This would make a great DS9 episode with Rom eating pies and quark has convinced someone to beam pie out of his stomach and Morn can’t believe rom is gonna out eat him but then Jadzia walks into the transporter room and roms guts get beam’d into space.
Armin Shimmerman was just as good as Principal Snyder as he was as Quark.
I met him at a convention once and got him sign a letter as Principal Snyder, suspending my friend (who’s a huge Buffy fan) from Sunnydale High and threatening to expel her. He read it and thought it was hilarious.
There’s a an admiral in Star Trek Beyond that looked familiar, I had to look it up and it’s Shohreh Aghdashloo. A forgettable role, only noteworthy because I recognized the actor.
She plays Avasarala in The Expanse. Total powerhouse performance.
It’s jarring if you only know him for his cool-headed leader or mentor roles like Picard or professor Xavier… He really lets rip as this extremist POS.
Oh, I was just referencing a bad movie podcast that has frequently mentioned that movie. One of the hosts repeatedly recommended Castle Freak, and claimed that the freak ripped off his own ding-dong. This was subsequently disputed by listeners, and one of the other hosts.
At one point, one of the show’s listeners tweeted at Stuart Gordon, asking if the freak ripped off his own ding-dong. Stuart Gordon responded, simply, “No.” However, Jonathan Fuller, who played the titular freak, provided the show an autographed picture on which he wrote, “I ripped it off myself!” So the matter still pends.
It would be easy to just gesture vaguely at all of Sir Patrick Stewart’s career. But your question was about better performances than in Trek, and I actually think he did an excellent Picard during the original TNG run. Not quite a hot take, I know.
However, for a double off-Trek billing, I suggest Green room (2015) where he plays against Anton Yelchin among others. It’s a pretty taut little thriller about a punk band on the road that realise to their horror that their gig for the night is at a neonazi club out in the sticks. It goes downhill from there.
Levar Burton will always be reading rainbow guy, no matter what he does.
Zachary Quinto. Silar. One of the better villains, until the writers went on strike and the show fell off the rails. Granted, this likely just marks the man’s range as an actor.
John Cho. The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
Koenig. Bester.
You could argue that everything Stewart does is equally well done. Scrooge. X. Gurney.
I came here to say this. I first saw Walter Koenig as Chekov, but I really loved him as Bester. I’ve heard that he lights up when people bring up Bester at conventions and such.
Any of his roles are awesome, but I’d hold McCoy up there with the rest. I believed he was the doctor. Criticize the script for lines and actions, but Karl nailed the mannerisms. As he always does. He’s got a Gary Oldman ability to become something different every time.
Yeah, they also mentioned that it was difficult to capture it in photos:
The facial sculpt by Dean Tolliver features an enigmatic smile typical of the character, and like a lot of EXO’s sculpts, this one is hard to capture just in photographs.
sorry. it was from like the dawn of talbets. the nexus age and it was free and done by a guy but I think it got taken down due to ip things. it was actually called the tricorder app or such. Whats funny is that was pre 2010 and im almost sure post discovery cbs would not have given it grief. it was open source so it theoretically exists out there somewhere.
RetroFed
When I see Star Trek actors in other show I like to think “This is the holodeck”.
Not now, Madeline!
Especially in a world with replicator technology 🖖
They can totally do this in Strange New Worlds!
Cake is eternal.
I had that poster on my wall once.
Not gay enough. We need to go back to this.
Noo-clee-ar… wessels
WELL DOUBLE DUMBASS ON YOU
You’ll take your gagh smothered and you’ll like it
I think Alexander Siddig did good in Game of Thrones. I like his acting of Prince Doran Martell.
John De Lancie in Breaking Bad. Not that he was bad as Q, of course, but he didn’t usually have very meaty material to work with.
It was bad, but I don’t think it was her fault.
You are right, that was bad…
Somehow, the news that Looney Labs are reprinting Star Trek Fluxx made me unreasonably happy. And honestly, Lower decks is a perfect fit for the game.
Geez, those Ferengi vendettas go darker than the show let me believe.
Its payback for unionizing quarks unfortunately.
This just proves my theory that Star trek and cake has a special connection.
😭 Not Rom!
This would make a great DS9 episode with Rom eating pies and quark has convinced someone to beam pie out of his stomach and Morn can’t believe rom is gonna out eat him but then Jadzia walks into the transporter room and roms guts get beam’d into space.
That’s what made it even funnier ❤️
Except I’m pretty sure tulaberry and the gamma quadrant is from DS9 not Voyager? Whatever.
I really appreciate the tullaberry correction. The writers are such nerds.
Someone animated it too https://youtube.com/watch?v=NqIJ3hgkIDY
*almost everything (you forgot about section 31?)
Michelle Yeoh in everything
Benny in the behind-the-scenes footage from The Hobbit in his mo-cap suit.
That’s an awesome story and I agree he was great in that role.
Karl Urban is ALWAYS a fantastic casting decision!
Armin Shimmerman was just as good as Principal Snyder as he was as Quark.
I met him at a convention once and got him sign a letter as Principal Snyder, suspending my friend (who’s a huge Buffy fan) from Sunnydale High and threatening to expel her. He read it and thought it was hilarious.
TIL Tomalak was G’Kar. I don’t know how I didn’t know.
Oh hell yes for Louise Fletcher…!
Oh fun I will have to check it out
He really did have range with them. I watched Xena when I was a kid, and I had no idea they were the same actor
There’s a an admiral in Star Trek Beyond that looked familiar, I had to look it up and it’s Shohreh Aghdashloo. A forgettable role, only noteworthy because I recognized the actor.
She plays Avasarala in The Expanse. Total powerhouse performance.
Whoopi Goldberg for The Color Purple.
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
curiously, the podcast “the incomparable” made an episode exactly about this topic (more specifically, performances before their trek appearances ) https://www.theincomparable.com/theincomparable/823/
Jeff Combs in Transformers Prime, voice of Ratchet. He did some excellent voice delivery as that character.
He should have won best actor for his performance as “Ian” in Jungle 2 Jungle.
The fact that it lost to American Beauty that year is a travesty
Colm Meaney’s performance in Layer Cake is simply astounding!
Jeffrey Combs must have been busy.
Brent Spiner was brilliant in Master of Disguise, a phenomenal movie
Damn, nearly did not recognize Keating, his performance in that gif gives heavy David Tennant to me.
I honestly enjoyed him more in Dredd (where he had to do more with less) than in Star Trek.
https://youtu.be/07n7fWtQW1I
Either way, she is cool.
Which one is she in it? https://youtu.be/uxkr4wS7XqY
Also, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
He’s great in intermission. And it’s a good movie.
And the snapper!
TIL!
Really only a handful, but that hilarious he had a few characters
Gangs of London
He gave me goosebumps in several scenes, especially this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJmuHNDcXLQ
It’s jarring if you only know him for his cool-headed leader or mentor roles like Picard or professor Xavier… He really lets rip as this extremist POS.
Oh fuck yeah. That movie was wild and Sir Patrick Stewart delivered a truly evil performance.
Ha, sometimes even the production crew suffer from the Mandela effect 😆
Andreas Katsulas had a recurring role as Commander Tomalak on TNG, but he absolutely shone as G’Kar on Babylon 5, especially in later seasons.
Oh, I was just referencing a bad movie podcast that has frequently mentioned that movie. One of the hosts repeatedly recommended Castle Freak, and claimed that the freak ripped off his own ding-dong. This was subsequently disputed by listeners, and one of the other hosts.
At one point, one of the show’s listeners tweeted at Stuart Gordon, asking if the freak ripped off his own ding-dong. Stuart Gordon responded, simply, “No.” However, Jonathan Fuller, who played the titular freak, provided the show an autographed picture on which he wrote, “I ripped it off myself!” So the matter still pends.
I honestly don’t recall. You’d think that sort of thing would be etched onto your memory 😬
It would be easy to just gesture vaguely at all of Sir Patrick Stewart’s career. But your question was about better performances than in Trek, and I actually think he did an excellent Picard during the original TNG run. Not quite a hot take, I know.
However, for a double off-Trek billing, I suggest Green room (2015) where he plays against Anton Yelchin among others. It’s a pretty taut little thriller about a punk band on the road that realise to their horror that their gig for the night is at a neonazi club out in the sticks. It goes downhill from there.
She participated in the greatest movie fight scene ever. Crouching Tiger.
Mulgrew. Flemeth. (Kidding).
Levar Burton will always be reading rainbow guy, no matter what he does.
Zachary Quinto. Silar. One of the better villains, until the writers went on strike and the show fell off the rails. Granted, this likely just marks the man’s range as an actor.
John Cho. The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
Koenig. Bester.
You could argue that everything Stewart does is equally well done. Scrooge. X. Gurney.
Ayy, +1 for Castle Freak. Isn’t that the one where the freak rips off his own ding-dong?
And *Re-animator*, and *Castle freak*. He has a very good track record in a certain subset of horror movies!
Con Air, as the baddie.
The Man Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain, as a goodie.
The Commitments.
Jeff Combs was
excellentin everything, though.great villain in stargate atlantis
Karl Urban was an okay Dr. McCoy, but the 157 different roles he played on Xena Warrior Princess was where he really shined the brightest.
I think Patrick Stewart was pretty great in that episode of Extras.
Jeff Combs was excellent in everything, though.
There’s an episode of Scrubs where Bakula plays a janitor and secretly wants to leap back as a little Easter egg
I love the fact that even still with shows like Prodigy or Academy, he’s still willing to show up with that trademark EMH snark
pretty good in the “Hell on Wheels” series. It also features Anson Mount.
Whoopi Goldberg, Sister Act II
Can confirm. I was an avid 90s Star Trek convention attendee, and got to hear a couple quick Bab5 anecdotes from him years ago.
How many roles did he play?
Bester still gives me the creeps.
100% agree. Of all of the Kelvin cast, he felt like Bones. Karl Urban was a fantastic casting decision.
I came here to say this. I first saw Walter Koenig as Chekov, but I really loved him as Bester. I’ve heard that he lights up when people bring up Bester at conventions and such.
For me Colm Meaney wins this hands down. Good in Star Trek but great in other things.
Layer Cake, It’s always sunny in Philadelphia and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa are the 3 that come to mind first.
Jeff Combs was excellent in “The Frighteners”
Bakula on “Men of a Certain Age”.
Definitely Scott Bakula.
At the same time, I’m getting the feeling they weren’t given the greatest scripts or directors to work with on Enterprise.
I was excited to see where Archer and Malcom would go with their characters, but now they’ve been distilled too far into an angry little men.
I get the reasoning, but come on. Malcom’s a complete wanker past season 3, and Archer’s face never changes beyond “It’s all about the mission!”
Conversely, I believe Robert Picardo nails his hammy characterization of The Doctor perfectly.
Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather) as Postmaster P in Leprechaun in the Hood
Best character in the entire series. Never before would have imagined Walter making my skin crawl.
Bakula on “Quantum Leap”
Eve Harlow on “Agents of SHIELD”
Any of his roles are awesome, but I’d hold McCoy up there with the rest. I believed he was the doctor. Criticize the script for lines and actions, but Karl nailed the mannerisms. As he always does. He’s got a Gary Oldman ability to become something different every time.
Michelle Yeoh, Supercop
Karl Urban, Dredd
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock
Bester was so great. Great vilain
Walter Koenig was a great Chekov, but his role as Bester the PsyCop from Babylon 5 was a more nuanced role that gave him way more to do.
Yeah, they also mentioned that it was difficult to capture it in photos:
I see it too.
The photo leading the article is a bad angle tho, he looks much more accclurately captured in other angles of the figurine.
Somehow I’m getting Phlox vibes…
Yo, I love Niagra! Once I got used to it I honestly couldn’t go back to normal launchers. Love to see it getting attention and sick themes here.
sorry. it was from like the dawn of talbets. the nexus age and it was free and done by a guy but I think it got taken down due to ip things. it was actually called the tricorder app or such. Whats funny is that was pre 2010 and im almost sure post discovery cbs would not have given it grief. it was open source so it theoretically exists out there somewhere.
Tricorder app?! That sounds neat you got a link?
man the tricorder app for tablets and phones was awesome.