So this is the guy that helped me get Zardragon

Brent has longer hair and a shade greyer than mine - but I dye my hair. I think he may be younger than I am.

Your in the green shirt?

Yup. Dinosaur costume. You can get it in a T-Rex red too. I put in links to Fresh Hell, the Discovery Store and Fez-O-Rama above in the text where it shows boldface.

I don't know why this is making me laugh so much out loud.

I like Brent and I don't even know hardly anything about him other than every so often I'll recognize him as a background character in some movie.

He just seems like a guy that genuinely enjoys his job and doesn't take it more seriously than he should.

Fresh Hell (links are in the boldface above) is a fictional account of him doing something "the event" that makes him persona non grata to his friends, Hollywood, his fans, everybody. It pretends as if he can't get any work anywhere, and what hell it's like when people only remember him because of Star Trek, which he (pretends?) not to want to remember anymore - well, it's true no actor likes being typecast - Leonard Nimoy rankled at the Spock role, and in Star Trek II did entertain that being the end of Spock's character, PERIOD.

I also remember that short-lived cable series with him being a cranky scientist against some alien invasion/virus thing, and of course Independence Day (same role, really). But yes, he's got more range and talent than playing a robot. Lore and Dr. Soong were examples of how more vibrant and exotic of a personality he could portray even on Star Trek. Now of course, had the Next Gen films carried on, he could've been a fully emotionally aware android, B4, but I digress.

Data was Next Gen's Mr Spock in a way - mechanically logical, stronger than humans as Vulcans are, but of course even more impervious to harm and not needing life support, but as well having the motivation to emulate emotions, to learn through interaction and by storing the collective memory of a colony of humans their experiences and thoughts - something they never really played on that much in the series.

As Spock was between cultures, so was Data - an artificial being, basically one of a kind, so very much an alien, unable to draw on any parent or guardian for guidance, and therefore had to make friendships on board a ship with a military structure, but as we saw - since families are aboard, fraternization was encouraged. They just didn't put in for shore leave often, it seemed.

Brent currently produces Fresh Hell at his own expense. It's not a webcam thing - it has sets and locations and other actors, like Levar Burton appeared once. But it's just a YouTube channel, so there's no sponsors or ads, other than if you buy a shirt like he's wearing in the photo. Or a poster, I guess. Anyway, I was glad I wore something that gave him a laugh and practically (didn't but…) got his photographer to take another of me doing the RAWR cross-armed pose. It reminded him of some joke I didn't get to hear… others were waiting their turn.

I'm thinking (just thinking) he might be connecting me with episodes of Dinosaur Office, which are pretty funny.

He's not typecast for me. Nor is lenord Nemoy. He is fantastic in Fringe as Dr. Bell, though he doesn't make a good villian.

Dinosaaaaur office is the beeeest thing eveerrrr. rarrrr!...

Lucky guy! And yeah, Spiner is an a really underrated character actor with tons of talent.

Looks like a great time! =)

I tried to show I was in the moment I wanted. It was so fleeting...

Brent Spiner seems like a nice guy. ^.^ I've seen him cameo in 'The Big Bang Theory'. =3

I've seen David Gerrold tweet/blog about the show as well as Wil Wheaton, so it seems many TNG people get involved with that show... At least on occasion.

yeah. =P

Brent Spiner looks quite relaxed in here. Moreover, you look quite happy as well.
Do you have green eyes, or am I the one that thinks so?

Elements of green and brown, which I declare as hazel on my license. Remember when I've said Unk is a physical opposite of me? He has red eyes. So yeah, when I picked "toons" in WoW and other MMORPGs, I often made my avatar have green eyes. It tended to make my character pretty easy to pick out of group screen grabs.

Hmm, that's interesting. Making that in the MMORPGs is quite good. It's a way to identify yourself in there, I guess...

Not only are you wearing a Fez (Fez's are cool!) You actually got to stand next to Brent Spiner... I'm so jealous of you right now ^.=.^

What was terrific was to experience more than the assembly line fan experience - stand here, don't touch, face the camera, next please. I succeeded in exchanging very polite pleasantries, did not waste anybody's time gushing, just a short one-sentence pleaure to meet you, then we lined up on our marks, I was told to look into the lens, smiled like I meant it, and after I showed him how the shirt worked, he had a laugh.

So to entertain BACK someone who's entertained me for so many hours - continuous days in fact of programming and film, that was sweet. And probably a correct measure of proportion of talent he to I. I tried drama class back in high school, and I think it was my worst mark ever... that or Trigonometry.

You make me so jealous right now ^.=.^

*hug*

*hugs tightly*

Even from the first episode, his interaction with Riker makes him a fascinating character, and Brent played him very well. Given that Questor is a very similar character, and has been played differently but in bits and pieces similarly, I should take opportunity to try and ask if Data had drawn any performance techniques from Questor.

I guess if I can fit the question into a tweet, I could always try to ask it that way.

Hiyas. Did I miss ya in Phoenix?

I need to go 3 Generations back until some of my kin were living in the British Isles - and then they were English. Don't hold it against me!

Hm, my dad might've been part of that race. He kept making meat loaf and hamburger with onion in it and feeding it to me - later on, I came to realize onion made me sick!

You were touched by Brent Spiner! *gush*