Gservo
19th June 2002, 01:09 AM
Marina Sirtis, who reprises the role of Counselor Troi in the upcoming Star Trek Nemesis movie, told SCI FI Wire that it was a "different" experience working with Stuart Baird, a director new to the Trek universe. Baird assumed the director's chair from Next Generation co-star Jonathan Frakes, who directed the previous Trek films First Contact and Insurrection. "Stuart doesn't have the knowledge of Star Trek that anyone who's been involved with the show—whether it's Jonathan or even [TNG and Generations director] David Carson or the actors—would just naturally have," Sirtis said in an interview. "We have butted heads a little bit, because we'll say, 'This is the history,' and Stuart will say, 'Well, I don't really care about the history. I'm approaching this like it's the first Star Trek movie.'"
Sirtis added, "I don't think anybody's really done that before. I think it's going to be interesting to see how it turns out. I think it's possibly a good way to approach it, to have a new voice in there who's not locked into the past. It might bring some freshness to the franchise that it might not necessarily have had otherwise. The risk is that you could go too far away from what people want and expect. But hopefully it's somewhere in between. You had the actors saying, 'My character wouldn't do that or say that,' and I'm sure [producer] Rick [Berman] talked to Stuart about not straying too far from what's worked for so long. And [screenwriter] John Logan certainly knows the show inside and out. So if it's fresh and familiar at the same time, we could really be on to something." Star Trek Nemesis opens in December.
Sirtis added, "I don't think anybody's really done that before. I think it's going to be interesting to see how it turns out. I think it's possibly a good way to approach it, to have a new voice in there who's not locked into the past. It might bring some freshness to the franchise that it might not necessarily have had otherwise. The risk is that you could go too far away from what people want and expect. But hopefully it's somewhere in between. You had the actors saying, 'My character wouldn't do that or say that,' and I'm sure [producer] Rick [Berman] talked to Stuart about not straying too far from what's worked for so long. And [screenwriter] John Logan certainly knows the show inside and out. So if it's fresh and familiar at the same time, we could really be on to something." Star Trek Nemesis opens in December.