{"id":14698,"date":"2012-01-27T13:49:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T21:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=14698"},"modified":"2012-01-27T13:49:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T21:49:12","slug":"bole-getting-piller-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/01\/bole-getting-piller-on-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Bole: Getting Piller On Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14701\" title=\"BoleShows012712\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BoleShows012712.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek<\/em> Director <strong>Cliff Bole<\/strong> didn&#8217;t start working right away on <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em> due to philosophical differences between <strong>Michael Piller<\/strong> and him.<\/p>\n<p>Piller believed that Bole was not creative enough. &#8220;Mr. Piller and I were not in sync,&#8221; said Bole. &#8220;He thought I was a studio man and not creative, and I&#8217;d keep telling him, &#8216;Go back and look at <em>The Best of Both Worlds<\/em>.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Bole&#8217;s working hours were also an issue with Piller, who seemed to think that Bole wasn&#8217;t putting in enough effort. &#8220;He said, &#8216;Well, you don\u2019t work late,'&#8221; said Bole.&#8221; I said, &#8216;I do my best not to because I don&#8217;t want to burn out the crew or my actors and, by the way, I know what I&#8217;m doing and I come in prepared.&#8217; I was trained as a script clerk and an assistant. I&#8217;m a set rat, and have been on sets my whole life. When I was a kid I lived in the San Fernando Valley, and on Saturdays we&#8217;d go sneak onto all the back lots, roll around and watch what they were doing. So all that added up to I was very, very prepared. I\u2019d had a couple of directors that I&#8217;d worked with over the years that I admired \u2013 <strong>John Huston<\/strong> and people like that \u2013 and I picked up a lot of experience. Michael Piller thought just because I wasn\u2019t there for fourteen and fifteen hours a day that I was ducking creativity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Bole&#8217;s work proved to be acceptable to Piller as Bole returned to direct more <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em> episodes, including <em>Cardassians, The Collaborator, Equilibrium, Defiant, Explorers<\/em> and <em>Facets<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Bole went on to direct ten episodes of <em>Star Trek: Voyager<\/em> after his work on <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek Director Cliff Bole didn&#8217;t start working right away on Star Trek: Deep Space&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2663,2406],"tags":[4006,3857],"class_list":["post-14698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-ds9","category-star-trek-voy","tag-bole","tag-piller"],"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> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-voy\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: VOY<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: VOY","comment_count":"2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14698","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=14698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14704,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14698\/revisions\/14704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}