I think I watched maybe the first 10, just to get a feel for the show and what was going on, and after that I didn’t really feel it was time effective to watch it, because I’d already been Data 16 hours a day, I didn’t really need to spend my off time watching the thing I’d already read. I had read the scripts, I’d memorized the lines, and then we were into the next episode. “We were working 16 hours a day most of the time, 10 months out of the year. But since the years that I started doing conventions and meeting a lot of people one-on-one, I’ve had so many kids who’ve come up to my table and said, ‘I have Asperger’s or ‘I’m somewhere on the spectrum,’ and ‘Data was the character I could identify with on television, and that’s been so meaningful to me.’ If I had known about it in full, if I’d really understood it at the time, I probably would have pushed the writers to write towards that more, and I probably would have blown the whole thing, so it’s better that I didn’t understand, because I think it worked out pretty well.” “ told me about it years before, but I didn’t really put it together, because I didn’t quite understand it at the time. Geek's Guide to the Galaxy It’s Time to Bring Back ‘Enemy Mine’ It’s like somehow they’ve taken control of you in some way.” … It’s not just fans, it’s humanity, I think, to love someone and then to hate that person because you love them so much. So I don’t think it’s really about me so much. And I think that sense of entitlement is the result of playing a character that was accessible to all beings without judgment, and that’s really attractive. I hear from a lot of people on social networks who feel they have a personal connection to me, but I don’t think it’s really me. In most cases it’s not particularly real.
So I would say don’t take it too seriously. “It’s a really fulfilling experience to put someone on a pedestal, but it’s even better to knock them off of that pedestal once you’ve put them on it. ’s whole thing was that in the future we’ll celebrate the differences in one another, and that would be really nice, wouldn’t it? And to a degree there are people who do that, and I think they’re among our healthier people.” There are a lot of things about Star Trek that are really high-minded, particularly just sort of the general acceptance of everyone&mdsah no matter what you look like or sound like or believe in, there’s acceptance. I don’t know that anybody actually lives their life based on the teachings of Star Trek, but certainly they come into play, because they’re all very positive, and I think there are a lot of people who plug into that. And check out some highlights from the discussion below.īrent Spiner on Star Trek and philosophy: Listen to the complete interview with Brent Spiner in Episode 493 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). “We all experience fear-that may be the common denominator-and the fact that we all admire or hold someone in high regard is also, I think, common to everybody.”
“Two of the themes that I was dealing with-or trying to deal with-were fear and fandom, and I think both of those things are common denominators to all people,” he says. Spiner’s main goal was to entertain the reader, but the book also deals with serious themes of trauma and obsession. Marina was in London, so we did it over the phone intercontinentally.” Jonathan and Genie were in Maine, so we had to do it over the phone. “Patrick came in to the studio, and we read together,” Spiner says.
The book features appearances by many of Spiner’s Next Generation co-stars, including Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, and Marina Sirtis, all of whose voices appear in the audiobook. “It takes place 30 years ago, so it was fun for me to be young again, and try to think as my young self.” “I could have written the book and made it a completely different sci-fi show that this actor worked on who had a completely different name, but I just didn’t think it would be as fun,” Spiner says. Fan Fiction gives a fascinating look into the life of a working actor while also featuring a zany mystery plot that sees Spiner romancing a pair of beautiful twins who may or may not be stalking him.
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