# Great Star Trek Performances **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427 "2004-03-10T04:39:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/41 "2004-03-11T16:45:30Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > the one where Sisko makes an entire log entry about tricking the Romulans into entering the Dominion War **By the Pale Moonlight** – all the performances in this episode are great. It’s to be expected from the always-solid Avery Brooks and Andrew Robinson, but I love the scene where Senator Vreenak (Stephen McHattie) confronts Sisko and is so full of menace he practically hisses “It’ssss a faaaake!” David Warner, BTW, also showed up in Star Trek V as the human ambassador that Sybok took hostage. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/42 "2004-03-11T21:05:39Z")
Second James Sloyan for “The Defector” and also for his \*Voyager \*episode, “Jetrel.” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/43 "2004-03-11T22:03:57Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > No killing necessary. My library has it! (happy dance) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/44 "2004-03-11T23:43:46Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Also, DS9, the one where Sisko makes an entire log entry about tricking the Romulans into entering the Dominion War…then erases the whole thing, because the ends justifies the means. He can live with it…he _can_ live with it… ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/45 "2004-03-11T23:45:40Z")
I’m probably going to get laughed at for this … The **TNG** ep (was it season 2?!?) _The Child_ Marina Sirtis was pretty fecking good in that one … and I was never a fan of hers ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/46 "2004-03-11T23:50:30Z")
> [@Mach Tuck](#): > > I always enjoyed **Dwight Schultz** as Lt. Barclay. Schultz has a particularly good moment when rehearsing for a shipboard production of _Cyrano de Bergerac_, in the episode “The Nth Degree”. The entire episode, in which Barclay is rapidly becoming superintelligent, is a pretty good display of Schultz’s talents. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/47 "2004-03-12T00:19:32Z")
Klink: Schultz! Schultz: I know nothing! ---
**Author:** ![Chocobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Chocobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chocobo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/48 "2004-03-12T00:41:53Z")
I always thought the performance of the actor who played the hologram of Sherlock Holmses’ nemesis Moriarity was rather well done, in both episodes in which he appeared. The actor correctly balanced the personalities of both the intellectual wanting to learn more about his surroundings and the criminal wanting to create mischief. Very well done. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/49 "2004-03-12T02:20:27Z")
How about one from the widely loathed _Voyager_? The guy who played Tuvix in the episode of the same name. I just learned the actor’s name is Tom Wright, and he has been in a lot of things including both _Barbershop_ movies. Anyway, I thought he did a good job creating a believable new charater by combining aspects of two other characters, including such things as gestures and voice inflection. Nice performance. Also Brad Dourif as a psychopathic murderer who had been unnoticed among the Voyager crew. The first episode he was in was good but the last one was over the top. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/50 "2004-03-12T14:27:59Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > Moderately good acting on a regular basis is Brother Cadfael, or any of a number of characters portrayed during the various books serialized on Masterpiece Theater. Why, thank you very much! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/51 "2004-03-12T14:47:52Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > “At the time, it was the logical thing to do.” > > Young Sarek to Young Amanda: “You’re WHAT?”: I had never thought of it that way before. HAHAHAHAHHAHA! You rock! ---
**Author:** ![fishead788](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a4c791/32.png) [@fishead788](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishead788)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/52 "2004-03-12T20:15:34Z")
God! She’s such good eye candy. mmmmm! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/53 "2004-03-13T00:01:02Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#): > > > [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > > > “At the time, it was the logical thing to do.” > > > > Young Sarek to Young Amanda: “You’re WHAT?” > > I had never thought of it that way before. HAHAHAHAHHAHA! You rock! Of course you had never thought of it that way before. Because Amanda’s pregnancy was an extremely complicated genetic engineering experiment that required all sorts of Vulcan Science Academy trickery to produce anything even remotely resembling a viable zygote! There’s no way she could have gotten pregnant by Sarek “accidentally.” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/54 "2004-03-13T00:05:10Z")
I can tell you how it happened. For $12.60 ---
**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/55 "2004-03-13T00:19:37Z")
I was impressed with Damar at the end of DS9. Casey Biggs managed to take him from a bit part, a simpering lap dog, turn him into a guilt ridden drunk and then into a hero. His speech telling the Cardassians to rise up against the Dominion is a great moment in DS9. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/56 "2004-03-13T04:04:07Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > I can tell you how it happened. For $12.60 The post office put you up to this, didn’t they! ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/57 "2004-03-13T04:16:49Z")
The episode that will always be my favorite… ST:TNG, The Inner Light… Every time I see it, it moves me more than any other episode, of any other television show, that I can think of. And later references back to that episode always get me too. It was just… IMHO, brilliantly written and acted. _sob_ Choked up just thinking about it. But another favorite moment was the teaser for Pegasus. I think that was the first laugh out loud Star Trek moment I ever had. For anyone unsure, it was the bit about it being Picard Day on the ship. Riker did this impression of Picard that slayed me… Hoooo boy, good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![chuckster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@chuckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chuckster)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/58 "2004-03-13T05:20:40Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > So many great classics here – my first thought was Ricardo Montalban as Khan. Let’s not forget his role in TOS. I like the scene where Kirk traps him in a debate at an officer’s mess on the Enterprise and Kahn loses control and responds " **We Gave Them ORDER!**" ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/59 "2004-03-13T06:35:03Z")
It’s “We offered the world ORDER!” (Sorry, can’t help correcting. It’s my life’s work.) From that same ep.: Khan to Marla: “This grows tiresome. Now you must _ask_ to stay.” Damn, he was great both times. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427/60 "2004-03-14T00:25:58Z")
Speaking of correcting: > [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > Riker did this impression of Picard that slayed me Pssst … the past tense of slay is “slew”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-star-trek-performances/233427.md?page=4)