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'Starling Trek' shows us the way to the peace"



In the conversation with Avery Brooks



The performer of Captain Sisko explained why "starling Trek" of the humanity gives the hope for peace, how the memorable episodes "hereafter of the stars" came and "always the load with the Tribbles" into being or why he in the fourth squadron of DS9 suddenly a bald head had..



Would ask: this is your first trip to Germany?



Avery Brooks: no, I was here already earlier. Today I had the opportunity to go to Cologne and to look at the cathedral. I like not only the beauty of this country, but rather marvel also over the acquisitions, that were created already before cable envoy years.



Would ask: as an actor afroamerikanischer birth you especially emphasized this aspect of your person in your work on the stage, in television and film. Did you try this also in "Deep Space Nine"?



Avery Brooks: I think, am that this not at all first necessary, for my origin is yes obvious. I am not the embodiment of my culture whether I connected now deliberately therewith or. Of the intellectual standpoint here saw I the African culture studies and would busy me further therewith. What the part of that ask about concerns the aspect of my person, would go and say I yet further that my origin is the basis for my personality. I need not to run around with a flag, on which written stands, that I am African origin. I not accompanying should feel however to this culture, I would have a problem, for then I would have to explain the reason for that to each.

Would ask: in the sequence "hereafter of the stars", with which you also yourself led administration, you have in my opinion a very good Statement over the status of the Afroamerikaner at the beginning of the 50er-Jahre and also today delivered, and it was an entirely fantastic Story..



Avery Brooks: in "starling Trek", it gave never before a Story how this. It was by the way not about my idea, how many believe but rather that of Ira Behr. What it certainly not knew, was that I had immediately a personal deep understanding for this story, because I am to be sure born as American, but have also large reference to my mother culture.



Would ask: how it came actually that you were bald in the fourth squadron of DS9 suddenly?



Avery Brooks: when I signed my contract at the beginning of the series, a clause was contained therein actually, that purported that I would agree let grow me hairs and to carry it after specification corresponding to the maker long or shortly. Perhaps Berman and Piller wanted to avoid therewith that one would confuse me with my preceding TV character Hawk. (Laughs) as a then the time passed, divided me it with that its decision incorrectly was... perhaps... possibly... and they would permit me to cut off me the hairs again entirely and let grow the beard. For me, the okay was and also really no especially important matter.



Would ask: it gives elements for you personally in "starling Trek", which the series over the Durchschnittsniveau of tv series hinausheben?



Avery Brooks: yes, "starling Trek" it permits us to speak over the world and to show things, with which we become perhaps today not yet finished, but the series gives at least something hope to us that we will can out growth perhaps into a couple hundred of years over our weakness and as a humanity peace will find.



Would ask: what has you actually to "starling Trek" hingezogen?



Avery Brooks: that the Story of the pilot film was primarily, and it also somewhat therewith has to do, what I just said. The idea of the story of a man, that suffered just a painful loss and must travel at a place unknown for it of the universe, fascinated me in order to find again peace, to defend simultaneously a child großzuziehen and the humanity against other Intel leagues zens, very.



Would ask: the stories of the single episode come am of the opinion yes of the script authors, but I that the authors are influenced at least unconscious by the actors, who represent the characters. What is your opinion in addition?



Avery Brooks: I agree you, just if these people were involved in the decision, which actors are selected for the rolls. Because gradually the characters less than themselves, just this development would be allowed to represent an inspiration for the authors.

Would ask: around this subject yet to continue: you mean would have transferred, who yourself of you as a person to Sisko to authors?



Avery Brooks: I do not know. I never came on the thought to ask after that. I am myself also not at all certain whether I want to know that. (Laughs) I find it substantially more interestingly to read the corresponding script and to act on that correspondingly spontaneously, instead of thinking about largely about how one would react in the corresponding scene. Perhaps the personal being trains come there in this Spontanität better to the light.



One must consider at the same time also that one has scarcely time in a weekly TV series in contrast to a film for preparations, there permanently the clock tickt. For me, the spontaneous acting is the best type of the expression, for if I let the material so very in me on seepage, that I come about that for meditation, cause I much stiffer. That became me for the first time in the first squadron of DS9 aware when I was called one day for no obvious reason into the office of the maker. There were shown was asked me the Dailies [raw cut of the corresponding day], and I why I would cause in the scenes so detached. I had no idea whereby they spoke. They showed me thereupon the material, and then I understood what they meant. The explanation for this "Distanziertheit" lay very simply therein that the director had forbidden me to use my hands.



Would ask: what? The hands are yet an entirely important expression means. Even I know that, and I am no actor..



Avery Brooks: place you the situation once before: you rehearsed and are ready for the receptions. There the director approaches on you and says to you that you should not use the hands! That takes away you yet somewhere a large part of the Spontanität, and one sees that then also on the screen. For me, it is simply so that I trust the script authors and act correspondingly "out of the belly".



Would ask: a last question yet: to mean DS9-Lieblingsfolgen counts "always the load with the Tribbles". Can you tell something to the filmings of the sequence?

Avery Brooks: I not first of all believed that one would be generally possible us such an intention, so to speak into an original "starling Trek" -sequence in pack. One had done something similar previously only in "Forrest Gump", and that was a cinema film with large budget. When the idea arose for this sequence, all people gave more in front of and behind the camera than only its best, around the project durchzuziehen. If I keep in mind only, how much work became invests alone to adjust around the Look of the series of original as original loyal as possible.. There a little miracle emerged.



Special praise counts at the same time our director Jonathan west that joined all the many difficult elements. When we turned the episode, that got around quickly, and even some people passed by, who were at that time with at the same time: Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, Walter king and the script author david Gerrold. That were impressed also very.



Would ask: Avery, thank you very much for the conversation and further much success for you!



Avery Brooks: it was me a pleasure!




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An elephant never forgets . . .TO KILL!

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DS9 could have been darker, and in fact in place of Enterprise they could have and should have done a show which was a lot more graphic than the pretty-polly stories of Voyager & Enterprise. I for one would have been glad for something which extended from being PG rated everytime. Maybe this is what's holding them back from imagining a more realistic future in which space exploration is dangerous, freaky and perverse. Space is nothing like what's portrayed in ST today, and actually the original series was more in touch with this aspect than Ent is today or Voy ever was. Looking back they could have done masses with Voy, the oppourtunity was truly squandered!

DS9 was a good show and Sisko a very likable character.

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DS9 was a marvellous show for it's characters and the intellectual stories. But it's the least optimistic show in the Star Trek family, so I think it's a bit ironic that Avery Brooks talks about, how it conveys peace and hope. It dealt with a war causing billions of dead people. There were times when even Benjamin Sisko ran around with a Bat'leth or a Jem-Hadar knife to kill. Not because it's in his nature but because circumstances demanded him to act like a warrior. Every hope seems thin and poor based on this.

From a general point of view however, I agree that Star Trek is about a better future, and that is the most significant reason why I watch it, and engage in the franchine with passion.

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Avery Brooks is a real class act. In the same way that Patrick Stewart brought Shakespearian dramatics to the Star Trek universe, Brooks brought a culture and intensity that elevated the quality of television as a whole. He was the right man for the job. The Star Trek world he commanded, DS9, was a far more dark and mysterious realm than that of the clean and sterile world of TNG. Brook's own footsteps in the real world - with his links to Rutgers University and one of the nation's most notable African American figures, Paul Robeson - helped our fantasy Trek world achieve the very hope for the future Brooks talked about here.

It is vital that Star Trek's focus and talent stay this course of hope, tolerance, and peaceful resolution. We are lucky to still have Star Trek on the airwaves, but let's hope that it doesn't become an empty shell of shoot-em-ups and meaningless drama. Some have argued that this may be the case with Enterprise, but last week's show, "The Breach", was a step in the right (and hopefull) direction.

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