![]() These casting gimmicks also took place in the context of entirely sincere, if occasionally ridiculous, storytelling. The Rock appeared on ‘Star Trek: Voyager.” Not coincidentally, the single most famous Star Trek cameo prior to Stacey Abrams was Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a gladiator on a planet featuring cage matches. If you don’t know or remember what UPN was, they were famous for licensing screen rights to (very poorly regarded) programming directed toward African-Americans and also professional wrestling. And Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager ran new episodes in national syndication, usually on UPN. Even as The Next Generation, its best-regarded work, wasn’t airing new episodes, it still aired reruns. Star Trek in the still-demo-tape filled late nineties was a sweet spot for the cultural relevance of the franchise. Once the producers explained his secret identity, naturally, all the extras tried to give him demo tapes. ![]() Tom Morello recounted in a short video how the other extras on Star Trek: Insurrection didn’t understand why central performers kept coming up to talk to him. For the cast and crew, it was an excuse to hang out with famous singers. From the perspective of the viewer, these were just funny little Easter eggs. Just about anyone could perform these walk-on parts. They also didn’t write the roles for celebrities. You’d have to be a fan of the people in question to be able to tell who any of them were, and even then the makeup made the task difficult. Iggy Pop on ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.’ And Iggy Pop played yet another completely different kind of alien on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in a more prominent role as the negotiator for a prisoner exchange. Paul Williams likewise donned makeup as the leader of an alien race in Star Trek: Voyager with no concept of music. Morello also had a turn wearing the thick alien makeup which made Star Trek famous as an extra on the feature film Star Trek: Insurrection. Star Trek: Voyager featured Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine as a random crewman extra. The notion of celebrity cameos in Star Trek isn’t new, although they’ve typically been far more incognito than the Stacey Abrams media event. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper. With clear ambitions to fix the American political system for real, this naturally begs the question–why take time out of her busy schedule to appear in an episode of Star Trek? ‘Star-Trek-BFGlobe-032122.mp3 The Emmy=nominated voice actress and best-selling political thriller author Stacey Abrams is now running for the governor of Georgia. The fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery’s finale featured Stacey Abrams in a prominent role as the recently-elected President of 32 nd-C entury Earth.
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