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.
Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek?
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Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Enkrod@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I honestly enjoyed him more in Dredd (where he had to do more with less) than in Star Trek.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
cybervseas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jeffrey Combs must have been busy.
justaman123@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
gasgiant@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
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.
mactan@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
great villain in stargate atlantis
nullPointer@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
pretty good in the “Hell on Wheels” series. It also features Anson Mount.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago Con Air, as the baddie.
The Man Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain, as a goodie.
StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
The Commitments.
TBi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He’s great in intermission. And it’s a good movie.
And the snapper!
- Kirk@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
Colm Meaney’s performance in Layer Cake is simply astounding!
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Gangs of London
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 weeks ago Bakula on “Quantum Leap”
Eve Harlow on “Agents of SHIELD”
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s an episode of Scrubs where Bakula plays a janitor and secretly wants to leap back as a little Easter egg
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also, "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago Bakula on “Men of a Certain Age”.
Kojichan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago 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.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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
mercano@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago 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.
crimson_iris@piefed.social 2 weeks ago He gave me goosebumps in several scenes, especially this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJmuHNDcXLQ
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 2 weeks ago
TIL Tomalak was G’Kar. I don’t know how I didn’t know.
nullPointer@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Jeff Combs was excellent in “The Frighteners”
Zorque@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jeff Combs was excellent in everything, though.
lividweasel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jeff Combs was
excellentin everything, though.
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
How many roles did he play?
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jeff Combs in Transformers Prime, voice of Ratchet. He did some excellent voice delivery as that character.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Whoopi Goldberg, Sister Act II
Zephorah@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
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.
Koening. Bester.
You could argue that everything Stewart does is equally well done. Scrooge. X. Gurney.
Zorque@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think Patrick Stewart was pretty great in that episode of Extras.
subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
- Kirk@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
The fact that it lost to American Beauty that year is a travesty
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 2 weeks ago
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.
- Kirk@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
That’s an awesome story and I agree he was great in that role.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago 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.
Enkrod@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Damn, nearly did not recognize Keating, his performance in that gif gives heavy David Tennant to me.
- Kirk@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
He should have won best actor for his performance as “Ian” in Jungle 2 Jungle.
cuchi@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
When I see Star Trek actors in other show I like to think “This is the holodeck”.
sanzky@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Whoopi Goldberg for The Color Purple.
outerspace@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Michelle Yeoh in everything
sanzky@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
*almost everything (you forgot about section 31?)
bgainor@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
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.
sanzky@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
curiously, the podcast “the incomparable” made an episode exactly about this topic (more specifically, performances before their trek appearances ) www.theincomparable.com/theincomparable/823/
- Kirk@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
Oh fun I will have to check it out
AnchoriteMagus@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Bester was so great. Great vilain
astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
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.
AnchoriteMagus@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Can confirm. I was an avid 90s Star Trek convention attendee, and got to hear a couple quick Bab5 anecdotes from him years ago.
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Bester still gives me the creeps.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Best character in the entire series. Never before would have imagined Walter making my skin crawl.