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Matt Winston Talks Time Twisting Talent of Playing 'Crewman Daniels'

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By Steve Krutzler / 09:15, 3 January 2004 / Enterprise

Happy New Year!

STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE guest actor Matt Winston talks in the new issue of the United Kingdom's STAR TREK Monthly about his recurring role as the time traveler 'Daniels'. Winston says it requires much more preparation than other roles he's played.

"Doing STAR TREK and playing Daniels is calling for me to pay a little more attention and do a little more preparation than I'd do for a typical role," the actor says in excerpts available at Sci-Fi Pulse. "I'm dealing with very elaborate technological ideas in what I'm saying. So that's been the challenge to keep it interesting, because a lot of what I'm asked to do is laying out a lot of information. I've actually done a lot more listening than doing. I've had these speeches that run on for pages about history and the past and the future and scientific concepts. So I've had to keep that interesting for myself and then try to make it interesting for the audience."

He says the background on his character is still unknown and has plenty of room to develop in varying directions.

"Once you get into time logic there could very well be many different Daniels in many different time periods," he says. "There's also a question that's asked of me in Cold Front, which is, 'Are you human?' and I said, 'More or less.' So perhaps I'm not bound by the typical human structures, in terms of where my body can be at any given moment. Perhaps I'm a projection of sorts. Perhaps I'm part cyborg. We don't know yet."

Winston says the character has a lot of possibilities that he hopes lead to additional appearances.

"I think it has the potential to really weave throughout the whole series," he says of the character. "I'm praying that Daniels will continue to bounce back from any problems like he did after Cold Front. I've just got my fingers crossed that I'll keep coming back every once in awhile for the next few years."

For more excerpts, in which Winston also talks about the ENTERPRISE set and time travel paradoxes, visit this page.



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By: Penfold (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:56:42 on Jan 04, 2004

I recently saw Galaxy Quest on TV again, in which Matt played one of the alien characters on Protector.

I couldn't help but notice his hair and costume were awfully similar to the way he looked in "Shockwave parts 1 & 2".

A little in-joke by the Trek people perhaps?


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By: Jadzia-Dax (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:47:01 on Jan 03, 2004

I looked him up on IMDb and he is the son of makeup/effects artist Stan Winston, who had done stuff ranging from the makeup on "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" all the way to effects makeup in T3. So Matt has been exposed to and was generally around the biz most of his life.

I do like how he's added this hint of the nebulous to the character. Just the way he performs the dialog makes the character seem almost other-worldly to a degree, in a very subtle sort of way.

The one main issue that many fans have about these 31st century incursions revolve around the introduction of very high tech into the 22nd century, which further makes the show feel less "prequel" and more "sequel". If anything, that could have been tempered by making Daniels' role advisory-only, save perhaps, for allowing the crew access to time travel in certain cases. But to give this crew a device that would not only reveal cloaks for the Suliban, but could be slightly altered to reveal cloaks for Romulan ships, was a bit much. And that "temporal observatory" didn't have to be given to them either. Simply "downloading" that data out-of-nowhere, into the ship's computer for reference (this type of thing has been done in Trek before), would have sufficed methinks.

One nit at Sci Fi Pulse is that the character is Crewman Daniels, not "Ensign". Daniels had inserted himself into the 22nd century as one of the friggin' ship's stewards. Not an Officer. LOL

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