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Cliff Bole<\/strong> directed forty-two episodes of Star Trek; from Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> through Star Trek: Voyager<\/em> and he had an alien race named after him too.<\/p>\n Most of Bole’s Star Trek<\/em> directing experience was with The Next Generation<\/em>, where he directed twenty-five episodes, including the acclaimed The Best of Both Worlds: Parts I and II,<\/em> and Unification Part II<\/em>, in which Leonard Nimoy<\/strong> reprised his role of Spock.<\/p>\n Bole’s first job on Trek came courtesy of a Paramount connection. “I had a couple of guys up in management at Paramount who I knew and one of them, a fellow named Jeff Hayes<\/strong>, made a suggestion to Rick Berman<\/strong> that Rick use me,” said Bole. “I knew Rick from when he was over at Warner Bros. He’d seen some of my film and that\u2019s how it happened. I went in for one and I stayed for almost twenty years.”<\/p>\n Being new to Star Trek<\/em> meant not knowing about various characteristics of the Trek alien races, and Bole found out once that Vulcans don’t laugh, courtesy of Gene Roddenberry<\/strong>. “I did one episode with a Spock-like character in it, and this character laughed,” said Bole. “Roddenberry saw the dailies and said, ‘That was the biggest mistake you ever made.’ I said, ‘Well, I was only following the script, because it was written.’ Vulcans don’t laugh or smile, but it got by everybody. This laugh was kind of a broad laugh, but it was written. Anyway, we did a retake of it and it was fine, and it never happened again, I can assure you. But that was Roddenberry who picked it out.”<\/p>\n Bole knew that the two episodes of The Best of Both Worlds<\/em> were “going to be great episodes. I knew it from the get-go, from the script, and I put everything I had into them. Everything. I remember that I had my wife read the script to me as I’m driving back from our place in Mt. Shasta, and then I said, ‘Do you mind driving?’ It was a joy and it was a fish-out-of-water story as far as Patrick<\/strong> [Stewart<\/strong>] was concerned, and he was into it. So it all gelled. I’m not surprised it’s well regarded because of all the work that was put into it.”<\/p>\n And what of that race named after Bole, the Bolians? “When it first happened I thought someone was pulling my leg, maybe Berman or someone else,” he said. “Then it became an iten. I was proud of it. To hear your name constructed into the name of an alien race, I thought it was great — and I still do. It comes up all the time. People ask me about it all the time. I’m amazed that people still follow the show enough to ask about it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cliff Bole directed forty-two episodes of Star Trek; from Star Trek: The Next Generation through…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2663,2442,2406],"tags":[4006,4009],"class_list":["post-14656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-ds9","category-star-trek-tng","category-star-trek-voy","tag-bole","tag-bolian"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a> Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/a> Star Trek: TNG<\/a> Star Trek: VOY<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: VOY","comment_count":"2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14656","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=14656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14665,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14656\/revisions\/14665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}