Lt.Kyle
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It also comes down to how much money may have to be spent. 26ish episodes a year might add up quite a bit, over 10 episodes with a character with more limited time. Though, I have no idea how that actually works so I could be completely wrong.
Au contraire, mon ami.
You need to Barry that idea.
Au contraire, mon ami.
Ah i missed this post by you Dennis. Yes I find it interesting. I also would not be ok with M'bengas race being changed.
I never understood that either. Locarno seemed like a okay kid that got in over his head but he was still looking at saving the team and basically took the fall for all of them.
Same here. To me, Paris is a bit more unforgivable given he basically joined a known terrorist organization.
I came to like him after a while. But he was trying too hard to be the 'bad boy' at the beginning, and RDM just didn't pull it off. Plus, he said something weird and racist to Chakotay in the pilot.
Actually, Roddenberry was never able to completely acquire the rights to Trek.
Once he walked away from his third season contract with NBC, that stipulation was never again offered nor agreed upon by NBC, Paramount or CBS.
They let him create new shows, but They always retained the exclusive rights to the IP.
Also, any character's created by the writing staff of all the Trek shows remain the property of CBS/Paramount.
They have to pay royalties anytime the original episodes with those characters are shown, but they don't have to pay anything to reuse said characters if They so choose.
Of course, it's different with the music, but that's a contractual thing which has been around for quite some time thanks to the Hollywood Musicians Union (AFM).
As a highlight to that, the exclusive deal NBC/Paramount made with Franz Joseph for the TOS Manual & Blueprints back in 1974, included the stipulation that that material would remain his intellectual property.
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Fans are so invested in the universe all they see is alternate timelines. This is the same timeline as TOS, but it's a distinct real-life adaptation of that timeline.
Locarno didn't need a "redemption arc" - Just good, frequent boots to the rear.
Just like Gene would want
Moore wasn't on the Voyager staff until season 6, long after Tom was created.
As for Kyle- I suspect they basically combined the Asian transporter tech from The Cage, and Kyle from TOS, into one character. In-universe, they could be the same guy, they could be adoptive brothers, they could be a married couple... whatever.
I mean, for one thing he never acknowledges or thinks he did the wrong thing. He spends the entire episode of "The First Duty" rationalizing their use of an illegal flight maneuver, covering up their actions, and manipulating the rest of the time into abetting the cover-up. He has some decency insofar as he insists on taking primary responsibility for the other cadet's death and protects the rest of the team as best he can, but the guy never really thinks he did anything wrong.
I for one don't think the Maquis are a terrorist group. I think they're a morally legitimate response to Cardassian civilian militias operating with clandestine Cardassian state support and to which the Federation responded completely half-assedly, and with a legitimate right to secede from the UFP.
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