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Interesting extract from a longer /Film interview with in-demand director Roxann Dawson.

I appreciate how she speaks with respect for the shows of the new era.

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[-] sarcasticsunrise@lemm.ee 102 points 1 year ago

Oh hell. So I'm a little bit tipsy, but I just saw the words "Roxanne Dawson (B'Elanna) passed" and got damn scared for a second

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 34 points 1 year ago

I'm sober and did the same.

[-] Nmyownworld@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

Woke up, no coffee yet, and saw "Roxann Dawson (B’Elanna) passed ... " Startled the heck out of me.

[-] GeekFTW@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Baked af and I freaked the mother fuck out (while remaining partially calm).

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am not tipsy and the title got me too. I was running a magic event in my game shop and let out an audible gasp causing several players to ask what was wrong.

[-] GaiusGornicusCaesar@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The title got me as well, and I was sober. My heart dropped and then I reread and let a sigh of relief...

[-] theinspectorst@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I had the same panic. That's not even the title of the article ('Voyager's Roxann Dawson Had A Chance To Direct Star Trek But Dropped It For Another Show') so, unless the website changed it, you have to wonder what OP was doing writing it that way.

[-] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OP isn’t American. It’s not a universal euphemism.

Even having lived in the US at one point it’s not an automatic connection.

Canadians (at least in my experience) use the expression ‘passed away’ if at all to avoid saying ‘died.’

But also being Canadian, I’ve given my regrets elsewhere on this thread. And I’m sorry for the unintended shock to any and all who don’t share my dialect.

[-] Nmyownworld@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

No worries. You regularly comment and post on a variety of topics, always with a steady and non-antagonistic viewpoint. This situation is very, "it's not you, it's me." I have relatives from the southern U.S., and they shorten "passed away" to just "passed." It's just what I'm used to hearing.

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The little blurb shown on this post is wrong:

Roxann Dawson was an actor on Star Trek: Voyager before she became a TV director, although she's never actually directed a Star Trek episode.

She directed about 10% of all Enterprise episodes.

[-] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 27 points 1 year ago

I thought she’d directed episodes of Voyager too.

Memory Alpha credits her with Voyager episodes ‘Riddles’ and ‘Workforce Part II’.

[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

hit those fools with the knowledge

[-] Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

"With directing efforts on shows like "Voyager," "Enterprise," "Lost," "The Americans," and many more under her belt, she was most recently put in charge of two pivotal episodes of "Foundation" season 2, the Apple TV+ sci-fi series based on Isaac Asimov's novels."

I think they fixed the line and added the correct info now. That quote was from the article. Since the title says "new trek" I'm guessing they meant discovery/SNW/Picard as the trek the picked Foundation over to direct.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia says she also directed 2 Voyager episodes.

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Enterprise isn't Star Trek, confirmed! (I kid, I kid.)

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Enterprise is just a Quantum Leap episode.

[-] transwarp@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

She directed episodes of both "Enterprise" and Star Trek: Enterprise", which each lasted two seasons. The stealth name change was surprising back then.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was gonna say, I just finished Enterprise and she directed at least two that I recall.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It even mentions directing enterprise in the article. Bad editing.

[-] Magnetar@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

And it's a quite nice little episode. Foundation really got good in its second season.

[-] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Second season is so boring I barely got through first two episodes over a week because I kept falling asleep watching them. I really hope it picks up in E3.

[-] Magnetar@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I think I have never disagreed with anyone more in my life then you and your post.

[-] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I'm actually a little jealous. That must be an awesome life :-)

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[-] simonzerafa@infosec.exchange 3 points 1 year ago

@StillPaisleyCat

So much better Sci-fi out there that would be amazing for a TV series or three.

Personally I work love to have a go at the Greg Mandel series or if I had all the money the Honor Harrington series.

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

the Honor Harrington series.

These books are fun, but they're not good. Bad prose, ridiculous characters, childish storylines. It would almost have to be approached like Starship Troopers and treated as a parody of the genre.

[-] michaelgemar@mstdn.ca 1 points 1 year ago

@cygnus The earlier books have fantastic, well-thought out space combat scenes, fairly well informed by physics and orbital mechanics.

Everything around those scenes is cringeworthy, and gets much worse as the series goes on. (Honor may be the most Mary Sue character ever.)

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[-] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’d like to see CJ Cherryh’s Alliance-Union universe brought to the screen.

Downbelow Station seems made to become a streaming series.

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