Unfortunately he's maga & anti trans 😢
That seems to be a growing trend. Such a shame. 😢
Did he learn nothing about empathy and compassion from playing Barclay on Star Trek!?
No
learned quite a bit about being a whackadoodle from playing murdock, though
Barclay would probably identify with a lot of that super toxic incel crap, which can be a stepping stone to extremism.
I know the character worked it out to some extent, but I wouldn't be surprised if it lingered.
I pity a fool that don’t act right.
Damn it Barclay!
Are you kidding me? He was always my favourite A-Team character. This is really disappointing.
The worst thing about the internet is that any moron can express their dumb, uninformed opinions.
The second worst thing is that I get to learn which celebrities are dumb, uninformed morons.
Now I wanna see Barclay in the holodeck playing Murdock in an A-Team simulation on Lower Decks.
In a somewhat related vein, I also had the idea of Scott Bakula playing Archer, but he's actually Sam Beckett from Quantum Leap having leapt into Archer.
Read my edit.
For those like me who didn't quite get it:
The movie that plays at the Mannheim psychiatric hospital begins with The A-Team (1983) theme music, and its credits contain names that relate to the original team's careers: The first name credited is "Reginald Barclay". Dwight Schultz, who was the original Murdock, played a character named Reginald Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). The next credit reads "Thomas Banacek". George Peppard, who was the original Hannibal, played investigator Thomas Banacek in Banacek (1972). The third and final credit reads "G.F. Starbuck". Dirk Benedict, who was the original Face, played Lieutenant Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica (1978).
But how did they know his role that was still as yet in the future?
I’ve been rewatching TNG and recognizing all sorts of actors who played Seinfeld side characters, etc but never realized Barclay and Murdock were the same actor.
Mind blown.
Thanks!
Honestly, some of the best actors are the ones you never recognize between roles.
If you want to see a lot of Star Trek actors playing small parts in a different franchise, there are a lot in Babylon 5, probably to nobody's surprise. Including Barclay.
And x files with also a lot of the Vancouver scene actors.
After college, all of us broke kids on our first appointment had our first apartment, and would watch two episodes of Twilight Zone every night at midnight. It's amazing how many famous actors made appearances, in almost every episode. They were unknown then, and became stars.
Geez, I had no idea! Thanks for sharing. Watched the A-team almost religiously back then.
Barclay was a Gooner. That whole holodeck incident was a metaphor for porn addiction, which will be a major issue when holodecks come along. If I had one, I'd never leave.
I mean, I'd never leave either, but I'd also be doing not-porn stuff in there during my refractory period.
I know a guy in a space station, deep in outer space, that can help you with that.
Holodeck sex is so much worse than porn
That's what's so good about it.
You are ruining the garden!

Stargate SG-1 S2E4 "The Gamekeeper"
Surely they mean Reginald Broccoli.
At the time, I knew her from Free Willy.
Oh shit! I always thought she looked familiar and I never recognised her.
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