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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.”
Fans who missed out on the original release of the Alien Voices audio dramas from Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie can now order these dramas as digital downloads.
Other Star Trek actors from four of the five televised series can also be heard on the audio dramas.
John de Lancie, best-known to Star Trek fans as the mischievous Q, shared a bit of information regarding the character he will be playing in the last three episodes of STARZ’s Torchwood: Miracle Day.
In Torchwood: Miracle Day, viewers are asked to “Imagine a day when nobody dies. All across the world, nobody dies. And then the next day, and the next, and the next, people keep aging. They get hurt and sick but they never die.”
Several familiar Star Trek actors will be appearing in the Starz original Torchwood: Miracle Day.
Last month, TrekToday reported that actor John De Lancie would be appearing in Torchwood: Miracle Day. Today, it was announced that another Trek actor would also be appearing in the series.
John De Lancie, Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Q, will be a guest star on Torchwood: Miracle Day.
Torchwood writer Jane Espenson shared the news via Twitter. “I just this minute got permission to tell about the Torchwood guest star I was tweeting about,” she told her followers. “Two great Sci Fi fandoms collide.”
Fans know him as the mischievous Q, but John de Lancie will take on a different role when he presents an opera master class at Texas State this week.
De Lancie, who can list opera director as well as actor on his resume, will be presenting the master class this week. The class will focus on acting as it relates to roles in opera.
Classic Trek stars George Takei (Sulu) and Walter Koenig (Chekov) updated fans on their latest projects while Q actor John de Lancie bantered with attendees at the Las Vegas Hilton on the first day of the annual Las Vegas Star Trek Creation Entertainment convention.
John de Lancie, who portrayed “Q” in Star Trek: The Next Generation through Star Trek: Voyager, talked about his role as the omnipotent troublemaker.
Although Q was a troublemaker and a nuisance for several Trek captains, de Lancie did not consider him a villain. “Q was never a villain as far as I was concerned … I might have been arrogant and badly flawed and all that, but I never thought of the character as a villain.”
Star Trek actors John de Lancie (Q) and Robert Picardo (Star Trek: Voyager EMH) will be hosting Star Trek: The Music, featuring music performed by the Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) symphony.
On June 2nd and 3rd, Star Trek fans in the Ontario area will be able to hear some of the most notable music from Star Trek.
Fans of War of the Worlds are in for a special Trek treat, as an airing of a classic radio show featuring several well-known Star Trek actors is available this weekend.
The L.A. Theater Works has posted their broadcast of War of the Worlds, which features Leonard Nimoy, Gates McFadden, Wil Wheaton and Brent Spiner. This War of the Worlds broadcast was directed by John de Lancie.
After years of being recognized for his role of Q, it’s a pleasure for John De Lancie when people recognize him as a result of other roles.
As reported by SciFi Scanner, De Lancie has no desire to play Q in a future Star Trek movie. “I have to say as the years have gone on I’m getting a little tired of just Q, because I do a lot of other things,” he said. “Almost everywhere in the world you go, people will come up and say, ‘Oh my God, you’re from Star Trek.’ But I was in Syria recently, and I had people stop me on the street, they came up to me and said, ‘Oh my God, we just saw Breaking Bad.’ That was a surprise. And it was great.”
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