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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 : Al Smith
Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 17:48:16

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.ds9

>>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.

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