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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Darkwing: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [qb] On a more serious note, I think that most [i]Star Trek[/i]'s missed opportunities came from not giving us more development and more diversity within the alien species. A lot of the characters we see from these other races are usually cookie-cutter versions of others we've seen before. There's the occassion "bad boy" of the species (like Sybok, the Ferengi scientist, the Pagh-Wraithers, etc.), but I always feel there should have been more development than that. Granted, it's probably likely most attempts to expand on the different races would either make the episodes feel like documentaries or otherwise unwatchable. [/qb][/QUOTE]Other missed opportunities come from discarding characters: Saavik, David Marcus, Ilia, Decker, Xon. Changing Saavik to Valeris for ST:VI. We'd have cared more and had more character conflict if it had been Saavik, and it'd have surprised us more. A Saavik-clone from out of nowhere? Please, she had "throwaway character" written all over her. In close to 40 years, Trek has let a lot of loose threads drop. The Conspiracy parasites, the change in Klingon culture 9not the bumpy head thing, but the shift from 1984/USSR/Mongol Empire to Vikings with pretensions of honor stuff. The Maquis melding with Voyager's crew. Brad Dourif's character, the serial killer on VGR. Just a few, but there are many, many more, if one cares to look. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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