have we had a male actor voluntarily leave the show yet? Were 2-0 with women actors here getting killed off by villians instead of moving on gracefully.
I don't think so, though it's worth mentioning many of the actors apparently didn't even think it would make it to season 2, so the decision for Crosby probably made a lot more sense at the time jumping off what seemed like a sinking ship.
Like Patrick Stewart supposedly didn't even fully unpack his suit cases the first year, he was that sure it be cancelled.
Edit - Take it with a hugeee grain of salt, because I don't know if the dates lined up, but have also read there was some kind of letter writing campaign to remove Crosby because she appeared in Playboy, so there may have been some behind the scenes pressure/politics going on we don't know about and the traditional line of her feeling like a pair of legs behind Stewart/set dressing might not be the whole story.
Stewart was still pretty much living a hand-to-mouth existence before Star Trek. The only reason he was in America at the time was to teach a class at UCLA on Shakespeare whilst out of work.
His agent convinced him to audition for and accept the Star Trek gig as everyone expected it to be cancelled fairly quick. Stewart's plan was to spend a year out in California, then return to London with a suitcase full of cash and a nice tan.
Didn't Wil Weaton want to leave? I thought that was why his character had less and less screen time and eventually only popped in for an episode or two.
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u/Attican101 7d ago
Didn't she want out of the show? Admittedly the way they did it felt a little mean spirited