About Kal Penn in Star Trek
POSTED BY: jewelstaitefan
UPDATED: Thursday, April 8, 2010 15:45
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Why would imdb still not list him? Even though he had no clear individual lines that I could determine, so much time on screen as the Bridge Officer would seem to alow inclusion as "uncredited" - would it not? It's been out a while on DVD now.
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Though I'd never have noticed it myself, I believe your point to be valid.
Summer Glau can simply walk into Mordor
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The reason is pretty simple - it's not Kal Penn.
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Originally posted by SimonWho:
The reason is pretty simple - it's not Kal Penn.
That would explain much.
Summer Glau can simply walk into Mordor
Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first."
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Originally posted by SimonWho:
The reason is pretty simple - it's not Kal Penn.
His twin brother? Who do you think it is?
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jewelstaitefan wrote:
Sunday, April 04, 2010 20:29
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Originally posted by SimonWho:
The reason is pretty simple - it's not Kal Penn.
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His twin brother? Who do you think it is?
It's John Cho, Harold from Harold and Kumar
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Originally posted by jossisagod:
It's John Cho, Harold from Harold and Kumar
John Cho plays Sulu and has many spoken lines.
I'm not sure who this bridge officer is that you're talking about without seeing a pic or rewatching the film again.
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Having watched it many times, I've never spotted him in the movie.
And even if it is him, it's not unheard of to leave little cameos like that uncredited. I don't think Bryan Singer's cameo in Nemesis is credited. For that matter, neither is Will Weaton's voice work in this Trek.
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Originally posted by lwaves:Quote:
Originally posted by jossisagod:
It's John Cho, Harold from Harold and Kumar
John Cho plays Sulu and has many spoken lines.
I'm not sure who this bridge officer is that you're talking about without seeing a pic or rewatching the film again.
"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."
You are correct, Cho plays Sulu, quite obviuosly and credited as such.
Kal Penn, or his twin, is a Bridge member, I was assuming an Officer, blue uniform, in most of the Bridge scenes from the time Kirk first comes on the Bridge, until the last scenes, I think after his relieving Pike of Command. In those last scenes the position is filled with a woman also in blue uniform. The position is standing behind the console, to the right hand side of the Captain's Command Console (The Chair). It is to our left of the Captian's Chair as we are viewing it. It often blocks our view of the Communications Console, where Uhura is, when our point of view is the center display screen, so the camera must move around for us to see Uhura at that console.
I think that in STTNG it would have been the Security Officer's Console, where Yar of Worf where.
I was thinking that if Cho and Penn finnagled this, Penn wouldn't need to remember any lines, and could just walk on set for a few days, and maybe many of these Bridge scenes were shot in only a few days of the shooting schedule.
Anyhow, imdb has been quite good at filling in these uncredited actors and roles. I was wondering why it has not done so yet, having much time to do so, and I'd assume geeks galore at imdb would have watched ST a few times by now.
I was fair certain I'd seen some credit given Will Wheaton on this Trek, not sure where or what for, or maybe if it was on imdb instead of the film credits - but I had thought it was someplace in the film credit roll.
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Just checked around on several sites - you're not the first person to think that was Penn, but it wasn't. Just a guy who does look a fair bit like him. Penn was working in Washington when Trek was filmed.
Some screen caps:
Looks a lot like him, to be sure, but it's not (though he did show up once on Voyager).
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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