Best Star Trek Actor Turned Director

[Matt 0]

Just wondering who you have as a favourite actor turned director from and of the Star Trek Series. I have to go with either Levar Burton, thought he did a great job with the Augments episode on 'Enterprise' among others, or maybe Jonathan Frakes. Pop down which episode of theirs you thought was best also.

Edited June 20, 2005 by Matt

[Jack_Bauer 1]

I will also go with Burton. It seems most of the actors enjoy being in episodes he directs and he generally directs good episodes. I hope he gets a shot at the next Trek movie, he deserves it. He is the only actor-turned-director to direct an episode of each spin-off series.

 

Burton's best episode? Hmm...Timeless (VGR). I love that ep.

Honourable mention for Similitude (ENT), Cogenitor (ENT), and Dreadnought (VGR).

[Ace 0]

I will also go with Burton. It seems most of the actors enjoy being in episodes he directs and he generally directs good episodes. I hope he gets a shot at the next Trek movie, he deserves it. He is the only actor-turned-director to direct an episode of each spin-off series.

 

Burton's best episode? Hmm...Timeless (VGR). I love that ep.

Honourable mention for Similitude (ENT), Cogenitor (ENT), and Dreadnought (VGR).

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My thoughts exactly.

[Mr.Picard 12]

Hmmmmmm..... Let me see... who can I pick? :P

 

I pick Patrick Stewart, of course. Love the episode "Phantasms"!!! (he always directs Data episodes, it seems, except for "Preemptive Strike") ) B)

 

Jon Frakes did a great job, too... but I had to pick Pat.

[Takara_Soong 4]

I can't decide. It's between Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton and Roxann Dawson for me.

 

For those who aren't familiar with what episodes each of these individuals directed, here's a list:

 

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Michael Dorn: DS9's In the Cards, Inquisition, When It Rains and ENT's Two Days and Two Nights

 

LeVar Burton: TNG's Second Chances, The Pegasus, DS9's Indiscretion, The Sword of Kahless, Bar Association, Rules of Engagement, To the Death, Things Past, Soldiers of the Empire, Behind the Lines, Resurrection, The Emperor's New Cloak, VOY's Ex Post Facto, Dreadnought, The Raven, Timeless, Live Fast and Prosper, Nightingale, Q2, Homestead, ENT's Terra Nova, Fortunate Son, Cogenitor, First Flight, Extinction, Similitude, The Forgotten, The Augments, Demons

 

Roxann Dawson: VOY's Riddles, Workforce: Part 2, ENT's The Andorian Incident, Vox Sola, Dead Stop, Dawn, Bounty, Exile, Chosen Realm, Doctor's Orders, E², Awakening

 

Rene Auberjonois: DS9's Prophet Motive, Family Business, Hippocratic Oath, The Quickening, Let He Who Is Without Sin ..., Ferengi Love Songs, Waltz, Strange Bedfellows

 

Robert Picardo: VOY's Alter Ego, One Small Step

 

Robert Duncan McNeill: VOY's Sacred Ground, Unity, Someone to Watch Over Me, Body and Soul, ENT's Cold Front, The Breach, Twilight

 

Alexander Siddig: DS9's Business as Usual, Profit and Lace

 

Avery Brooks: DS9's Tribunal, The Abandoned, Fascination, Improbable Cause, Rejoined, Body Parts, Ties of Blood and Water, Far Beyond the Stars, The Dogs of War

 

Gates McFadden: TNG's Genesis

 

Jonathan Frakes: TNG's The Offspring, Reunion, The Drumhead, Cause and Effect, The Quality of Life, The Chase, Attached, Sub Rosa, DS9's The Search, Part II, Meridian, Past Tense, Part II, VOY's Projections, Parturition, Prototype, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection

 

Leonard Nimoy: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

 

William Shatner: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

 

Patrick Stewart: TNG's In Theory, Hero Worship, A Fistful Of Datas, Phantasms, Preemptive Strike

 

Of the individuals listed, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Robert Duncan McNeill and Roxann Dawson are the ones with the most extensive non-Trek directing resumes now.

[HRH The KING 0]

I've always loved this tradition in Star Trek where actors eventually move into directing and producing.

 

Some people claim that acting in Star Trek is the death knell for someone's career but I rather disagree and I say that it offers far more opportunities that one may at first think.

[Kor37 9]

I picked Leonard Nimoy. He did a great job on the movies he directed and , unlike other Trek stars turned director, was able to fan out and direct a few huge box office movies.

[Stephen of Borg 2]

Frakes directed some of my favorite episodes so I voted for him. Stewart and Burton would be a tie in second for me, both great

[stvoyagerfan 1]

i voted jonathan frakes he has directed some of my favorite trek episodes and movies and a few none trek movies as well.

 

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