SUPPLEMENTAL: The One with Marina Sirtis

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Between seasons two and three of The Next Generation, we thought it would be a good time to check in with Marina Sirtis who played Counselor Deanna Troi. The outspoken and unfiltered Sirtis talks about the transitions in the first couple of seasons and how she managed to be the last woman standing after a tumultuous first year.

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0:00.0	Mission Log supplemental Number 23, the one with Marina Certis. Okay, so two things that we're talking about when you came in, two very different topics, but both kind of maybe important and hot button.
0:24.6	One was about the end of the run of NextGen.
0:28.2	And you were talking about going into the convention world and all this stuff, and you were told that you had a horrible agent
0:34.8	because you could have gotten anything that you wanted. Go back to that. How did that work?
0:39.7	Well that worked. I mean basically I changed agents a lot during the series. It was a really
0:47.3	dumb thing to do actually because they're pretty much all the same. Yeah, they're all a bunch of lute.
0:54.0	They're all a bunch of tow rags as we say in my country.
0:57.0	No, actually my agents right now I quite like, but in the past,
1:01.0	a lot of agents are more concerned about earning their percentage than
1:05.1	actually furthering your career but I was sitting in the lounge at the first
1:11.4	class lounge at LAX with Rick Berman going to one of our
1:15.0	premieres, probably first contact in London and he he informed me that there was
1:20.9	a time that I could have asked for anything
1:25.0	contract wise and I would have got it,
1:28.0	which is kind of mean to tell me that after the fact.
1:31.0	But I suppose he was working, you know, he was on the other side, he was a suit, and I was just
1:36.8	a lowly actor and of course the suits are trying to save as much money as possible so that the studio
1:42.4	makes the most money. I suppose that's the way it goes.
1:45.0	But I was a little miffed. I thought you know what you could have been a little bit more on my side at the time maybe.
1:53.2	So then the other thing that we were talking about was social media.
1:57.0	I didn't realize that you were on Twitter.
1:58.6	Yeah, I'm taking a little break from social media right now because there's a lot of infighting amongst my
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