This reminds me that Robin Williams was originally cast in what would become Matt Frewer’s role in TNG S5E06, A Matter of Time. He would have played the time traveler if he didn’t have a scheduling conflict with the movie Hook.
It’s hard for me to imagine Robin Williams’ take on that character. I know he was a great actor and wouldn’t necessarily be playing it as a comedian, but his energy is usually so manic compared to Frewer who did a great job being reserved and subtly manipulative.
Yeah, the last time this came up, someone pointed out that Frewer was probably the better choice in the end because of how much Williams would have stolen the spotlight. Still, I feel like we missed out on what would surely have been an awesome cameo in an already great episode.
This could be a miniseries. Each episode, Quark takes on a new human cultural challenge and interprets it through Ferengi cultural lenses. Obviously they did this on the show but I can really picture a different side of the character coming out in a completely safe setting like his own personal holosuite. Antics might be especially humorous if his instructor was someone who had a unique perspective on human culture too, as the Doc in Voyager did while trying to help 7/9.
I’d kill really for any holodeck series. Imagine one where every episode some new story starts and you never know who is a holocharacter and who is a real person or even what species they are because the holodeck appropriately disguises them. Then at the end we find out they’re all serving on the same ship. That the incredibly goofy holoseries is for the Captain. That the romance novels were for the Klingon. That the poetry readings were for the ex-borg. The Warhammer 40k one being for the Chief Medical Officer.
You and me both brother… you and me both. When I was a kid, it wasn’t a relative or dog dying that made me realize what death was. It was a Robin Williams movie. Bicentennial Man. Robin plays a robot that develops feelings and wants to become human. He does and at the end of the movie he dies, peacefully and happy, in his bed. I was inconsolable as a kid. Robin had been with me for as long as I could remember from Aladdin and Mrs Doubtfire and everything else. Seeing him die broke me and I ended up being terrified of sleeping for days because I didn’t want to die. Then the first celebrity death to ever hit me? Robin Williams. I’m still fucked up by it. I have pretty severe depression that has only gotten worse over the years and Robin was my sort of light in the darkness. When he died I broke.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go rewatch Flubber for the 800th time.
those scenes where it's Robin and Nathan Lane and Hank Azaria running around in booty shorts just, just, i don't know mang, they really get to me jou know
the last time i watched Hook i had a lot of fun with Robin.. also Baron Munchhausen, his King of the Moon is completely off all rails, and absolutely transcends dimensions..
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