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SUBMIT ENTRIES FOR DAY 4 HERE!

"FOUR PHASERS PHASING"

Claim a spot by submitting your meme the day/post prior (ie - post meme for day 4 on day 3). In the event of multiple submissions, most upvoted by day's end takes it. Tie breaker based on my poor taste.

1 ummthatguy - "An O'Brien in agony"

2 negativenull - "Two ejected warp cores"

3 The Picard Maneuver - "Three French Captains"

4 "Four phasers phasing"

5 "Five latinum bars"

6 "Six Vulcan Mind-melds"

7 "Seven Jeffrey Combs"

8 "Eight Janeway coffees"

9 "Nine redshirts dying"

10 "Ten humanoid aliens"

11 "Eleven Rikers Riking"

12 "Twelve cloaking warbirds"

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[–] verity_kindle@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! I thought she was "let go". Why did she quit? I love backstage goss, no matter how old it is.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Bujold was the first choice of the producers of Star Trek: Voyager to play Captain Nicole Janeway. She quit after a day and a half of shooting, with the public reason being she was unaccustomed to the hectic pace of television filming. (See: Bujold as Captain Nicole Janeway) Other rumored reasons included dissatisfaction with her performance on the part of the producers and dissatisfaction with the character on the part of Bujold. As Rick Berman politely put it in the October 8-14, 1994 issue of TV Guide: "It was immediately obvious it was not a good fit." The producers subsequently hired TV veteran Kate Mulgrew, and changed the captain's first name from Nicole to Kathryn on Mulgrew's advice"

Something tells me Berman is the real reason.

[–] verity_kindle@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Rick Berman is notorious for being a misogynist. He made various "sex appeal" decisions throughout Trek for the sake of viewership (adding 7 of 9 to Voyager, swapping Jadzia for Ezri on DS9, making T'Pol wear skin-tight clothes + the decon chamber + her Pon Farr phase)

Odds are he didn't think Ms Bujold had the right "look" for the role or something similar.