Why Terry was fired from Becker..the truth here!
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purple_dave — 19 years ago(July 28, 2006 10:46 PM)
Denise Crosby decided to quit because they weren't giving her character any good scripts, and she only got out of her contract because Gene Roddenberry went to bat for her. Wherever did you hear that she was fired?
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staticuniverse — 19 years ago(July 31, 2006 12:38 PM)
Denise Crosby appeared in Playboy in 1979. When she left Star Trek, Playboy reprinted the pictures with some more recent promo shots to capitalize on her departure.
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lilricky-1 — 19 years ago(August 11, 2006 05:13 PM)
They did, dont even try to bring facts to some of these posters. They seem to want to have Paramount fire her, that way, they have someone to blame for "ruining their life", although if a character on a tv show is killed off and that ruins your life, I dont think you had a life to begin with.
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standfan — 18 years ago(May 26, 2007 09:26 AM)
Roddenberry, who was very much in control of TNG at the point in which Crosby left, would never have fired her over any published pictures. Roddenberry was very very much liberal in terms of his politics, and his views on sex, and he was very much in charge of the decision-making on the show.
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repdetect-1 — 17 years ago(September 15, 2008 03:34 AM)
Exactly, Denise was never fired. She felt a film career was a better route, and the show was not giving her the scripts or on air time she wanted. I remember when it all happened, and disliked her a lot for it, well, at the time. Later, I was happy to see her return as the Romulan officer.
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rosamundi — 19 years ago(August 26, 2006 04:54 AM)
Aside from the other comments below on this matter, don't forget that Denise Crosby was a guest star on the show at least two or three times after Tasha's death - once as an alternate-timeline Tasha who didn't die and wound up in the past, and then later on, at least once or twice, as that timeline's Tasha's half-Romulan daughter.
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prometheus1816 — 18 years ago(April 13, 2007 01:53 PM)
No, Denise Crosby ASKED to be let go at the end of season one. She wanted to move on, just like Wil Wheaton did. They did this very same thing to Gates McFadden. They thought they could get rid of Crusher. A huge fan write-in campaign brought her back. HOwever, the same couldn't be said about Terry. They blacklisted her because she stuck up for herself.
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TrekFan1 — 18 years ago(April 28, 2007 05:51 PM)
Yes, getting fired does suck. Fortunately, Denise was not fired. In reality, she quit because she felt her character wasn't being given a lot to do. Roddenberry actually pleaded with her to remain on the show. Denise later commented that, had there been more scenes like the one between Worf and Tasha at the beginning of "Skin of Evil", she would have considered remaining on the show.
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heywoodj2001 — 18 years ago(April 21, 2007 01:35 AM)
Gates McFadden wasn't fired from Star Trek. She quit the show after season one because she was being sexually harrassed by the executive producer. They let him go after season 2, and then Patrick Stewart asked them to ask McFadden back. She said yes once the dude was gone.
She revealed this about 5 years ago, on the convention circuit.
As for Crosby, I was watching Trek then. She made it seem that she was about to have a big film career, and that it was all about to take off. It seemed like she used Trek as a gateway to bigger and better things. Nothing wrong with that. But once nobody wanted to put her in movies, she came back and asked them to find a way to use her on the show.
On the DVD features, Ronald Moore mentions how ticked off the writers were that they had to write her BACK on the showwhen they'd rearranged their stories and done what they could to get her off the show convincingly in the first place.