Quoting Ken Patterson ([email protected]): > The production team did consult with Avery Brooks, which is why he > received the Thank You credit at the end. > > https://winteriscoming.net/avery-brooks-more-involved-with-starfleet-academy-deep-space-nine-episode-than-you-think
On the one hand, I'm glad to hear that. On the other, what's notably missing is any statement _from_ Mr. Brooks, only from people including the redoubtable Tawny Newsome trotting out reasons to suppose Mr. Brooks is "cool with" the script. At which point, I'm all out of hands (making typing a chore), but, on my figurative third hand, that's between Brooks and the network. On the figuurative fourth hand, no television character since Hopalong Cassidy has been the property of the actor in question. Actor William Boyd owned the IP (having sold and mortgaged everything to buy it in the late '40s), so Hopalong remained exactly what he wanted. Other actors can like or dislike their characters' story lines, but have zero say. So, maybe Paramount said to Brooks "Hey, we have this script where we want to break our word to you from 1999 about Sisko's fate. Are you totally fine with that?" And he said "Sure, no problem, sounds great." If Brooks told us that, I'd believe him. With Paramount and its employees (including Newsome) not saying even that, but rather poking around the edges of the subject, I'll take the notion under advisement. -- Cheers, "Heedless of grammar, they all cried 'It's him!'" Rick Moen -- R.H. Barham, _Misadventure at Margate_ [email protected] McQ! (4x80) _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
