
The Blu-ray release will begin in January of 2012 with a sampler including the pilot and several popular episodes.
On October 13, Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Wil Wheaton and Brent Spiner will appear together on an episode of The Big Bang Theory.
Both will appear as themselves in the episode and it turns out that Sheldon (Jim Parsons) likes one of the pair but hates the other.