{"id":57116,"date":"2014-02-27T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T10:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=57116"},"modified":"2014-02-27T11:12:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T11:12:57","slug":"star-trek-director-cliff-bole-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/star-trek-director-cliff-bole-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek director Cliff Bole remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cliff Bole with Worf star Michael Dorn on the set of Star Trek: the Next Generation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Amid the deserved tributes to the late Harold Ramis, it was easy to miss the announcement on Tuesday of the passing of director Clifford John Bole.<\/p>\n

Yet, news of Bole\u2019s passing deserves better than to be dismissed like a late-in-the-day memo given his contributions to genre television.<\/p>\n

In a career spanning over 30 years, Cliff Bole directed key episodes of some of the small screen\u2019s most popular science fiction series, including The Six Million Dollar Man<\/strong><\/em>, Fantasy Island<\/strong><\/em>, V<\/strong><\/em>, Millennium<\/strong><\/em>, MANTIS<\/strong><\/em>, Harsh Realm<\/strong><\/em>, The X-Files<\/strong><\/em> and Supernatural<\/strong><\/em>. His name is also on episodes of several other shows beloved by fans of fantasy telly, among them Charlie\u2019s Angels<\/strong><\/em>, McGyver<\/strong><\/em> and Mission: Impossible<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

It was Bole\u2019s work on the Star Trek<\/strong><\/em> franchise that is probably his most significant contribution to the popularisation of televised science fiction, however.<\/p>\n

He directed episodes of The Next Generation<\/strong><\/em>, Deep Space Nine<\/strong><\/em> and Voyager<\/em><\/strong>. Moreover, those credits include several segments that helped to establish the credibility of the franchise\u2019s first revival among not only fans of The Original Series<\/strong><\/em> but also the science fiction community in general and the wider public.<\/p>\n

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Bole’s finest Star Trek work – certainly his best known – was ‘The Best Of Both Worlds’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Outstanding among these episodes were \u2018The Best Of Both Worlds\u2019, Parts 1 and 2, which, between them, received five Emmy nominations, winning for Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. His other TNG<\/strong><\/em> credits include \u2018Hollow Pursuits\u2019 and the second instalment of \u2018Unification\u2019, which were also nominated for Emmys.<\/p>\n

Bole never got major recognition for directing Star Trek<\/em><\/strong>. Fortunately, though, his memorable work will be deservedly marked in the franchise\u2019s mythology by the Bolians, a blue-skinned alien race that was named after him. They were introduced in The Next Generation<\/strong><\/em> and occasionally reappeared in all three Star Trek<\/strong><\/em> series that Bole worked on.<\/p>\n

Star Trek<\/strong><\/em> has since withered as a TV show, but it only lasted as long as it did because Bole and directors like him pointed it across generational and pop culture boundaries. Being the father of an extraterrestrial species is therefore an appropriate tribute to a man who helped to make a world of difference to the credibility genre TV now enjoys.<\/p>\n

Cliff Bole died on 15 February 2014 aged 76.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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