DS9's Andrew Robinson at the 2002 STAR TREK GRAND SLAM (Copyright 2002 Sue Schneider)
© 2002 Sue Schneider
TREK SLAM 2002: Visitor's hopes for a DS9 movie
By: Anne Moore and Christopher Allan Smith, assistance by Steven KlotzDate: Friday, April 26, 2002
Recently the biggest names in STAR TREK gathered in Pasadena, California to glory and gather in the splendor that is the biggest franchise in modern science fiction: STAR TREK Grand Slam 2002.
While it was impossible to see everything and attend all of the guest stars appearances, CINESCAPE's own Anne Moore, Sue Schneider and Steven Klotz did their best, and brought us the details. This week, we're bringing them to you.
Check back every day for info and star pictures on everything from ENTERPRISE, STAR TREK: NEMESIS, to talk of DEEP SPACE NINE and hopes for a big screen adventure of their own, and more.
Today we revisit the middle-child, and some say most valuable and quality entry, of the STAR TREK franchise: DEEP SPACE NINE. At the Slam Andrew Robinson, Colm Meaney and Nana Visitor talked about their roles on DS9, as well as their hopes for the future.
At the Slam, Andrew Robinson (the tailor/spy Garak) talked about the DS9 book A STITCH IN TIME he penned. Moreover, the process of writing it.
"I like to call it the power of the room," he said. "Go into a room and stay there. You don't actually have to get any work done, but stay in the room. It doesn't count if you leave to water the plants or feed the cat."
Meaney, for his part, reflected is alter-ego Miles O'Brien and the arc of the character he left in 1999.
"It's unusual for a character to develop like that on a series," Meany said. "They always wanted to develop the character more but they couldn't really find the space on NEXT GENERATION to do that because there were so many other characters there. So they asked me if I would go over to DEEP SPACE NINE in order to develop the character more, and I was happy to do that."
Visitor, who played the Bajoran hothead Kira Nerys, wondered aloud on what she'd like to see in any possible DEEP SPACE NINE film. "Why didn't I kill Dukat [in the series closer]? That was mine to do and I didn't get to do it. If there is [ever] a movie, that's what I want to do. After all, we saw him going into the fire pit, but we didn't actually see him burn. I still have a chance!"
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