All of the original captains (apart from Mulgrew I believe) were classically trained Shakespearean actors. They were trained to show a range of emotions in a usually bombastic style, and they all brought a certain flavor to their roles that way. Modern actors don’t know how to portray emotions other than screaming or blubbering.
oh yeah, they're totally from stage background, I think it works great for space captaining because "make a big fucking speech" is really about all you can do to look cool most of the time, it's not like you're grabbing a control stick and making the ship do sick spins
After the Geneviève Bujold fiasco I think the Star Trek producers just collectively decided, “Okay, no more actors. That was a disaster.” So from then on it was underwear models (if you want someone hot) and Broadway people (if you want someone who can cry on cue).
Not laid enough.
Mirror Sikso was just Avery Brooks from the Captains documentary.
I remember that the player character in Elite Force played Rugby, too.
They didn’t have to rehearse when Sisko was a Klingon. They just let a roomful of geeks ask him lore questions.
klingons discover rugby
The only times I ever remember Brooks being "hammy" were:
Fun fact: the line at the end of the episode where he says that he's going to miss the fangs wasn't in the original script. Avery Brooks was genuinely disappointed that he wasn't going to get to keep them.
For whatever it is worth, all the stories I have heard about Brooks at cons say he was really nice.
I've never interacted with him personally, but I def get the impression that HOW you interact with him makes a big difference. Not like a "you have to kiss his ass" but he seems like somebody who will decide something is bullshit and just play jazz at it, or decide something is real and be real.
The only celebrity I ever interacted with that was as nice or as engaging was Edward James Olmos. Pity that by the time I finally met him he was starting to show early signs of dementia.
Two dudes who had to be waterboarded just to show up on set. They should only cast guys who hate sci-fi to be in science fiction.
I think he did that to Shatner because Shatner was being a douche and Brooks was not in the mood to deal with an egotistical Quebecois Jew.
All the stories I've heard about Brooks is he was very hard-working on the set and didn't tolerate amateurish shit. I can imagine him yelling at someone for walking on set who didn't belong there, à la Christian Bale (who did nothing wrong - his famous freak out was after asking the guy to stop walking on set during filming two times already), but I never heard about him being rude at cons. In fact, I don't think any of the DS9 actors have ever gotten bad reps for con behaviour. Armin Shimerman, Max Grodénchik, and Casey Biggs are legendary for having fun. Colm Meaney is well-regarded. In fact, people would literally spit on poor Louise Fletcher at cons because fans were retarded spergs who hated Kai Winn, and she basically took it as "wow I fuckin' nailed being a villain."
Put them and Jeffrey Combs into a room with a piano and you get some real kino.
Didn't they make an actual album?
