XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise, rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: roosjen@quicknet.nl   
      
   Erwin wrote:   
      
   > Jaxtraw wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Bo Raxo"  wrote in message   
   >> news:Aayhe.1425$Ri4.524@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> "Shaun"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:1116121503.643311.190440@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>> The undercover "kid" was a UPN contest winner.  The prize was that   
   >>>>> guest   
   >>>>> spot.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> I believe you are allowed two on-screen appearances with spoken   
   >>> dialogue   
   >>> without having to get a SAG card.   
   >>>   
   >>> 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   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> has   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> slogged through the first couple of seasons of Enterprise knows how   
   >>> to do   
   >>> that.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> 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   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   > What all of you seem to overlook is the fact that his gun actually   
   > worked. Nipped that career right in the bud ;-)   
   >   
   > Erwin   
      
   Also, considering his being a contest winner, and not a true actor, and   
   looking at that scene again, I didn't think it was all that bad...   
   Nervous kid, in well over his head, situation spinning out of control,   
   seeing how he was wrong...  I guess it was a plot-wise lame way out for   
   a spy, but he acted the part. The fact that he seemed to want to throw   
   up during the whole scene only emphasizes the physical nausea caused by   
   his emotional turmoil.   
      
   Not too shabby at all :)   
      
   Erwin   
      
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