{"id":11547,"date":"2011-03-11T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T21:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11547"},"modified":"2011-03-11T13:38:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T21:38:06","slug":"darren-i-gotta-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/03\/darren-i-gotta-do-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren: I Gotta Do This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When first approached to do <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em>,<strong> James Darren<\/strong> was lukewarm on the idea.<\/p>\n<p>It took several attempts by<strong> Ira Behr<\/strong> to get Darren involved in the series. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to do it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;A singer on <em>Star Trek<\/em>? Are you crazy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DarrenJames031111.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11548\" title=\"DarrenJames031111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DarrenJames031111.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Darren was more amenable to a different role on the show though. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be on as an alien, not a singer,&#8221; he said, until they had him read the script for his role. &#8220;I did,&#8221; said Darren, &#8220;and it was, &#8216;Crap! I gotta do this!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The part turned out to be fun for Darren. &#8220;&#8230;The whole thing about this guy being from the &#8217;50s and being a lounge singer and me being a hologram was even more interesting,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They built this big lounge set, and when I would get up to sing, the whole crew would stop working to watch. I did 10 of those episodes and I had a ball. That was one of the highlights of my career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Darren still performs live and will be appearing this evening as part of the Swing, Swing, Swing concert with the Four Aces and <strong>Gene Krupa<\/strong> Tribute Big Band in Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. His website is located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesdarren.com\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When first approached to do Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, James Darren was lukewarm on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2663],"tags":[2786,3561],"class_list":["post-11547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-ds9","tag-darren","tag-vic-fontaine"],"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-ds9\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547","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=11547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11549,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547\/revisions\/11549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}