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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] The lack of character on Voyager was a conscious thing. The producers passed down word that the crew should be generally "perfect". Ideal (mostly) humans, in order to provide a blank control for the alien races they encountered to play off of. What they didn't realize was that this resulted in extremely wooden charicatures that no one gave two shits about. Garrett Wang was pretty pissed about that. Bob Beltran almost quit the show a few times. Jennifer Lien [i]did[/i] quit the show. And so forth. Add to that the "Gilligans Island Syndrome" of the first couple seasons. We know they're not going to get home right off the bat, so a string of "hey! we found a way home -- oops, didn't work" episodes really have no place. A couple of that type slipped into the fifth or sixth season, maybe. The whole Borg thing was a tremendous letdown, especially after the coda of "Blood Fever" and the teaser of "Scorpion" set things up so sinisterly. The Delta Flyer had no point. It was too big for the shuttlebay, and they already had the damned aeroshuttle. It would have been so easy to have Tom ask about it and have Janeway say it was only a flight-test article to maintain structural integrity, that they had left dock on their mission before key systems could be installed, and have Tom and Seven and B'elanna finish and customize [i]that[/i] instead. Neelix was wasted. I loved the "Year of Hell" storyline for no other reason than that Neelix was wearing a uniform. Ongoing nit. Picard had his Security Chief doubling as his Tactical Officer, so she (and later he) wore Operations gold. When Worf was still the Assistant Tactical Officer, he wore red, ditto when he returned ot the command track as DS9's Strategic Operations Officer. I don't like the "doubling-up" of shipboard roles. Related to the above, if Tuvok had been the Tactical officer, and been forced to double as Security Chief by pilot episode's casualties, and then trained Neelix to be the new Security Chief... *heavy sigh* Wasted potential. The Kazon would have been okay for the first few episodes -- until we saw that they were so scattered and primitive from years of being used as prey by the Hirogen... :D Now [i]there's[/i] a threat race. And a million other nits, too --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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