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Subj : Re: McFadden vs Muldaur
To   : rec.arts.startrek.current,alt.startrek,alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : George Peatty
Date : Tue Sep 20 2005 09:44:40

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

In article <1126930641.939063.216700@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, The Thunder
Child says...

[snip]

>Also, I confess I never did watch much Star Trek: TNG, - usually only
>when Q was a guest star, frankly! But I watched a few eps with Muldaur
>and seem to remember getting the impression that the other cast members
>didn't care for her - like she was never in the same shot with them, or
>something.

>Am I imagining that as well?

Muldaur asked for and received "special" billing, similar to what Edward Hermann
receives today on Gilmore Girls.  That "might" have to torqued some of the TNG
cast.

Her replacing McFadden was Roddenberry's choice, and had he lived, McFadden
would not have returned, I believe.

Of more interest to me is why so much of the fan community despises Muldaur. 
Yes, she was a McCoy clone, and yes she lacked a certain warmth, but she was an
interesting character, and Muldaur was light-years better than McFadden as an
actress.  (I just love "..like Achilles sulking in his tent," for example) 
Muldaur never gave a bad performance on TNG, yet she was gone in a year. 
Damfino why.

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