Four representatives of three different "Star Trek" series have now appeared on "Boston Legal." William Shatner, Jeri Ryan, Rene Auberjonois, and on last night's season premiere, Armin Shimerman of "Deep Space Nine" (and a recurring role on "Buffy") as a judge.
BTW, looking him up on IMDB, I learned he played, apparently, a role in the play-within-the-show of one of "West Wing's" fan favorite episodes, "Posse Comitatus." I say apparently because I've seen that episode, like all WW, many times and have never seen him.
But it's not at all unlike Sorkin & Schlamme to fill the "bench" on their series with actors who are capable of playing fuller parts; it's one of the reasons their shows are so rich.
(Fair warning: With a new Sorkin series on the air, my references to him may become more frequent if not messianic. I'll be back to normal by the time Tina Fey's series gets cancelled.)
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So the geeky question should be: is Shimerman playing the same judge he portrayed in Boston Public (which David E. Kelly earlier established was set in the same universe as The Practice)?
Even *I'm* not *that* geeky.
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