picard tell your boss to quit writing bullshit and remember that i helped him become chancellor or would you rather i asked the duras family instead? worf captain picard ssh worf i'm giving gowron and this dick some rope
Picard: Hey Klingons! I want a cloaked vessel, you will give it to me. Klingons: Hell no!! Picard: Read the script. Klingons: Oh yeah...I forgot this is all make-believe....here you go......
cast a canuck to play a yank, then a brit to play a frenchman, then they were going to have another canuckian play, this time, a french woman, until they replaced her with janeway.
Kirk himself the other day, as in Shatner, said that the new ST is basically junk and nothing like the old Trek. He said that Roddenberry would be turning over in his grave. Lastly, I have thought time and time again in the last two years, watching these vids on and off, that I used to recall the old Hollywood, to where one would leave the screen and would memorize the lines spoken. These days, in the last 24 years, not so much. LOL
There has been debate for years as to WHY _Jean-Luc Picard_ speaks with a British accent. People talk of the difficulty of casting for the part ('out of universe'), of some apparent influence of WWII on families - the exodus to "Brownshirt-free climes" of those who could escape ('in universe'), and of a desire to avoid any chance people might mistake the show for a Peter Sellers-headlined farce ('out of universe'). This scene, however, reveals the *real* reason. Only an Englishman raised on a steady diet of "Sir Humphrey Appleby" and "Prime Minister's Questions" / "The Parliamentary Channel" could possibly be so cordial and apparently benevolent while covertly - yet also, somehow, _so_ clearly - committing verbal first-degree murder.
That episode where Jonathan Archer attempts to return the shit left at his McDonalds goes badly because the "Vulcans" at the time were flaming morons. Anyone else notice the shift in their attitude as the series went on? They literally thought that they were getting away with it.
The actor who played the Klingon Junior Adjutant B’iJik is Erick Avaros who was famous for playing Kosuf in the 1994 Stargate movie and reprising the role in Stargate SG-1 from 1997-2001 as well as an guest role in season 1 of Star Trek Enterprise.
Also note how Picard slowly takes a few steps towards the viewscreen as he utters his veiled threat, showing confidence behind the worth of that 'gratutude' of his and making the Klingon as if backed into a corner like a hurt animal. You might rather have a Borg cube approaching you then Picard at this point. A subtle but brilliant piece of writing, acting and camera work..
