This blew my mind when I was a little kid. I was too young to really understand what actors were, and finding out he was that spaceman on Star Trek was a shocking revelation.
Same! I wondered why he didn’t need his visor thing on Reading Rainbow.
In the past year or so there was a documentary about Burton and Reading Rainbow. It was more interesting than I anticipated. He was talking about the various debates in the show. Like when he got an earring. “I was madly in love with someone. She thought earrings were pretty cool, so I got an earring.” And a huge smile as he says it. But the production people basically thought a black guy with an earring was too bad ass and kids would be scared. And they didn’t want him to have a beard either for same reason.
But basically he was a huge star, the show was insanely popular, so he got his way.
They also showed a clip of an episode, where he explains to children that in the United States it is actually criminal to be homeless and how it doesn’t make any sense at all.
Was hyped to find the tng blue ray set includes this
roll it back to 480p to avoid the weird AI upscaling
I sometimes wonder at the intense level of waste that happened when they switched over to computer generate graphics.
Did they simply throw away all those screens, keyboards, models, etc. Once it happened.
Atleast the large enterprise models managed to stick around and pull in a ton of money at auction.
TNG was never cgi. Voyager was the first show to use cg space ships. As far as the props go, they get stored in a warehouse and are auctioned off for charity bit by bit each year if its Star Trek.
Wasn’t DS9 first?
Ds9 used models for almost everything but big action space stuff in later seasons. I was thinking more specifically as replacements for models, cause obviously Odo’s goo form was cgi
Oh man, this takes me back…
Growing up with only public tv, Levar Burton is the closest thing to caring about a celeb I’ve ever gotten. Reading rainbow slaps so hard. Would be real tough to choose between Levar, Arthur, and Wishbone though.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
