John DeLancie Comments on Picard and Janeway

[Trinary]

I just found some notes I had taken earlier this year and thought I'd share them as they're pretty interesting, at least, to me. My apologies if I'm just repeating anything commonly known. I was at BABScon (Bay Area Brony Spectacular)--a San Francisco My Little Pony convention--this April and John DeLancie was one of the guests of honor.

While there he did a dramatic live-reading of Shel Silverstein's poem "The Devil and Billy Markham" which I would HIGHLY recommend experiencing for yourself one of these days. Afterwards there was a question and answer session and DeLancie talked a bit about his acting experiences, including with Star Trek.

One person asked what it was like acting opposite Patrick Stewart as opposed to Kate Mulgrew. DeLancie's response was (roughly reconstructed) that it depended principally on the material he was given. The Voyager producers told him under no circumstances was there to be any hint that Janeway was interested in Q. But Mulgrew and DeLancie knew each other rather well and had a natural intimacy that the producers kept trying to weed out of the shooting.

DeLancie told them that this was badly limiting what both he and Mulgrew could do, like washing the color out of a picture, but they did it anyway. That wasn't an issue with Stewart on TNG since they were both type-A personalities playing off each other, trying to be dominant, etc. So that stuff was better, in DeLancie's view.

Hope that was worth sharing.

[PerrySimm]

It's those little stories that make conventions worth going to! Apparently Kate Mulgrew once had a special dinner party just to get de Lancie onto the show, too!

[Steve]

*moves thread to appropriate forum*

[CharlesPhipps]

I think it summarizes the mediocrity of Voyager that no interesting relationships were allowed into the show.

No development.

[clearspira]

I think it summarizes the mediocrity of Voyager that no interesting relationships were allowed into the show.

No development.

For sure. I also wonder if they were trying to avoid a repeat of ''Code of Honor'' where Tasha Yar was visibly turned on by Lutan treating her like property. Q isn't that bad of course, but he was arguably stalking her and begging her for sex.

[CharlesPhipps]

Probably but the thing is if they saw the chemistry, they could have written them differently.

[Karha of Honor]

I think it summarizes the mediocrity of Voyager that no interesting relationships were allowed into the show.

No development.

For sure. I also wonder if they were trying to avoid a repeat of ''Code of Honor'' where Tasha Yar was visibly turned on by Lutan treating her like property. Q isn't that bad of course, but he was arguably stalking her and begging her for sex.

Don't kink shame bro. It's not cool.

[PerrySimm]

If "The Q and the Grey" had gone better, would there have been more Q on Voyager? And if so, is that worth trading "Q2" for?

[Trinary]

It's those little stories that make conventions worth going to! Apparently Kate Mulgrew once had a special dinner party just to get de Lancie onto the show, too!

I have more notes about what John DeLancie said at the convention, though it tended to either be more general than Star Trek, or more specific re: My Little Pony. Let me know if there's any interest and I'll post more here.

[MrL1992]

If I could only pick one other actor from TNG to return in this new Picard series, it would be Delancie. I feel you won't lose anything by having him minus the rest of the crew. His strongest connection was with Picard by far.