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“Some”? 29 episodes across TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT. That’s even one more TV episode than Jonathan Frakes directed. (although Frakes also directed two movies)
Come to think of it: Star Trek had a bunch of actors directing episodes every now and then. I don’t think that many other TV shows did that, didn’t they?
I remember a few long running TV shows with cast writing and directing episodes.
Duchovny directed a few XFiles episodes.
Two of the leads directed episodes og SG-1, antihero wrote at least one episode.
Those two are just off the top of my head, but I remember noticing cast doing extra stuff regularly. Probably not too common in the early seasons, but it is a great way for them to branch out.
That said, some are more successful than others.
So I was curious and went to look up actors who directed episodes of their shows and guess who showed up on the list (not in a Star Trek number but still) … Captain James Tiberius Kirk.
Here is the “article” i was reading.
Higher engagement
Better crew. We’re like the California class up in here. Daystrom is like the Titan and Star Trek is like NCC-1701(a-z)
Worked so well for r/shitpostcrusaders
Yeah it’s pretty cool! Star Trek had been a bit of a directors boot camp for a while, I know several members from TNG, DS9, and Voyager went on into directing.
I literally watch a ds9 directed by him just today.
I could be wrong, but I think it was the episode where odo goes back to when he was the constable for the cardassians in some psychic state.
It was pretty good, but I think Kira over reacted at the end. Maybe I missed something, but she seems to be too hard on him.
I grabbed the screenshot from: S4:E18 - Rules of Engagement
As someone else above informed me, Levar directed lots of episodes.
You can do anything! Just take a look, it’s in a book.
This is news to me! Somehow I’ve never noticed.
I’ve never really paid attention before. Somehow is just caught my eye randomly.
Lavar Burton is a goddamn treasure of a man. When you yanks rip down another one of those confederate statues, do me a solid and put up one of Lavar Burton in its place.
