I was watching the end of True Blood’s first season last night and tweeted “If I’d known Ensign Ro was on True Blood I would have watched long ago.” This prompted a lot of commentary to the effect that I should have identified the actor in question, Michelle Forbes, as Admiral Cain. I think this is pretty foolish. The Cain role was nice, but I think Forbes should forever be known by the iconic part through which she was first introduced to the TV-watching public. Check out this masterful scene:
Note also that the TNG portrayal of the Bajorans is pretty much the closest thing I can think of to a mainstream American portrayal of a pro-Palestinian point of view (I think DS9 wound up sort of downplaying the allegory, but it was pretty clear in the original presentation). Meanwhile, arguably her most substantial body of work was as Dr. Julianna Cox on Homicide.
Update
In retrospect, a single blogger probably shouldn’t be doing posts about Star Trek . . . from here on out this blog will only address cool topics.
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