I was channel surfing the other day and came across Snow Dogs. Nichelle Nichols is in that; she plays someone's mom. (I only watched for about 3 minutes).

We rented Freaky Friday this weekend. It was hilarious. Rosalind Chao was in it. She had this really thick Chinese accent. I felt bad for her. But at least she was funny!

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From space station doctor to 12th century Arabian general..could work.

As Goldfish Mom said, "Lots of sand and pretty men...what's not to like?"

That reminds me...
I saw Siddig [Bashir] in a bit part in Reign of Fire. He was scruffy-looking (as he should, it being a post Apocalyptic type film) but still cute as all get out.
It's comforting to see there is life after Trek...

Ah, cool. Mr. thinga and I were just wondering recently what he's up to these days. Anabanana, I noticed him in Reign of Fire, too. He was one of only two things that kept me awake during that pile of steaming dragon poo (the other being Christian Bale, yum).

Alice Krige was also in that.

I got Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for my PC a little while back. So while I'm running around, doing my Jedi business, suddenly I find myself talking to Neelix. I checked the voice credits, and sure enough, Ethan Phillips did some voices in the game.

I should amend that it wasn't actually Neelix. So far I've encountered two humans who just sound like Neelix.

Thanks, keckler, I had forgotten about that. She really is a cool lady.

Thinga, I agree whole heartedly about Christian Bale... mmmm, yummy.

Siddig was also in an episode of Spooks/MI5 (and was very scruffy and sexy).

Alice Krige was also in the Stephen King movie "Sleepwalkers" that showed on SciFi channel last week. Kind of a lame plot, but very high on the "Ick factor". Her character and her character's son are some sort of cat people, and (herein lies the ick factor) there's some major hanky panky between this mom and son. Slow dancing, making out, carrying mom up the stairs the bedroom while making out.... ICK

I rented Reign of Fire and watched it for Sid, even after I'd seen it in theatres and hated it. I don't know whether that's dedication or just plain sad (or both).

He's going to be in another movie, with Liam Neeson and Orlando Bloom.

No, I'm not a pathetic fangirl ... not at all ...

I've noticed that there are an awful lot of Dr. Quinn regulars who also turn up in Star Trek series and movies. Major cast members like Sully, Matthew, the first Colleen, even Dorothy and Horace. But the lesser players turn up all the time too like 2 of Michaela's sisters, Myra, Preston, even Black Kettle to name a few. (And Colm Meaney played Jake in the pilot!) Are there any other shows out there, past or present, with such massive Trek cross-over?

I just watched Rene Auberjonois (sp?) in an old episode of Stargate called The Other Side. He was pretty good.

I now have a burning desire to watch Reign of Fire. Its on Sky Movies at the weekend and who could pass up the opportunity to see Alexander Siddig? Not me.

I'd second that. That's a pretty dark episode for Stargate; it's very interesting to see him play such a not-Odo character. Whereas Odo is initially gruff and guarded, yet turns out to be an honorable and sweet guy, the guy in the Other Side is almost too helpful and gregarious, and turns out to be a genocidal bigot.

I believe the late Ensign Scrunchieface is playing the MEOW (Medical Emergency of the Week) on Everwood tonight.

ETA: I was right; they even gave her an "In Memory of..." card at the end, with headshot.

I just saw John de Lancie in a couple old episodes of Stargate playing that show's equivalent of "annoying Starfleet admiral." Not sure what the ep titles were, but they were early season 5.

Wow, good for Everwood. I still can't believe Enterprise hasn't done anything.

Well, that's what happens on a show that isn't run by two asshats.

I actually got sniffly when I realized it was Scrunchie.

That's...just SO RUDE! Ooh, ooh, watch me rant in my next recap!

Jennifer Sisko was in last night's episode of Smallville. She was Pete Ross' mom so she might be back again but she had about as many lines as Pete normally gets so we didn't see much of her.

Yeesh. Was she as horrible an actress as she was on DS0? Pretty lady, no talent (IMO, of course).

I didn't really notice, her screen time was limited and I spent most of the time trying to remember why she looked so familiar. I narrowed it down to Star Trek so I was trying to picture her as an alien. I finally had to look her up on imdb. She's still very pretty, her hair was all curly.

Dwight Schultz (Lt Reg Barclay!) was in the Outer Limits' episode If These Walls Could Talk. I was watching early this morning, yelling "Oh wow! It's Broccoli!"

I was watching The Long Walk Home, about the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the other week, and both he and Whoopi Goldberg are in that.

Not exactly another role, per se, but we were channel surfing the other night and happened to catch Avery Brooks singing "Amazing Grace" as part of a Billy Grahm (sp?) telethon. The singing? Fantastic. The musical accompaniment? Kinda weird.

There's a fellow who looks a lot like Avery that I've seen several times when flipping past religious broadcasts. I don't have his name handy, but I think that's the fellow you saw on television recently.

It's a pretty close resemblance, though. They have different goatees, but not by much.

Really? Whoa. It certainly looked a lot like Brooks, but... Hmmmm...

I didn't see the broadcast in question, but I've seen enough Biblical-archeology documentaries narrated and/or hosted by Brooks to believe that he might be involved in a religious broadcast. And from the few snippets we got on DS9, we know the man can sing.

I was flicking through the tv on Saturday and caught the last half of Con Air just for Colm Meaney

Last night Marina Sirtis was in an old episode of Stargate, Watergate, I think. She was a world away from Troi at any rate.

Then this morning I caught Dominic Keating in an old episode of Buffy.

Miss Alli included Scott Bakula on Murphy Brown in her List of TV’s best and worst boyfriends. I remember being very disappointed when he left.

Mmmmmmmm! Peter Hunt. I still remember "I suppose it's too late to say 'Your cable's fixed, lady'?"

I also stopped watching when his recurring character was written out. Murphy wasn't supposed to be such an idiot. Her letting him go was when I stopped suspending disbelief.

ETA the bit about the "having an out-of-body experience until you realize you don't want your body to have that much fun without you..." Oh. My.

Robert Picardo was in last nights (UK only) Heros part two episode of Stargate. He played a right bastard pretty well.

ETA Should I spoiler tag that? I'm not really sure.

I still have that Murphy Brown episode on tape. SB in a towel. Sigh. And I agree; it was a pity they discarded the Peter Hunt character; he was a great foil for Murphy.

Brent Spiner was on Friends tonight as a Gucci rep. He looked pretty good -- might even been aging gracefully.

That was Brent Spiner? I compeletely didn't recognize him.

It was a good 30 seconds before I recognized him; I was very surprised it was such a throwaway role.

Two DS9 alums on last night's CSI as well. Paul Dooley, Enabran Tain himself, as a clown-agent (don't ask), and Debra Wilson, the voice of Captain Lisa Cusak, as a hooker.

Me, too. But I've got to agree with our good leader that he looked great. They greyish white hair really suited him.

It was the voice that clued me in first. And all along, I was wondering, "I wonder if SpinerFemme knows about this?"

Oh, I haven't thought about SpinerFemme forever! Hee.

Me too. He didn't even get to be funny.

Maybe he just loves Friends and really wanted to be in it before it ended. He had that tiny part in Frasier and wasn't that funny there, either.

Whereas Patrick Stewart's role on Frasier resulted in the funniest episode of the whole damn series!

He was pretty darn funny.

From Trek in other forms:

Ha! I have some of these, and in one of them (runs to check shelf), The First Men in the Moon, Shatner guests as king of the lunar ant men. Sweet Holy Mother of Murgatroyd. It's...he...words fail.

Kate Mulgrew was in Throw Momma from the Train on Sunday night. I did a double take when I saw her in huge 80s hair and make up talking to Oprah.

I see Showtime has finally set a date for the Patrick Stewart/Glenn Close Lion in Winter. Sometime in May, though I think I saw the official date elsewhere. I'll see if I can find it.

I am SO looking forward to that, starri. Please let us know when you find it.

Ooh, I can't wait to see that! Definitely let us know when you find the airdate. Normally I hate remakes of movies I already love (and I love this one), but Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close? I'm so there.