Star Trek Things of Interest
Jun. 25th, 2010 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grammarwomanMan, it's only been a few days, and I don't even remember who linked this: Reunion of the Rikers, where Marina Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes sit around and have the most wonderfully breezy chat about a sitcom starring Riker and Troi and what they'd be like at home, and their romantic journey through the series and movies. It had me giggling almost the whole time.
On the other end of the spectrum...Just today, several people posted about Joe Flanigan's piece on Martin Firrell's site. But what I found most fascinating there was Kate Mulgrew's contributions. This ballsy lady went in and told TPTB that she thought it would undermine Janeway's position to be having sex, that she believed Janeway went through more than the previous captains by having her life stripped away, so she instead concentrated on guiding her crew. Most of all, when she mentioned she was 39 when she started, it blew me away - that's only a couple of years older than I am now, and I can't imagine having attained by then such gravitas, such dignified calm as she displayed. If I ever were to meet her, I would love to shake her hand.
On the other end of the spectrum...Just today, several people posted about Joe Flanigan's piece on Martin Firrell's site. But what I found most fascinating there was Kate Mulgrew's contributions. This ballsy lady went in and told TPTB that she thought it would undermine Janeway's position to be having sex, that she believed Janeway went through more than the previous captains by having her life stripped away, so she instead concentrated on guiding her crew. Most of all, when she mentioned she was 39 when she started, it blew me away - that's only a couple of years older than I am now, and I can't imagine having attained by then such gravitas, such dignified calm as she displayed. If I ever were to meet her, I would love to shake her hand.
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Date: 2010-06-27 02:05 am (UTC)The end of DS9 and the beginning of Voyager fell into my period of watching little TV, so I missed most of them. I always respected that a woman was helming Voyager, and I loved what I saw of Mulgrew.
Hah! Now that's a story. We are lucky that our thief was as evidently stupid as he was - I mean, running out of gas when he had a bunch of full gas cans in the back. That takes a certain level of special.