We just caught that episode last night. The Captain was utterly perplexed when I pointed out to him that it was Sulu playing the bad guy. Heh.

Tuvok was on Ed and Will's new show on TNT last night (Trust Me?).

Yes! I saw that. Such a cutie. I was complaining in the show's thread because I was hoping that Eric McCormack would play a character similar to the one he played in Free Enterprise--irascible, intense, flaring nostrils, etc.--but, no. Hmmmph.

The patient of the week on House was the little girl that was trapped in the elevator with Picard during the disaster episode. She was completely unrecognizable and I never would have known it was her if I hadn't known the actress's name (I'm obsessed with the many bizarre Trek and Dr. Quinn connections - Erika Flores was the first Colleen).

Oh and last night's rerun of TNG on WGN was that first one with the Traveller. I couldn't figure out why the guest smart guy was so familiar and then it hit me: Monk's old shrink. And then I was sad because he died last year.

The worst part about being semi-downsized is daytime TV, where I spent all day recognizing Trek actors. It was a HITG marathon.

There was Tuvok on Will and Ed's Big Adventure

There was Mrs Feezal Phlox on The Closer

There was MACO Buckteeth who tried to seduce Trip with Neural Node Nudgings on CSI: New York

There was an extremely young Stephen Culp (Major Hayes, ENT) on The Cosby Show as a panicked man who left his pregnant and in labor wife in the car outside the hospital.

If I turn this into a drinking game, I'm going to be so drunk I could pass for a recapper!

I've been watching S1 of the Man from UNCLE (I love netflix) and I've spotted Khaaaaan!, Scotty, Kirk, and Spock (the last 2 were in the same episode) so far.

Did anybody else see Jonathan Frakes have this tiny cameo on a recent episode of Leverage? It was so neat, and yet so odd. They made sure to have a clear shot of his face when he looked at Tim Hutton, but he didn't have a speaking part or anything. Mr. Lor and I scoured both sets of credits to see if he directed/was mentioned, but he was nowhere to be found.

He's directed two episodes already- one from last month and this week's as well. TrekMovie had an interview with him on it- I think he's got plans to do more, with more TNG veterans.

Last week's TV Guide (which I can't find anymore, of course) had a brief article on Riker's connection with Leverage. A future episode will have Data, Quark, and a woman whose name I didn't recognize in it.

I found the imdb page. The episode airs on February 10th and the woman (I think) is Kitty Swank who was in a few random DS9 episodes.

Is this the article: TVGuide.com: Mini-interview with Jonathan Frakes (talks about tonight's Leverage episode and some of his other projects, including the upcoming Fox show Persons Unknown where he has an acting role)? (found via the Leverage thread - posted by amberdotcom)

And, in the "I did not know that" category: Kitty Swink is the wife of Armin Shimmerman.

I really like Leverage, and am thrilled to see the "Star Trek Convention" on the show. Especially Spiner.

I am so glad to see Jonathan getting so much work and enjoying himself so much. He seems like a very good-natured guy. I remember some reporter asking him, with a bit of a sneer, if he was unhappy being stuck in the rut of a Trek actor. And Jonathan said something like, Are you kidding? I would love to have the career of a Shatner or a Nimoy--they act, they direct, they do all kinds of things, and they keep working, which is hard to do in this profession, etc.

I thought that was a cool answer. Good for him!

I think his exact quote was, "I'll take a career like Nimoy's any time."

Yeah, it's hard not to like a guy with that perspective.

More Frakes and Leverage but also something about TNG cast showing up on Family Guy.

There's Charles "Trip" Tucker III on Terminator SCC.

We were rather cruelly led to think he'd blown up again for a few seconds. Then he turned out to be an abusive husband and was shot instead.

Which was for the better.

Terribly shallow of me, but I hated his hairdo on that episode!

Yes, but the mirrored sunglasses, and the firearm at his side?....*fans self* I like my TV Boyfriends to be heavily armed and dangerous!

Connor Trinneer is going to be on 24 next week! I actually clapped my hands and said, "Yay!" when I saw the preview. Couldn't tell if he was going to be good or bad though.

For any Chuck fans out there, Daniels (I don't know the actor's name) showed up as Barclay, the assistant manager of the Beverly Hills Buy More. And he had a goatee, or whatever it's called. And one of the Burbank employees smashes his cardboard likeness with a baseball bat. It was kind of awesome.

heh. I knew I knew him from somewhere. Unfortunately, I didn't get a strong enough feeling to actually check imdb. I wish I'd known. Buster beating his cutout would have been extra enjoyable.

Thank you, lorien, for the heads up about Trineer on 24. it's not a show I usually watch and I was hysterically amused at all the cast and crew names I recognized from Trek! Also, Connor is pretty. And also awesome.

Also, Ensign Hoshi Sato (Linda Park) showed up on Life as a pregnant coroner. She was kinda funny!

I spent the entire episode trying to place her. I am a bad, bad trekkie.

Scott Bakula will be on Chuck tomorrow night. I'm really hoping he's more Sam Beckett than Archer but, either way, everyone should watch because Chuck is awesome.

Heh, I just went to the Chuck fora to check out the episode description and it lists Scott Bakula as from Quantum Leap. Heeee! Enterprise was conveniently forgotten.

There were furrows (and an annoying cover hunch) but I think Scott was more Sam last night (he even said 'oh boy') than Quantum. Overall, I think it was an excellent episode and hope he comes back.

Well, when you've been hiding from your kids and the government, there are bound to be furrows. But, I think the "cover" of trying to be a crazy tech guy and then transforming were very Sam-like. My favorite part was the scene with Bakula and Devon talking about why Ellie was upset by the bachelor party, though. And that Devon made pancakes. *Sniff* Closely followed by, "I know what you can't do!" Heart wrenching. And on a show that had me cracking up as well. And I noticed that Tom Paris (I don't think I could spell his real name) directed this episode, which must have been really nice for Bakula.

And for Firefly fans, Adam Baldwin is just awesome as Casey, one of Chuck's handlers. I'll be so bummed if this show isn't renewed. I really, really hope these aren't the final three episodes and we get even a shortened S3. If only to wrap up the story completely.

I can't help but wonder if Scott Bakula has asthma or something because he always, always sounds out of breath. It's kind of weird.

Tom Paris is known in the real world as Robert Duncan McNeill. (No, I don't keep my Trek-lopedia right next to my desk in case of a Trek info-related emergency. *shifty eyes*)

Scott was simply awesome as Chuck's dad. The character was completely enjoyable and I didn't have the urge to hate him at all.
Robert must have been able to find something in Scott that made him a good actor again. I have no idea what this says about Archer, though. It has to be awful directing and lousy scripts on the part of the Enterprise show-runners.

Daniels is time traveling all over the place! Matt Winston showed up on The Mentalist, playing a greasy doormat agent for a TV personality. Unfortunately he was not the murderer. But Simon Baker did tell him to put on his big boy pants. Heh. (Not in so many words, although I have never loved Jane more!)

Ohmigod, is this true? That is freakin' awesome.

That is freakin' awesome!

Also, I recognize Daniels as someone familiar every time I see him but can never connect him with anything specific.

For anyone who missed the discussion in the movie thread because they haven't seen it yet, there's a new movie theater "silence your cell phone" ad starring Dominic Keating. It's pretty funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8cbPtQeTGk

I am a Fringe fan, and I just found out about this yesterday! The episode is tonight, and I can't wait. This show randomly got good about 3/4 of the way through, which is a dangerous way to run a show.

By the way, if you plan to check it out just to see Nimoy, be sure to set your DVR to extend the recording time by at least five minutes for the American Idol weekly overrun. Fringe likes to put something interesting in the last 2 or 3 minutes, and Idol likes to make 2 or 3 minutes of something interesting into 65 minutes.

Linda Park was a crime-computer person on SVU last night. They also had the president's daughter from 24 and Charles Widmore from Lost guest-starring. Mr. Lor exclaimed that multiple universes were converging, and it was really throwing him off.

I could swear that I saw Scott Bakula making another appearance on The New Adventures of Old Christine. At least it looks like him in the ads. I hate that show. I just couldn't watch to be certain.

If you are a night owl, stay up until 11pm tonight and watch Ben Cross (Star Trek) and Dominic Keating (ENT) in the movie Species: The Awakening. Hee! (Dominic's shirtless frequently, and has an Aussie accent. I might just do it!)

The new Chekov (Anton Yelchin, Star Trek) played young Kyle Reese on Terminator: Salvation. He's really getting around this summer!

Patrick Stewart and David Tennant's Hamlet will be filmed and aired on BBC2 later this year (the last sentence of the article reveals the next Doctor's companion. I'm not sure if that's spoilery so thought a warning might be good).

I thought he was excellent, one of the best parts of the movie.

I'd forgotten he was in this one so got a little excited when I saw his name. I told the guy next to me (who had gone to Star Trek with us) Chekhov would be making an appearance and he spent the entire movie looking for Walter Koenig.

oh! Oh! OH! *jumps up and down like a monkey on crack* Connor Trinneer returns to my TV! On the Syphilis Channel...I mean, the Sippy Cup channel...Oh for crying out loud, the Stupid SciFi channel.

Commander Tucker and Ando from Hereoes save an popsicle princess and battle bugs while dirty, sweaty and dimly lit! This Saturday at 9pm PST! Whee! I am so there!

ETA: Matt Winston (Daniels, ENT) and Robert Picardo (Doctor, VOY) showed up on Pushing Daisies last Saturday. Picardo was an investigator trying to nail Emmerson (not like that) and Winston was a cross-dressing killer.

Heh. Again, he seemed very familiar but I couldn't place him. I have no idea why I can't seem to id him when he's on other shows (I did pet him as the murderer as soon as I saw him though).

I went to see the Trek movie again last night and then spent a while on imdb trying to figure out why so many of the background actors rang bells for me (especially the Enterprise bridge crew). The only one I could put a face to a past role for though was the 'Barracks Officer,' played by Paul McGillion (Beckett from Stargate: Atlantis). I'm pretty sure he was the guy who told Kirk he was grounded.

Thanks! /notes 'Sippy Cup' for future channel slams.

If JJ Abrahms gave you a job once, he's likely to cram you into every show he ever makes until the end of time. For example, one of the ENT bridge crewman is that woman who played the Goth chick on Felicity. (whose name I can never remember even though I love her.)

Carson Beckett was indeed the man who grounded Kirk. Every time I see him I want to ask him about his 'wee turtles' (but that would be weird, right?)

I did manage to ID her (mostly from her time on Alias). It was fun noting the JJ show connection for most of the actors.

In depressing news, I spotted Shatner as "the imposing actor" who pretends to be the lawyer in the Ambulance chaser "Gary Martin Hays" law firm ads. Shat, you're better than that!

Shatner writes in his autobiography about the time he once, as a young actor, was invited to dinner at Edward G. Robinson's house. Robinson had an impressive collection- a museum, really- of Old Masters of which he was very proud, and gave Shatner a tour of them. Shatner idolized Robinson, and at some point, having recently seen him in a coffee commercial (or something like that), asked him how he could "lower himself" (my words) to do them.

Robinson pointed at the latest acquisition in his collection and said, "That's how." Shatner said he got a valuable actor's lesson from that: No job is "beneath you." He also tells a story about how a young John Wayne was complaining to Will Rogers about the roles he had starting out. Rogers let him go on for a while and then said, "You working?" (This was during the Depression, remember.) Wayne said, "Yeah." Rogers answered, "Keep working" and walked off.

That book was a lot deeper than I thought it would be.

In its latest post, Trekmovie.com has a list of Easter eggs in the new movie, including most of the cameos.

I started watching True Blood and hey it's Phlox! John Billingsley plays the coroner.

I recognized Daniels! (I hope.) He was on Burn Notice last night as a dad whose son was kidnapped.

HEE! I thought of you when I saw him! (Although I can't say I've ever hoped to recognize Daniels. Poor Matt Winston!)

I also kept yelling "Hit him with the car! Hit him with THE CAR!" And then Michael did, proving why he's my TV boyfriend. But Fi wouldn't let him go to the shootout which made me doubt my love for my TV girlfriend.

BN is usually much better with casting. Even without the residual Daniels hatred, I don't think I'd have been that sympathetic to the guy. I spent most of the episode being suspicious of him (and cheering when he got beat up). I don't think either reaction was what they were going for.

Fi needs to stop pining and eat a sandwich before she can be my tv girlfriend. I love her love of explosions and general kickass-ness but the desperation is annoying.