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Farscape worked that way because you had a bunch of people crammed together by circumstance into an almost family like atmosphere for months on end (running away on Moya).
Trek's characters should be more professionsl that that, naturally.
Farscape showed how well puppetry can make non-humanoid aliens...real. Even the puppett/alien of the week on Farscale was more believable than Geordi's character seven years and four movies!
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That may be because comical or villainous characters (also those played by real actors) are created in a way to first take away some of their basic credibility, only to add overall consistency in their unusual behavior. In Star Trek we usually don't have such extremes. Decent human characters like they are common in Trek are more demanding in my view.
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