#stlv

I, for one, am happy these actors feel comfortable being loud about how much you and your friend suck. If you’re doing something so against that show as voting for a rapist convicted felon who wants to end democracy, what did you expect? Especially from those women?

Actors being loud about how these assholes are NOT welcome makes fandom safer for a lot more people who deserve to be there.

so, i just got back from a convention where i saw a panel with the lady that plays Saavik, leonard nimoy’s assistant for the star trek movies, and one of the main producers of the movies.

and just so y’all know! this panel was NOT supposed to be abt leonard nimoy!! like, maybe tangentially, but the point was to talk about working on The Search for Spock.

in spite of that!! they all spent pretty much the whole time talking about what a kind person leonard nimoy was. like - the assistant dude worked on star trek 3 and 4, and didn’t find out until after 4 was finished that paramount didn’t want to pay for nimoy to have a second assistant so nimoy payed him OUT OF HIS OWN POCKET.

and AND! the lady that played saavik was talking about how she had…no idea what she was doing as a young actor with very little experience. so, she approached leonard nimoy and explained that, and his solution was to sit her down before scenes and give her direction and guidance.

Marina Sirtis was talking about a time when she had to fight the producers to give her (and Brent) real colored contacts. Apparently the makeup artists were PAINTING them first season and these poor people then had to stick those painted contacts in their eyeballs . Like she talked about the contact case turning black from the paint and the contacts were in her eyes far longer

So then 2nd season rolls around and Brent goes to Marina like "they want me to go back to the painted ones because the new ones aren't yellow enough 😭"

And Marina was like "oh hell no" and got Brent to tell them no, lol.

KM: 75 000 lightyears from home, stuck with my enemy, the maqui. Who soon became my love 💕.

KM: it felt great, absolutely great

RB: 75 000 lightyears away from home with Captain Janeway giving me orders and telling when to go to ✨the ready room✨. What to wear....

KM: Those were the outtakes