Saltah'na
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I've finally read preliminary synopses of Nemesis and there are two things that I have to ask:
1) Was Marcus Nash notified of the role of Shinzon? Nash played young Picard in "Tapestry". 2) Why Leah Brahms? Why not Aquiel Uhnari? I liked the latter rather than the former.
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Well, has this Nash guy done anything tsince to justify such a major role? I mean, for instance, Shelby was a big role at the time, but now whenever I see Elizabeth Dennehy in a film these days she's increasingly further down the cast list. They're not going to cast some nobody in a major film role just because he had a one-ep guest slot on a TV show about 10 years ago.
As for Uhnari vs Brahms, they covered that in the TNG Compendium when discussing who Geordi's future-wife (in "AGT. . .") would be; Uhnari lost because TPTB hated the ep and didn't like the actress and couldn't even bear to mention it and her in passing.
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Supposedly, Geordi is going to bring Leah Brahms to the Riker/Troi wedding reception in the movie. What Mr. Brahms thinks about that is anyone's guess.
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Lt. Uhnari was played by actress Rene Jones who currently plays Dr. Lexie Carver on Days of Our Lives. So her shooting schedule is flexible considering she did take off to film that TNG episode. As one soap opera actress said (Kelly Ripa), "they'll work around your schedule."
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She worked on a communications relay on the Klingon border and was kidnapped by the local Klingon patrol cruiser after her fellow officer on the station got "eaten" by a shapeshifting creature of some sort.
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Is Leah actually there? I know IMDb's reporting it, but I've kicked it's ass over things like that in the past. Fanboy vermin think they're so bright when they submit unsubstantiated scuttlebut.
Mr. Nash doesn't appear to have had an onscreen acting career outside of his five seconds of fame in Tapestry, but I assume if he had an agent he'd have heard about it. These things are hardly hush-hush.
Michael "I bang Lexa Doig" Shanks read for the role of Shinzon, and Jude Law's name was kicked about, too. But apparently everyone in the know is gushing about this Tom Hardy guy's abilities, so I'd think that anyone who thinks bringing back obscure actors without speaking lines for the sake of continuity probably has their head screwed on improperly.
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Speaking of obscure, does not Tom Hardy's acting career amount to little more than a few minutes in "Black Hawk Down," and a few plays (not that I prefer what's-his-name from "Tapestry," but Tom Hardy is hardly A-list)?
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Anyway, before A-list actors are A-list actors, what are they? All indications seem to be that whatever that category is, Tom Hardy belongs to it.
Besides, he's English. Young English actors tend not to run off to LA and land a role in a shampoo commercial in an effort to "break into" Hollywood. They go off to theatre school and perform really old stuff with big words in it in front of real live people, and then use their alleged competence to enter the Hollywood mainstream a little further up the food chain.
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You know, it surprised me how many British and Australian actors were in Black Hawk Down. I can picture Tom Hardy now -- if you watch BHD, he's one of the two guys who gets left behind by the convoy.
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Well, if "Leah Brahms" is in the movie, I doubt she'll be played by the same actor who played her in TNG. After all, the producers didn't go out of their way to bring back the same actors who played Picard's brother & nephew for Generations, did they?
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The producers do know Susan Gibney and feel she's a talented actress. She did come close to being cast as Janeway as I recall. And she was cast as Erika Benteen.
And I don't recall Robert Picard making any appearance at all in "Generations"
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