One Star Trek icon stormed off set in response to his co-stars laughing at him – confessing he could be a “severe b*****d” in the early days of The Next Generation.
Sir Patrick Stewart had come straight from. the Royal Shakespeare Company when he landed the Trek role as his first regular TV gig, and he was determined to take it seriously due to the amount of money he was earning. Although he can look back on the experience with fondness now, Stewart was fuming at the time.
Writing in his autobiography Making It So: A Memoir, he explained: “I could be a severe b*****d. My experiences at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre had been intense and serious.
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“On the TNG set, I grew angry with the conduct of my peers, and that’s when I called that meeting in which I lectured the cast for goofing off and responded to Denise Crosby’s, ‘We’ve got to have some fun sometimes, Patrick’ comment by saying, ‘We are not here, Denise, to have fun.’”
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He continued: “In retrospect, everyone, me included, finds this story hilarious. But in the moment, when the cast erupted in hysterics at my pompous declaration, I didn’t handle it well. I didn’t enjoy being laughed at. I stormed off the set and into my trailer, slamming the door.”
His co-star Spiner followed him and explained that while people “respected” the veteran star, he “misjudged” the situation. Jonathan and Brent conceded that while there had been “too much goofing around” that “needed to be dialled back”, they didn’t need to be “lectured or scolded”.
Stewart added: “I had failed to read the room, imposing RSC behaviour on people accustomed to the ways of episodic television — which was, after all, what we were shooting.”
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It’s not the only drama the huge sci-fi franchise has ever suffered. Back in the days of the Original Series, William Shatner and George Takei famously didn’t get along – with Shatner claiming Takei suffers “some kind of psychosis”.
Shatner claimed he had not received an invitation to Takei’s wedding to husband Brad, fuming: “There’s such a sickness there, it’s so painfully obvious that there’s a psychosis there. I didn’t know him very well on the series, he’d come in for a day or two, as evidenced by the role he played.”
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George fired back at the time that he had, in fact, been invited, adding: “Two months after my wedding, he went on YouTube and ranted and raved about our not sending him an invitation. We had. If he had an issue, he could have easily just phoned us before the wedding, simple as that.
“But he didn’t. And the reason he raised that fuss two months later is because he was premiering his new talk show, Raw Nerve.”
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