Star Trek - John de Lancie and Brent Spiner - Full Panel/Q&A - Salt Lake FanX 2022 

John De Lancie as Q was a MASTERSTROKE, he was simply unbeatable!

the best data/Q interaction in the whole show is where data says to Q: "you have achieved in disgrace what i have always aspired to be"

I hope that Brent makes an appearance in the new Night Court. We need another Bob Wheeler moment.

some think John arrived late but according to the script he arrived right on "Q"

John de Lancie is very underrated actor

i am so glad i came across this on youtube. i was a big fan of de lancie before he appeared in star trek. and i fell in like and like with Q. what a joy. my favorite scene was the mariachi scene. couldn't stop laughing. my favorite scene with spiner was when data laughed. and when he was asked what he was laughing at he said i don't know. well done gentlemen! and you are so fan friendly to boot!

These are two of my three favorite actors on TNG.

You gotta be kidding me?! Brent Spiner and John DeLancie were in Salt Lake where I live and I never heard anything about it and missed it?! Omg!!!

Yes Data & q are on my star trek Mt. Rushmore! John & Brent are still two of my favorite actors outside of the trekverse! I will always lurve both of them!

42:17 These guys remind me why I’ve always loved actors. A questioner actually said earlier on what I’ve always believed and even managed to express on occasion. That actors are explorers. Not of distant places or undiscovered sciences, but of beingness itself. They are explorers of experience, of situation. But unlike other artists who have the benefit of a medium they can see written out on a page or painted onto a canvas, they only have moments come and gone to work with. They can be writers, but most work in response to someone else’s thought. They have been directors, filmmakers, but most rely on the artistry of others to carry forward what they do. Their’s is a courage I’ve always found most admirable, to write with water and sing into the wind using only themselves as instruments. All we can do in return is indulge what they have so given us to drink and to breathe, and applaud.

From watching this, Brent seems like he's a down to earth nice guy!

HOW COOL would it be to go and sink a few beers with these guys and sit and listen to their stories! 😁👍

Im always surprised how thought out the answers they give are. Two genuinely nice guys.

Their voices are so distinctive. I think that's important in acting.:)

WOW>. Both in their early 70's and LOOK great..

Thanks for recording these’

John puts his mark on the Star Trek Universe as if he Didn't do much! But he Opened up TNG and he was there at the end! He has huge influence on the whole universe!

Thank you for this post . I love the experience

Thanks chaps. I had a good laugh. .And it's fantastic to see that your doth out there plying your craft. I hope to see you guys on the silver screen for many more years to come .Have a good one

Brent can't help but be hilarious 😂

They look like brothers now.

There's a new Night Court coming soon. It'd be fun to see Brent Spinner do a cameo of that old role. He was it there a few episodes back then.

Brent Spiner's quote ..."Theres no profit in telling somebody they're not who they think they are" ~ Lanford Wilson, "the 5th of july" , play - Loved it!

I hadn’t heard most of those stories before from Brent which was nice! 🎉

Thanks to Brent Spiner for mentioning the show that I knew nothing about called Hell On Wheels. A show about life after the U.S. Civil War? He said he watched every episode. I had no idea Anson Mount who plays Capt. Pike and Colm Meaney, Chief O'Brien, were in Hell on Wheels. An acting connection?

So cool!!!

No mention of John's recurring role of the evil Colonel Frank Simmons in Stargate SG1.

Awesome!

Spiner might have feared been typecast as Mr. Data but he never should. The great performers can take a role and evolve it over many years. He did exactly that with Data. And amazingly, he did it while also portraying several other roles in Star Trek and in his body of work outside of the ST Multiverse. And what can you say about de Lancie that hasn't already been said. Another wonderful actor who makes every character he inhabits interesting to watch and absorb.

Amazing coverage as always! Hoping you have the Leslie David Baker panel 🤞

Thank you so much for putting this up!! I love these two amazing ST: TNG actors. You rock! So much better than my blurry cell phone videos. Did you get Cary Elwes?

I'm from Houston, too! I met Brent at a comic con in Albuquerque.

Good stuff

Two crushes, one panel! ❤❤

I really enjoyed Brent Spiner in one of the new Outer Limits episodes. 🖖

Haven't been able to make a SLCCC since the 2nd one (I know it's FanX now, don't care, SD can suck it), thank you for uploading this 😁

Brent Spiner was Data and he was incredible. I never could understand, however, why Data would lower himself and want to be just a human. Data was more valuable than all the crew members combined. Totally irreplaceable. Brent made Data a person more real than any human he could of pretended to be. Thank you both for making such incredible, imaginary persons come to life. You both will never be forgotten.

Brent Spiner...what an amazing guy! It must be hard to work with him being hes hiliarious!

I actually met John Lancie and Mr. Spiner, they had a few questions to ask, couldn't answer all of them, nice men, they where fan-girling the whole time though.

de Lancie will always be Eugene on Days of Our Lives to me, and Brent will always be Bobby Wheeler as well, but I did love them as Q and Data/Lore too.

io adoro la serie TOS ma i personaggi di Next Generation sono fantastici son troppo affezionato ad essi soprattutto i mitici Q e Data!

Is it me or does Brent Spinner look very like the late Scott Wilson (from the walking dead) with his hair and beard like that

Brent did learn at least one very important lesson playing Data. Probably for the first time in his life he's having to now live like a 3%. That transition isn't always a pleasant affair, specially if you started from way down the social scale, it has broken many people, Physically, Mentally & Financially.

It's an old frickin TV show for cripes sake. A couple of good actors. Thx.

I got a kick out of Brent Spinner when he appeared on Night Court.

When you meet the character of Data in the pilot, you nearly expect him to have duck tape, candy, and a white van.

My two favorite characters from one of my Favorite Shows of all time. Both Q and Data in my opinion had the most complicated and unusual "Reads" to put it in novel context. Unfortunately, a deficit I'm soon to clean up, I've not seen all of Q's, but he's an enigma, I never really grasp what it was he was after, every-time I thought I had it figured out, Q would throw a metaphoric monkey (I heard he like excluding the wrench), into the works & put me back at Diddley-Squat. Data was as predicable as any computer program, but that's what the world saw, as we saw Data Evolved there were flashes, unknown to anyone but Data, a secret Agenda? Good? Bad?. That will never be cleared up except through novels, et al.

What if John de Lancie was actually a god like eternal alien posing as a human actor

Engaging; nice rapport. 👍

I liked René Auberjonois in _Benson!_

Forget Data, anytime I see Brent all I see is Bob Wheeler....." We were seduced by the glory of it all".....LOL

Kneel before the Star Trek gods :)

Tapestry is one of those rare TNG episodes that doesn't include Q in the title - outside of the bookending Encounter and AGT

John and Brent do a Q vs. Data similar to the Spock vs. Q from years ago with Leonard Nimoy

Did your Padd’s ever have a cracked screen?

Anyone remember where the medicine cart was in Astroworld?

❣️❣️

Bonding, James Bonding. 😉

Reminds me of Megamind, "I love you too random citizen!"

Just talked with him at motor city comic con. What a great guy.

I don't think I would have recognized John.

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Picard was Krutzman crap ignoring canon. Q's cant die as established in both TNG and Voyager, unless the continuum makes them mortal, which is a major deal and not taken lightly. John's performance though was excellent as usual. worked for him once.. nice guy. Ki Luke would have been a great Dr. Soong, especially since he is a Trek alumn from TOS as the Dr. of the Psychiatrict base in the episode, Whom Gods Destroy.

Q is Discord

I was there. That was a great panel.

13:00

GREAT, they have the same hair colour .😂😂🤣🤣👌👌

Q and Data; a romance for the ages

John De Lancie waiting patiently at the start. I suppose a guy called Q should be used to waiting...

I missed this panel due to ... reasons. But I was talking with my family today, and trying to pick one question would be HARD. So, now, this is my formulation: "I have to ask one question which is like choosing my favorite child. I could ask Mr. DeLancie about Days of Our Lives or Mr. Spiner about Sunday in the Park with George, but as a cradle Trekkie, as my mom is a Trekkie and I watched Star Trek reruns with her and so we were thrilled with having new Trek, what was it like stepping into that legacy?" Alas, I'm never brave enough to ask questions, and, again, I missed the panel. But. Yeah. Hindsight.

El capi tan 😅😅

This was definitely a "experiment* on JMS's part- and I'm of the opinion it mostly worked In the intro - you commented that you thought EarthGov was up to something. I found it interesting that you didn't comment on a bit of the dialog that was a clue.... Notice how they portrayed Londo- for the most part in a very positive light. And then would show GKar and Delenne VERY negatively. Kosh just didn't give a ...... I don't get all the negativity over PsiCorp- we can trust the Corp. PsiCorp is our friend......

I would have ask John about his character on Legend and been murdered by the crowd.

What a shit question to ask who was the best captain to work for, FFS that was a well thought out question, Brent gave a good answer, very respectful to the other captain actors and actresses

Q looks the same, just with gray hair now

John and Brent are great, this kid is an 🐴

Brent and John The odd couple reboot?

I've seen many conventions where Brent does impressions of Patrick Stewart, yet I find it such a shame that he never seems to perform as Data or Lore, even here when he's specifically asked about playing multiple characters. He could absolutely KILL audiences by having a conversation with himself as Data and Lore, something everyone would love to see, yet he never does. Shame!

Data has white hair😮😮😮😮 Q has white hair 😮😮😮😮

It's fascinating to me that Brent Spiner, who played the character Data with such genius, doesn't seem to appreciate Data's charm, the core of Data, Data's innocence - or doesn't seem to understand Data's charm the way I understand it. I think that the "emotions" chip spoiled the character and maybe even spoiled the franchise.

12:13 Randy Quaid IS a clown.

Who filmed this? Why is the host not on screen - just some voice when he's speaking off cam? Dis-concerning.

Because we're watching and are not in the room, these kinds of appearances are almost painful the watch.

Wow, even John is fed up with the lying media!

I hate it when people talk too much!

Q was my favorite character in TNG until I met him a convention in Seattle. Total jerk to me and my friend.

Please. Q didn't want to become human. And the introduction of Data's emotion chip was utter garbage.

De Lancie seems to have a very twisted view on acting, and of course, a perverted view on politics.

Here's a question for the two of you: How does it feel to be in the worst Star Trek show ever produced?

Don't like you anymore Brent Data Spiner.

I LOVE IT WHEN TO OLD FART ACTORS START TALKING ABOUT EACH OTHER !!

While I'm not crazy enough for the series to go to conventions but I really did (do), enjoy the entirety of all the series, specially TNG, I guess the best compliment you can give an Actor is to believe they are the characters they're playing, which the entire cast of The Next Generation did which looked to us with ease, like the Universe already had these special people set aside for the show long before they were even born !

FUCKING LEGENDS MAN THEY ARE GREAT

I love them but they are largely brainwashed and clueless about the real world. It's sad and culturally destructive.

I was on he front row. Just off to the right of you.