Don't speak... It's not worth it...

Have I ever mentioned that I absolutely love  Star Trek , all its derivatives and incarnations (but not the movies). How can I forget the Original Series with Captain Kirk (the only thing worth watching on Iraqi TV), and then, after many, many years in the wilderness, and after some real crappy and shocking movies, we had the Next Generation with Captain Picard (the man is so poised and in control at all times, and with a British accent, is there anything this man can't do)...

This was followed that by Deep Space 9 with Captain Sisko, Voyager with Captain Janeway, and last but not least, we had Enterprise with Captain Archer. Truth be told, I only watched these shows because there was no more Next Generation (I think they canceled the latter because of DATA's weight issues, this seemed to fluctuate from episode to episode)..

And with  Star Trek , you always have the same thing, they face some adversity, they overcome it, they save humanity and everybody is happy, that is, apart from the Talkies.

They have the main characters (the ones that talk, almost, every episode), doing their business with the extras, the ones that don't usually talk, going about their business in the background. The problem is always when they get one of these extras to talk (give them a bit of a role and a personality, something to connect them with the audience), then you know that they are going to kill them.. What a bummer, they give you a line and promise you the world, and two minutes later, you are dead...

So the moral of the story is, if they ask you to be a Talking,  Star Trek , extra, then you know that you are doomed.