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Miguel Ferrer Talks The Search for Spock and Battlestar Galactica

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The latest issue of SFX Magazine, out in the UK, features an interview with Bionic Woman actor Miguel Ferrer, who plays Jonas Bledsoe, the industrialist who owns the technology that reconfigures Jaime Sommers into the new Bionic Woman. Here are few excerpts from the interview. 

The actor remembers his first science-fiction role, when he played the original first officer of the U.S.S. Excelsior in Star Trek III The Search for Spock.

"Star Trek III The Search for Spock" he laughs "It was such a thrill to do that, because I was such a fan of the show when I was a kid. I got to put on a Star Trek uniform. I was just amazing."

A science fiction fan himself, Ferrer said that he decided to join the Bionic Woman cast because of producer David Eick. "I got a call from my agent. He said 'There is this thing they are doing called Bionic Woman' I said 'Stop. It sounds horrendous. No. Forget it. I've just come off of six years of Crossing Jordan. I'm not doing stupid Bionic Woman'. He said 'No, no, no, It's not what you think it is. It's not silly. It's dark. It's nasty. It's by David Eick, the same guy who revamped Battlestar Galactica. He is the executive producer'.

"I don't know if you've watched any of those shows, " says Ferrer of Galactica "but it's phenomenal TV taken from a pretty silly franchise. So I said, 'Well, let's look at it' I read it and I thought it was terrific, and I signed on."

To read the full article, get the latest issue of SFX Magazine at your local newsstand.



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Six Degrees | Report this post to moderator
By: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:49:44 on Feb 07, 2008 | Edit History (2)

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[Ferrer] played the original first officer of the U.S.S. Excelsior in Star Trek III The Search for Spock.


From the Six Degrees of Star Trek files...

Miguel Ferrer costars with Phil Morris in ST:III, and both of these actors provide voices for the new Justice League: The New Frontier animated feature. Ferrer voices the Martian Manhunter in this film, while Morris currently plays Martian Manhunter in Smallville.

Ferrer features in William Shatner's T.J. Hooker episode "Love Story" (1985) with fellow guest stars James Darren, a.k.a Vic Fontaine in DS9, and the debut of Patti Yasutake, a.k.a TNG Nurse Ogawa (Yasutake has also appeared as a doctor in Shatner's Boston Legal). This T.J. episode also features Michelle Phillips, who later plays Captain Picard's old flame in TNG love story "We'll Always Have Paris."

Ferrer appears in Trapper John, M.D. ep "A Piece of the Action" (1979) with LeVar Burton, and Burton appeared at the 5th Annual TV Land Awards (2007) with original Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner.

Coincidence, or conspiracy? ;-)


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    By: OV-101 (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:58:55 on Feb 07, 2008

    Wasn't Ferrer in the first Robocop? He was the one who devised the whole robocop program opposing Jones, played by Capt. Jerico (can't recall his real name right now).

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      By: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:55:29 on Feb 07, 2008

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      Wasn't Ferrer in the first Robocop?


      Yes.

      The gang leader in Robocop is Kurtwood Smith, who appears in VOY, DS9, and ST:VI.

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      Miguel Ferrer is also seen in a 1983 episode of CHiPs, which starred VOY and ENT guest actor Robert Pine, the real life father of Chris Pine, a.k.a new Kirk in ST:XI.


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By: sapphiresteddibear (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:46:45 on Feb 07, 2008

I am so sick of this asshole. This is the third time I've heard him put down the original Bionic Woman. Mr. Ferrer, had anyone ever told you you have a marvelous talent for biting the hand that feeds you, not to mention insulting the fans that help put a paycheck in your pocket? If there was no original series, how would you currently be employed doing a re-make? Have you ever considered that you're insulting people who are fans of both shows, and that may very well be one of the factors responsible for the show's decline? Have you guys seen the article in TV guide, where he chastises Richard Anderson for having a license plate on his car that says BIONIC? And he rips up the original show there. Miguel Ferer has absolutely no respect for the fans, or a classic show, that beats the hell out of the re-make any day of the week. He needs to shut up, and that show needs to get a new actor for the role. And I think he owes us a big apology for his continually abusive remarks, and his unprofessional behavior.


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By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 14:22:54 on Feb 07, 2008

I disagree with Mr Ferrer. The original Bionic Woman was not silly - it was a great series and the lovely Lindsay Wagner was fantastic in the role of Jaime (this role earned her an Emmy Award in 1977.). I loved the fembots episodes and the crossovers with The Six Million Dollar Man.

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    By: Jean-Luc (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:50:27 on Feb 07, 2008

    I loved the original too (is the new one still on?) and agree with you 100%.

    I had to LOL at what I assume is a typo..."I was just amazing."

    Now that it's mentioned here, I know who he played but didn't realize it was him in TSFS. I think he had blonde or orange hair.

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By: John (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:47:26 on Feb 07, 2008

Why is everyone in the media so intent on calling the original BW and BSG silly and/or camp? If they were they wouldn't have been popular enough to remake/retell/etc.


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    By: sb2004 (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:40:30 on Feb 08, 2008

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    Why is everyone in the media so intent on calling the original BW and BSG silly and/or camp? If they were they wouldn't have been popular enough to remake/retell/etc.

    I can't speak for Ferrer, but there seems to be a mindset with a lot of people today that anything made before about 1981 is automatically bad. It's camp, it;s kitschy, it's ireelevant. And as a result when remakes or revivals of these productions come along, they're approached from this misguided point of view.

    Sometimes camping it up is justified, as with Dukes of Hazzard, but often it's not justified, as with I Spy.

    People invented the phrase "raping my childhood" to describe what Lucas did with his Star Wars films, but I also apply this to people who think that every show I grew up with was shit. I'm currently watching the first season of The Six Million Dollar Man, and it's pretty clear people who write that off have never bothered to watch the original pilot film for that show, or read Martin Caidin's Cyborg novel (a book that the new Bionic Woman comes very close to following in spirit).

    All I can say is these shows are in good company. In the last few years I have heard the "old=bad" argument made for shows like All in the Family and MASH as well... AND, I am hearing it now from people who support the revision of Star Trek TOS with new CG so the next generation of TV viewers will never know what the show looked it when it was first broadcast. And I'm hearing it from people who likewise don't want Trek 11 to look like TOS because TOS looked bad. And those are words I've heard many times in the last few months.

    All I can say is I hope the people bad-mouthing old TV and movies today remember these discussions in 10-20 years when Buffy, Firefly, Stargate, Torchwood, the new Doctor Who, Heroes, Lost, Alias .... all these shows start getting dismissed as campy and kitschy and irrelevant.

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By: Dingo's Kidneys (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:08:41 on Feb 07, 2008 | Edit History (1)

I always liked Ferrer, especially as the slimy yuppie who got what he deserved in Robocop. Never noticed him in STIII, we'll have to look for him next time.

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