Subj : Re: I BLAME BRAGA
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From : ANIM8Rfsk
Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 18:43:52

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise

in article 4324aa53$0$11080$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl, Wouter Valentijn at
liam@valentijn.nu wrote on 9/11/05 3:06 PM:

> ANIM8Rfsk wrote:
>> in article kdZUe.88628$Ph4.2810865@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca, Al Smith
>> at invalid@address.com wrote on 9/11/05 9:48 AM:
>> 
>>>>> LOL, well, not exactly.  Genvieve Bujold didn't like much of
>>>>> anything about
>>>>>> the show apparently (and in retrospect, can you really blame
>>>>>> her?) and left after a day or two of filming.  Mostly she was
>>>>>> used to movies and not TV.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> She was in fact used to being a movie star, and being treated
>>>> as such.  Being treated as an actor, on the other hand, wasn't
>>>> exactly what she wanted.  Nor cared for.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm not sure Mulgrew was so much 'second choice' as 'who can we
>>>>>> have here by
>>>>>> tomorrow morning'
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> You are kidding...  Production had stopped until the
>>>> replacement/second choice could be introduced to the staff.  They
>>>> weren't too far behind in schedule as you might think.
>>> 
>>> Everytime I think of Genvieve Bujold as captain of a starship, I
>>> quake in horror. She was completely wrong for the role. Even if
>>> she had stayed, she would have quit after the first season,
>>> leaving the series in the lurch. The best thing that ever happened
>>> to "Voyager" was Mulgrew.
>> 
>> I like Bujold a lot, but I do have a hard time picturing her in the
>> role. Of course, if Janeway was INTENTIONALLY a joke, maybe casting
>> somebody you didn't take seriously as a Starship Captain was the idea.
>> 
>> That said, the other name usually mentioned as a top contender was
>> Lindsey Wagner.  I think she'd have worked.
> 
> Ah, the Bionic Woman. Had a crush on her back in the day. ;-)
> A hundred times better than the other two combined.

Yep.  I've read a list of a few names that were the final candidates; I
don't recall who else was on it, but Wagner was the only one I thought could
have done the job.

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