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"Well Spiner wanted to be killed off in the last one."
Ooh, flashback. Am I the only one who remembers that "Spiner wants Data to killed off" has been said everytime a new film has started since Generations?
Come on, for both First Contact and Insurrection, the runours were always the same. Stewart doesn't want to play Picard any more. Spiner thinks he's too old to play Data. Picards going to be an Admiral. Sela will be in it. Riker will be captain. Sisko/Janeway/Bashir/Morn will be in the film.
You know, when Kirk was going to be killed off, we knew about it. And I don't mean we heard rumours. We KNEW. If Picard was being killed off, we'd know.
And Sol is right. Unless the cast suddenly get other acting jobs, then they're going to continue to do what they always want to do.
Just after previous film: "I'd like a gap to pursue other projects. I don't want my career to just be Star Trek."
A year later: "Hmm. I don't seem to have done anything notable. Hmm. What's this letter? 6 months doing another Trek movie? Hmm. I get paid loads of money to hang around with people I like. Sure. Plus, if my names either Patrick or Brent, I get even more money, and get to sit in on script meetings and pretend I know what I'm talking about! Classy!"
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Besides, what else would Spiner do with his life? He doesn't exactly get reams of offers based on ID4.
Actor's sometimes have math skills. Some of the Trek actors surely can look at their Trek salary total, divide same by their other-genre salary total - and get a fairly large multiple of 10.
Some of them probably can't, too... (divide, I mean).
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Well, I imagine Frakes and Stewart and possibly Burton would be just fine w/o TNG movies, but the rest of 'em would be quite typecast and quite unemployed.
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So what great roles have Frakes and Burton had? Granted Stewart's had a few ("Arrr, the great white whale...").
Remember (ghu knows Paramount NEVER forgets), TV studios are in the business of making money. Period. So it behooves them, when casting a television series, to hire medium-talent/low-salary/relatively unknown actors to play the roles. One of the most charming aspects of TNG was watching various actors mature in their craft as the series progressed. One or two of them really came along (Burton was already pretty good) - wheras in the first season some of the acting setr my teeth on edge (where the frak did "Troy" get that accent?).
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The irony is, Trek gave medium talent actors a chance to get better and better so that they could do other things, only to find after 7 season in the spacesuit, that they are typecast and will never work again...
It's actually kind of a shame.
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Considering how much money they make, I'm not going to get too upset.
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Burton has his hands in a lot of different projects, actually. Most of them stem from his Reading Rainbow work. He won a Grammy last year.
Frakes is far from an A-list or even B-list director, but he was (and perhaps still is) in the running for a few moderately big films, such as the often rumored Total Recall 2.
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