Why Terry was fired from Becker..the truth here!
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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. -
standfan — 18 years ago(December 26, 2007 11:39 AM)
"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 wb68anted to put her in movies, she came back and asked them to find a way to use her on the show."
That's very true. Crosby wanted off of the series to see if she could make it in features, and that just completely fizzled. After that she did everything that she could to shoehorn her way back into the franchise. She basically went to the producers more than once and suggested these wacky ideas to get these little guest spots back on the series. I bet she hoped that Sela would become a semi-regular, or maybe even that the writers would come up with some convoluted way of "resurrecting" Tasha.
The thing is, Crosby's
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as an actress. The only real strong performance that she ever gave on the show was in the episode, "Yesterday's Enterprise". The rest of her re-appearances sucked. She even muddied Leonard Nimoy's guest appearance on the show with her stale acting. -
scs0 — 16 years ago(January 30, 2010 10:22 PM)
Oh like it was hard to write her off the show! TNG was not known for developing its characters. Other than Worf, did any of them have any growth worth mentioning? It's not like they had to tie up any loose ends and story arcs. TNG didn't do that!
Mixing Hollywood idiocy with politics is an Obamanation.
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standfan — 18 years ago(December 26, 2007 11:31 AM)
Gates never really wanted to leave the series. She was being sexually harassed by one of the producers of the show, who's first name is Maurice. When she complained about his behavior, she was more or less told that if she didn't like it she could leave. So she did. When Maurice left the show, she returned.
Gates eventually shared this little bit of information when she was on the convention circuit. She named the producer, indirectly, by saying that the person who did the harrasing was a major player in the show who left following the conclusion of the second year. However, she was "watched" by people from the studio for the first period of time after she left the series, to make sure that she didn't share this information right after she left.
This bit of information was shared by Margaret Wander Bonanno, a Star Trek novelist, who had heard this from multiple trusted sources working on TNG. -
prometheus1816 — 18 years ago(December 26, 2007 04:28 PM)
Thank you for this information. I am to say the least, shocked to read this. I love Gates and was shocked when she wasn't back for season two. And why was she watched? To see if she would 'spill the beans' so-to-speak?
"Sometimes my ruminations are too confusing for someone not inside my head." -Anon