There are lots of interesting actors on B5.<br /><br />Captain Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) first made an impression on geekdom as Tron.<br /><br />Vir Cotto, of course, is played by Stephen Durst, best known as Flounder in "Animal House".<br /><br />As a child, the actor who played Lennier was on "Lost in Space".<br /><br />Captain Lochley (Tracy Scoggins) appeared as the ancient immortal Cassandra on "Highlander: the Series".<br /><br /><br />Occasionally, actors appeared in multiple roles, either because they were good at acting through alien facial prosthetics, or for other reasons. One of the less-well-known of these is Ed Wasser. He first appeared as a nameless technician in C&C on the two-hour pilot, "The Gathering". His character was replaced by Technician Corwin for the regular series, but he came back as a rather more memorable recurring character: Morden.<br /><br />Funny story.... Morden was introduced in "Signs & Portents". Not long after the episode aired, Ed Wasser happened to go to a florist to buy some flowers for a sick friend. I'll just cut-and-paste JMS's recounting of the story:<br /><br /><i>Saw Ed Wasser ("Morden") the other day, and asked him if he'd had any reaction to his first appearance on the show. Just one, he said. He was in a florist shop, picking out some stuff for a friend who was sick. The proprieter came over, asked, "What do you want?" Ed sorta mumbled about wanting some flowers. "What do you want?" the owner asked again. Ed -- still not getting it -- said he was looking for some nice stuff for a friend who was sick. "Yes, but what do you *want*?" the owner asked. At which point Ed finally twigged to what was going on. He said afterward that it really *is* an unnerving approach, which was kinda the point.<br /><br />Of course, the owner then added that he thought the scene was from DS9, but what the hell, it's an imperfect universe. </i> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>
A video made by me about space and the loneliness in the universe
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