XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: urban@panix.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Ralph Snart  wrote:   
   >   
   >Even the most minumally used TOS cast member (take your choice:  Bailey,   
   >Kyle, Palmer, M'Benga, etc) has more talent and ability than anyone on ENT.   
   >   
      
   I'm not sure it's a matter of talent and ability.  My utterly   
   subjective and therefore unarguable feeling is that there is great   
   ennui with the show in the cast.  Even in "Voyager", I always had   
   the impression that if you had asked any of the cast members, they'd   
   have told you how really cool it was to be working on Star Trek(tm),   
   and getting to walk around in the corridors of a starship etc etc.   
   With Enterprise, I never feel like these people think of it as more   
   than just another role to play that will enhance their resumes.   
   _Maybe_ the actor who plays Phlox (and it is a sign of... something...   
   that I cannot remember his name) is enjoying himself, but he is   
   playing a determinedly cheerful character, which makes it hard to   
   judge.   
      
   Enterprise is simply nothing special.  It's there because Paramount   
   needed a new show to keep the franchise alive,  and the actors know   
   it.  One may well suppose that Shatner knows it too.  He owes   
   Paramount nothing, Enterprise will do nothing for his reputation   
   as an actor, so he might as well make sure he's well paid if he's   
   going to do it at all.   
      
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