Back in 99 I was working at a book store and Garret came in. I didn't recognize him out of uniform until I read the name on his credit card. Dude was super cool. And really surprised anyone recognized him. Years later I went to talk to him at a convention and he remembered the encounter! 😀
I'm sad Garrett Wang never got to really stretch his acting muscles on Voyager. He was deliberately told to be stiff and wooden most of the time. I think he's also the only cast member who never got to direct an episode.
1st off, Garrett Want got to be Captain Plot Device more than anyone else on the show 2nd, Mulgrew, Beltran, Phillips, Ryan & Lien didn't get to direct episodes either.
@@fredcasdensworld My understanding is that Wang is the only who asked who didn't get to direct an episode. I see no reason any of the people you mentioned would have wanted to direct an episode.
Garrett WANG "told to be STIFF and WOODEN" [emphasis mine], that's funny. "Do me, do me" - Kate Mulgrew "Kate Mulgrew just said 'do me, do me'" - Robert Picardo Well, you know where my mind is as I type this, lmao. I'll get my coat
@@leif1075 The showrunners for Voyager told the actors to be lowkey and wooden to make the alien characters "seem more real". They also wanted the background music to be as generic and boring as possible "so it won't distract from what's on the screen". Unlike early TNG's music that really enhanced scenes.
Indont get it..why do you guys think she sounded like she was on helium? Her voice wasn't that high pitched..is it the sometimes thin, reedy quality of her voice.but from what I've heard ppl on helium sound more squeaky or "squealy" and high pitched and not on helium..or am I missing something?
Its insane. Patrick Stewart basically looked the same for 40 years. Ricard PICARDo is basically the same I'd swear he looks just like when he was on Voyager.
I remember when Voyager first aired and Picardo was doing like a behind the scenes thing about it and he once said: If Picard and baldly go, then why can't Picardo.
One of the great things about Star Trek is how the family ends up staying together in kind of a life-long way because of the cons. Most TV casts, even of the big juggernaut shows, do their time and then go on to other projects and never or rarely see their old castmates again. The cast of Seinfeld is famous for each individually commenting that they're not close these days, although they're all still friendly when they do see each other, for example. It seems like these folks all like each other a lot more now than maybe even they did creating their shows (rumors abound of uncomfortable working environments and cast members who weren't always happy to be there on the DS9 and VOY sets - the TNG cast have always maintained they were friends). But the cons are an easy way to supplement and stabilize your income when you're a performer (even the in-demand folks have lulls they can easily fill with convention income), so they're pretty much all incentivized to participate, and that means getting to be together occasionally (instead of every day for 16 hours a day) year after year. I can see how that, and just the benefit of age and wisdom, might soothe old regrets and build really meaningful friendships. It makes me happy. :)
@@jbwarner8626 It definitely must be a cathartic release for actors who play those kinds of characters. If you watch the TNG bloopers, Michael Dorn is always super giggly and breaking character. Same thing with Stargate, Christopher Judge is a total clown between takes.
His impressions were very good, but they were definitely on helium. Kudos to Kate for trying to remind people that children were present in the audience.
His impression of Janeway was actually on less helium than the Doctor... Accurate, I think. Mulgrew's capable of hitting a darker timbre than the Doctor ever did.
It would have been funny if somewhere along the series, someone had threatened the Dr. with, "I'll see to it that your program will end up running a Taxi Cab. "
A possible reason is simply that it ain't cheap getting so many actors there to attend your convention. They all need free accommodations, travel, and most likely a nice check for attending. Therefore, considering if you have to make a choice between getting one more actor there, or more mics, you choose the one people actually will attend and pay a ticket for. :D
@@MrDoenyon I think you overestimate the cost of renting a mic, like vastly vastly overestimate it. You can buy good wireless mics for around $100. Renting one, as part of an audio/visual package, should just cost a few dollars.
@@AdeleiTeillana Of course, but don't forget how small the budget for those conventions is too. Though you are correct, it's also mostly due to bad planning.
The same reason they only have one mic at a time open for the audience: five people talking at the same time becomes utter incomprehensible gibberish if five microphones are involved. Having fewer forces them to think about who's talking.
Awesome to see the cast laugh and joke together. All of them except Kate are at a convention right near me in Philadelphia, tonight, and I am not there 😢
I love Kate's accent. There's something classic about it. It sounds like a cross between the classic TV accent (that one commonly heard on TV in the '50s and '60s) and East Coast, with a little bit of British thrown in there.
I met him at Awesomecon I think 2018? I don't remember which year but he was very funny and did a Kate Mulgrew impression for us. He said don't tell her because she hates it when I do this 😂
That's a really good impression of the doctor, I could tell right when Robert started his and I thought his was better. However Janeway did sound like she was on helium, great actress/character but not my favorite speaking voice.
It was wrong and a shame that voyager cast did not have spinoff films of their own, same goes for DS9 which would have been more interesting but the focus was just on that original series with picard and the films were not interesting.
The best impression of The Doctor is when Jeri Ryan plays him in Body and Soul.
She was amazing as the doctor 😂
I love how Tim Russ isn't even commenting, he's just letting the funny flow around him. Very logical.
It would be illogical for a Vulcan to do impressions.
They were one of the most dysfunctional casts in _Star Trek,_ so it's nice to see them getting along and having fun.
That "Oh my!" was the best impression yet! 🤣🤣🤣
Wonder why you never got that promotion 😂😂😂
Oof, Kate comin' in with the kill shot.
BUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNN!!!
My phone is smoking after that burn.
OHHH MY!! 🤣😝🤣
😂 who said Oh my.. was it ENSIGN Garrett? 😆
Back in 99 I was working at a book store and Garret came in. I didn't recognize him out of uniform until I read the name on his credit card. Dude was super cool. And really surprised anyone recognized him. Years later I went to talk to him at a convention and he remembered the encounter! 😀
So cool. Garrett is an awesome guy.
Kudos to Kate Mulgrew for keeping it family-friendly!
Captain immediately went below the belt!! Damn, poor Kim!!! 😆
Garret does a great George Takei. He carried on a short conversation with me in Takei's voice at a convention once.
'Oh My'. Thanks Sulu.
I wonder if Takei is as sick of being expected to say that as a lot of fans are of hearing it.
I'm sad Garrett Wang never got to really stretch his acting muscles on Voyager. He was deliberately told to be stiff and wooden most of the time. I think he's also the only cast member who never got to direct an episode.
1st off, Garrett Want got to be Captain Plot Device more than anyone else on the show
2nd, Mulgrew, Beltran, Phillips, Ryan & Lien didn't get to direct episodes either.
@@fredcasdensworld My understanding is that Wang is the only who asked who didn't get to direct an episode. I see no reason any of the people you mentioned would have wanted to direct an episode.
Garrett WANG "told to be STIFF and WOODEN" [emphasis mine], that's funny.
"Do me, do me" - Kate Mulgrew
"Kate Mulgrew just said 'do me, do me'" - Robert Picardo
Well, you know where my mind is as I type this, lmao. I'll get my coat
Who told him to he stiff and wooden? Where did yiu hear that? And why,if so?
@@leif1075 The showrunners for Voyager told the actors to be lowkey and wooden to make the alien characters "seem more real". They also wanted the background music to be as generic and boring as possible "so it won't distract from what's on the screen". Unlike early TNG's music that really enhanced scenes.
I miss that cast. They should have gotten a movie or three!
yes!
It is good to know I’m not the only one who thought Kate Mulgrew had inhaled helium before she would do her lines.
she did the whole show in her "phone voice" that women with deep voices use on the phone to not get called "sir"
Her Flemeth voice is a little less helium fueled. I'm playing DAO right now, and I love that game and I enjoy her performance
@@WideNerdy Flemeth?
Indont get it..why do you guys think she sounded like she was on helium? Her voice wasn't that high pitched..is it the sometimes thin, reedy quality of her voice.but from what I've heard ppl on helium sound more squeaky or "squealy" and high pitched and not on helium..or am I missing something?
The producers said she sounds like Katherine Hepburn on speed. 😂
The George Takei at the end 😂😂😂
I wonder if Takei is as sick of being expected to say that as a lot of fans are of hearing it.
I still say Voyager was very underrated. The smaller ship and crew made it feel like they were an actual family.
Agreed
Yeah, rewatching it again.
This is solid gold plated latinum
Its insane.
Patrick Stewart basically looked the same for 40 years. Ricard PICARDo is basically the same I'd swear he looks just like when he was on Voyager.
Nuh just few more wrinkles. But daum, he looks so small between the other two.
its the lack of hair. Everybody looks to the hair to see how youve aged....or coloured.
I remember when Voyager first aired and Picardo was doing like a behind the scenes thing about it and he once said: If Picard and baldly go, then why can't Picardo.
Voyager? You can go all the back to when he was on the Wonder Years and he's barely changed.
He obviously looks older.
They all aged wonderfully I must say. Garret is obviously the youngest but also he got that Asian no aging look lol
I love Tim just chilling in the middle with no one daring to impersonate him.
Because they ain't found shit!!
"We aint found shit!"
I was more put off by him picking his molars with his whole hand 1:46
I always kind of thought of Kate Mulgrew's voice as a cross between Earth Kitt and Katherine Hepburn.
at the end Garret got roasted harder then the captains coffee :p
One of the great things about Star Trek is how the family ends up staying together in kind of a life-long way because of the cons. Most TV casts, even of the big juggernaut shows, do their time and then go on to other projects and never or rarely see their old castmates again. The cast of Seinfeld is famous for each individually commenting that they're not close these days, although they're all still friendly when they do see each other, for example.
It seems like these folks all like each other a lot more now than maybe even they did creating their shows (rumors abound of uncomfortable working environments and cast members who weren't always happy to be there on the DS9 and VOY sets - the TNG cast have always maintained they were friends). But the cons are an easy way to supplement and stabilize your income when you're a performer (even the in-demand folks have lulls they can easily fill with convention income), so they're pretty much all incentivized to participate, and that means getting to be together occasionally (instead of every day for 16 hours a day) year after year. I can see how that, and just the benefit of age and wisdom, might soothe old regrets and build really meaningful friendships. It makes me happy. :)
Janeway to sickbay, Kim has a serious burn.
"Oh. myyyyy" 🤣
Janeway: "I know. I'm the one who burned him."
God Garrett gets the FACE perfect.
What absolute joy they are having, each one of them deserves this for all the enjoyment VOYAGER gives x!
Very underrated show.
I really wish this series had spun some movies. This and TNG were the best. IMO
Totally agree 😊 DS:9 was great also.
The weirdest part is seeing Tuvak laugh. haha!
First Tim Russ, then Jolene Blalock - all the actors who played Vulcans ironically seemed to have the doofiest laughs 😆
That's Tim Russ. Also, Tuvok.
@@jbwarner8626 It definitely must be a cathartic release for actors who play those kinds of characters. If you watch the TNG bloopers, Michael Dorn is always super giggly and breaking character. Same thing with Stargate, Christopher Judge is a total clown between takes.
@@terminat1 Thanks for the corrections, dork.
His impressions were very good, but they were definitely on helium. Kudos to Kate for trying to remind people that children were present in the audience.
When Robert Beltran is imatating the doctor he sounds like Doctor who. Garrett sounds like Stewie from Family Guy when imitating the doctor.
Garret's impression immediately led to me to think Brian from Family Guy
Legend has it Garret Wang is still recovering from that burn.
That was a good George Takei at the end.
Mulgrew for the kill!
His impression of Janeway was actually on less helium than the Doctor... Accurate, I think. Mulgrew's capable of hitting a darker timbre than the Doctor ever did.
Sick bay and a sick burn in one minute. Garret sure is versatile.
Love Voyager!
It would have been funny if somewhere along the series, someone had threatened the Dr. with, "I'll see to it that your program will end up running a Taxi Cab. "
OMG, I'm laughing so hard my stomach hurts!!!!!
I don't understand how whoever organized this couldn't afford more than two or three microphones for five people.
A possible reason is simply that it ain't cheap getting so many actors there to attend your convention. They all need free accommodations, travel, and most likely a nice check for attending. Therefore, considering if you have to make a choice between getting one more actor there, or more mics, you choose the one people actually will attend and pay a ticket for. :D
@@MrDoenyon I think you overestimate the cost of renting a mic, like vastly vastly overestimate it. You can buy good wireless mics for around $100. Renting one, as part of an audio/visual package, should just cost a few dollars.
@@AdeleiTeillana Of course, but don't forget how small the budget for those conventions is too. Though you are correct, it's also mostly due to bad planning.
The same reason they only have one mic at a time open for the audience: five people talking at the same time becomes utter incomprehensible gibberish if five microphones are involved. Having fewer forces them to think about who's talking.
Awesome to see the cast laugh and joke together. All of them except Kate are at a convention right near me in Philadelphia, tonight, and I am not there 😢
There is something about the Janeway’s voice that I find fascinating.
I love Kate's accent. There's something classic about it. It sounds like a cross between the classic TV accent (that one commonly heard on TV in the '50s and '60s) and East Coast, with a little bit of British thrown in there.
@@MagnifiiScentzTransatlantic accent?
I loved Voyager.
This video should be titled "Real Reason Ensign Kim Never Got A Promotion".
Oh wow, this was funny!
Garrett had to wait until Star trek Online to be a Captain
Kate has one of the best voices on the planet.
I met him at Awesomecon I think 2018? I don't remember which year but he was very funny and did a Kate Mulgrew impression for us. He said don't tell her because she hates it when I do this 😂
Man, this is so good.. where can I find the rest of this ?
Listen to him do me…..uh gigaty. Can I listen to me do you instead?
They really went @ it! 😅
Sooo funny!! 🤣 👍
1:34
😂😂😂 Wow!!!! Chills
I'm afraid, Captain, that your voice now has changed a bit since you were on Voyager. It *was* a bit high. 😁
1:36 jane way came back for a second " is that how i sound?"
Funny stuff!
I'd say less helium and more 1.25 playback speed. when he's about to speak, change the video to .75 speed and he's dead on.
Yes that is how she sounds, actually...😂
Hilarious
Well I'll be happy pretending that Harry Kim was promoted directly to Captain when they got back to Earth. :)
That's a really good impression of the doctor, I could tell right when Robert started his and I thought his was better. However Janeway did sound like she was on helium, great actress/character but not my favorite speaking voice.
The fact that Mulgrew just ROASTED kim OOOOOOH XD
Good stuff
1:44 damn ended his career in Star Fleet and a Comedian
I am a bit confused, was George Takei there or was that just the only impression he did that didn't sound like they were on helium?
Tim Russ has a YT channel, but it doesn't seem very active. Never knew he played the guitar.
Edit: typo
Where does the time go.......
Does it not sadden you that Jeri Ryan is never at these things? 😔
I wished Janeway was on Picard aswell :(
that cast was great.
That’s cute, from the crown jewel of the franchise
wonder why he never directed an episode
My show was always DS9, but Kate was my favorite captain.
Somehow i think that kate mulgrew is not very nice in person. I dont know why, but i have this gut feeling
too funny
the doctor was probably the best character on the show.
We aint found sh.....!
Sulu impression was great
It was wrong and a shame that voyager cast did not have spinoff films of their own, same goes for DS9 which would have been more interesting but the focus was just on that original series with picard and the films were not interesting.