Prosthetic make-up is very constricting to wear. The actors who are most successful in it are willing to be very expressive to make the make-up look real and move real. Working in make-up is more emotional acting than regular acting, like you're singing an aria; you let it invade your whole body.
On how the success of "Stargate SG-1" has surpassed that of Star Trek in recent years: I am always amazed when I travel abroad that Stargate has become huge. It's huge in Britain. It's far eclipsed Star Trek. It's now huge in Germany. I understand they're making big inroads in other countries.
If Picard can baldly go, why not Picardo?
I came to the Star Trek franchise a little late. I got into it, I married a woman who's a big Star Trek fan, so, even though I was not into it when I was a kid, in order to court my wife I had to go to Star Trek movies. You know, I think she had a thing for Captain Kirk, right when she was hitting puberty -- which is really when they get you! And, uh, I really grew to understand and appreciate the quality of Star Trek storytelling. And then, when I joined the Voyager franchise, and really became knowledgeable about Star Trek -- and watched more and more of the other shows, that preceded us -- I think that I became a Star Trek fan in my own right, as well as a Star Trek actor.
Watch your tongue... Or I'll remove it.
Hüten Sie Ihre Zunge, oder ich entferne sie.
I am always amazed when I travel abroad that Stargate has become huge. It's huge in Britain. It's far eclipsed Star Trek . It's now huge in Germany. I understand they're making big inroads in other countries.
Die war doch rein therapeutisch!
Hello, bright boy.
Und wenn sie fette violette Protoplasmatropfen sind?
Don’t you know anything?
Na schön, ich werde nun in das Kraftfeld eintreten und mit ein paar Scans Ihrer mittleren Sektion beginnen. Ach ja, ich bin ein Hologramm und kann nicht gebrochen, gewürgt oder verstümmelt werden. Also versuchen Sie es gar nicht erst.
You know me, but I don’t know you. Why is that?
So fängt es an. Medizinische Bagatellfälle sind jetzt mein Gebiet. Für jede laufende Nase, jeden verstauchten Zeh, für jeden aufgekratzten Pickel bin ich jetzt zuständig.
Electomagnetic Pulse. As in the kind generated by the detonation of a nuclear device? I doubt that the toy industry has become quite that competitive.
Wenn jemand Tuvok provozieren kann, Mr. Neelix, dann Sie.
Missing! The captain is missing! It seems I've found myself on the voyage of the damned.
Nihiliphobie: Die Furcht vor dem Nichts. Oder verständlicher ausgedrückt: Die Furcht .......vor dem Nichts.
She is the healthiest member of her species I have ever seen. She is the only member of her species I have ever seen. You have a lovely brain. It will make a fine addition to our files.
Keine Sorge, ich werde Sie nicht küssen. Ich kontrolliere nur die Einstellungen der Röhre.
I'm a doctor, Mr. Neelix, not a decorator.
Wundervoll. Aus der Tiefkühltruhe direkt ins Feuer!
Don't worry, I'm not going to kiss you, I'm only adjusting the restraint.
Denkt denn niemand daran das Programm zu deaktivieren, wenn er die Krankenstation verlässt?"
First they tell me there’s no doctor, so I have to be on call 24 hours a day. And then they tell me there are no nurses, so I have no one to assist me.
Hm, mal sehen... Aha... Ich weiß was wir machen... 20 Einheiten Salpetersäure. Etwas sprichwörtliches Salz in die Wunde.
Like I said -- no one to assist me.
Ich habe kein Leben, ich habe ein Programm.
Keine Sorge Mr. Neelix, ich nähe alle Gliedmaßen wieder an. Wenn Sie sie mitbringen.
Let's see ... you ran your ship through it, fired phasers at it, and blew a hole in it with a photon torpedo. I'd say it's a pretty good chance that you did some fairly significant...
Ich habe ein vertrauenswürdiges Gesicht.
How many times do I have to tell you, Madam? I'm a Doctor, not a bartender.
Berichte über meine Dekompilierung sind maßlos übertrieben.
I'm a doctor, not a voyeur.
Willkommen auf der Krankenstation, ziehen Sie eine Nummer...
I shouldn't have to remind you ... I'm a doctor...
All of us have violent instincts. We have evolved from predators ... Well, not me, of course. I've just been programmed by you predators.
I was inspired by the presence of a master.
He's a sick man. This is where sick people come. [The patient dies.]
He's a very sick man.
Not to mention my hairline.
Make a wish, and follow it wherever it leads you.
Wishing you that this year is filled with friends and fun.
On your big day you are wished all that you hope for, all that you dream of, all that makes you happy.
I wish you to celebrate all the wonderful things that make you so special, not just on your special day, but on every day of the year!
May your birthday bring a smile to your face, happiness to your heart and many blessings to your life.
May the brightest wishes on your day shine every path of yours in good and bad times.
May your big day be as special as you are special to me.
May you sail through all the obstacles and challenges to success.
Have a magical bday with love and hugs.
Life may be full of challenges but there will always be people around you to support you in your time of need.
It's my birthdayyyyyyy!! I am proud to be in show business for 39 years and to I still love what I do. Come see me
Same-sex marriage is the law of the land! In a five-four decision, the Supreme Court upholds our Constitution.
Cool day !! Nothing like a good dose of science to make your day special!!
Okay: indulge me, please – –if Donald Trump were a Starfleet Captain,what would be his Prime Directive?
Prosthetic make-up is very constricting to wear. The actors who are most successful in it are willing to be very expressive to make the make-up look real and move real. Working in make-up is more emotional acting than regular acting, like you're singing an aria; you let it invade your whole body.
I resent those who say "Trump is an entertainer, not a leader," Gives entertainers a bad name....
Donald Trump is my dream candidate – speaking as a Democrat. I hope and pray that he wins the nomination. If you are at Trump fan, we agree!
Culture Wars Dead Horse File: Huckabee and Cruz visit rally for Kim Davis today. If either gets the nomination, he'll have at least 1 vote!
On how the success of Stargate - Kommando SG-1 (1997) has surpassed that of Star Trek in recent years: I am always amazed when I travel abroad that Stargate has become huge. It's huge in Britain. It's far eclipsed Star Trek. It's now huge in Germany. I understand they're making big inroads in other countries.
Great 21 year old clip of Dick Cheney on Meet the Press effectively predicting a war in Iraq would create present Isis reality. Bipolarity?
Balloon gives birth to 55-year-old man. T-shirt like placenta baffles medical/balloon experts.
Endangered Species Alert: Javan Rhino, Cross River Gorilla, Republican politicians not running for President , Leatherback Turtle...
Record number of Emmy screeners this year. My house sitter so glued to the TV my car battery died...
Experienced my third Carol Channing possession of 2015. Somewhat disappointed it didn't occur on the 31st.
What do you mean I have a silly life?
Been left Twitter-speechless the last few days by Donald Trump's comments. Which cartoon character does he most resemble?Foghorn Leghorn?
Water found on Mars! Will Southern California be next?
Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2016
Montag, 24. Oktober 2016
Rest in Peace Gene Roddenberry! Thank you for Star Trek and the hope, Great Bird of the Galaxy!
To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin to look and talk and act and think alike.
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.
In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.
'Star Trek' says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.
I handed them a script and they turned it down. It was too controversial. It talked about concepts like, 'Who is God?' The Enterprise meets God in space; God is a life form, and I wanted to suggest that there may have been, at one time in the human beginning, an alien entity that early man believed was God, and kept those legends. But I also wanted to suggest that it might have been as much the Devil as it was God. After all, what kind of god would throw humans out of Paradise for eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. One of the Vulcans on board, in a very logical way, says, 'If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He's got so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a supreme being.
'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.
If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.
It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.
It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.
It is important to the typical 'Star Trek' fan that there is a tomorrow. They pretty much share the 'Star Trek' philosophies about life: the fact that it is wrong to interfere in the evolvement of other peoples, that to be different is not necessarily to be wrong or ugly.
For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.
Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it.
Matter of internal security - the age-old cry of the oppressor.
Picard
We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'
Reality is incredibly larger, infinitely more exciting, than the flesh and blood vehicle we travel in here. If you read science fiction, the more you read it the more you realize that you and the universe are part of the same thing. Science knows still practically nothing about the real nature of matter, energy, dimension, or time; and even less about those remarkable things called life and thought. But whatever the meaning and purpose of this universe, you are a legitimate part of it. And since you are part of the all that is, part of its purpose, there is more to you than just this brief speck of existence. You are just a visitor here in this time and this place, a traveler through it.
His name is 'Mr. Spock.' And the first view of him can be almost frightening - a face so heavy-lidded and satanic you might almost expect him to have a forked tail. Probably half Martian, he has a slightly reddish complexion and semi-pointed ears.
Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?
I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.
PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy.
WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams.
PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship.
WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy
PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.
When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.
The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.
Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable--and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another's privacy had become a powerful tradition.
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
Vejur was everything that Spock had ever dreamed of becoming. And yet Vejur was barren! It would never feel pain. Or joy. Or challenge. It was so completely and magnificently logical that its accumulation of knowledge was totally useless.
The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.
When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la!
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before.
For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for brotherhood. They are ready for the twenty-third century now, and they are light-years ahead of their petty governments and their visionless leaders.
I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will -- and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow—it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids—human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.
It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.
For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.
In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.
'Star Trek' says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.
I handed them a script and they turned it down. It was too controversial. It talked about concepts like, 'Who is God?' The Enterprise meets God in space; God is a life form, and I wanted to suggest that there may have been, at one time in the human beginning, an alien entity that early man believed was God, and kept those legends. But I also wanted to suggest that it might have been as much the Devil as it was God. After all, what kind of god would throw humans out of Paradise for eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. One of the Vulcans on board, in a very logical way, says, 'If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He's got so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a supreme being.
'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.
If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.
It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.
It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.
It is important to the typical 'Star Trek' fan that there is a tomorrow. They pretty much share the 'Star Trek' philosophies about life: the fact that it is wrong to interfere in the evolvement of other peoples, that to be different is not necessarily to be wrong or ugly.
For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.
Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it.
Matter of internal security - the age-old cry of the oppressor.
Picard
We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'
Reality is incredibly larger, infinitely more exciting, than the flesh and blood vehicle we travel in here. If you read science fiction, the more you read it the more you realize that you and the universe are part of the same thing. Science knows still practically nothing about the real nature of matter, energy, dimension, or time; and even less about those remarkable things called life and thought. But whatever the meaning and purpose of this universe, you are a legitimate part of it. And since you are part of the all that is, part of its purpose, there is more to you than just this brief speck of existence. You are just a visitor here in this time and this place, a traveler through it.
His name is 'Mr. Spock.' And the first view of him can be almost frightening - a face so heavy-lidded and satanic you might almost expect him to have a forked tail. Probably half Martian, he has a slightly reddish complexion and semi-pointed ears.
Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?
I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.
PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy.
WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams.
PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship.
WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy
PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.
When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.
The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.
Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable--and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another's privacy had become a powerful tradition.
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
Vejur was everything that Spock had ever dreamed of becoming. And yet Vejur was barren! It would never feel pain. Or joy. Or challenge. It was so completely and magnificently logical that its accumulation of knowledge was totally useless.
The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.
When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la!
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before.
For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for brotherhood. They are ready for the twenty-third century now, and they are light-years ahead of their petty governments and their visionless leaders.
I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will -- and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow—it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids—human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.
It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.
For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.
Sonntag, 23. Oktober 2016
Happy Birthday Gummo Marx!
For many years after I quit the stage people referred to me as an actor, but during my career most people vehemently denied this.
Happy Birthday Ira Steven Behr!
On why he left Star Trek: The Next Generation: Basically because I found the work frustrating. I felt there wasn't enough conflict within the characters. I felt that the types of stories we could've done were limited. Humor was not encouraged. Just in terms of the work itself, it was unfulfilling. So I left. They offered me a two-year pay or play commitment, but I still left. I guess I really wanted to go. But I still remained friendly with Michael Piller and he was able to convince me to come back to the fold for DS9.
I've said it once and I'll say it again, we're here to make quality television.
I've said it once and I'll say it again, we're here to make quality television.
Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2016
Happy #BevCrusherDay!
Where are the calluses we doctors are supposed to grow over our feelings?
20 Borg werden gleich diese Tür durchbrechen. Wir brauchen Zeit, um hier rauszukommen. Lenken Sie sie ab.
That's not a fair question.
Na dann tanzen Sie, erzählen Sie eine Geschichte, tun Sie irgendwas ... aber verschaffen Sie uns ein paar Sekunden!
The Edo want to execute my son.
Ok Data, was schlagen Sie vor?
Then your God is unfair. My son had no warning that his act was criminal.
Worf, der Sicherheitschef ...Pause... Der Große, der niemals lächelt ...Pause... Der Klingone!
You know I had some trouble getting through? Where's Captain Picard?
Hier ist eine Frage, die du wahrscheinlich nicht beantworten kannst. Was ist die Natur des Universums?
What is he, a fish?
Dreimal die Absätze zusammenschlagen und schon bin ich wieder in Kansas? Könnte es so einfach sein?
Lieutenant, I understand your feelings about the Romulans, but this is not the time or the place.
Computer! Wieviele Besatzungsmitglieder befinden sich an Bord der Enterprise?
This Romulan didn't kill your parents. And you are the only one who can save his life.
Ist dieses Besatzungsmitglied allein qualifiziert, die Mission dieses Schiffes zu erfüllen?
He's prepared to kill you.
Warum bin ich dann allein auf diesem Schiff?
It will pass, all of it. Just another hour or so, you're doing fine, just hold on.
Jetzt habe ich dich!
I'm here, Jean-Luc. I'm not going anywhere.
Computer! Was ist das für ein Mist, den ich da sehe?
If there's nothing wrong with me . . . maybe there's something wrong with the universe.
We will start with the assumption that I am not crazy.
Computer. Read the entire crew roster for the Enterprise.
Have I always been the only member of the crew on the starship Enterprise?
If this were a bad dream, would you tell me?
Like hell it's not. What is the primary mission of the starship Enterprise?
Do I have the necessary skills to complete that mission alone?
Here's a question you shouldn't be able to answer...Computer: What is the nature of the universe?
Click my heels together three times and I'm back in Kansas. Can it really be that simple?
Therapists are always the worst patients. Except for doctors, of course.
They don't do a lot of tap-dancing at weddings.
Well, Data, because...I don't really know why, Data.
We have to dream in order to survive.
You scare me, doctor. You risk your patients' lives and justify it in the name of research. Genuine research takes time... sometimes a lifetime of painstaking, detailed work in order to get any results. Not for you, you take short cuts, right through living tissue. You put your research ahead of your patients' lives and as far as I'm concerned, that's a violation of our most sacred trust. I'm sure your work will be hailed as a stunning breakthrough. Enjoy your laurels, doctor. I'm not sure I could.
Thank you. Mmm, nutmeg.
I wish I knew how I could help.
Well it's there for you, Jean-Luc. It always has been.
But even in war there are rules. You don't kill civilians indiscriminately.
Computer, Commander Beverly Crusher. Confirm auto-destruct sequence, authorization Crusher-two-two-beta-Charlie.
So much for the Enterprise E.
You think they'll build another one?
You either need a new uniform or a new neck.
I guess they don't believe in cocktails before dinner.
Okay, Data, what do you think we should do?
Not that we care about such things in this day and age.
20 Borg werden gleich diese Tür durchbrechen. Wir brauchen Zeit, um hier rauszukommen. Lenken Sie sie ab.
That's not a fair question.
Na dann tanzen Sie, erzählen Sie eine Geschichte, tun Sie irgendwas ... aber verschaffen Sie uns ein paar Sekunden!
The Edo want to execute my son.
Ok Data, was schlagen Sie vor?
Then your God is unfair. My son had no warning that his act was criminal.
Worf, der Sicherheitschef ...Pause... Der Große, der niemals lächelt ...Pause... Der Klingone!
You know I had some trouble getting through? Where's Captain Picard?
Hier ist eine Frage, die du wahrscheinlich nicht beantworten kannst. Was ist die Natur des Universums?
What is he, a fish?
Dreimal die Absätze zusammenschlagen und schon bin ich wieder in Kansas? Könnte es so einfach sein?
Lieutenant, I understand your feelings about the Romulans, but this is not the time or the place.
Computer! Wieviele Besatzungsmitglieder befinden sich an Bord der Enterprise?
This Romulan didn't kill your parents. And you are the only one who can save his life.
Ist dieses Besatzungsmitglied allein qualifiziert, die Mission dieses Schiffes zu erfüllen?
He's prepared to kill you.
Warum bin ich dann allein auf diesem Schiff?
It will pass, all of it. Just another hour or so, you're doing fine, just hold on.
Jetzt habe ich dich!
I'm here, Jean-Luc. I'm not going anywhere.
Computer! Was ist das für ein Mist, den ich da sehe?
If there's nothing wrong with me . . . maybe there's something wrong with the universe.
We will start with the assumption that I am not crazy.
Computer. Read the entire crew roster for the Enterprise.
Have I always been the only member of the crew on the starship Enterprise?
If this were a bad dream, would you tell me?
Like hell it's not. What is the primary mission of the starship Enterprise?
Do I have the necessary skills to complete that mission alone?
Here's a question you shouldn't be able to answer...Computer: What is the nature of the universe?
Click my heels together three times and I'm back in Kansas. Can it really be that simple?
Therapists are always the worst patients. Except for doctors, of course.
They don't do a lot of tap-dancing at weddings.
Well, Data, because...I don't really know why, Data.
We have to dream in order to survive.
You scare me, doctor. You risk your patients' lives and justify it in the name of research. Genuine research takes time... sometimes a lifetime of painstaking, detailed work in order to get any results. Not for you, you take short cuts, right through living tissue. You put your research ahead of your patients' lives and as far as I'm concerned, that's a violation of our most sacred trust. I'm sure your work will be hailed as a stunning breakthrough. Enjoy your laurels, doctor. I'm not sure I could.
Thank you. Mmm, nutmeg.
I wish I knew how I could help.
Well it's there for you, Jean-Luc. It always has been.
But even in war there are rules. You don't kill civilians indiscriminately.
Computer, Commander Beverly Crusher. Confirm auto-destruct sequence, authorization Crusher-two-two-beta-Charlie.
So much for the Enterprise E.
You think they'll build another one?
You either need a new uniform or a new neck.
I guess they don't believe in cocktails before dinner.
Okay, Data, what do you think we should do?
Not that we care about such things in this day and age.
Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2016
Happy Birthday Justin Lin!
I’m the child of immigrants. My Taiwanese parents came to America with no money and supported my brothers and me as small business owners in Orange County, which is close to L.A. but about as far away from Hollywood as you can be. I didn’t know anyone in the industry, but had a great deal of people help me along in my path,” said Lin. “I made a lot of mistakes along the way, but feel incredibly lucky to be in the position I am now and to be able to play a small part in trying to support talented, aspiring young filmmakers out there through a program like ‘Interpretations’ who, like me, had the desire and passion, but no connections to the industry.
We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward.
When John and I started 15 years ago, you know I was making the Credit Card movie [Better Luck Tomorrow], and it was an indie movie. Back then obviously there was no money, so everybody just came on because they either believed in the script or the project. And that spirit was so strong, and in a way something I treasure. And then, going and doing the studio films, it’s always been I think one of the big challenges for the film makers, to make sure that, yeah, there’s money and people are being compensated, but let’s show up and be passionate, you know. To be able to meet up 15 years later, and to do this film with all the physical challenges that were ahead of us, that’s something I take a lot of pride in. Everybody on this set, in the cutting room, everybody went above and beyond, and that’s something that’s really rare. And again, I think when I took this on, I wanted to make it the biggest budgeted indie film ever, and I really am very fortunate. And that’s due to the people that got together to make this.
There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.
I kind of approach action/non-action very much similarly. It has to be character-based and it has to kind of come off the theme and the overall arc. I had a very strong opinion on what sets this journey off. That’s been the centerpiece of this film….action to me is no fun if it’s not built around character. And that has to come from the very original impetus of why this movie exists. So far, I mean all the action pieces are set off of that incident and all how our characters react to it. So, for me it’s exciting because it’s organic. It’s not artificial. It’s not something that I do an action because people want to see action. It’s because this journey, whatever happens, whatever causes this to happen, whatever our characters do to try to counter it somehow organically creates that.
Do what you love. I’ve seen so many people through the years calculate and speculate on what films to do in order “to make it.” And every time those projects crash and burn. I think when young filmmakers make films trying to impress the industry, they usually won’t work. I think the people with the power and money actually want to work with filmmakers that have something to say. And at the end of the day, if the film is made for the right reasons, then there’s no failure. You live or die by your voice.
I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.
As great as JJ’s films were, there’s still a lot to be mined from these characters. They haven’t really gone on their five-year mission, so what we experienced in the TV show hasn’t been touched on yet. That sets up an opportunity for exploration and the deeper you go, the more you are examining humanity. Those are the things that I absorbed as a kid and hope to tap into and embrace and celebrate. By the time this movie comes out, Star Trek will have been around for 50 years.
I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.
With my first film [“Better Luck Tomorrow”], I was working three jobs [to help pay for it]. I was meeting with potential investors, and right away everybody’s like, “It’s an Asian-American cast. It’ll never sell.” And a lot of them were Asian-American investors. A guy offered $1 million for the budget, and he said, “We’ll get Macaulay Culkin to be the lead.” If I would have said yes, I would have gotten $1 million and I would have gotten to make the movie with a white cast, but it didn’t interest me.
It is very important to support what you believe in.
That's part of what they do. I'm just hired to make the movie and I love the idea that we have, but there's no connection at all.
If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.
It’s all new and fresh. The Klingons, Romulans and other species are great, but it’s time to go further. It has been fun to focus on creating whole new worlds and species.
I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.
I'm confident that China's economic growth will definitely not slow to below 9 percent in the next two years.
If you put forth a really diverse cast and you fight for it and it doesn't do well - and it may fail for other reasons - you're gone because you stuck your neck out for that decision.
My dad worked 364 days a year, only took Thanksgiving off, and from age 8 to 18, the only time I could hang out with my parents was by staying late. And every night, it was Star Trek on Channel 13 in L.A. That was my childhood. All my friends were Star Wars kids but I didn’t go to the movies, so I was the Star Trek kid. Thinking about this, it became a very personal and very emotional decision.
We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward.
When John and I started 15 years ago, you know I was making the Credit Card movie [Better Luck Tomorrow], and it was an indie movie. Back then obviously there was no money, so everybody just came on because they either believed in the script or the project. And that spirit was so strong, and in a way something I treasure. And then, going and doing the studio films, it’s always been I think one of the big challenges for the film makers, to make sure that, yeah, there’s money and people are being compensated, but let’s show up and be passionate, you know. To be able to meet up 15 years later, and to do this film with all the physical challenges that were ahead of us, that’s something I take a lot of pride in. Everybody on this set, in the cutting room, everybody went above and beyond, and that’s something that’s really rare. And again, I think when I took this on, I wanted to make it the biggest budgeted indie film ever, and I really am very fortunate. And that’s due to the people that got together to make this.
There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.
I kind of approach action/non-action very much similarly. It has to be character-based and it has to kind of come off the theme and the overall arc. I had a very strong opinion on what sets this journey off. That’s been the centerpiece of this film….action to me is no fun if it’s not built around character. And that has to come from the very original impetus of why this movie exists. So far, I mean all the action pieces are set off of that incident and all how our characters react to it. So, for me it’s exciting because it’s organic. It’s not artificial. It’s not something that I do an action because people want to see action. It’s because this journey, whatever happens, whatever causes this to happen, whatever our characters do to try to counter it somehow organically creates that.
Do what you love. I’ve seen so many people through the years calculate and speculate on what films to do in order “to make it.” And every time those projects crash and burn. I think when young filmmakers make films trying to impress the industry, they usually won’t work. I think the people with the power and money actually want to work with filmmakers that have something to say. And at the end of the day, if the film is made for the right reasons, then there’s no failure. You live or die by your voice.
I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.
As great as JJ’s films were, there’s still a lot to be mined from these characters. They haven’t really gone on their five-year mission, so what we experienced in the TV show hasn’t been touched on yet. That sets up an opportunity for exploration and the deeper you go, the more you are examining humanity. Those are the things that I absorbed as a kid and hope to tap into and embrace and celebrate. By the time this movie comes out, Star Trek will have been around for 50 years.
I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.
With my first film [“Better Luck Tomorrow”], I was working three jobs [to help pay for it]. I was meeting with potential investors, and right away everybody’s like, “It’s an Asian-American cast. It’ll never sell.” And a lot of them were Asian-American investors. A guy offered $1 million for the budget, and he said, “We’ll get Macaulay Culkin to be the lead.” If I would have said yes, I would have gotten $1 million and I would have gotten to make the movie with a white cast, but it didn’t interest me.
It is very important to support what you believe in.
That's part of what they do. I'm just hired to make the movie and I love the idea that we have, but there's no connection at all.
If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.
It’s all new and fresh. The Klingons, Romulans and other species are great, but it’s time to go further. It has been fun to focus on creating whole new worlds and species.
I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.
I'm confident that China's economic growth will definitely not slow to below 9 percent in the next two years.
If you put forth a really diverse cast and you fight for it and it doesn't do well - and it may fail for other reasons - you're gone because you stuck your neck out for that decision.
My dad worked 364 days a year, only took Thanksgiving off, and from age 8 to 18, the only time I could hang out with my parents was by staying late. And every night, it was Star Trek on Channel 13 in L.A. That was my childhood. All my friends were Star Wars kids but I didn’t go to the movies, so I was the Star Trek kid. Thinking about this, it became a very personal and very emotional decision.
Sonntag, 9. Oktober 2016
Happy Birthday Scott Bakula!
Running for me has always been a great place to get away. It's a great stress reliever for me. It's great if I need to be working on something in my mind, whether it's things I need to be memorizing or thinking about, or I have some presentation coming up.
My daughter, when she was younger, was crazy about 'The X-Files,' so I'd watch that with her.
The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.
By all standards, except for 'Star Trek' standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run.
To be quite honest, I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present.
My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.
I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.
My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.
'Certainly Men of a Certain Age' was different for me and allowed people to see me in a different light. Maybe that opened up minds a little bit.
My oldest son started to like 'South Park' and 'Family Guy,' so we'd watch together so I could spend time with him.
The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.
On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.
I don't even know how many times I auditioned for Danny Zuko in 'Grease.'
One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.
I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.
The 'NCIS' franchise is beyond successful.
I get nervous even guesting on other people's shows.
The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can't do.
Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, 'The Wonderful World of Disney.'
The further away you can get away from yourself as an actor, the more fun you have.
I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.
I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!
The longest show I've ever done was four and a half years, so I can only imagine what ending an eight year show is like.
I like pop, rock n' roll, big band, Broadway - I like all those elements.
The movies are about big tent pole movies and big action and effects.
I love 'White Christmas.' That's one of my favorites just because I love the music. I love the story, Bing Crosby. It's just one of my all time favorites. And it's hard to have a Christmas without seeing a little bit of Jimmy Stewart and angels running around town.
These sci-fi fans are phenomenal in the standards that they hold you to.
I was a huge fan of the original 'Star Trek,' and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship.
To do something for other people when they need it most just feels good.
Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.
I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.
I was actually cut out of 'L.A. Story'... and rightfully so.
What we are as actors, for better and for worse, is visible.
You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.
With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.
I'd really like to play bad guys or guys that have something a little bit off about them. And I get to do that periodically.
Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as 'Scott Bakoola.' Not a good sign. I also didn't get the show.
Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows.
And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.
I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.
'Behind The Candelabra' is an HBO movie. It's the Liberace story. Michael Douglass and Matt Damon. I play a small part in it. I play a choreographer who introduces, brings Matt Damon to Las Vegas for the first time.
New Orleans has a unique history as a great melting pot of all kinds of cultures, and that manifests itself now through the food, the music, and the kinds of people who live there.
Clive Barker is just genius, and he's incredibly gifted in so many different ways. He can write and direct and paint and do all these different things, and he can do them all extremely well.
I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.
For a long-running TV show, you're looking for a character who is interesting and vibrant and you can imagine going into all kinds of different areas.
The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.
For actors, we always feel like there shouldn't be any divide for anybody. The industry is the one that kind of creates the idea that if you're such-and-such an actor, you can't be on the big screen.
I've always been told I had an old face. So when I was in my 20s, I never got to play a teenager.
I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused.
It's a joyful, humbling feeling to be in different places around the planet, and people have seen shows that I'm proud of being a part of, that do have things to say about the human condition, the planet, and who we are and where we've come from, that will sustain.
I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field.
I've done a lot of work other than sci-fi, and between half-hour comedy, stage, and various movie roles, I've really tried to avoid being typecast.
I grew up in St. Louis, and I don't know if you've ever been to St. Louis in the middle of summer. There are days in the summer sometimes, weeks in the summer, where the temperature can be over 100 degrees and the humidity can be 100 percent.
A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.
I think the challenge in hour television or half-hour television is that the more it's around, certainly on commercial television, the less time you have to tell stories these days, because the more commercials they're putting in.
If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.
I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.
I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer. It's always been easy, the legalese.
I've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done, a few. And I like doing that. I had never really considered doing a full-length thing. I've worked with other people creating full-length pieces.
If you're a fan of Shirley MacLaine just like I am, I'd kinda go anywhere to work with her.
I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.
After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't do that right now.'
I've shot a lot of places, and I've produced. I always thought, 'Gosh, when you shoot in a big city, it's so difficult.' And New York, I always think, 'Where are you going to park the trucks? How are you going to stop the traffic?'
In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.
'Quantum Leap' gave me a huge opportunity as an actor. The nature of the role and it's demands allowed people to perceive me as a versatile actor, and the wide success of the show around the planet gave me a certain notoriety that helped me get other work.
My daughter, when she was younger, was crazy about 'The X-Files,' so I'd watch that with her.
The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.
By all standards, except for 'Star Trek' standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run.
To be quite honest, I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present.
My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.
I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.
My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.
'Certainly Men of a Certain Age' was different for me and allowed people to see me in a different light. Maybe that opened up minds a little bit.
My oldest son started to like 'South Park' and 'Family Guy,' so we'd watch together so I could spend time with him.
The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.
On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.
I don't even know how many times I auditioned for Danny Zuko in 'Grease.'
One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.
I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.
The 'NCIS' franchise is beyond successful.
I get nervous even guesting on other people's shows.
The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can't do.
Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, 'The Wonderful World of Disney.'
The further away you can get away from yourself as an actor, the more fun you have.
I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.
I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!
The longest show I've ever done was four and a half years, so I can only imagine what ending an eight year show is like.
I like pop, rock n' roll, big band, Broadway - I like all those elements.
The movies are about big tent pole movies and big action and effects.
I love 'White Christmas.' That's one of my favorites just because I love the music. I love the story, Bing Crosby. It's just one of my all time favorites. And it's hard to have a Christmas without seeing a little bit of Jimmy Stewart and angels running around town.
These sci-fi fans are phenomenal in the standards that they hold you to.
I was a huge fan of the original 'Star Trek,' and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship.
To do something for other people when they need it most just feels good.
Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.
I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.
I was actually cut out of 'L.A. Story'... and rightfully so.
What we are as actors, for better and for worse, is visible.
You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.
With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.
I'd really like to play bad guys or guys that have something a little bit off about them. And I get to do that periodically.
Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as 'Scott Bakoola.' Not a good sign. I also didn't get the show.
Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows.
And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.
I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.
'Behind The Candelabra' is an HBO movie. It's the Liberace story. Michael Douglass and Matt Damon. I play a small part in it. I play a choreographer who introduces, brings Matt Damon to Las Vegas for the first time.
New Orleans has a unique history as a great melting pot of all kinds of cultures, and that manifests itself now through the food, the music, and the kinds of people who live there.
Clive Barker is just genius, and he's incredibly gifted in so many different ways. He can write and direct and paint and do all these different things, and he can do them all extremely well.
I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.
For a long-running TV show, you're looking for a character who is interesting and vibrant and you can imagine going into all kinds of different areas.
The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.
For actors, we always feel like there shouldn't be any divide for anybody. The industry is the one that kind of creates the idea that if you're such-and-such an actor, you can't be on the big screen.
I've always been told I had an old face. So when I was in my 20s, I never got to play a teenager.
I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused.
It's a joyful, humbling feeling to be in different places around the planet, and people have seen shows that I'm proud of being a part of, that do have things to say about the human condition, the planet, and who we are and where we've come from, that will sustain.
I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field.
I've done a lot of work other than sci-fi, and between half-hour comedy, stage, and various movie roles, I've really tried to avoid being typecast.
I grew up in St. Louis, and I don't know if you've ever been to St. Louis in the middle of summer. There are days in the summer sometimes, weeks in the summer, where the temperature can be over 100 degrees and the humidity can be 100 percent.
A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.
I think the challenge in hour television or half-hour television is that the more it's around, certainly on commercial television, the less time you have to tell stories these days, because the more commercials they're putting in.
If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.
I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.
I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer. It's always been easy, the legalese.
I've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done, a few. And I like doing that. I had never really considered doing a full-length thing. I've worked with other people creating full-length pieces.
If you're a fan of Shirley MacLaine just like I am, I'd kinda go anywhere to work with her.
I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.
After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't do that right now.'
I've shot a lot of places, and I've produced. I always thought, 'Gosh, when you shoot in a big city, it's so difficult.' And New York, I always think, 'Where are you going to park the trucks? How are you going to stop the traffic?'
In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.
'Quantum Leap' gave me a huge opportunity as an actor. The nature of the role and it's demands allowed people to perceive me as a versatile actor, and the wide success of the show around the planet gave me a certain notoriety that helped me get other work.
Sonntag, 2. Oktober 2016
Happy Birthday Avery Brooks!
Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.
Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.
It's the year 2000. But where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars! I don't see any flying cars! Why? Why? Why?
Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
The show ran for seven years. It was a long, long road. I did have some reservations initially when I read the script [for the series finale "What You Leave Behind"], because I thought they were going to really kill Sisko. I took that very literally, and asked the producers, "Why are you killing Sisko?" The producers told me, "Look we thought you'd be thrilled because we had made him a God!" The difference, of course, is you have Sisko with another child on the way. You still have Sisko with a young man [Jake Sisko] trying to find his way, and you make him a God! That wasn't fair.
People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.
Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream. Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.
At least the box is full of something useful.
One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to see the long thought, to see themselves some 400 years hence. It occurred to me that we must ensure that we keep in front of children the ever-changing horizon. To let the children know that there is possibility, to let the children know that someone is not going to take away or destroy this world before they have a chance. We have to keep that in front of them.
What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.
Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.
It's the year 2000. But where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars! I don't see any flying cars! Why? Why? Why?
Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
The show ran for seven years. It was a long, long road. I did have some reservations initially when I read the script [for the series finale "What You Leave Behind"], because I thought they were going to really kill Sisko. I took that very literally, and asked the producers, "Why are you killing Sisko?" The producers told me, "Look we thought you'd be thrilled because we had made him a God!" The difference, of course, is you have Sisko with another child on the way. You still have Sisko with a young man [Jake Sisko] trying to find his way, and you make him a God! That wasn't fair.
People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.
Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream. Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.
At least the box is full of something useful.
One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to see the long thought, to see themselves some 400 years hence. It occurred to me that we must ensure that we keep in front of children the ever-changing horizon. To let the children know that there is possibility, to let the children know that someone is not going to take away or destroy this world before they have a chance. We have to keep that in front of them.
What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.
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