“We, The Undersigned…
By Mitch Berg
…group of actors – people who earn an intermittent living acting like people we’re not, who almost universally live in a place and culture, Hollywood, that has no bearing on the objective reality most Americans live in – who are mostly famous for playing roles in a series about a fictional, utopian, creepily big-brotherish universal government, playing to a fan base that has treated us and the franchise (of, let me repeat, fiction) in which we acted like a pseudo-religion, which has continued to keep many of us paid via two generations of fan fairs and other residuals, ask you, the people of the real world, to take our political advice seriously“.
I guess there’s a reason I’m not in PR for the Screen Actors Guild.
October 4th, 2016 at 7:26 am
Does anyone know why George Takei looking at the camera and purring “Oh my” then smirking is even a deal?
October 4th, 2016 at 7:27 am
Must be a gay inside joke.
October 4th, 2016 at 7:39 am
So some people who made millions by reading words that other people wrote are ordering me to vote for a fascist for president? The very few people I know who actually support Trump (as opposed to voting for him as because Hillary is the alternative) are very hard working people. They contribute more to society than Hollywood actors.
October 4th, 2016 at 7:43 am
the TV franchise has always had its feet firmly planted in the prevailing winds;
ST:Original Series = Empire Builder/Adventure Trek
ST:TNG = Corporate Trek (complete with telepathic HR rep Troi)
ST:DS9 = Diversity Trek
ST:Voyager = Chick Trek
ST:Enterprise = Search for Authenticity Trek
All the Star Trek products were written from the perspective of people who congratulate themselves they have “selected the right side of history” and now live at the end of that history – its no surprise they would select and promote the politics of sclerosis.
October 4th, 2016 at 7:56 am
Whoopie f*cking Goldberg brought my 15 year mission to bravely go where no man has gone before to a screeching halt; my dilithium crystals melted down, matter and anti-matter came together in direct contact and my head exploded.
I guess it’s safe to say that I really couldn’t care less what the cast has to say, even if I ever happened to hear it; which I wont.
October 4th, 2016 at 8:04 am
But what does Steven Tyler think? I CAN”T VOTE UNTIL I HEAR WHAT STEVEN TYLER THINKS!!!
October 4th, 2016 at 8:56 am
Movie announcer voice: “In a world where TMZ is most peoples primary news source…”
That’s about it. On NPR yesterday I heard the on-air Lefty intone that the Kardashian stick up had knocked Trump’s latest outrage from the ‘A’ story position.
October 4th, 2016 at 9:02 am
Peoples’ Radio knows the rules – Personalize, then marginalize.
October 4th, 2016 at 1:04 pm
It seems to me the most coherent thing I ever saw out of the SAG, with the obvious exception of Ronald Reagan, was the near perfect correlation of the location of Counselor Troi’s bodice line with the ratings of “Star Trek”. Thankfully the ratings never completely tanked, or they’d have had to go exclusively on cable.
Come to think of it, bodice lines also correspond almost precisely with acting ability.
October 4th, 2016 at 3:41 pm
“…was the near perfect correlation of the location of Counselor Troi’s bodice line with the ratings of “Star Trek”. ”
As the host of this small, yet regionally prominent blog has noted; With a comment section populated with engineers, PhD’s, physicists and one or two actual rocket scientists, you will learn more in the comments section of SitD than in most university settings.
October 5th, 2016 at 2:51 am
Years ago I read that the woman who played Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) celebrated her being signed onto the program by buying a Chrysler Lebaron convertible. Then she married her tennis instructor.
From this, fellow nerds, I reckon the price of admission to Counselor Troi’s pants would have been a six pack of Schlitz and tickets to the roller rink.
October 5th, 2016 at 5:58 am
Powerline has a couple of hilarious video parodies of that commercial. Check them out.
October 5th, 2016 at 11:44 am
To be fair, my comment was just a quote of someone far more devoted to STTNG than was I–I was amused far more by the cultlike walk of devotees down to the TV room in my dorm more than by the show–and to be fair to Sirtis, she appears to be married to her first husband, and her name does not appear on the list of names in Mitch’s link.
But that said, it is hilarious that actors from a show that made such ample use of women’s assets are pretending to stand up for the dignity of women. Pot, meet kettle, girls.
October 6th, 2016 at 10:59 am
Marina Sirtis signed the petition.
From what I can tell, it was signed by every surviving cast member of the five Star Trek series and the Abramsverse abomination except for William Shatner, Nichelle Nichols, Patrick Stewart, Michael Dorn, Diana Mulder, Colm Meany, Avery Brooks, Alexander Siddig, Nana Visitor, Richard Beltram, Roxana Dawson, Garret Wang, Jennifer Lien, Jeri Ryan, and Jolene Blalock.