Brent Spiner
Brent Spiner, Star Trek's Capt. Data, shares the secrets behind his new genre-bending CD, Dreamland, and muses about Data's future
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Q: How did you come up wit the idea for your new CD Dreamland?
- A: I was sitting on my exer-cycle one morning, and I called my friend John McKenny who is an arranger and orchestrator and said, ‘I think I want to do another CD’…. I got this idea that I wanted to dream songs–there are so many songs that are about dreaming, or yearning or imagining or hoping—but they contain the word ‘dream’ in the title.
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Q: Will we ever see your Star Trek character Data again?
- A: Sean Connery said, ‘Never say never.’ But probably never. We are getting a little bit old in the tooth to be doing–at least I am. Data is a character that’s about youth, in a way. And child-like wonder. Exploring humanity with child-like eyes… some of the other people could come back much easier than I could.
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NOTHING PERSONAL, BRENT. BUT I HAVE WATCHED A FEW EPISODES OF STAR TREK..THE NEXT GENERATION AND IT DOES NOT COMPARE ANYWHERE NEAR THE OLD STAR TREK.
I SUPPOSE IF I HAD TO PICK THE ONE INDIVIDUAL THAT IRRITATES ME SO MUCH WITH STAR TREK.. THE NEXT GENERATION IS THE PERSON WHO PLAYS NUMBER 1.
IVE SEEN THIS PERSON ACT ON THE OLD WALTON SHOWS AND JUST LIKE STAR TREK, HE TENDS TO HOLD HIS BODY IN TOO MUCH OF A PETRIFIED POSTURE, HE REMINDS ME OF A PEACOCK STRUTTING AROUND FOR AFFECTION. IN OTHERWORDS, HE COMES ACROSS AS COCKY AND SELF-CENTERED, SOMETHING THAT THE DIRECTOR SHOULD HAVE EASILY PICKED UP ON AND CORRECTED IMMEDIATELY.
I LIKE THE DATA CHARACTER, BUT WHAT I DO NOT LIKE OF EITHER THE OLD STAR TREK OR THE NEWER ONE, ARE THE UNIFORMS. IM REALLY SURPRISED THAT IF A CREW MEMBER BELCHED OR WERE TO BEND OVER, ONE WOULD SEE EITHER THE CRACK OF THAT CHARACTER'S BUTT OR THE LINT IN THEIR BELLYBUTTON. I SUPPOSE IN THE FUTURE, THEY JUST DO NOT HAVE THAT MUCH MATERIAL TO GO AROUND, SO THEY HAD TO MAKE A 1/2 SHIRT FOR THOSE CHARACTERS.
OVERALL, I FIND A LOT OF FAULTS IN THE NEWER SERIES. JUST TELLING YOU MY HONEST OPINION.
- Posted by SANDY @ 2/25/09, 2:41 AM
In Brent's documentary will he be coming through Idaho?
- Posted by Marcus @ 10/2/08, 3:32 PM
cool!
- Posted by Amy @ 9/12/08, 11:35 AM
Where can I buy this? Amazon?
- Posted by Mandy @ 9/12/08, 7:01 AM