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The Three Iconic Star Trek Characters Played By David Warner

Actor David Warner died on July 24, 2022 at the age of 80, leaving behind a decades-long career of stage and screen that stretched from Shakespeare to " Freakazoid! " The Emmy-winning actor began his career in 1962, appearing on stage as an extra in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and as Conrad in "Much Ado About Nothing." That same year, Warner garnered his first (uncredited) film appearance in the comedy "We Joined the Navy" as well as his first TV appearance in the televised play "Madhouse on Castle Street." 

Since those early days, Warner worked constantly in films and TV, gathering a great deal of fans around him from his association with well-received genre films like "The Omen," "Time Bandits," "The Man With Two Brains," "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze," and many others. In 2001, he returned to theater, and entered a phase in his career where he could play King Lear one day and The Doctor from "Doctor Who" the next. His range, devotion, and enthusiasm will be missed. 

Warner, as all Trekkies know, had a close relationship to "Star Trek," having appeared in two Trek feature films and on one series, each time playing a vastly different character. Warner left a deep impression, creating a memorable new addition to the franchise's canon. Indeed, one of Warner's roles is perhaps one of the best to ever emerge from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in the series' single most intense episode. 

St. John Talbot

Say what you will about William Shatner's 1989 film " Star Trek V: The Final Frontier " — and there are plenty of negative things that can be said — it certainly didn't lack for interesting ideas. The plot of that film involved a passionate Vulcan named Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill), secretly Spock's half-brother, taking hostages at a remote outpost in order to lure to Enterprise to their rescue. The outpost, located on Nimbus III, was meant to be an attractive galactic "neutral ground" where warring governments could come together for peaceful diplomatic negotiations. The outpost, however, failed long ago, and the ironically named Paradise City is now a desert wasteland overrun by criminals and alcoholics. 

Into this sad place came three embittered and burnt-out diplomats — one from the Klingon Empire, one from Romulus, and one from Earth — meant to serve as Sybok's hostages. Warner played St. John Talbot, the human ambassador who, although only serving a supporting role, carried with him the weariness of a job done poorly. Talbot's professional skill had long since become useless, and it seemed as if he had fallen from a once-great height. Talbot's backstory is made more explicit in J.M. Dillard's novelization of "Star Trek V"  which explains that he once failed during an important Andorian mission, and turned to booze and cigarettes in its aftermath. Talbot is one of the few smokers to appear on screen in "Star Trek" history. 

Although none of that backstory is explained in the final film, Warner's performance manages to communicate Talbot's exhaustion. His first name makes him sounds like a saint. He wasn't.

Chancellor Gorkon

In Nicholas Meyer's 1991 film " Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ," Warner returned as a diplomat, only this time in a much more hopeful mode. In "Country," the entire Klingon moon of Praxis — a vital source of natural resources — explodes in a mining accident. The explosion leads the already-waning Klingon Empire reluctantly to the negotiation tables to finally talk about an end to the Cold Wars they and the Federation had been embroiled in for decades. Yes, "Country" is a metaphor for the falling of the Iron Curtain and the end of the real life Cold Ward between the United States and Russia (which had experienced a coup earlier that year). Praxis could even be seen as an analogue for the accident at Chernobyl. This is the most political of the Trek feature films. 

In "Country," Warner plays Chancellor Gorkon, a high-ranking Klingon official who meets with Kirk (Shatner) face-to-face in order to attempt friendly relations. Diplomacy is rough going and the humans and Klingons don't necessarily get along very well; the intimidating General Chang (Christopher Plummer) seems upset that such let's-be-friends meetings are now required. Gorkon, however annoyed he might seem at meeting with humans, does indeed believe in a lasting peace and is determined to be on his best behavior. It will be Gorkon who will be assassinated by secret murderers in order to stymie peace talks. 

Unlike his burnt-out diplomat in "Frontier," Warner brings an authoritative warmth to Gorkon. Kirk and co. are intimidated by him, but are careful to listen and welcome him. He's someone devoted to peace, but also someone you don't want to disappoint. When he arrives on the Enterprise, it's like your college professor is visiting your house. Don't say anything dumb in front of him.

One of the better episodes of " Star Trek: The Next Generation " is a two-part espionage thriller called "Chain of Command" that aired at the end of 1992 in the middle of the show's sixth season. In it, Capt. Picard (Patrick Stewart) goes on a covert sting operation to destroy a secret Cardassian biological weapons facility. Picard finds no weapons, however, and is captured by the cold-eyed, soulless Gul Madred (Warner) who explains that the facility was a trap. 

The second part of "Chain of Command" is devoted to the tête-à-tête between Madred and Picard, with Picard stripped of his clothes and his dignity and tortured incessantly. Madred attempts to sadistically impose his will on Picard, and it becomes clear that Madred doesn't so much need information as he needs to prove that humans are weak-willed and can be dominated. Picard, as he withers from starvation and injury, finds that Madred is, in fact, little more than a wounded bully, his Nazi-like thirst for dominance springing from a specific moment of childhood embarrassment. 

The crux of "Chain of Command" is Madred shining four spotlights into Picard's eyes. He insists Picard admit there are, in fact, five lights. Picard, in the midst of torture, finds himself tempted into to seeing — into being convinced there are — five lights. This carries echoes of George Orwell's " 1984 ," wherein the government insists it has the power to dictate that 2+2=5.

Warner is chilling as Madred, and the actor wholly projects the confidence, arrogance, and pathos of the character. He brought depth to the role, layering his performance to match the character's backstory. It's not an overstatement to say Madred is among the best "villain" characters in all of "Star Trek" — all thanks to the extremely talented Warner.

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David Warner

David Warner ( 1941 - 2022 ) was an English stage and film actor who has appeared in over 200 movie, television, and video game roles.

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• Quest of the Delta Knights ( Episode #913 ) - as Lord Vultare / Baydool / Narrator
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier ( RiffTrax ) - as Ambassador St. John Talbot
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (RiffTrax) - as Chancellor Gorkon
• Titanic (RiffTrax) - as Spicer Lovejoy
• The Little Unicorn (RiffTrax) - as Ted Regan
• Ice Cream Man (RiffTrax) - as Reverend Langley
• Tron (RiffTrax Presents) - as Ed Dillinger / Sark / Master Control Program

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David Warner (29 July 1941, Manchester, England, UK - 24 July 2022, Northwood, England, UK) was an English actor. He had roles in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , and Star Trek: The Next Generation . He also starred in the film Tron , alongside Bruce Boxleitner and Peter Jurasik .

Like W. Morgan Sheppard , Christopher Neame , Robin Sachs , Guy Siner , and Jim Norton , Warner has played characters in Star Trek , Doctor Who , and Babylon 5 .

Warner died on 24 July, 2022 at Denville Hall in Northwood at the age of 80 after suffering a cancer related illness. [1]

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Babylon 5 tv series [ ].

• Guest Starring, Grail (6 July 1994) - Aldous Gajic

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• David Warner at the Internet Movie Database
• David Warner entry at the Wikipedia
• David Warner entry at Memory Alpha

Gul Madred was a Cardassian officer placed in charge of the interrogation of Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Celtris III in 2369 .

• 2.1 Background information
• 2.2 Apocrypha
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As a starving , homeless child living on the streets of Lakat , Madred scavenged for and ate raw taspar eggs , straight from the shell . He later recalled being beaten and having his arm broken by an older boy who stole the eggs, an experience from which he clearly never recovered. As an adult, he came to endorse the Cardassian military establishment, believing that it had the power to eradicate the poverty and violence that plagued Cardassia during his childhood.

Madred later had a daughter named Jil Orra . Although she was very young, Madred allowed her to visit him during Picard's interrogation .

During intensifying hostility between the Cardassian Union and the United Federation of Planets over territorial concessions , Madred captured Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the starship USS Enterprise -D by fabricating evidence of a metagenic weapon on the Cardassian planet Celtris III . There, Madred sought to uncover Starfleet 's defense operations for Minos Korva by first drugging , then torturing Picard. Proving himself to be both cunning and brutal, Madred employed unique tactics which he felt stripped his victim of his individuality, stripping Picard of his clothing and referring to him simply as " Human ". At the height of his sadism, Madred repeatedly showed Picard four bright lights , telling him that there were in fact five lights. When the captain refused to submit, he was tortured: a small device implanted in the captain's chest allowed Madred to inflict pain in any part of the body.

Ultimately, the Cardassians' intentions were exposed, and Picard's release was ordered. Despite his best efforts, Madred was not able to successfully break Picard's will – although the captain later admitted that he came perilously close to breaking. ( TNG : " Chain Of Command, Part I ", " Chain Of Command, Part II ")

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Background information [ ].

Madred was played by David Warner in his third of three Star Trek appearances. His name comes from the episode's credits and was never spoken onscreen.

Warner took over the role of Madred on three days' notice and, though he had previously appeared in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , he knew nothing about the Cardassians from The Next Generation , as he recalled in a 2011 interview; " I took over on three days' notice. It was another makeup job. It was with Pat Stewart , who's an old colleague. It was great to be a part of that. I thought, 'Oh, I've done two of the others, the old classic ones, and here I am in The Next Generation . I'll go for it.' So I wasn't aware of it, of the Cardassians. I didn't know their history at all, except of course, that they weren't very nice. " Due to the limited duration in which he had to prepare for the role, Warner did not have enough of time to memorize his lines. As such, they were written down on cue cards. He commented, " There was too much technobabble and dialogue that doesn't come naturally to me. So they wrote everything up for me. I don't mind people knowing this. Every line I said, I actually was reading it over Patrick's shoulder or they put it down there for me to do it. " [1]

According to the script for "Chain of Command, Part I", the pronunciation for Madred was "muh-DRED".

Apocrypha [ ]

Madred has appeared in several DS9 novels , including Andrew Robinson 's A Stitch in Time (post- Dominion War ) and Ship of the Line by Diane Carey . In Robert Simpson 's Lesser Evil , Madred appeared in scenes set in 2347 on Kora II , where he was a Glinn . Madred also appeared in the TNG short story "Four Lights" by Keith R.A. DeCandido in the anthology book The Sky's the Limit , in which Picard and Madred are reunited during the Dominion War, with Madred in the USS Enterprise -E brig . Madred and Picard met again in the novel Ship of the Line , when Picard was sent into Cardassian space to free captured Starfleet officers, with Picard revealing that they were aided in their efforts by Madred's own daughter, who had become disgusted with her father's work after seeing him torture Picard.

During the comic miniseries Star Trek: The Next Generation - Perchance to Dream , when Picard was forced to enter his own mind to defeat a telepathic virus called the Chova with the aid of his other personalities ( Sarek , Locutus , and Kamin ), he used the mental image of the four lights Madred confronted him with to remind him of past victories while in his mind. Using the strength from this image, he was able to overcome Locutus when the latter attempted to gain control of his body, coldly informing Locutus that he would not give in before he was awakened.

In the original Cardassian Struggle arc for Star Trek Online , Madred had become the leader of the True Way organization and formed an alliance with a faction of Alpha Jem'Hadar to protect the True Way's mining operations. The player eventually captured him at Empok Nor . Madred was removed from the game when the Cardassian Struggle arc was revamped in early 2015.

His mirror universe counterpart ( β ) appeared in the novella " The Worst of Both Worlds ".

External links [ ]

• Madred at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• Madred at the Star Trek Online Wiki
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David Warner, 1941–2022

Rest in power, evil..

David Warner, who died yesterday , was the consummate British thespian of a certain age, something like the character-actor equivalent of Michael Caine: He’d be in just about anything that would hand him a check and he’d always deliver the maximum amount of gravitas his accented intonation would permit.

There are some who describe actors working for money—i.e., doing it for a check—with a sneer, but I assure you, that’s not how I intend it. There’s nothing wrong with performing in kiddie fare like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze or schlock like Tron , so long as you take it seriously, so long as you don’t phone it in. And Warner was one of those great Brits who got his start on the stage, performing in the Royal Shakespeare Company: As anyone who has watched Brian Cox fart around with the Broken Lizard gang in Super Troopers , those guys don’t phone it in.

As someone with nerdish tendencies growing up, Warner’s fingerprints were all over my favorite properties, Star Trek . Sure, he was in the terrible Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , but he was also in the great Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , arguably the best of the Trek movies. Chancellor Gorkon’s cultured Klingon of peace was so unlike any of his ridge-browed contemporaries—even more so, perhaps, than Worf (Michael Dorn), who debuted in The Next Generation a few years before The Undiscovered Country ’s debut—that he practically put a whole new spin on the race.

That said, Warner’s ultimate turn in Gene Rodenberry’s universe came during the classic two-part episode, “Chain of Command,” in which he played Gul Madred, a vicious Cardassian commander who has captured Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and is given the task of torturing the Starfleet hero until he reveals the Federation’s plans for a minor star system. For a dork of my generation, Stewart spitting “There are four lights!” at a quietly cruel Warner layered under gray face paint has as much resonance as “May the Force be with you,” albeit with a slightly different tone.

Madred was a certain kind of evil—one might describe it as banal, more interested in breaking the spirit of an enemy than achieving a goal—but Warner’s greatest performance was as actual, literal Evil. In 1981’s Time Bandits , Warner portrayed the Supreme Being’s opposite number. It is one of the earliest cinematic experiences I can remember and Warner’s work as Evil is a big reason for that. Both grandiose in temperament and burdened by the idiocy of his followers, Evil is … well, not sympathetic, exactly, but you can understand why he might vacillate between blowing people up in frustration before calmly explaining why, exactly, they’ve asked a good question.

Just watch this clip, I beg you; the vast majority of actors will never get a clip as good as this for their sizzle reel:

It’s the lament of the guy who can’t handle that he’s second fiddle, the wail of the powerfully impotent: “Never talk to me like that again! No one created me!” But the button on this sequence—“That’s a good question.”—is what sells the whole role, how Warner brings it down a notch, how he slides from grandiose to chit-chatty with ease. And while the writing of Evil’s monologue on digital watches and lasers being the key to “understanding” is, obviously, not to be undersold, you can only really appreciate the absurdity of it via Warner’s sneering aside about God making “43 species of parrot” when there are so many things to know about microchips.

The funny thing is: Warner almost didn’t get the part. As director Terry Gilliam noted in Gilliam on Gilliam , the role was initially offered to another consummate British pro (and RSC alumnus), Jonathan Pryce. “He did a heist film instead—for the money—and I think he’s regretted it ever since,” Gilliam said.

Pryce might regret it, but I certainly don’t. There are few matches of performer and role more perfect than Warner in Time Bandits .

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David Warner's Most Incredible Star Trek Turn Is a Tale of 2 Cardassians

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David Warner, who sadly passed away earlier this week , is beloved for his villainous turns. From Time After Time to Time Bandits , from Tron to Batman: The Animated Series ’ Ra’s Al Ghul, the actor’s legendary career is paved with them. B ut perhaps his finest hour on television comes from his third and final Star Trek role in The Next Generation .

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“Chain of Command” sits as a two- parter in the middle of The Next Generation ’s sixth season. It’s one of the show’s best , and beloved for a haunting turn by Patrick Stewart, playing a Picard who is captured and brutally tortured by the Cardassians—an interrogation lead by Warner’s sinister Gul Madred. He’s left as vulnerable as we perhaps ever see the great hero Jean-Luc Picard, who ends the story by admitting how close he came to giving up.

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Picard is nearly broken by Warner’s Madred, who turns in a truly fascinating performance that catapults him into the top tier of TNG ’s best guest stars. Madred is actually not in “Chain of Command” that much—he doesn’t appear until the climactic scene of the first episode, and the second intersperses his torture of Picard with the action back aboard the Enterprise , where replacement Captain Jellico (Ronny Cox) is attempting to strong- arm his way through negotiations with another Cardassian, Gul Lemec (John Durbin). But from the second Warner enters the scene, Madred is immediately captivating.

He glides around the dimly little office/torture room that becomes the primary stage of the back half of “Chain of Command, ” barely entering the sharp pockets of light as he verbally and, sometimes technologically with an implanted device in Picard’s chest, needles the good c aptain until he is a writhing wreck. Madred’s presence is graceful and terrifying—Warner’s voice for the character almost barely a whisper, precise and controlled as he completely pulls Picard’s strings over and over. That’s really what makes Madred so compelling and creepy, beyond the fact he’s brutally torturing our hero: he’s a shade, meticulous and detailed but never brash and booming, dominance held by his complete and utter control, not just of Picard but of himself. There’s a single scene in which Madred breaks this facade—when Picard mocks his childhood upbringing as a starving orphan on Cardassia—but it’s only for a moment. Even then, as Picard celebrates discovering a gap in Madred’s armor, Warner’s subdued, imposing presence keeps him a threat until the episode’s very climax.

It’s a fantastic performance in isolation, but what makes Gul Madred truly shine as a character is that he’s not the only Cardassian villain of the piece. Although they barely share screen time save for a scene near the two-parter’s end, Gul Lemec is a vital foil to Madred that creates a greater whole, abstracted as what would be the hallmark of the Cardassian s’ portrayal when they truly entered Trek ’s spotlight in Deep Space Nine . Durbin’s Lemec is everything that Warner’s Madred is not—grand and pompous, sneering and theatrical. There’s almost an element of camp to Durbin’s turn, practically vogu ing about the Enterprise conference room as he spits demands and insults at Jellico, Troi, and Riker, hands dramatically splayed as they dance stroking from chair to chair. If Madred skulked in the shadows, Lemec leaps into the light, the embodiment of Cardassian haughtiness and arrogance.

They’re both fantastic performances in isolation, but in symbiosis they paint an incredible picture of w hat the Cardassians were capable of, as both beings and as characters for Star Trek to work with—the deadly, calculating sneaks, the pompous warriors. Even barely sharing the screen, Durbin and Warner’s dual roles feel like a performative dance, a duet of opposites, each contrast making the other performance shine just as strongly even as they juke away from each other. Durbin’s the proud, furious performance Lemec makes Warner’s choices as Madred feel all the more cold, calculated, and chilling, and in turn that subdued sinister performance makes Lemec’s rage and arrogance all the more potent.

I came back to “Chain of Command” last night in the wake of Warner’s passing expecting to remember his performance, and his alone—one of the all- time greats of Star Trek guest stars. But I was surprised in realising that it only hits hits its  biggest heights thanks to as just as laudable performance in Durbin: two incredible actors setting the stage for what Cardassians could be, ready for them to ascend into Trek ’s annals as one if its most fascinating societies just a few years later.

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10 Fun Facts About Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

"What does God need with a starship?"

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Let’s just say it: Star Trek V is not always considered one of Trek ’s finest moments by some fans. Audiences were shocked to learn that Spock had a brother they’d never heard of — there would be similar indignance at the arrival of Michael Burnham 28 years later — and underwhelmed by the visual effects as well as the overall story. But despite its flaws, the movie has a lot of highly entertaining moments as well as its own special charm. What Kirk-Spock-McCoy fan can resist those campfire scenes? And what does God need with a starship?

To celebrate the film’s 32nd anniversary, here are some fun facts you may not be aware of.

The original story was going to be about meeting God… for real

William Shatner says he got the inspiration for the movie after watching people like Jimmy Swaggart and Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker on TV. This was during the heyday of televised evangelism, when people were forking over all of their money to already-rich TV celebs claiming to have a direct connection to God. In his original plan for the movie, detailed by his daughter Lisabeth in her book Captain's Log: William Shatner's Personal Account of the Making of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , the Enterprise crew was actually going to find God, only to have him turn out to be the Devil. There was even a scene where McCoy was dragged to Hell by furies, resulting in Kirk and Spock making like Orpheus to get him back.

Sybok wasn’t originally Spock’s brother

As other elements of the story shifted, so did its central antagonist. Originally named Zar, he was going to be a zealot similar to the Ayatollah Khomeini, who had become the supreme religious leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979. As the story shifted, the character changed along with it, until he was less like the Ayatollah and more like professor-turned-LSD-advocate Timothy Leary.

The story called for Spock and the Enterprise crew to temporarily betray Kirk and follow Sybok. The creative team was struggling to find a way to make that seem plausible, and then producer Harve Bennett “lit up” (says Shatner in his Movie Memories book) and shouted that he had the solution: Sybok would be Spock’s brother. Shatner hated the idea but was convinced to let Bennett map out the story, and he ended up liking it.

Of course, when Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley heard that their characters were supposed to betray their captain, they each put a foot down; they knew their characters better than anyone, and they would never turn on Jim Kirk. They insisted that the story be changed, and ultimately, it was.

There were supposed to be all these Rock Men…

As William Shatner and writer David Loughery describe it, the movie’s original ending was huge in scope and highly cinematic, but every time the budget got whittled down, another key element disappeared; they chipped away at the ending until there was very little left of it.

The script called for the Furies to transform into Rock Men who’d explode from the dust, breathing fire and granite. It would feel like Dante’s Inferno ! The plan was to have ten Rock Men, until they learned the cost would be $350,000 each—which meant three and a half million dollars just for the ending. The studio told Shatner he could afford one Rock Man, so he came up with a plan for exactly how he’d film it to make his one Rock Man look like ten. Small problem: The costume wouldn’t be ready until the day before filming. When they finally saw the stuntman in the suit for the first time, it was nothing like Shatner had pictured; he said it just looked like a guy with pieces of slate stuck to him. There also wasn’t a way for the costume to breathe fire without harming the stuntman inside. They did a camera test (which is a well worth watching special feature on the Blu-ray), then dumped the whole idea.

There were familiar faces from both Trek ’s past and its future

In addition to our beloved Original Series cast members, there were other familiar faces in the cast that popped up more than once in the Star Trek franchise, including two Klingon Chancellors.

David Warner, who played St. John Talbot in The Final Frontier , would play both Chancellor Gorkon in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , and Gul Madred, the Cardassian who tortured Picard in TNG’s “Chain of Command.”

Charles Cooper, Klingon General Korrd, would go on to play Chancellor K’mpec in two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation — in the same cloak he’d worn in the movie. Another memorable TNG guest star, George Murdock, aka “God,” would play Admiral Hanson in the TNG two-parter (and season 3 cliffhanger) “Best of Both Worlds.”

Rex Holman (J’onn, the very first person you see in the movie), has some old school Trek cred: He played Morgan Earp in the Original Series third season episode “Spectre of the Gun.”

And there are more! Look up Todd Bryant and Spice Williams next time you’re on a Trek trivia mission.

The movie would’ve shown an addition to Mount Rushmore

With the focus on the Kirk-Spock-McCoy trinity, Sulu and Chekov didn’t get a whole lot to do in this movie. (Walter Koenig even told the authors of The 50-Year Mission: The First 25 Years that he only worked on it for eight days.) They did have another scene together that was cut, which took place in front of Mount Rushmore.

“You’ve seen one national park, you’ve seen them all,” says Chekov, but in this case, he’s wrong. In the future — at least in the future of Star Trek V — there’s a fifth head there, and it belongs to a Black female president, named Sarah Susan Eckert in Dillard’s novelization.

That fan dance was more controversial than you think

For better or for worse, there’s a strange scene in the movie where  Uhura must do a sensual “fan dance” in order to distract Sybok’s soldiers. Screenwriter David Loughery suggested it as a joke and was shocked when they loved the idea. “Nichelle has great gams, so anybody would stop and take a look, and that’s all we needed,” said Shatner in the DVD extras.

Nichelle Nichols was happy to do it. She was an accomplished singer and dancer who had toured with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton,and was looking forward to having more of her singing in Star Trek. Shatner and Bennett told her that the final decision on what vocals would be used was Jerry Goldmsith’s, but they’d let her know what he decided, and then… they didn’t. She wrote in her book Beyond Uhura that she showed up for a looping session and Shatner, assuming she’d been filled in, said it was too bad “about the music,” and that he knew she “would have done just as good a job.” The song would be performed by a group called Hiroshima. Nichols was crushed, and ultimately disappointed by the scene in the final film.

For those wondering about Nichols fan dance costume, she revealed during a fan Q&A that “I was wearing… me. And, of course, I had a G-string on.”

The key to the film’s distinctive look: location, location, location

The locations were challenging, but worth the effort. The climbing scenes were done at Yosemite National Park. Shatner loved free climbing and was in his element, but the famous giant rock formation El Capitan presented a problem for the crew, who couldn’t get close enough to do closeups. A wall was built in a parking lot for those shots. But that free fall was really performed by stuntman Kenny Bates, earning him the credit for the highest descender fall in the United States at that time.

The Nimbus III scenes were filmed in Owens Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert. The location was also used in the movie Tremors, starring Kevin Bacon. Six degrees achieved!

As for Ska Ka Ree, that was filmed at the Trona Pinnacles in central California. This unique geological formation was a popular location, also seen in movies like Battlestar Galactic a and the original Planet of the Apes , as well as the video for Rihanna’s “Sledgehammer,” released to promote the movie Star Trek Beyond .

The campfire scenes were the last ones filmed

To make those scenes feel special, it was the final sequence on the schedule. With all of the dust-ridden deserts and giant cliffs already behind them, the last days of production were spent around the campfire, on a set on the Paramount lot. There wasn’t time to put tops on the trees, so Shatner had to keep the shots tighter than he would’ve liked, but he’s still happy with how everything turned out. They had a small celebration with champagne and cake after the last shot was done.

There’s a backstory to Spock’s “marsh melons” mistake

About those campfire scene marshmallows…  they came from Kraft, as did Spock’s dispenser. A tie-in product was created so fans could have their very own marshmallow dispensers (via mail order; this was 1989). And yes, you can still find them on eBay.

But here’s the real question: Why does Spock mistakenly call them “marsh melons”? In J.M. Dillard’s novelization of the movie, McCoy knows that Spock is going to do extensive pre-camping research, so he pranks him by getting a computer tech to change “marshmallows” to “marsh melons” everywhere they’re referenced. That’s also why he gets such a kick out of watching Spock say it.

They made a few mistakes

This wasn’t the first movie with an onscreen blunder, and it won’t be the last. There’s one right at the beginning, when Kirk falls off El Capitan and is rescued by Spock (in his awesome levitation boots) just before hitting the ground. When he starts his fall, he has a scruffy face you’d expect from someone on a camping vacation, but by the time he gets to the bottom, he’s clean-shaven. (Even in the future, that seems like an unlikely shaving method.)

Another one happens when Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are on the run from Sybok’s followers and (once again with help from Spock’s levitation books), they zoom up the turboshaft together. They pass deck 52 twice (oops), then go all the way to 78 when Star Trek lore tells us that the ship only has 23 decks. Not only that, the lowest number is traditionally the highest deck; the bridge atop the saucer section is deck 1. But like the shaving mistake, it doesn’t really affect the story… and wasn’t it worth it just to hear McCoy tell Kirk and Spock, ‘You two go ahead, I’ll wait for the next car”?

And finally…

The movie suffered from budget cuts and numerous setbacks, but those who worked on it still had fun, with “exuberance” being the word most used to describe its enthusiastic director. Shatner took a lot of flak for the film, but he sums up his experience beautifully in the behind-the-scenes doc:

“I was in a joyful act of creation all the time, whether it was working or not… We just had a joyful time making a film.”

(And for another fascinating look at Star Trek V , check out Trek V Wrapped Filming 30 Years Ago by Maria Jose and John Tenuto.)

Laurie Ulster (she/her) is a freelance writer and a TV producer who somehow survived her very confusing adolescence as the lone female Star Trek fan in middle school. She's a writer/editor and was the Supervising Producer on After Trek.

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David Warner, ‘Titanic’ and ‘Star Trek’ actor, dies at 80

David Warner, the Emmy-nominated English actor whose six-decade career included roles in “Titanic,” “Star Trek” and “The Omen,” died Sunday in London, his family said.

The Manchester-born Warner died of a cancer-related illness, his family announced Monday in a statement obtained by the Daily News.

“He will be missed hugely by us, his family and friends, and remembered as a kind-hearted, generous and compassionate man, partner and father whose legacy of extraordinary work has touched the lives of so many over the years,” the family said. “We are heartbroken.”

Warner performed in more than 200 film, television and theater roles, including numerous Shakespearean productions. He began a stint with the Royal Shakespeare Company during the early 1960s, performing the title role in “Hamlet” and portraying Henry VI in “The Wars of The Roses.”

The actor broke into the film and TV industries around that time as well, notably appearing as Blifil in the Albert Finney-led 1963 adventure-comedy “Tom Jones.”

Warner starred alongside Gregory Peck and Lee Remick in the 1976 horror classic “The Omen,” portraying the photographer Keith Jennings, who joins Peck’s Robert as they search for answers about a mysterious child said to be the Antichrist.

Five years later, Warner earned the lone Emmy nomination of his career for his performance as Sen. Pomponius Falco in the miniseries “Masada,” which depicts the siege of a citadel during the First Jewish–Roman War.

Warner repeatedly appeared in different iterations of the “Star Trek” franchise, including playing an ambassador to the Nimbus III planet in the 1989 film “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.” He portrayed the chancellor Gorkon in 1991′s “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.”

He played Spicer Lovejoy in the 1997 movie “Titanic” directed by James Cameron, nearly two decades after appearing in another film, “S.O.S. Titanic,” depicting the shipwreck.

Warner continued to perform onstage into the 2000s, including portraying Falstaff in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Histories Cycle in 2008.

His final film was the 2018 sequel “Marry Poppins Returns” starring Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

“So glad to have been able to express my admiration for David Warner’s incredible versatility and career in our time together on set,” Miranda tweeted Monday, sharing a throwback photo showing them together.

Warner died at the Denville Hall retirement home, where many professional actors have spent their later years.

“Over the past 18 months he approached his diagnosis with a characteristic grace and dignity,” Warner’s family said.

“He is survived by his beloved partner Lisa Bowerman, his much-loved son Luke and daughter in-law Sarah, his good friend Jane Spencer Prior, his first wife Harriet Evans and his many gold dust friends.”

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• Laurence Luckinbill saw his character, Sybok, as a complex figure searching for God, resembling Lenin's transformation into a dictator.
• Luckinbill refused to have Sybok armed with weapons, wanting to portray him as a peaceful seeker, which director William Shatner supported.
• Despite mixed reviews, Luckinbill praised Shatner's directing, valuing the opportunity to play the tragic and Shakespearean role of Sybok.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 's Laurence Luckinbill shares how he sees Sybok and credits director William Shatner for helping him realize his vision. Shatner cast Luckinbill as the villain of the fifth Star Trek movie after seeing the lauded stage actor's performance as President Lyndon B. Johnson in Lyndon . As Sybok, Luckinbill played a holy man who was the Vulcan half-brother of Spock (Leonard Nimoy). However, Sybok was no mere heavy, and the emotional Vulcan was unlike previous Star Trek movie villains.

Laurence Luckinbill appeared on All Access Star Trek - A TrekMovie.com Podcast hosted by Anthony Pascale and Laurie Ulster to promote his memoir, "Affective Memories," and to mark the 35th anniversary of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier . When Pascale asked Luckinbill how he saw Sybok as the actor portraying the Vulcan, Laurence gave a fascinating response . Listen to the podcast in the link above and read Luckinbill's quote below:

It was written a bit like a villain, except there was this search for God. Well, we’re all searching for God, aren’t we? In some way… After I accepted the role, [I met with William Shatner] and he asked, ‘How do you see the character?’ And I said, ‘Lenin.’ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin… Lenin had a great dream that he could free Russia. He could make it all good and better for the people. But as he gradually got into it, and he felt the obstacles rushing against him, he gradually turned into a dictator. And that’s where Sybok was headed because he made that choice. And then he stole the Enterprise. And that was the first big action, which was a theft. And gradually, as the [movie] moved along, and we got to that last scene where I exchange hands with Leonard, with Spock, my brother, and then sacrifice myself to save him, to this evil god. Which was, to me, Shakespearean. It was tragic, and I played it that way.

Regarding Sybok originally being armed with rock guns or weapons in Star Trek V 's script, Luckinbill said no and explained his reasoning to William Shatner:

I said I don’t want to because I am the human part of Spock. I am a peaceful person. Sybok is a peaceful person. He is looking for God. He is looking for help. He’s looking to relieve pain. Why would he carry a gun around? So Bill eventually said, ‘Well, we’ll fix that.’ And he did. We were able to do a big fight, and the gun wasn’t important. I actually love Bill Shatner. So he was a good director for me. Other people complained about him. I don’t.

William Shatner's Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is a comforting watch with enjoyable banter, a compelling villain in Sybok, and good intentions.

Sybok Is Unlike Other Star Trek Movie Villains

There hasn't been a villain like sybok before or since.

Among Star Trek 's movie villains , Sybok is unique and stands apart. Most Star Trek movie villains follow the mold of Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban) in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . The vengeance-lusting, scenery-chewing Khan set the standard for Star Trek movie villains, and the films have tried to replicate Montalban's iconic heavy, without the same success. Star Trek 's cinematic Big Bads like Kruge (Christopher Lloyd) in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock , Shinzon (Tom Hardy) in Star Trek: Nemesis , Nero (Eric Bana) in Star Trek (2009), and Krall (Idris Elba) in Star Trek Beyond have all tried to be Khan's second coming.

Khan literally had a second coming in Star Trek Into Darkness , with Benedict Cumberbatch playing Khan in Star Trek 's alternate Kelvin Timeline.

As Laurence Luckinbill explained to TrekMovie , Sybok is cut from a different cloth than Khan. Sybok is not driven by revenge or a lust for power. Sybok is a Vulcan holy man, a believer who seeks God and the answer to the universe's greatest questions. Sybok's folly is that he was manipulated by a malevolent alien posing as God (George Murdock) . But when he realizes his grave error, Sybok saves his brother, Spock, and sacrifices himself at the end of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier . Sybok is tragic in a Shakespearean sense, just as Laurence Luckibill played him.

Source: All Access Star Trek - A TrekMovie.com Podcast

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The Best of the Worst of David Warner

News broke today that genre GOAT David Warner died of cancer at the age of 80. He is remembered as a titan of theater, a nuanced performer, and a caring friend. But to those of us who were not able to see him onstage or meet him in person, he will always be Nergal, the lonely demon who lives at the earth’s core in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. Poor Nergal. Warner’s gift was taking the talent and pathos he amassed at the Royal Shakespeare Company and weaving it into every role, no matter how stupid. It’s easy for someone to be good at playing Hamlet. It’s very difficult to elicit sympathy for someone called the Lobe.

Thankfully, much of Warner’s silliest work is available to stream. He did excellent work in cartoons, in Star Trek after Star Trek, and even in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Here, the best of the worst of Warner:

Freakazoid!

Warner had an extensive voice-over career, including this semi-forgotten Kids’ WB show. Freakazoid! was a Steven Spielberg joint that just didn’t have the staying power of Animaniacs and Tiny Toon Adventures. But what the show lacked in buzz, it made up for in hula girls and Hello, Dolly! parodies. It was a show on which pretty much anything could happen, and Warner’s the Lobe was often holding on to the plot for dear life.

Freakazoid! isn’t free to stream anywhere, but you can rent it on most of the big streamers. The Freakazoid!–Teen Titans Go! episode, on the other hand, is available on HBO Max .

Quest of the Delta Knights

This movie asks Warner to throw a cup of his own piss at someone, and he still crushes. The late-era MST3K flick features Warner in a double-cast role as both the Evil Queen’s henchman and the Chosen One’s mentor. He never lets on to how beneath him the movie is, which one cannot say for Richard Kind in his one-scene-wonder performance. MiSTies will remember this episode as the only one to feature Pearl Forrester (Mary Jo Pehl) in the theater riffing with the bots.

MST3K season nine, episode 13, is free to stream on YouTube (keep circulating the tapes) or available for purchase on the MST streaming app, the Gizmoplex .

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Warner was in the TNG two-parter responsible for this meme of Picard. What’s more, he did it as a goof. Here’s what Warner had to say about the gig (via Memory Alpha ): “I took over on three days’ notice. It was another makeup job. It was with Pat Stewart, who’s an old colleague. It was great to be a part of that. I thought, Oh, I’ve done two of the others, the old classic ones, and here I am in The Next Generation . I’ll go for it.” This is some classic British character-actor shit — the indifference to the source material, calling someone “Pat.” Warner had no idea he was starring in an episode that would set up conflicts that ran through Deep Space Nine. And they gave him so little prep time that he actually did his whole role off cue cards. “Every line I said, I actually was reading it over Patrick’s shoulder,” he said, “or they put it down there for me to do it.”

Star Trek: The Next Generation (as well as Warner’s turns in the movies Star Trek V and Star Trek VI ) is streaming on Paramount+ .

Dude was in Tron . ’Nuff said.

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A T20 star who excelled in Test cricket, David Warner exits the international stage

MUMBAI: If David Warner had to write his own script, how he would have loved to bow out of the game holding aloft the ICC T20 World Cup trophy in his hands. In his mind, the dashing Australian opener must have marked out Kensington Oval at Bridgetown, Barbados, on June 29, as the venue and date of his swansong.

Not all scripts, of course, go as per plan -- not even for a modern-day all-format star of the all-conquering Australia side.

A blinder from Rohit Sharma to beat Australia and Afghanistan’s subsequent win over Bangladesh in St Vincent dashed Warner’s hopes of bowing out in a blaze of glory. He has already retired from Tests last year and One-Day Internationals at the start of this year.

Warner’s final innings now will be six off six balls in the defeat against India. He walked off the pitch, not knowing whether that was indeed his last game. With Australia’s qualification hopes unsure, there was no guard of honour or standing ovation.

Never mind the low-key end to his career, it’s been a highly fulfilling 15-year international career for a thrilling batter. Warner had long signalled that this T20 World Cup would be his final tournament and T20 cricket would be an apt way to sign off. He has been a product of the format, first making a name as a T20 specialist. He announced his arrival on the international stage with a spectacular 89/43 balls on T20I debut against South Africa in 2009, becoming the first man since 1877 to debut for Australia before playing first-class cricket. As his Delhi Daredevils captain Virender Sehwag had predicted, Warner went on to become a highly effective Test player as well.

Warner, who has 49 centuries across formats and close to 19,000 runs in international cricket, retires as Australia’s highest scorer in T20 format with 3,277 runs from 110 matches, at an average of 33.43 and strike rate of 142.47. From 112 Tests, he has scored 8,786 runs at an average of 44.59 with 26 hundreds and 37 fifties between 2011 and 2024. He also scored 6,932 runs from 161 ODI matches at an average of 45.30 with the help of 22 centuries and 33 half-centuries. All-format players seldom come in greater quality.

Former skipper Ricky Ponting paid glowing tributes to the retired opener. “We know he retired in the summer from Test cricket, but you’ll struggle to find a guy that’s had as big an impact on all three forms in Australian cricket than Warner has,” Ponting said during the ICC’s Digital Daily show.

Teammate Josh Hazlewood acknowledged that Warner’s absence in the dressing room would be hard to fill. “We’ll definitely miss him around the group, out in the field and off-field. (An) amazing all-format career,” he said. “It’s sort of been a slow burn with Test cricket, and ODI cricket and now T20. So, life without him, we’ve sort of gotten used to it a little bit … it’s always different when you lose a player that’s been there for so long.”

But for all his exploits on the pitch, Warner’s career has also been dotted with controversies in equal measure. His batting feats in all three formats for Australia will forever be overshadowed by his role as the chief protagonist of the Newlands ball-tampering scandal of 2018.

He was charged as the man who instructed teammate Cameron Bancroft to use sandpaper on the ball in the infamous Cape Town Test against South Africa. Suspended from any cricket for a year, Warner was also banned for life from taking up any leadership role in the Australian setup.

“I think it’s going to be inevitable that when people talk about me in 20 or 30 years’ time, there will always be that sandpaper scandal,” he said last week at North Sound ahead of Australia’s Super 8 clash against Bangladesh. “But for me, if they’re real cricket tragics and they love cricket, (as well as) my closest supporters, they will always see me as that cricketer - someone who tried to change the game.”

In June 2013, he was also suspended and fined for punching England’s Joe Root in a Birmingham bar on the eve of the Ashes.

Warner has left the door open for a return for next year’s Champions Trophy but, for now, it looks like an outside bet.

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