{"id":10157,"date":"2010-09-03T13:44:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T20:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10157"},"modified":"2010-09-03T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T20:44:45","slug":"forbes-is-so-over-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/09\/forbes-is-so-over-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes Is So Over Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michelle Forbes<\/strong>, best-known to <em>Star Trek: Next Generation<\/em> fans as the Bajoran Ensign Ro, feels that the time for talking about her days on <em>Star Trek<\/em> is over.<\/p>\n<p>It has been years since Forbes appeared in Trek, yet she is still asked about it. &#8220;When people ask me those questions, I just think, &#8216;Really guys?&#8217; It&#8217;s 2010, two decades later. I&#8217;ve answered those upwards, downwards, forwards, sideways. The show went on, it was great. Everybody&#8217;s still breathing, everyone&#8217;s doing fine. Are we still asking those questions? For me, I only did nine episodes! I hardly remember anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/090310Forbes.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10158\" title=\"090310Forbes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/090310Forbes.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Her <em>Star Trek<\/em> character, Ensign Ro, was an appealing character, which may explain the continuing fascination with her Trek days, even after so long. &#8220;I think I just got really lucky with writers who create very fascinating characters,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;m also usually playing roles that come in and out of shows. I&#8217;m a gypsy, I like to pop in and pop out. I&#8217;ve been very fortunate to hit these great shows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now appearing in the Canadian Durham County, where she plays demented psychologist Dr. Penelope Verrity, Forbes would like fans to give that show a chance. &#8220;<em>Durham County<\/em> was a real game-changer in terms of Canadian television,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It swept the Geminis [Canadian TV\/Movie awards] for its first season&#8230; And yet, no one in Canada (or the U.S. for that matter) really knows about the show. I was really quite shocked that people weren&#8217;t seeing it as a show with a profound Canadian voice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, this is a show that wasn&#8217;t copied from an American show \u2013 so many Canadian shows are \u2013 which usually results in a watered-down version. That&#8217;s what I think is smart about <em>Durham County<\/em>. It&#8217;s not derivative of anything American. It&#8217;s more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Forbes, best-known to Star Trek: Next Generation fans as the Bajoran Ensign Ro, feels&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442],"tags":[3367,3366],"class_list":["post-10157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","tag-durham-county","tag-forbes"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tng\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TNG<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TNG","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10159,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions\/10159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}