Part of my point. They went out and convinced an ex-actress who had stopped acting half a lifetime ago to reprise her role... but couldn't bring back a guy who was
right there and eager to return?
Weird, isn't it.
Incompetence can be just as destructive as malevolence. And yes, my conspiracy theories about nu trek are more for my amusement than because I actually believe them. But the VOY showrunners were incompetent as
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That's true. But I'm sure that they knew exactly what they were doing in the "Kes case" and the "Harry Kim case".
I read your head canon... even though I didn't have your problem with "The Gift", I think your resolution was better.
Lynxverse rules!
I have restored Kes and I will restore Garak and Gowron as well!
Plus correct some other things too, like a certain character who got stranded on an asteroid in the middle of nowhere.
It was bad enough that 130 of Voyager's crew were already nobodies. We didn't need or want more.
Can you imagine if VOY had been like DS9, with a cornucopia of recurring characters? It was even more perfect for that than a space station!
Exactly my point.
Voyager would have been perfect for a bunch of recurring character due to what the series was about, a ship lost in space where the crew became a community where they had to trust each other and cooperate.
There were a lot of characters who could have been perfect as recurring characters: Carey, Rollins, Dalby, Henley, Chell, Gerron, Hogan, Tal Celes, Samantha Wildman.... They could have created some more too. After all, they had 130 people to use for such purposes.
Well, sometimes there is. But Gibbs wisely assumes otherwise.
Gibbs' rules have become my rules.
And I still have to give NCIS some credit. The series is a weak copy of what it was when Gibbs was in charge but it's still watchable. Not to mention that they never killed off Gibbs.
OK, they had their fair share of character destruction, some examples which I really didn't like. But they mostly came up with good explanations why this character here and that character there was out of the series.
I admit I doubt that... I think "Fury" was disastrously misguided attempt at fan service. But, given that they gave the "promote Harry already" letter writers a vicious slap across the face in "Nightingale", I guess anything is possible.
I know that there are many who disagree with me when I state that they did what they did on purpose to "show the finger" to certain fans. But I do believe that they did just that and I will stick to that theory until someone convince me to 100% that i'm wrong.
I mean, they spent almost three episodes to make everyone forget that Kes was even in the show. She was hardly mentioned and all evidence of her existance were "gone", like the Hydroponics Bay and her importance as The Doctor's assistant and no one ever menyioned her.
Then all of a sudden they bring her back, an event which
just happen to occur at the same time as people were sending in letters and mails in which they stated that they wanted her back.
And then they destroy her in the worst possible way, by making her look like a total moron who want to kill of the whole crew. Because of............what?
And then they make her leave like a pathetic, miserable old wreck with some wish to return to a place to where the real Kes had no intent at all to return to and no chance to get there either, due to a combination of old age and whoknowshowmany lightyears through Kazon and Vidiians space she'd had to travel.
Only a true sadist would come up with such a scenario for a character they want to get rid off.
What I've been told, they were actually planning to kill off the character in the original script. But Obviously Jennifer Lien didn't like that and made them change that and that's the reason why she sometimes is labeled as "co-writer" or whatever it was.
As I see it, when it came to that letter campaign, they had two optionst:
Option 1. Bring back the character to the series.
Option 2: Ignore those fans who want her back.
They did choose Option 3 which was to humiliate and destoy the character.
And I think they knew exactly what they were doing.
I mean, were they so stupid that they really believed that the fans of Kes will be filled with joy when they watched that horrible episode? I find it totally impossible!
They can be accused for many things but they weren't stupid. I mean, people who can come up with so many good stories and scenarios as they actually did in TNG, DS9 and VOY aren't stupid. I have to give them that.
But they weren't and aren'tthe nicest people around either.
And they haven't been honest either.
TATV and every episode of Trek that ended up inadvertently making Our Heroes look bad has entered the chat. Examples available upon request.
If you write frequently enough, you're going to find yourself in a place where something you wrote isn't perceived the way you hoped it would be. As a sometimes-writer myself, I can only imagine how I'd feel if I wrote something with the best of intentions only to find myself being pilloried for it.
But if you do something wrong in your writing, there are always possibilities to correct that by writing yourself out of that scenario. I have managed to do that myself.
Although I have to admit that despite labeling my first kes story as the best Voyager episode never made, I'm not that happy with some details in the story.
The main villain in the story comes out pretty bad which the character was supposed to be. But when I wrote the story, I based the character on some historical person but also on a person which I had a serious conflict with back then. However, some years later, the conflict was solved and we actually became friends. When that guy died a couple of years later, I felt real bad over making him one of the role models for the villain in the story so I altered a few things when it came to certain characteristics and looks but I couldn't change the character totally because it would have ruined the story.
The same with the ending of the story which doesn't fit together with the beginning of the follow-up story which I wrote later. But I simply can't go in ad start poking in all that, it would be wring in some way.
Sometimes I've been thinking of re-writing the whole story. But that would be wrong too. After all, it was my first Star Trek story and I'm proud of it, flaws or not.
So I took some ques from Berman and Braga who sometimes created scenarios in one episode which were totally gone in the next episode or never even discussed again.
After all, there are Voyager-related stories I write!
