Oh, I know. Over here he also seems to have done a lot of voice-overs recently, with BA (I think) coming to mind at the moment.

Speaking of Shakespeare, tonight I saw Casey Biggs (DS9's Damar) in Much Ado about Nothing, starring as Benedick. He was amazing. He was so funny, and charming, and utterly adorable. It was a really good production.

During intermission, I tried to explain to my total un-trekked friend the story arc of Damar, so she could appreciate how versatile this actor is. She was duly impressed. She also thought he was fabulous.

Oh, lisi, lucky, lucky you, getting to see Casey on the stage!

Michael Dorn briefly appeared in Soul Plane. I'm not sure if it counts as a cameo or a sight gag, since he was virtually unrecognizable in his costume--not Worf make-up.

I've been playing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic on my Xbox, and I found out that Ethan Phillips did the voice for some loser alien you meet during the game (who gets killed offscreen, heh).

Ethan Phillips did a bunch of voices in that game (well, the PC version, anyway). You'll encounter him again soon.

I flipped on the TV while putting away the laundry and it was on the Hallmark Channel because hubby watches M*A*S*H when he gets home.

Anyway, Touched by an Angel was on, and lo and behold, there was Connor Trineer playing a death row prisoner, Paul Ratcliffe. Shocked the heck out of me, he was so young.

The strangest thing? It was set in Mississippi so he was speaking in the Trip accent and it really threw me...

On the plane back from London, I saw the "Homer the Great" episode of The Simpsons (the one with the Stonecutters). It wasn't until the credits that I realized that "Number One" was Patrick Stewart. It took a little longer for the inside joke (I think- Number One, get it?) to sink in.

It took a while for me to get that as well.

Jonathan Frakes was narrating Roswell: Cover-ups and Close Encounters on Monday night. Patrick Stewart is going to be on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on, not surprisingly, Friday night.

I've just watched Jonathan Ross (well spotted PB!). I thought Patrick was really good - talking about Trek, comb-overs, X-Men, and Yorkshire (yay!). Jonathan Ross and Patrick Stewart in the same place - perfect!

The best bit was when he let Jonathan Ross touch his head. That and the comb-over story. Heh.

For those of us not lucky enough to come from the same nation as Patrick Stewart, can you elaborate of the comb-over story? And who Jonathan Ross is?

Jonathan Ross is a chatshow host and TV and radio presenter. Very, very funny man.

Patrick has told the comb-over story before, so I'm sure you'll hear it from him sooner or later, but in a nutshell... Patrick started going bald at an unusually young age, and instead of facing up to the fact, he grew a comb-over 'do. He had an older friend, and one night went to dinner with said friend and his wife. After dinner, one of them (the friend, I think) held Patrick down while his wife fetched the kitchen scissors and lopped off the comb-over.

Patrick tells this story about a million times better than that pathetic effort, because the funny is really in the voices and terrified facial expressions, but there you go. PB, feel free to add actual funny bits!

The only other bit I can think to add is that his friend was a judo expert and that made the experience all the more intimidating. Eh, it was a lot funnier when he told it.

Stumbled across the tail end of a Becker episode last night. Leonard Nimoy was the guest star! The last minute was just him and Terry Farrell. I was torn between giggling about Spock and Dax (especially thinking of Trials and Tribble-ations) and still holding a grudge against Terry Farrell for leaving DS9 for frickin' Becker.

I have to admit smiling at the Shatner/Nimoy Priceline ads. I just saw the newest one with the Hotel room!

I've only seen the first! Ah well. Are they online?

Hmmm...I wonder how DS9 would have been different if Farrell had stayed.

Dr. Bashir's dad showed up tonight in Fox's new show "North Shore".

Babu!

From the "Trek in Real Life" thread:

Garrett has done some fine, top-quality work with Xander.

OK, hee, I can't even keep a straight face while I type that. It's quite possibly one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Oooookay.

For some reason, it's played fairly often on AMC. We actually rented it once, since Mr. thinga is a connoisseur of bad movies, and he figured I wouldn't put up too much of a fuss about this one since NB is in it. (He was wrong, BTW.)

So ... nothing much then? Ah well. Can't say I mind.

Patrick Stewart is narrating The Quest For King Arthur on the History Channel now.

Interesting side note: it was presented by Ioan Gruffudd!

Now? I thought it was on at 9pm! Shoot, I've been waiting to watch that all day.

It was 6-8pm, it'll probably repeat at 9 though....

Hm, my History Channel (THC-West) is showing "Band of Brothers" from 4-8pm but will be showing "The Quest for King Arthur" at 9. Ioan? YAY!

So I've been watching random afternoon shows recently, and Scott Bakula was playing a Campaign manager in Matlock. And boy did he look young. Not a furrow in sight! It's a 2-parter and now I'm tempted to watch the 2nd half tomorrow just to see if he was the murderer.

Seinfeld connections. They don't mention that Brian George also played Bashir's father, but it's pretty complete.

I saw Matt Winston in Scrubs yesterday. He really has a gift for playing someone unbearably smug.

Okay, exhausted from driving so far today, but I had to post that William Shatner has a minor role in Dodgeball as the Dodgeball Association Chairman. It was more of a cameo really, as the movie seems chock-full of them (e.g. Chuck Norris as a judge, Launce Armstrong as an intervention) but he does get to wrangle with Ben Stiller over an extremely ugly trophy.

According to the credits, Max Grodénchik was on Six Feet Under last night playing a tailor. We were talking through that scene so I was distracted and didn't recognize him without the big ears.

I just saw John Billingsley in Out of Time with Denzel Washington. He plays Washington's sidekick.

He was absolutely hilarious. In every scene I saw him I laughed out loud. There is one scene in a bar when Washington tells Billingsley to go home because he has had enough. Billingsley starts grumbling like a whiny child, and as he gets up to go, he snatches a dollar tip out of the bartender's hand just as she picks it up. He then leaves in a pique. Washington laughs at this.

I replayed it over and over, it was such fun.

Billingsley has a pretty impressive resume.

I just noticed Nicole de Boer on the cast list for Cube. I can't picture her at all. That was such a weird movie.

belsum, she was the math genius with the glasses.

Thanks dalek. Man, she's practically unrecognizable.

I know this was already mentioned way upthread, but for anyone over here who hasn't noticed - both Robert Picardo and Roxann Dawson appear in "The Lyon's Den" on 5, on Tuesdays.

Picardo was a regular, if not in name. But the series didn't last long.

ETA: Spiderman 2 goodness. Donna Murphy, Daniel Dae Kim, and, of course, Kirsten Dunst.

Oh, GOSH! I'd (mercifully) forgot that Kirsten was Trek-related....*eyeroll*

But I was lovin' the Donna Murphy and I just *knew* that I'd seen Daniel Dae Kim somewhere.

I loved seeing Daniel Dae Kim (although I still think of him as Gavin). I was hoping he'd have a much bigger part, however.

I was flipping channels and discovered that Louise Fletcher, aka DS9's Kai Winn, was the evil Grandmother in Flowers in the Attic. And because my phasers are firmly set, I actually watched more than half of that dreadful film on television last night just because she's so much fun to watch. She's so good at being piously evil.

I saw a preview on a DVD for American History X and they quickly flashed on Avery Brooks' face. I had no idea The Emissary was in that. Is it any good?

It's very good. A little intense, but it's got a great message.

Avery Brooks's role is small, but significant. He's the principal of Ed Norton's old high school, and his little brother is still in that school. Jennifer Lien (Kes) is in it too. She plays their sister.

Jonathan Frakes is on Jonathan Ross's radio show today talking about directing the Thunderbirds film.

So over the past year or two, unabridged audiobooks of the Chronicles of Narnia have been released. Today I picked up The Last Battle, the final book, and it is read by our very own Patrick Stewart. [snif]I'm so happy.

I'm currently watching Resurrection which features our friendly neighborhood kidnapper Leland Orser. He's doing a great job as the cop partner of the lead, Christopher Lambert. Unfortunately, as partners in thrillers tend to do, he's going through a tough time, but acting it great!

I saw Nicole DeBoer in a commercial for Dead Zone on USA. I'm not sure if she's a guest star or a regular, but I noticed her voice really irrated me.

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She's a regular; she plays the woman Johnny was dating before he went into the coma, but by the time he woke up she had married the town sherriff. I haven't seen enough to be sure if it's absolute fact or merely hinted that her son might actually be Johnny's.

It's a decent show. DS9's Michael Pillar is the guy who adapted it to TV.

It's Johnny's son. She told her husband (Walt the sheriff) from the beginning. She, Johnny and Walt have agreed to let the son think that she and Walt are his parents and Johnny is just a friend of the family.

The whole time Doc Ock's wife was on screen I couldn't figure it out. Just now it hit me, Picard's girlfriend!