Quote of the day: Phantom as Star Trek

[my_daroga]

Paris Opera was a living thing, full of a mad collection of people performing and doing their thing. It was somewhat like the starship Enterprise—completely self-sufficient.
-John Mathieson, cinematographer for the 2004 Phantom of the Opera

So my challenge to you: who's who? Any crew, but I prefer TOS and TNG because I know them better. And DS9 (but we already know Bashir is the Persian). Basically I don't know Voyager and Enterprise. And whatever POTO canon you can shoehorn 'em into.

Personally, I want Kirk to play everything.

Comments

[seraphcelene]

LOL!! This is awesome. I wish that I were more familiar with POTO!

Maybe ... Kes (from Voyager) as Christine? or Maybe if we want to think really outside of the box, Data.

In that scenario, Raoul would be Tasha Yar and the Phantom/Erik would be Lor.

I don't know anything about any of the other characters, but I suppose that Dr. Soong would be Madame Giry. I have no clue who would be the Persian because I don't remember that character from the movie. (Sorry!! I know that my slip is showing!)

lol!!! I really wish that I did know more about the movie.

[dangerousdame.livejournal.com]

Uhura is Christine, what with the singing. I guess that makes the Squire of Gothos Erik...

[deathmask-revel.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree. Kirk would make a dashing Christine...

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Erik - Q
Christine - Picard
Beverly - Raoul
Wesley - haha PoM!son
Riker - Meg
Data - Persian
Worf - ???

Now for the ALW/TOS version

Spock - Andre
McCoy - Firmin
Kirk - Carlotta

Voyager:

7 of 9 (she's Borg) - Christine

[phantoms-siren.livejournal.com]

Surely Kirk would be Carlotta what with his boundless acting (pause) talent!!

Only Wesley is annoying enough to be Meg...

Chekov would be innocent enough to be Raoul.

I think only Voyager has characters gullable enough to be Christine, Kes or 7 of 9. Though I do like the idea of Data as Christine....

[lafemmedarla]

As long as we don't get William Shatner performing Music of the Night....

Original Series Cast

[stefanie-bean.livejournal.com]

Good Kirk = Raoul

Bad Kirk = Philippe (we have to split them up to get the proper effect. And weren't Raoul and Philippe as characters combined somewhat in the Charles Dance POTO version?)

Spock = Persian (rational on the outside, all emotional and gooey on the inside. Besides, there's always room for Raoul/Persian slash too ... LOL)

Uhuru = Christine (she sings, and she thinks Kirk/Raoul is hot - but she'd like a little more Bad Kirk in the mix.)

Khan = Erik. Remember him, Mr. "Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven?" And I could see Khan being attracted to Uhuru/Christine; she would give him a run for his money.

Janet Rand = Sorelli (she thinks Bad Kirk/Philippe is hot)

Nurse Chapel = Mme. Giry (she's kind of a fussypants)

Marla McGyver = Meg (sorry, Meg, no Khan/Erik for you this go-around)

Heh, that was fun!

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

I keep seeing Yeoman Rand as Christine for some reason. I think just the Young and Blonde thing.

[hope-24.livejournal.com]

Here from stefanie_bean's journal. :)

I love Bashir as the Persian looks-wise, but I like the idea of the worldly-wise Garak as the Persian - then I can make the boyish Bashir Raoul and have some Persian/Raoul (Garak/Bashir) slash.

I like the idea of Odo, with his weird face and lovely voice and unrequited love vibe, as Erik.

TOS? I don't know, as long as Spock gets to be the Persian.

[imp-o-light.livejournal.com]

Wow, it's hard to outdo the suggestions already made: Q or Khan as Erik, Chekov as Raoul (can't get more callow than that), Data or Spock as the Persian, Nurse Chapel as Mme. Giry (perfect!). Somehow, though, I can also picture Dr. McCoy as the Persian (chiding Erik for his addictions).

Now pardon my delving into particular episodes for the rest: I'd look to "Requiem for Methuselah" to provide the romantic triangle of Flint/Rayna/Kirk for Erik/Christine/Raoul. Remember--Flint, the near-immortal genius who had been da Vinci, Brahms, and countless others? The one who created Rayna, the perfect android, out of his own loneliness? Recall that Flint permitted Rayna to get to know Kirk in hopes of arousing her emotions--and then Flint got uncontrollably, violently jealous. Something about that older man's voyeurism for the young pair seems very POTO. At the end, Rayna short-circuits and dies from her conflicting love for the older man (father/mentor) and the younger man (lover). Kirk's closing line was something like: "An old and foolish man... and a young and foolish man.... We put on a pretty poor show, didn't we?" An alternate POTO could have come to the same ending.

I put in my vote for Elaan of Troyius as Carlotta. I'd have lots of hortas in the cellars making tunnels for Erik. Erik would have the shape-changing salt monster do some of his murders. For the opera managers, I'd choose two characters from "The Trouble with Tribbles": space trader Cyrano Jones and uptight administrator Nilz Barris. And I'd have to find some role for Alexander the dwarf--wait, wasn't there a dwarf opera singer in the POTO movie?

But actually, the creepiest Erik I can come up with would be a forty-years-older Charlie X, having gone into long seclusion with alien-given powers, now more brilliant and far more bitter. Can't you picture him kidnapping some young thing who reminds him of Janice Rand? And he wouldn't just be thwacking her on the behind...

Gosh, I could waste much too much time on this topic!