DS9/ENT Trek Actors Talk ST09 On Video Game Show June 12, 2009
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This week the Jace Hall Show, a series mostly focused on video games on Sony’s Crackle Video Site, has a new episode which brings together a reunion of five Trek stars and guest actors from DS9 & Enterprise to talk about the new Star Trek movie, games and other stuff. Check it out below.
The second season finale of the Jace Hall Show is about the upcoming "Duke Nukem: Forever" and features a dinner conversation with Star Trek TV alumni including, Armin Shimerman (Quark, Deep Space Nine), Max Grodénchik (Rom, Deep Space Nine), Connor Trinneer (Commander Charles ‘Trip’ Tucker III, Enterprise), Jeffrey Combs (Commander Shran, Enterprise – Weyoun, Deep Space Nine – Penk, Voyager), and Gary Graham who played Vulcan Ambassador Soval on Enterprise and Tanis on Voyager).
Here it is (note some ‘colorful metaphors’ are used):
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Isn’t DNF kind of…. yesterday’s news?
Umm, I didn’t watch much of this video. Why do so many people think they have to curse to get a point through. In the end, it’s just nasty dirty language, yuck.
Can’t afford Bill Shatner, Patrick Stewart, and Avery Brooks, eh?! Whoopi Goldberg was able to get some of those dudes together for a Star Trek DVD set! Avery Brooks wasn’t there since he was on DS9 but regardless, try to get Shatner and Stewart together to play Star Trek video games and compare notes! :D PEACE!
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Video seems to have vaporized.
The language!!!! Those “colorful metaphors” ruined it for me.
5. Yeah, but turning a planet into a bunch of Nazi stooges is A-OK, huh? ; )
What’s the deal? I see a short commercial and then…
…NOTHING!
hahahahaha
this is awesome. They seem like hilarious to hangout with.
Fun!
Colorful metaphors don’t bother me so much. I got a kick out of this, though it seemed kinda pointless.
they seem really bitter to me…..have any of them worked since their respective shows ended?!?….thank god for G4 I guess…I suppose they can host Spike TV, Trek marathons etc…..
and such colorful metaphors……
About the only thing that Duke Nuke’m has in common with Star Trek is that the fans both received a similar stereo type. And that was those weirdo’s are all virgins for life believing in that junk.
But look to whom they feel can and will solve many of todays problems.
Jeff Combs mustache fills me with envy! I want a Shranstache …
I’ve actually seen quite a few of these guys here and there recently, on Sci-Fi channel cheeseball friday night science fiction stuff, heard their voices in plenty of cartoons, but they get good gigs and guest spots on the top sci-fi series like The 4400 and Stargate, and stuff loaded with Trek vets like Leverage, so they’re hardly out of work.
But I imagine nothing’s quite like Trek.
I always wish DN:F came out. RIP Duke.
oh and btw I’ve got balls of steel
the video is not available anymore
The vid unfortunately only works in the U.S. so anyone outside would be getting the error.
I absolutely love this vid. Totally hilarious. XD Just wish everyone could see it!
I think its nice to get some of the people on screen that werent main players. Its also weird to hear trip minus the accent. And as for DNF, I think its a lost cause, just looking at the game play it already looks a year or two behind.
Oh, and #5, seriously? Its a video game video clip, we gamers take just as much pride in the horrible things we think up to say as we do in how well we actually play.
I guess this is funny if you are watching it in Jace’s living room?
Did more people view it on this site than anywhere else?
Any chance for a transcript? This video appears to be unavailable in my location. :(
#20 …or a few screencaps or something. I love these guys and want to see them :(
I’ve used a few colorful metaphors regarding “Star Trek” too…
Shame, I can’t see this video. Is another of those restricted Honalulu via the States vids again? Or might this be viewable elsewhere?
This was pretty funny.
Olivia Munn is incredibly hot.
What was this video about again?
nasty language?
good fu**ing grief people are sensitive to words
what was said in the video, anyway?
EEEKK! What a baggle of female airheads. Cursing is a sign of a weak vocabulary and man, did they hit the mark. Watched about 15 seconds, got ill and hit the stop switch. People like this need to grow up.
’nuff said!
They’re just words people…relax. They are no less qualified to use for self expression as any other word.
@26 Inference is a sign of ignorance. A “curse” word is no more “dumbed down” then something you’ll find on an SAT. A word is a word and there is absolutely no intelligence value placed on words that can’t be dismissed as something relegated to the opinion of the person judging them.
I “swear” up and down in conversations all the time. I also have a pretty thick repertoire of obscure or rarely used words.
Obviously this is just an opinion but I am willing to go out on a line and assume that virtually every genius in history has thrown out a slew of “naughty” words in their time as well. Words are tools and tools can be used in different ways. Obviously some of those words can be hurtful if used in the proper context but so can any number of other words that people do not find “distasteful”. It’s time to stop looking at the word and start looking at the context in which it is being used.
2 & 5 — Thanks for the warnings about the language. I won’t even bother to play the video.
LoL, I have an old PC Gamer magazine from 1997 with Duke Nuken Forever on the cover! And it was “supposed” to be out by Christmas that year. Let it die.
Does the camera man have Parkinson’s?
Everytime I see Soval on Enterprise, I think of Detective Matt Sikes from Alien Nation. :-P
26:
What makes it a sign of weakness of vocabulary? Where do you make the leap from “foul” language to a lack of intelligence or maturity?
I mean, if we were to go ahead and play the vocabulary game, we could easily start by breaking down the word “assume”. Shall we?
#33 – “[W]e could easily start by breaking down the word ‘assume’.”
I saw that “Odd Couple” episode, too! ;-)
Gary Grahams’ comment on Christian Bale being well lit in T4 was hilarious.
R.I.P. Duke Nukem Forever
Really looks like a Doom 3 rip off in all honesty though.
29.
I wish you would have gone a step further and not bothered posting a useless comment.
Your aversion to profanity seems to match my aversion to self-righteousness
37:
Right with you there. Some people act like they want nothing to do with something, then go on to complain about it and the people who engage in it. Live and let live? Never!
So 26 and 29, keep fighting the good fight. Why pick your battles when you can fight them all?
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Calling somebody self righteous for being offended by aspects opposed to character and moral values is wrong. It’s kind of like saying “I want to be able to hear all of the &!@$% cursing I want to and if you don’t find it funny like I do, then you’re bad. Keep your talk of values and morality away from me though, because I find it offensive”. Am I the only one who sees a very self-centered double-standard with that way of thinking?
So 37 and 38: Live and let live.
37 – What’s your problem? We’re all entitled to comment here. If you don’t like mine, just skip them.
I am sure you are an expert in uselessness, based upon life experience.
40 – Sarah, thank you. It’s nice to see there are still some class acts on this site.
38 – Didn’t see your post before. And since I’ll choose not to use profanity, I will simply say that it does not take very large reproductive organs to hurl insults and invectives at people you don’t even know, via the internet and under assumed names.
Yes, I will pick my battles, but at least I’ve got the necessary equipment to participate in them like a grown man, and I don’t hide in cowardice behind pseudonymous handles.
I seem to feel a little sorry for these guys. I’ve loved Jeff Combs’ work since ReAnimator, I thought Connor Trinneer was the best thing about Enterprise (I actually thought he would have made a great McCoy in the new Star Trek till I saw Karl Urban). As talented as these guys are, their careers are just kinda drifting.
36, my thoughts exactly. This game is irrelevant.
40.
41.
So those that think like you are class acts and the rest of us are?
Double standards huh? Hypocrites.
Hey Brett, nice comeback. What are you a12 year old? Thanks for the laugh though. Peace.
45 – Intercourse you. Don’t start what you can’t finish decently. If you want to pick a fight, you’ll get one. You’re the one that started things; don’t forget it. You’re the one who acted like an adolescent to begin with. And that’s enough wasted time and energy on you.
Did you get a good amount of attention today, baby?
Glad to see you children think profanity is funny, I thought it was funny too, when I was twelve! I’m thinking you guys should shuck off your Trek footed jammies, put down your pahser water guns and get out of momma’s basement. I for one find it repulsive when someone cannot communicate without using a “colorful metafore” every other word. And guess what….I have a right to feel that way, and I shall continue to do so. These women sure show thier true colors with thier mouths, the word “skank” comes to mind. So, feel free to pick at this post, flame, insult and do whatever, I for one am going to sit back and laugh. Nighty, night kiddies……
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Hahaha. Granted, I only watched the part with the ‘Trek veterans, but I still enjoyed it. And just my luck that those were some of my favourite recurring stars on DS9 and ENT! (Especially Combs and Graham… FREAK. IN’. AWESOME. But Trinneer was always great. 8D)
To all posters and friends at this site: I am sorry that two of the other posters’ comments brought out some of the worst in me yesterday. You should not have had to read such rancor.
I like to come to this site to communicate and share ideas with people with a common interest and to discuss debate, but not necessarily to argue and fight.
It would be great if we could learn to respect each others’ opinions more without tearing each other down or trying to prove that we are more clever than someone else or that our opinion counts more than others do. It is something that I will strive harder to do in the future — as well as try to learn to listen better and work harder to understand what someone else is saying, even if I don’t share the same opinion. Peace.
I read in the newspaper a week or so ago that the company developing DNF recently went out of business. They call DNF a primary example of “vaporware”: promised, but never delivered! Oh well!
47. NCC75010 – June 13, 2009
Age has little to do with growing up. It seems some people have the opinion that ‘growing up’ is locking your inner child up in a box. Not so. I had a similar conversation with someone who just couldn’t enjoy the first two Spider Man films because they were ‘fun’…rather than dark and moody like a lot of the comic book adaptations are. The first two movies totally found the spirit of the comics…unlike a movie such as Transformers which doesn’t capture the spirit of the source material…it’s just like every Michael Bay movie, but with Robots. I asked, “didn’t you read Spider Man when you were growing up?” and the arrogant response I got was…”yeah, the operative phrase being ‘when I was GROWING UP”. News flash. We don’t stop ‘growing up’…at least not until we’re dead…or we choose to stagnate and spend the rest of our lives ignoring all that is changing around us. My point? Everything we were is everything we are. I enjoy a good fart joke as much today as I did as a child…and I enjoy more sophisticated humor as well. Turning a higher number in age and acting serious is not growing up, accepting that we are the sum of of all our experiences and faults IS
52 – Nicely put. I like very much what C.S. Lewis (the actual one; not the gentleman who posts here on occasion under that moniker) once wrote: “When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
@43 – Jeff Combs’ career is far from “drifting.” He has 8 projects in the works or recently completed, including films (one of which is a Western!) and 2 online series (one sci-fi, one animated) that all look amazing. He’s also going to be portraying Edgar Allan Poe onstage next month here in Los Angeles.
He’s fantastic and he’s very busy…hardly drifting. :)
I have no problem with the “inner child”. My greatest and most well loved quote is “growing old is inevidable, growing up is optional”. A great fart joke is well worth the time taken listening to it, I’m not a stuffed shirt, hell, I fell in love with Star Trek when it premired in ‘66 (thats how old I am). I guess I just cling to my old style upbringing where you did not use profanity at the drop of a hat. It was a sign of respect. I guess I just have a hard time with a “everything goes” shock value culture. Believe me, it gets tough sometimes.
I’m kind of amused by the idea that the use of profanity (which, by the way, is not the same as “cursing,”) has some inherent quality that sits it in opposition to things that are “moral” or just, etc.
Aspects opposed to character and moral value? I’m confused? The people who use profanity? The words themselves? Words have meaning as far as we assign to them. Which reminds me…”Intercourse you?” If you’re just substituting words, what’s the point? The intent behind them is clearly the same. If you’re using the same idea, what’s the difference between “Go (expletive deleted) yourself” and “Go play with yourself?”
I am sorry some people are offended by profanity, but this is video of a bunch of former Trek actors talking about Trek, so it is something that we report. As we have noted before, this site tries to be comprehensive regarding Trek, and this fits within our remit.
there was a warning, if you are easily offended, dont watch it. But if you are easily offended should we not make this video available to those who arent?
I really regret putting in my two cents worth here. I understand now, I am in the wrong. Please forgive any feathers I ruffled, was not my intention. I’m too old for this place, I will not post and opinion again. My appologies to any one I offended. But I must ask this question….Would any of you use that kind of language around your Grandparents? I will shut up…starting …now!!!
59 – I for one wish you wouldn’t feel this way. You have every right to post your opinion here as anyone else. One of the reasons for my rancor here yesterday was that this was the second thread within two weeks where another poster stated that my opinion was useless or unimportant. No one likes to hear such comments, especially if this was the sort of feedback they got from about their opinions when they were children.
I also enjoyed reading what you had to say. You and I are not so far apart in age, I think. Even though another poster yesterday accused me of being a twelve-year-old, I was six when “Star Trek” premiered on NBC. We come from a different era. I still remember my grandfather slamming off the TV set at the end of “City on the Edge of Forever,” saying that I would never be allowed to watch the show again because Captain Kirk said, “Let’s get the hell out of here.” Times have changed. A show like “Get Smart” could be hilarious without a hint of profanity or innuendo. But the kind of humor on a show like that is now foreign territory to many as these later developments have become so prevalent in our culture.
I have also been tempted to stop posting here because it seems that some of my comments have “ruffled” others or been unwelcome or been deemed unimportant. But I am learning that we ALL have a right to express our opinions. The difficult part lies in doing it in ways that are respectful of others, and it is harder still to remain respectful even when others may not be respectful of us. That was my shortcoming yesterday, and what I need to work on, learn from and grow from today.
So please don’t feel that you need to be silenced. I believe that if you too grew up with Trek for over forty years and still love it, that you have a lot of ideas and insights that are worth paying attention to, at least as far as I am concerned. I don’t think that shutting up is the answer. But I believe that speaking and listening respectfully just might be. You have a pleasant week, sir.
The above should read “got from others about their opinions…”
57 – “Which reminds me…”Intercourse you?” If you’re just substituting words, what’s the point?”
The point was that it made you stop and think twice about what was being said, whereas using the commonplace, cliched vernacular usually does not.
Rather crude and disrespectful in either form, if you ask me. But stating the cliche in another form may put an image in people’s minds to get them to think about what they are saying instead of just letting it roll off the tongue as simple street lingo.
In a Monty Python sketch years ago one of the characters said “Intercourse the penguin!” Silly and ridiculous, but it got past the BBC censors whereas the vernacular would not have. (Just as my term yesterday got past the censors and the vernacular would not.) The use of the more “acceptable” term in the Python sketch also made me stop and think about what is actually being said when one uses the more cliched and supposedly profane term. Two different words for the same sexual act. One generally acceptable, the other usually not. We are very peculiar animals indeed. But I do believe that those who say words don’t matter haven’t thought that through as well as they could. I say that as someone who used to feel that same way but who does not any longer.
The childhood doggerel “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” contains only half of the truth, IMHO.
I was eight years old when Star Trek first took to the airwaves, you do the math….:). Thanks for the kind words.
63 – You’re welcome for the kind words, and I’m lousy at math. Let’s just both say we’re not gettin’ any younger and leave it that, okay? ;-)
Cheers — and welcome back!
I have no idea why I even read all the above, but for the record….I am NOT easily offended. And profanity is very much a part of my daily vernacular.
That said, my wife and I both agreed the other night that The Carol Burnett Show was one of the funniest shows ever put out there, and no profanity was used whatsoever.
65: I’ll agree with that. I still laugh myself sick at Carol Burnett’s Nora Desmond skit (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5fpga_carol-burnett-show-sunset-blvd_creation). I love that one, even more than her take on Scarlet O’Hara wearing curtains rather than a dress. Funny!
This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read yet.
:/