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I've discussed this a bit at other times, although it was a long time since, but now I shall recount these interesting cameo-like coincedences. During the years I've observed certain actors from Star Trek making it into regular movies, and time after time the same funny names have jumped up and bit my ass.
The hand that rocks the cradle, 1992: John DeLancie and Rebecca De Mornay plays Mr and Mrs Mott, the name of the barber on the Enterprise D.
The Big Hit, 1998: Avery Brooks playing "Mr Paris", and Lou Diamond Phillips (not trek-actor but) playing "Cisco".
Tomorrow by midnight, 1999: Tamara Craig Thomas, who played Haley the hologram in "Lifeline" is playing a girl named "Kira" in this flick, which is about some teenagers getting in a hostage-situation in a videostore, so not *that* scifi-related...
There are more examples that I'm sure you've heard of. Now, this thing occurs way too often to be just a joke to amuse Trek-producers, so why are they doing this? And why haven't you ever commented this when I brought it up before? I know, you're with THEM!!! I see it now!!! Judas!! I spilled my blood in your flame-wars!! I defended your virtue in the battles of Tachy-prime, and what do I get? SCORN AND DECEIT!!!
But I'll play your game, you rogues!! As a precaution I'm mailing letters to my government with TSN's handwriting, Firs Of Two's fingerprints and licked them shut with Charles Cappses saliva!! (Cost me a pretty penny) So if I accidentally fall in the tub or get under a bus, I'M TAKING YOU WITH MEEE!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAH!!!
No seriously, any thoguhutas?
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If you watch "The American President" you'll see a lot of TREK cameos.
The Presidential Secretary played a Bajoran magistrate in "Dax"
The actor who played Adm. Hanson in "BOBW" appeared as a senator (or maybe a congressman). Not quite sure.
I forget the guy's name, but the actor who played the Klingon Lawyer in the DS9 ep where Worf is on trial for shooting a Klingon transport? He played a reporter.
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I did some checking. The lady who plays Martin Sheen's wife was in a DS9 ep, the above mentioned actress who played a DS9 magistrate also played an elderly woman in TNG's "Survivors", and the actor who played the French President appeared in a TNG episode. That's all I got, but that's a LOT from one flick.
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Well, maybe they know eachother. But there were no trek-names in that movie... WOW! That was a fast edit! You're right, that's many actors from trek.
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You know, I ain't watched VOY in about three years but I flipped it on for a few moments and saw Kober. Wonder if Picardo asked him to appear?
"Reflections" by the Supremes is one of the best TV show themes I've heard in a LONG time.
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Ron Canada (Ch'Pok in "Rules of Engagement" [DS9]) also played Martin Benbeck in "Masterpiece Society" [TNG]
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Has anyone checked to see if these movies had casting directors who happened to also be casting directors for Trek? We already know the people who do the casting on Trek like to use the same people over and over again. I expect they'd do the same on other projects.
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You want Trek cameos? Just listen to the voices in the Gargoyles cartoon. I believe there are almost a dozen Trek actors in there somewhere. At least two have a main role (Riker as the bad guy and Deanna Troi as a cop).
I've seen Robert 'The Doc' Picardo in a lot of movies and some series. I liked him in Gremlins 2 In some of the older stuff he actually has hair.
Nicole deBoer was great in 'Cube'.
John DeLancie played in one of the latest Andromeda episodes.
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You don't get it. Of course Trek actors are in other movies, that's no biggie. But when they use the names of trek-related stuff, like DeLancie playing Mott, and Brooks playing Paris, with another guy called cisco. THAT'S strange.
I could tell you all the movies Patrick Stewart has played in, that's easy, but did you know he played a part in the original "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", with Alec Guiness, and they made an episode out of that? But with "tenor" and "doctor". This is thought-through stuff, and I wonder who's pulling the threads... I'm sorry if I malplaced the word "cameo", I just wanted you to understand, is all.
Think about it. What could make such a new and unexperienced (relatively) actress like Tamara Craig Thomas get permission to use the name "Kira" in one of her "straight-to-video"-flicks?
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"The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" and "The Big Hit" both have the same name under "Original Music" in IMDB: Graeme Revell.
But nothing in common under "Casting" or "Script Writing", although the different names COULD work under the same companies... I mean, despite the WGA, which they both come from.
Not that this HAS to mean anything, Graeme's done the music for a LOT of famous movies, (well to us anyway) one of the most recent being the Dune: Miniseries... Titan A.E, Pitch Black. And both The Crow I & II.
Maybe we'll remember this day... *Twilight Zone music*
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The amazing thing about "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" is that Patrick Stewart, while not exactly unknown at the time, got to play what was a virtual cameo as Russian spymaster Karla. Then, when they filmed the sequel, "Smiley's People," his role was much larger, enabling him to make the most of it and removing the need for the producers to re-cast if they'd just used anyone originally.
They repeated "TTSS" over Christmas on BBC2. Brilliant, I was glued to it (they don't make them like that anymore). That, plus the Depardieu "Count of Monte Cristo" which was shown just before. One thing my Dad told me, that was NOT Bihar Jail in the scene with Karla (he never speaks, BTW, doesn't say a word; the guy can act!) - he had to visit the place himself on several occasions in the 1970s.
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I saw the first four parts of TTSS before I had to go back to Sweden. Now that's quality-TV. But isn't anyone at all interested in these strange events I've been ranting about?
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movies, and time after time the same funny names have jumped up and bit my ass.
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