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[/QUOTE]Heh. Heh. That is funny. I have seen that sort of thing many times. I’m glad I can now attach a name to that behavior. It’s a real good one.
I like “Skin of Evil.” Having Tasha Yar die a typical redshirt death was a great idea. And I write that as someone who liked the character. In an odd way, her unheroic passing coupled with the very affecting funeral kind of apologized for all the forgotten crew over the years.
I’ve said it before but it all begins with the writing. If you have good writing any halfway capable troupe of actors can carry it off. If you have bad writing, all good actors will do is show how bad it really is. Even great actors can’t always “rise above the material” but when they can it’s well worth watching. (Example from Trek. Some of the scenes in DS9 with Louise Fletcher and Marc Aliamo had some pretty lame writing, but they made it work.)
Voyager had, for the most part at least, poor writing, mediocre acting, and just generally smacked of being manufactured rather than created. I know that’s the way the TV business is, but you don’t have to be so obvious about it.
Don’t get me wrong, I liked some Voyager eps but, differ as we may about which were good or poor, I think we’d all agree that the “stinker-to-gem” ratio just wasn’t as favorable as TOS, TNG or DS9. (ENT might have been about the same.)
Chakotay was a boring character poorly acted by Beltram.
7 of 9 and the Doctor were interesting characters played by the best actors of the show. Focusing on them created some eps worth watching. Anything with Beltram in it was a cure for insomnia. The guy sounds pretty unprofessional and petty.