ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

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What an incredible thread this is!

It was start in 2015 — shortly after we had to re-create All Sci-Fi from scratch after the old board crashed!

And the author pf the first post on this thread was Tim Edwards (Bulldogtreker) who LOVED all things "Trek" — but he really hated to type!

However. he started this thread with that great post above, and it's received periodic replies over the years, most of which are fairly long!

I was really surprised that, until recently, all the replies were posted in All Sci-F's tiny "default" font of size=16 . . . which is very hard to read!

Today I spent 30 minutes bumping up the text sizes on every post to size=22 so that our beloved members wouldn't get headaches while squinting at their displays to read this great thread — which spans eight years of All Sci-Fi's history!

Keep up the good work, folks!

And remember to make your font size "22" or (if you prefer) "24". Your beloved site administrate turns 76 in this August — and he'll shoot himself if he goes blind!


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Pow]

Some quotes from Marina Sirtis at a Star Trek convention where she answered questions from the audience.

"We laughed non-stop for seven years. One director refused to return to ever direct our show because we were rowdy. And we were rowdy and naughty between takes. Later on, producer Rick Berman called the cast all together and read us the riot act. He told us that a director refusing to ever return to direct more episodes of a series was unheard of."

"What he didn't understand was that, yes, we were a rowdy group. But we always came to the set fully prepared. We all knew our lines and hit our marks. We yakked & laughed right up until the director called action, then we'd perform our scenes just fine. Once the director called cut, we'd resume our laughing and yakking."

"Denise Crosby told Rick Berman when he called us together that time to scold us, 'We're here 18-hours a day, if we don't have fun and let off steam it'll be torture.' Patrick Stewart said 'And where, Denise, does it say in our contract we're here to have fun?'

Patrick was a very serious actor who had studied in England and performed very dramatic stage plays. Many were Shakespeare plays. It took us six months to loosen him up. Now he's one of the most fun and silliest actors to be around."

"There were no issues at all between the cast members. We were, and are, friends to this day. There were some guest stars we did not care for. That was because they'd come to the set unprepared and not knowing their lines. We all knew our lines each and every week. They can't come in for one week and not know their lines? Unacceptable, unacceptable!"

"Sometimes I was mean to girls who were too pretty."

"One of my best friends is Terry Farrell who co-starred on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Our shows overlapped, so I'd go over to the DSN set to visit her. It was like, who died? You could hear a pin drop. It was not a fun set. Our set was like kindergarten at recess. DSN was like a funeral."

"I doubt any of our cast will publish a book. Publishers want autobiographies filled with scandal and feuds. Our set had none of that going on. No hanky-panky either with the cast. Sometimes with a guest star, but not among the cast."

[Bud Brewster]

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I, for one, would love to read a behind-the-scenes book about TNG . . . or any other Star Trek series!

When Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released, the diary-like book of Bob Balaban's experiences on the set is wonderful.

And Walter Koenig's book about the filming of Star Trek the motion Picture is filled with descriptions of what he and his fellow cast members experienced.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)