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"And in fact, one of the reasons that I got attached to 'Star Trek' was that I was such a huge fan of the original 'Star Trek' that I did everything in my power to become part of the franchise, and I lucked out." "I watched every episode of the original series," Shimerman said. ON THE SCENE: History of Marvel comics and movies on display in Philadelphia "The Catholics had been in the country perhaps longer than the Jews, and therefore there was a slight feeling of, again, hierarchy, that I experienced as a child that I brought not explicitly but implicitly into the performance,” he said.Īnother element of Shimerman's youth followed him to "Deep Space Nine," and that was his devout "Star Trek" fandom dating back to the original series' 1966 to 1969 run. Shimerman described the Lakewood of his youth as "a bifurcated society," with large Jewish and Catholic populations. ON THE ROAD: Report from Cher's Here We Go Again Tour in Brooklyn And that sense of being a slight outsider, I believe I used or (it) just was there when I performed the role."
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"That sense of being an outcast, not being a part of the elite – because my father and my mother’s parents were immigrants – I had a sense of that in the immigrant society that was a part of Lakewood when I was growing up," he said. "There were a lot of immigrants, not just in Lakewood but in Jackson, and I grew up with that. Shimerman grew up in Lakewood the descendant of immigrants: his father was born in Poland and came to New Jersey from Palestine, while his mother was born in Cleveland to Russian Jewish immigrants.