TIL that Jordie directed some episodes
Submitted 7 months ago by negativenull@lemm.ee to risa@startrek.website
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Corgana@startrek.website 7 months ago
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Higher engagement
teft@startrek.website 7 months ago
Better crew. We’re like the California class up in here. Daystrom is like the Titan and Star Trek is like NCC-1701(a-z)
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Worked so we’ll for r/shitpostcrusaders
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s how he taught Nog the joy of reading.
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Take a look, it’s in a book
AClassyGentleman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lots of cast members ended up directing over the years. 90’s Trek had a reputation for being a factory for directorial debuts. It’s really neat, it brought a lot of variety in personality to the episodes.
muddi@hexbear.net 7 months ago
This might already be well-known but Avery Brooks also directed some episodes! Like Far Beyond the Stars, one of the best episodes
Apeman42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Jonathan Frakes and Robert Duncan McNeill each directed a couple episodes of The Orville too.
FlatFootFox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The TNG/DS9/VOY era was pretty famous for “Star Trek Director’s School” for the actors. Most main cast folks tried their hand at directing at least once or twice. (It’s fun when you notice it for the first time. Their characters usually have bit parts in the first episode they direct.) Jonathan Frakes (Riker) directed episodes have become known for their top-down “god shots” in a lot of episodes like Cause and Effect. observer.com/…/jonathan-frakes-on-his-journey-fro…
mr_robot2938@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Roxane Dawson (B’elanna Torres on VOY) went on to a pretty good directorial career as well. A couple off the top of my head include Foundation and House of Cards.
TylenolJones@hexbear.net 7 months ago
The Star Trek franchise has a lot of main cast actors who directed episodes.
kandoh@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Easy way to get a DGA card which comes with extra health insurance and pensions.
SplicedBrainwrap@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Yeah it’s pretty cool! Star Trek had been a bit of a directors boot camp for a while, I know several members from TNG, DS9, and Voyager went on into directing.
MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 7 months ago
You can do anything! Just take a look, it’s in a book.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 7 months ago
This is news to me! Somehow I’ve never noticed.
negativenull@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’ve never really paid attention before. Somehow is just caught my eye randomly.
taanegl@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Lavar Burton is a goddamn treasure of a man. When you yanks rip down another one of those confederate statues, do me a solid and put up one of Lavar Burton in its place.
UESPA_Sputnik@feddit.de 7 months ago
“Some”? 29 episodes across TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT. That’s even one more TV episode than Jonathan Frakes directed. (although Frakes also directed two movies)
snooggums@kbin.social 7 months ago
I remember a few long running TV shows with cast writing and directing episodes.
Duchovny directed a few XFiles episodes.
Two of the leads directed episodes og SG-1, antihero wrote at least one episode.
Those two are just off the top of my head, but I remember noticing cast doing extra stuff regularly. Probably not too common in the early seasons, but it is a great way for them to branch out.
That said, some are more successful than others.
teft@startrek.website 7 months ago
So I was curious and went to look up actors who directed episodes of their shows and guess who showed up on the list (not in a Star Trek number but still) … Captain James Tiberius Kirk.
Here is the “article” i was reading.
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mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Christopher Judge also wrote three and a half late-season episodes. The one Amanda Tapping directed was written by Michael Shanks.