My essay is about Kate Mulgrew, who is Irish-American so she counts. She is best known for her cameo in Star Trek: Nemesis, but she's done a couple more things.
Kate got her start playing a character on Ryan's Hope, a soap opera about Irish persons. Since I don't watch soaps, I can only assume that it involved ridiculous, never ending story lines about rich, sex-crazed people. Also, Benson probably made an appearance.
Later that decade she went on to play her most beloved role, Mrs. Columbo/Kate Callahan. The premise of her show was that she got to solve mysteries while desperately trying to figure out whether or not she was married. Her two of threes of episodes can be found on a couple of early Columbo DVD sets. I don't know, I think it was the third and fourth seasons.
In the eighties she played in a number of uninteresting roles. This was ok because by the mid nineties, she was cast in a role of Captain Janeway after some Canadian sourpuss quit on the job. Kate insisted on wearing the bun that would make her a household name. The Janeway Bun was in style in 1995 but is now only worn by women who are trying to hold on to their glory days.
The writers of Star Trek: Voyager held a secret grudge against her. They were always trying to make her say ridiculous pseudo-scientific stuff, but Mulgrew was a professional and she rolled with it. The writers thought they could kill her credibility after the episode that turned her and a co-star into mating salamanders after a ship went to fast, but it backfired on the writers. Kate's character proved so popular that she made a cameo on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Kate has also done some voice work for popular cartoon shows. I mean really good cartoons like Gargoyles and Batman: The Animated Series. On Batman, Kate played a Russian Terrorist named Red Claw. Kate (who sometimes goes under the name "Arachnia") must be watched at all times.
Kate Mulgrew now stars in some plays, because she can. Her best known play is Tea at Five where she stars as Katharine Hepburn. I haven't seen it, but I assume it was originally called Waiting for Tracy.
Since she's Irish, it can be assumed that drinking led her to this amazing career. I can't prove that she fights a lot, but she probably turned into a leprechaun at one poin during the run of Star Trek: Voyager. "Too many deuteriums!", she would have said.
Update: This essay was edited to remove a dumb spelling error.
5 comments:
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Thank you.
Did you hold a Voyager finale party too?
Oh Captain Janeway, don't go!!!
Wow, three comments! I should have more discussions about Star Trek and more open threads.
Probably more like you should have more misspellings that I can poin out and more open threads.
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