*Geordi.
Burton directed over two dozen episodes across the Trek franchise. While Frakes is more prolific, ironically Burton directed my two favorite Riker episodes, "Second Chances" and "The Pegasus".
Thank you for the correction. I'm rather ashamed of that one.
You can edit post titles in lemmy, just fix it
I already did
And yet you still misspelled it, lol. Geordi, not Gordie, not Jordie.
sigh
Even Worf misses with a torpedo or two. lol
Unless they are filled with trilithium resin, because you have to be really bad at your job to miss a planet.
Oh man, could you imagine how much better that episode would have been if Worf had intentionally missed, looked at Sisko, and shrugged?
Sisko might have killed Worf.
I wish I were Levar Burton.
I wish I were Levar Burton.
I only wanted a picture of Levar Burton! You can't disappoint a picture!
One of Troy's best moments.
RIP. Too soon.
For real…now I’m sad
they're not taking about Levar Burton, they're referencing a famous skit by Lance Reddick in the Eric Andre show.
He directed and guest stared in the 100th episode of Voyager, “Timeless,” where Geordi had been promoted to captain of the USS Challenger 15 years in the future. 100 is an important milestone episode, so you know the show runners has confidence in him as a director to assign him that episode.
Trek actively gave opportunities to its actors in the TNG-VOY era to learn and try directing. The number of Main Cast actors who've got directing credits is pretty significant. The full list, along with the episodes they directed, is here: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Cast_members_who_directed
Of the TNG cast though, Jonathan Frakes, Levar Burton, Gates McFadden and Patrick Stewart all have at least one director's credit in the series. Michael Dorn would also later do some DS9 and ENT episodes.
Garrett Wang's repeated requests to be allowed to direct were turned down by Rick Berman
In-universe or out, poor guy just couldn't catch a break.
Hearing his experiences on Voyager, you really have to feel sorry for the guy. The higher-ups really seemed to have an axe to grind with him. It's kind of startling how you go from TNG where even now the cast gets together like family, to DS9 where it was like "It was a good job and the people I worked with were wonderful and professional and we produced something that we can be proud of," to Voyager, where the cast largely describes it as a cesspool of passive-aggressive resentment and largely only mended fences years later.
Any time I see "Directed by LeVar Burton" I know I'm in for a good time. He was fantastic at directing episodes with heavy interpersonal stories.
The lighting looks surreal
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