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replacing Phil Hartman with Jon Lovitz was almost as big a mistake as bringing Puddy (from Seinfeld) on as Johnny Johnson to play the nemesis of Jimmy James’s (get it? huh? huh? isn’t that hilarious??!)
and the plot line about Jimmy as escaped convict was one of the dumber things I’ve ever had the misfortune to witness
smarty
Yes, I’ll agree, after Dave and Maddie slept together, it went downhill. And I really loved that show. I didn’t see the last season until recently, when they started showing it on Bravo.
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“Moonlighting” was my dad’s favorite show. He really liked Cybill Shepard, and looked forward to each episode. The last episode he saw was the “Dave and Maddie sleep together” episode. He never saw any more of the show - he suffered a fatal heart attack before he could see how it went down the crapper. I don’t know why, but somehow there is some small comfort for me in that fact! 
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“V” - the 80’s show with Marc Singer, about how aliens (in red suits) invade Earth. When Ham (Micheal Ironside) left the show. He played this pragmatic mercenary who was helping the freedom fighters, and was often rather a jerk. But he played well off of Singer’s super-righteous hero character, and added dimension to the show. It became boring after he left.
The title is correct; she was in that second-season episode. But her name is Diana Muldaur.
I disagree that Ezri was a better DS9 character than Jadzia.
DS9 was already by far the darker, more serious Star Trek of the two running at the time, and getting rid of Jadzia only made the situation worse.
Also Ezri Dax was at the centre of some downright awful and boring episodes in the early 7th season (I’m talking mainly ‘Prodigal Daughter’)
You can possibly tell that I’m that rare breed; a Voyager fan. Voyager, IMHO, has produced some of the best ever Star Trek episodes. I mean ‘Future’s End’, ‘Scorpion’ and ‘Equinox’.
It is true that Voyager has come up with some totally implausible clunkers. Most name ‘Threshold’ and ‘Favorite Son’, but didn’t DS9 have ‘Meridian’, ‘The Forsaken’, and possibly worst of all, ‘Fascination’, the episode which delayed my continued interest in Star Trek by about 6 months, due to it being the first DS9 episode I ever saw.
FYI The DS9 Companion is out,700 pages and $30.00.
Well, I suppose they could have simply propped Phil Hartman’s corpse up with sticks or something, but the show simply wouldn’t have been the same.
–Tim
Or, in my POV, better.
I like Voyager, a lot.
Better than TNG. Perhaps more than TOS. At least as much as TOS.
Not as much as DS9. ‘Dark and serious’ isn’t a flaw, IMO. Neither is ‘light and humourous’.
Jadzia simply didn’t fit in DS9. She’d have fit fine in the oh-so-perfect crew of the Enterprise D, but she didn’t fit in with the very human crew of DS9. Nor would she have fit in on the Enterprise, or even the Voyager.
Everyone else - the Starfleet crew, the Bajoran crew, the civilians - on DS9 had something that makes them (pardon the pun) human - even the transplanted Worf and O’Brein became much more REAL once they moved to DS9. Of course there were exceptions - the incidentals - Morn, the Dabo girls, the Ferengi waiters - are given a more one dimentional treatment than the main characters, but that’s only to be expected.
Jadzia - save a handful of episodes, all dealing in some way with previous Dax hosts - was always perfectly self-assured, never scared, insecure, or unsure of her skills, knowledge, or absolute rightness.
Ezri is, admittedly, a rather extreme change from that, but, given her origin, this is simply realistic.
Feel free to like Jadzia more, but Ezri was not the downfall of the series, nor is she a bad character.