What's with the hostility here?
TheAlbatross
joined 2 years ago
Hey I'm actually baffled by your reply. You clearly didn't know there were 5 actors who played Alexander, because if you did, you'd know they were mostly one offs, from a different series at a different age or, uh, a photograph. It's like you saw my comment, decided to reply to it, searched "Star Trek Alexander actor" and read the headline of the first result, a Screen Rant article titled "Star Trek: All 5 Actors Who Played Worf's Son, Alexander", and decided "That's enough info, I'm ready to reply to that comment."
Clearly you didn't read the article, otherwise you wouldn't reply the way you did, because you'd know why there's 5 Alexander's and it wasn't because the writers were trying to fix the issue.
I'm not mad or annoyed or anything, I'm just utterly baffled by how you use the internet.
That's.. not quite right. Did you get this from skimming Wikipedia? It's true that the first TNG ep featuring Alexander had someone other than Bonsall play the role, that kid stopped acting almost immediately after. Bonsall played Alexander for the rest of TNG. They age up Alexander significantly for his return in DS9, so, yeah, needs a different actor. There's a TNG ep where Alexander comes back from the future to try and correct what a shitty character they made, so that's probably your "fourth" Alexander and I'm not sure where the fifth comes from.
Edit: Looked that one up. The "Fifth Alexander" is a technicality. Worf has a picture of him and Alexander as one of his personal effects that he brings with him onto DS9 and the person in that picture "playing" Alexander is uncredited, but makes no other appearance other than being in that photo.
Star Trek has always struggled with child actors, but I think Bonsall was really just too young to handle the role. In part, I think the writers realized this and tried to cut him out, but this lead to the issue of making Worf look like a horrible father, so they bring him back and repeat.
He was a child so I can't put any blame on Bonsall, but I truly think it was a serious mistake to cast him for that.
Hmmm perhaps but where is the financial incentive?
Brian Bonsall as Alexander in Star Trek The Next Generation.
The role was poorly thought out and written, that's not his fault, but the kid always looked wildly uncomfortable in the loaf and couldn't act at all.
Leaving the coasts somehow sets you up for experiencing overt antisemitism. In Arizona, I was genuinely asked if matzo contains the blood of Christian children and I was expected to pay most of the time since "He's a Jew, he's got plenty". In NOLA I was asked to leave a bar by patrons with swastika tattoos. In Colorado, at a conference (they were from NC, I picked up a "fan" who wanted to shout Nazi slogans and do the salute around me after they overheard me speaking Yiddish.
I'm so sorry you were attacked in NOLA, it's absurd that we have to put up with this shit. I truly hope we can be free from this stupidity one day.
America is fucked up.
The second guy is way braver to put themselves out there like that, you go dude, enjoy yourself
I woulda thought that No Man's Sky fans would be very much emotionally prepared for the idea of delays to polish up a product properly before launch
Ain't payin no $80 for no game
I'm so thrown off by our current shower which legit heats up in 2 seconds. I was so used to waiting like a minute for it to warm up, I built my rituals around that. But this one... it's just hot, like right away. Bizarre