I had a lot of trouble with Akon\u2019s voice. I kept reverting to Harry\u2019s voice (which is close to my natural tone anyway), but that didn\u2019t feel right. Akon has a hundred years of command experience behind him! He shouldn\u2019t sound quite so much like a charmingly precocious wunderkind.<\/i> I always base my voices on some character in fiction I feel they resemble, so I went with someone from command in TNG. I didn\u2019t feel I could possibly pull off the stately manner and understated gravitas of Picard, but I figured I could do a pretty decent Riker. Unfortunately the character just didn\u2019t line up.<\/p>\n
From my observations, much of leadership is assuming a confident and commanding demeanor. Acting assured (and being assuring) even when you aren\u2019t, and doing so convincingly. Akon, through his described actions, his choice of words and phrasing, and his internal monologue, just doesn\u2019t convey that. Every time I got on a good \u201cRiker taking over while Picard is away and issuing orders\u201d roll, I\u2019d be hit with some action or line that made it obvious that I was clearly way<\/i> out of character for Akon! And the whole thing would fall apart.<\/p>\n
As a result, I\u2019m afraid you\u2019ll find that my Akon voice varies a bit more than it should from scene to scene.<\/p>\n
I finally came to the conclusion that Akon is simply a bad captain. He\u2019s too open and honest about his insecurities. His openness is probably a major asset for a research and exploration vessel, but it\u2019s not inspirational or guiding in a high-stress crisis. I wish I had realized this several weeks earlier than I did. I\u2019m also a bit crestfallen to have come to this conclusion \u2013 I identify very strongly with Akon, and I was delighted to see someone like myself in a leadership position. The realization that he isn\u2019t a great leader, and that it\u2019s therefore very likely<\/b> that I am not a good leader for similar reasons, was disappointing.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s interesting the things you learn when stretching your boundaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had a lot of trouble with Akon\u2019s voice. I kept reverting to Harry\u2019s voice (which is close to my natural tone anyway), but that didn\u2019t feel right. Akon has a hundred years of command experience behind him! He shouldn\u2019t sound quite so much like a charmingly precocious wunderkind. I\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}