I have more-or-less enjoyed SNW ( I could have done without “Spock Amok” and the fairy tale episode) and Picard (season one, anyway), as a coda to TNG. And they should have appointed someone like Christopher Nolan or Vince Gilligan or even Manny Coto - in other words, someone who cares about the craft - to helm the franchise. Instead, they gave us too many low-quality shows, comedies, kiddie fare, alternate timelines, prequels, etc. Paramount should have focused on a single, high-quality show, set 100-200 years after TNG: essentially STAR TREK: THE THIRD GENERATION. TrekMovie offers our condolences to the friends and family of Louise Fletcher. RIP Nurse Ratched #LouiseFletcher /bbmChrpPGy TNG Star Jonathan Frakes also offered his condolences. KAI WINN WALKS WITH THE PROPHETS – REST IN POWER, LOUISE /7SDW6CoPvP I would have loved to interview her for our documentary but we never could synch schedules.ĭiscovery co-creator Bryan Fuller, who worked on DS9 before moving to Voyager, expressed his condolences by saying Fletcher’s Kai Winn “walks with the Prophets.” On Friday night Deep Space Nine executive producer and showrunner Ira Steven Behr said on Twitter that fans of the series should be in mourning, and he praised Fletcher’s work saying she was a “key player” and “stone cold pro who committed totally to her character.” Behr also picked up on how fans love to hate the character of Winn, saying “She was so damn good being so damn bad.”Įvery fan of #StarTrekDS9 should be in mourning tonight.Ī stone cold pro who committed totally to her character. Louise Fletcher as Winn Adami in Deep Space Nine Trek community remembers Fletcher Who are you playing?” I’d say, “Think the Pope in space, except she’s like an ancient Pope, from the old days when Popes were ruthless and powerful and exerted their powers and fought wars and did all kinds of naughty things.” People would say, “Oh, you’re doing Star Trek. She was sort of a Margaret Thatcher in space, or, as I used to say, I was the Pope in space. In a 2012 interview with, Fletcher spoke about how she approached the character’s motivation: Fletcher was nominated for five (and won four) awards from the Online Film & Television Association for her work on Deep Space Nine. The Bajoran Vedek who rose to Kai often came into conflict with Benjamin Sisko and Kira Nerys, making her one of the franchise’s best-known adversaries. Star Trek fans know Fletcher for her recurring role of Winn Adami, appearing 14 times over seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Louise Fletch in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and with her Oscar
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