Star Trek Actor with Upstate NY Home Speaks Against Power Plant

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James Cromwell as Zefram Cochrane
James Cromwell as Zefram Cochrane
Oh darnit...Don't tell us Zefram Cochrane is against a new clean-burning natural gas electric plant too! Who's Zefram Cochrane? He's the fictional creator of the warp drive that powers star ships like the Enterprise in the Star Trek pantheon of television and movie series. Actor James Cromwell played Cochrane in the 1996 movie Star Trek: First Contact. (Yes, we're big-time Trekkies!) Cromwell, also known for his role as Farmer Arthur Hoggett in the 1995 movie Babe (he was nominated for an Academy Award), was born and raised in Manhattan and maintains a summer home in upstate New York in Orange County, near Middletown. Cromwell is a big-time liberal--someone who thinks upstate should be the personal playground for rich, New York City libs, kept pristine from any kind of development. In other words--keep the poor folk poor in upstate so the rich folk from the city can enjoy their weekends unmolested by the noise of trucks and bulldozers. And therein lies our distress. We like Cromwell's acting, but not his acting when he attended a court hearing in Orange County last week to lend his voice and his fame to an effort to stop a proposed Marcellus gas-fired electric plant planned for the Town of Wawayanda, near Cromwell's summer home...

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