It would be easy to just gesture vaguely at all of Sir Patrick Stewart’s career. But your question was about better performances than in Trek, and I actually think he did an excellent Picard during the original TNG run. Not quite a hot take, I know.
However, for a double off-Trek billing, I suggest Green room (2015) where he plays against Anton Yelchin among others. It’s a pretty taut little thriller about a punk band on the road that realise to their horror that their gig for the night is at a neonazi club out in the sticks. It goes downhill from there.
Oh fuck yeah. That movie was wild and Sir Patrick Stewart delivered a truly evil performance.
It’s jarring if you only know him for his cool-headed leader or mentor roles like Picard or professor Xavier… He really lets rip as this extremist POS.
Karl Urban was an okay Dr. McCoy, but the 157 different roles he played on Xena Warrior Princess was where he really shined the brightest.
I honestly enjoyed him more in Dredd (where he had to do more with less) than in Star Trek.
TIL!
Really only a handful, but that hilarious he had a few characters
He really did have range with them. I watched Xena when I was a kid, and I had no idea they were the same actor
Jeffrey Combs must have been busy.
Brent Spiner was brilliant in Master of Disguise, a phenomenal movie
There’s a an admiral in Star Trek Beyond that looked familiar, I had to look it up and it’s Shohreh Aghdashloo. A forgettable role, only noteworthy because I recognized the actor.
She plays Avasarala in The Expanse. Total powerhouse performance.
Damn, nearly did not recognize Keating, his performance in that gif gives heavy David Tennant to me.
He should have won best actor for his performance as “Ian” in Jungle 2 Jungle.
When I see Star Trek actors in other show I like to think “This is the holodeck”.
I think Alexander Siddig did good in Game of Thrones. I like his acting of Prince Doran Martell.
Andreas Katsulas had a recurring role as Commander Tomalak on TNG, but he absolutely shone as G’Kar on Babylon 5, especially in later seasons.
TIL Tomalak was G’Kar. I don’t know how I didn’t know.
He gave me goosebumps in several scenes, especially this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJmuHNDcXLQ
Mulgrew. Flemeth. (Kidding).
Levar Burton will always be reading rainbow guy, no matter what he does.
Zachary Quinto. Silar. One of the better villains, until the writers went on strike and the show fell off the rails. Granted, this likely just marks the man’s range as an actor.
John Cho. The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
Koenig. Bester.
You could argue that everything Stewart does is equally well done. Scrooge. X. Gurney.
Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather) as Postmaster P in Leprechaun in the Hood
The fact that it lost to American Beauty that year is a travesty
Walter Koenig was a great Chekov, but his role as Bester the PsyCop from Babylon 5 was a more nuanced role that gave him way more to do.
Best character in the entire series. Never before would have imagined Walter making my skin crawl.
Bester still gives me the creeps.
I came here to say this. I first saw Walter Koenig as Chekov, but I really loved him as Bester. I’ve heard that he lights up when people bring up Bester at conventions and such.
Can confirm. I was an avid 90s Star Trek convention attendee, and got to hear a couple quick Bab5 anecdotes from him years ago.
Bester was so great. Great vilain
Michelle Yeoh, Supercop
She participated in the greatest movie fight scene ever. Crouching Tiger.
Which one is she in it? https://youtu.be/uxkr4wS7XqY
Either way, she is cool.
Karl Urban, Dredd
Any of his roles are awesome, but I’d hold McCoy up there with the rest. I believed he was the doctor. Criticize the script for lines and actions, but Karl nailed the mannerisms. As he always does. He’s got a Gary Oldman ability to become something different every time.
100% agree. Of all of the Kelvin cast, he felt like Bones. Karl Urban was a fantastic casting decision.
Karl Urban is ALWAYS a fantastic casting decision!
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock
Benny in the behind-the-scenes footage from The Hobbit in his mo-cap suit.
Bakula on “Quantum Leap”
Eve Harlow on “Agents of SHIELD”
There’s an episode of Scrubs where Bakula plays a janitor and secretly wants to leap back as a little Easter egg
Also, "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Bakula on “Men of a Certain Age”.
