XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise, rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: roosjen@quicknet.nl   
      
   Jaxtraw wrote:   
      
   >"Bo Raxo"  wrote in message   
   >news:Aayhe.1425$Ri4.524@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...   
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   >>"Shaun"  wrote in message   
   >>news:1116121503.643311.190440@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...   
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   >>>>The undercover "kid" was a UPN contest winner.  The prize was that   
   >>>>guest   
   >>>>spot.   
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   >>>Sheesh...  usually those kinds of contests are just walk-on,   
   >>>non-speaking parts, with good reason.  He was really bad!  Did he have   
   >>>to go the trouble of getting a SAG card since he spoke onscreen?  I   
   >>>hope he's not planning a career in acting...  Wish I'd known about the   
   >>>contest.  I'd like to believe I'd have done a better job.   
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   >>I believe you are allowed two on-screen appearances with spoken dialogue   
   >>without having to get a SAG card.   
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   >>He was terrible, the bad acting was just a big clunk.  If the writers knew   
   >>it was going to be a non-actor, they should have adjusted for that:  just   
   >>given him, say, one word or a few words of dialogue, and then refusing to   
   >>say anything more.  All he'd need to do is look stubborn, and anyone who   
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   >has   
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   >>slogged through the first couple of seasons of Enterprise knows how to do   
   >>that.   
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   >I didn't really notice him as that bad, but by then I was in such a state of   
   >despair, if I'd had a phase pistol I'd have shot my brains out, too.   
   >   
   >Ian   
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   What all of you seem to overlook is the fact that his gun actually   
   worked. Nipped that career right in the bud ;-)   
      
   Erwin   
      
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