{"id":2243208,"date":"2026-01-21T02:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2243208"},"modified":"2026-01-21T02:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:33:07","slug":"the-star-trek-character-wesley-snipes-almost-played-before-his-rise-to-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-star-trek-character-wesley-snipes-almost-played-before-his-rise-to-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"The Star Trek Character Wesley Snipes Almost Played Before His Rise To Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There might be a mirror universe where “Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/a>‘s”\u00a0Geordi La Forge<\/a> looks like Wesley Snipes<\/a>. As revealed in a 2011 interview with Collider, the\u00a0“Blade<\/a>” and “New Jack City<\/a>”\u00a0star recalled that he was considered for the show before LeVar Burton<\/a> donned the Visor as the iconic Enterprise-d engineer.<\/p>\n

While promoting “Coming 2 America<\/a>,” Snipes recalled nearly enlisting in Starfleet and was quite disappointed when he didn’t get the part. “Yes, that is true. I think that was in the ’80s. Yeah. And was disappointed that I didn’t get it. Not as disappointed as I…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There might be a mirror universe where “Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s”\u00a0Geordi La Forge looks like Wesley Snipes. As revealed in a 2011 interview with Collider, the\u00a0“Blade” and “New Jack City”\u00a0star recalled that he was considered for the show before LeVar Burton donned the Visor as the iconic Enterprise-d engineer. While promoting “Coming 2 America,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2243209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2243208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The-Star-Trek-Character-Wesley-Snipes-Almost-Played-Before-His.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243210,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243208\/revisions\/2243210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2243209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}