Best Star Trek Acting

[WillMunny]

I'm watching BBC America's Friday night Star Trek marathon and now the episode "The Doomsday Machine" which had the most brutally intense acting I've seen in sci-fi, any Trek or otherwise: William Windom as the mentally damaged Commodore Decker. He sold his utter pain and anguish so well, it was actually difficult to watch because I felt so awful for him. It's like Kirk said before Decker's suicide, "Matt, nobody expects you to die for an error in judgment!" And when Decker whispers, "I've been prepared for death ever since I....I killed my crew," that's some balls-to-the-wall acting there.

 

[fncceo]

1960's TV actors were not 'subtle' compared to dramatic actors today and can appear melodramatic by today's standards.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Decker. You always want to punch that dick in the face. Spock sparred with Decker very effectively. Where's you ship Decker? Oh it was destroyed along with your entire crew? Well aren't you the Capt Dunzel.

Decker needed to die in that episode, nothing else would have been satisfying. It was good acting for sure. I would also note Ricardo Montalban as Khan.

 

[WillMunny]

Decker. You always want to punch that dick in the face. Spock sparred with Decker very effectively. Where's you ship Decker? Oh it was destroyed along with your entire crew? Well aren't you the Capt Dunzel.

Decker needed to die in that episode, nothing else would have been satisfying. It was good acting for sure. I would also note Ricardo Montalban as Khan.

Of course it was great acting, but I still felt pity for such a destroyed character. He was trying to save his crew, but the planet-killer went after the third planet instead of the Constellation, as he hoped. Decker wasn't a bad guy per se, he made a giant mistake that left him too mentally damaged to be competent.

 

[fncceo]

Decker. You always want to punch that dick in the face. Spock sparred with Decker very effectively. Where's you ship Decker? Oh it was destroyed along with your entire crew? Well aren't you the Capt Dunzel.

Decker needed to die in that episode, nothing else would have been satisfying. It was good acting for sure. I would also note Ricardo Montalban as Khan.

Of course it was great acting, but I still felt pity for such a destroyed character. He was trying to save his crew, but the planet-killer went after the third planet instead of the Constellation, as he hoped. Decker wasn't a bad guy per se, he made a giant mistake that left him too mentally damaged to be competent.

It's called redemption.

 

[WillMunny]

Now that someone mentioned Khan let me remind you of his best, raging moment in Star Trek II: "THIS IS CETI ALPHA V!!!!!!!"

 

[miketx]

 

[fncceo]

Now that someone mentioned Khan let me remind you of his best, raging moment in Star Trek II: "THIS IS CETI ALPHA V!!!!!!!"

From the movie, not the series ... does that count?

 

[WillMunny]

Here we go...

 

[WillMunny]

Ah, now it's the whacky/funny "I, Mudd" episode, in which Spock confuses advanced androids by telling them, "Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell BAD!" Heheh, I admit I get a large variety of kicks out of the old Trek. I'm a sucker for ambitious space adventure stories.

 

[WillMunny]

Now that someone mentioned Khan let me remind you of his best, raging moment in Star Trek II: "THIS IS CETI ALPHA V!!!!!!!"

From the movie, not the series ... does that count?

Sure, why not? I don't have any specific rules about it.

 

[miketx]

You ever notice the old Star Trek is one of the very few shows that correctly show explosions in space without sound?

 

[fncceo]

Now that someone mentioned Khan let me remind you of his best, raging moment in Star Trek II: "THIS IS CETI ALPHA V!!!!!!!"

From the movie, not the series ... does that count?

Sure, why not? I don't have any specific rules about it.

Then, "KHAAAAANNNN!"

 

[WillMunny]

You ever notice the old Star Trek is one of the very few shows that correctly show explosions in space without sound?

It's had some unique, interesting, sometimes crazy explosions in it (esp. the Hollywood movies), I noticed that. But plenty of its explosions did have some big, bombastic sounds to it. I don't remember Star Trek explosions being particularly silent.

 

[WillMunny]

Here's a sample of the acting I mean, I forgot to post it earlier:

 

[miketx]

You ever notice the old Star Trek is one of the very few shows that correctly show explosions in space without sound?

It's had some unique, interesting, sometimes crazy explosions in it (esp. the Hollywood movies), I noticed that. But plenty of its explosions did have some big, bombastic sounds to it. I don't remember Star Trek explosions being particularly silent.

many of the ones occurring in a vacuum were.

 

[WillMunny]

Here's Star Trek's other greatest acting moment, from the last good Trek movie 20 years ago......I will make them PAY for what they have done!

 

[fncceo]

Best actor in the 'Star Trek' franchise ...

 

[Auld Phart]

Here's a sample of the acting I mean, I forgot to post it earlier:

Always wondered if Margaret Hamilton was his inspiration for becoming an actor.

"She was the kindergarten teacher of five-year-old William Windom, until she threw him out for rambunctious behavior. Another of her students was Jim Backus."

Margaret Hamilton - Biography - IMDb

 

[WillMunny]

Best actor in the 'Star Trek' franchise ...

Heheh, I always wanted a pet tribble. I found their purr to be soothing even over the TV speakers. So clearly, I have no Klingon blood in me (sorry to disappoint).