Comments on: Meaney Reflects On Life After Trek

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:20:19 +0000

DS9 was by far the best of the Star Trek series. Meany was brilliant in it.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:21:34 +0000

I love Meaney. He’s one hell of an actor! Without him (and Auberjonois), DS9 would have been so much flatter.

It’s actually quite a shame he was never promoted to a regular on TNG. He could have made up for what was lacking with most of the regular cast: a more natural and “human” personality. (I mean, I love those characters, but how many times was LaForge ever sarcastic for example?)

By: mojonaut

mojonaut — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:12:49 +0000

Michael Hall & William: I’m a life-long northsider, and can certainly say Barrytown is very much removed from what Dublin is like now. I work (unwillingly) in banking, and I get to see every day how much things have changed, both in the physical nature of Dublin, how old buildings are either given a new lease of life, or gotten rid of completely to make way for new, shiny ones, and also in the personality of the people. Ireland has made a leap from being a third world country straight to the forefront of the first world. We’ve developed this wealth that has brought a certain arrogance to the people, which frustrates me. People refer to Ireland as “the land of a thousand welcomes”, but since we’ve developed prosperity, we’ve been experiencing a lot of immigrants coming to the country, and Irish people, rather than realise that this was the position we were in many years ago and relate to these people, instead begrudge them the opportunity to do something with their lives like we did when we flooded the United States, the UK and Australia.

Even ten years ago life was much removed from Barrytown. In fact, we were riding the crest of our economic wave at that point. I think it won’t be long until these things come crashing down and Irish people realise what the really valuable things in life are. I don’t begrudge our success, I just think it came too quickly for us not to lose the run of ourselves.

And now I’m ranting.

By: toddk

toddk — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:18:22 +0000

colm was the only highlight of die-hard 2 :)

By: Todd Rivers

Todd Rivers — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:24:24 +0000

Interesting bit about how he had two careers, one in Star trek and one in movies. Of course DS9 was never as big a hit as TNG, I might be mistaken, but I feel it had more of a cult sci-fi audience, whereas TNG was really quite popular in the mainstream.

By: max

max — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:15:14 +0000

I just find it amazing that someone spoke well of Rick Berman in an interview and no one is arguing the point. I’ve come to believe you can’t have a Trek forum without the Berman bashing.

Its a bit of a refreshing change for once, actually. All right then, carry on. ;)

By: Plum

Plum — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:26:16 +0000

Great, great lad Colm. A girlfriend of mine worked on a film he was staring in some years ago. Shot in a small town, Colm showed up at cast party in the towns only bar and the whole town was there. Colm bought the town drinks. The town! Now THAT’S a great guy! :D

By: British Naval Dude

British Naval Dude — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:52:18 +0000

Mystery, Alaska… Colm is the mayor of an American tundra wilderness town, kind of outspoken – definately all gung-ho about the locales… and he’s still got tha’ irish lilt ta’ his speakin’…

It’s funny when ya’ see him in other films how ya’ forget he was Miles O’Brien… unlike some other actors associated with their parts… I means ta’ say, why is Cap’n Kirk practicing law? How come Spock went after the Loch Ness Monster?

Character actors in films really allow ya’ ta’ suspend disbelief and enjoy tha’ perofrmance wit’out relating them to their celebrity… like when Tommy Lee Jones hands him the phones…

I’m rantin’… arrrrr…

By: Kirk's Toupee

Kirk's Toupee — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:59:16 +0000

Yeh, nice bloke by all accounts, my wife met him when she worked in Dublin at the Shelbourne Hotel about 12 years ago and said he was a lovely down to earth fella, but that’s the Irish for you!!

By: Tassieboy

Tassieboy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:04:57 +0000

I really enjoyed Mr. Meany’s performances in Stargate Atlantis.