griffeytrek wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:51 pm
It's always interesting to see known TV or film actors do voice acting. Some of them surprise you. For example Chase Masterson and Denise Crosby. Neither of whom would seem to have a great range in the flesh are great fun as Voice Actors. J G Herzler is fantastic as a VO. Whereas Michael Dorn always feels a little wooden voice only. Like he's giving a speech or sales presentation. You really see it with the Disco cast. The guy who plays Stametz is fantastic. So much so that you want the snarky in game version of him as a regular on your ship. Whereas Sonequa Martin-Green actually seems much much worse voice only. And I do realize the enormity of what I am saying. Mary Wiseman actually seems to be a really good voice actress, in spite of the fact that her primary Tilly character is possibly the most annoying thing in the game. She is great fun as Mirror Tilly though. And of course lest we forget Jeffrey Combs is a god in any form he takes and through any medium he may perform.
So main Leeta seems off to me. Like they want to show she is clever. But are missing something. Maybe because she is working in the background with the ferengi. Mirror Leeta. I think is at her best in Firewall. Her best line is "Please tell me I don't sound like that to you." No Leeta, you sound much hammier.
Sela and Yar. I hated Yar in Temporal Ambassador. She was just. Why? Why is my ally being snarky over me opening a door she didn't know was even here? And quoting Star Fleet regulations in a Tholian base? What is wrong with you!? Sela on the other hand I want to shoot. How and why anyone ever trusts her I have no idea. On one hand she seems to know Hakeev is doing things. But then not what? She is a manipulator. . On paper. I mean she put it on her resume. But does not come across as it.
That brings me to J.G. Herzler. I think in all dialog after he was hired he was good. But him going back over the stuff done before he was brought on board. He comes off as wooden.
Dorn's Worf. . . . In Sphere of Influence he seemed more Worf like to me. An older wiser Worf even as he reeled in Koren. The rest do seem wooden and not exactly like he was in the room with anyone when reading his lines. So he had no context.
Okay yes I liked Stametz.
No comment on Burnham. I have not seen the woman act enough to weigh the job. I did not enjoy those missions. So that may color my opinion of how she did in them.
I disagree with Prime Tilly being the most annoying thing in the game. I could see her being your friend in the academy and she seemed bubbly and warm. The opposite of the wooden you often get in voice acting. The sharp contrast from that to Mirror Tilly. MT has two modes, murderously sincere and murderously mocking. You know she is mocking you. And it is well done.
I have never seen nor heard something Jeffery Combs is bad in. Oh you may hate his character. But damn do you love to hate him. Or love to be on his side. And everything in between.
Now back to most annoying. Landry. This is a second in command of a Starship. She does not take the loss of the Buran or the injuries to Lorca well. I would applaud her tears to losing Patel if she had not been basically crying the entire episode. It just came off as more of the same by the time she lost the woman she was to marry. I think she did better as a klingon.
