TNT heist show will feature two ‘Star Trek’ actor guest spots. Leverage<\/i>, the TNT show about a team of Robin Hood-like thieves, hackers and grifters, will feature a Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i> star as well as one from Star Trek: Voyager<\/i> in guest roles next week.<\/p>\n
As reported by TrekMovie.com<\/a>, The Next Generation’s<\/i> Brent Spiner<\/font> (Data) will have a guest role very different from that of Riker, while Deep Space Nine’s<\/i> Armin Shimerman<\/font> (Quark) will be a corrupt doctor in next weeks Leverage: The Juror #6 Job<\/i> episode. “That was my idea,” explained Frakes. “I asked [Producer] Dean [Devlin] if I could offer it to Brent, and he was already big fan of Brent’s because he used him in ‘Independence Day.’ And I suggested to the casting director to offer [the corrupt doctor] to Armin and why don’t we give [Armin’s wife] Kitty [Swink] the judge, she also had a recurring role on DS9. Everyone signed off on it. These are wonderful actors who just happened to be on ‘Star Trek.’ And this interview is a perfect example of what happens, the bloodlines from ‘Star Trek’ to ‘Leverage’ are connected and I think that is interesting for people. It will be great for Data fans and fans of Brent to see him play a slime-ball sleazy character.”<\/p>\n Frakes is hoping that Leverage<\/i> is picked up for a second season. He is a fan of heist movies. “I love heist movies,” he said. “‘Leverage’ is influenced by ‘Oceans Eleven’ and [Steven] Soderbergh. Dean established that in the pilot and that is something that we have all maintained as the template, it doesn’t hurt that we have a great cast to work with. The characters are very well defined thanks to [writers] Chris Downey and John Rogers. I think it is a great show.”<\/p>\n Having worked on Star Trek<\/i> can be both good and bad. The bad is being so well-known for his Riker role, that it becomes hard to find other roles. “I am looking for a[n acting] job,” said Frakes. “It has been good to direct, but, you know ‘Star Trek,’ as you know from talking to all the people from all the shows, is a double-edged sword. It makes you famous and you run the risk of type-casting.”<\/p>\n The Juror #6 Job<\/i>, directed by Frakes, airs Tuesday, February 10th at 10 P.M. <\/p>\n To read more, head to the article located here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TNT heist show will feature two ‘Star Trek’ actor guest spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2429,2430,2431,2432,2433,2434,2435],"class_list":["post-5405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-data","tag-frakes","tag-leverage","tag-quark","tag-riker","tag-shimerman","tag-spiner"],"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>","tag_info":"Cast & Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405","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=5405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7136,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions\/7136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}