Subj : Re: I BLAME BRAGA
To   : rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.startrek.current,alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.voyager,alt.tv.star-trek.ds9
From : Wouter Valentijn
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 01:06:13

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

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.

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