QUOTE=Icthulhu;11393495]Either recast Chakotay and Kim, or turn them into actual robots. Not Soong-type androids, mind you - actual robots based on existing Starfleet technology - automated MACO's. So - humanoid but more mechanoid and less intelligent than Data or the EMH, and decidedly more Maco-type. They were hacked and given autonomous will by a virus designed to thwart quick reprogramming, so they are very slow to learn or change, so when they do it's more meaningful. Now everything they do and are can be acted exactly in the same way, but it's somehow more interesting.[/QUOTE]
QUOTE=Icthulhu;11393495]Let's see Seska as a recurring villain, slowly reverting to a full-on Cardassian soldier and megalomaniac, as she violates the Prime Directive and creates a fascist spacefaring empire from some backwater industrialized world with no ethical inhibitions about anything.[/QUOTE]
This is good. She had wanted to expedite getting home, but she could've decided to put that on hold until she established a meaningful presence in the quadrant that would hew to Cardassian principles and tactics, would answer to subsequent Cardassian dictates, and would give them an overwhelming advantage among the AQ powers out there. It would be more than a slight feather in her cap, and of course she would still take advantage of messing with Voyager as much as possible!!!
Well, it seems that you choose to overlook the implications of the number of episodes that very crucially sketched out the underpinnings of his character and why, on the surface, he seemed to have no content other than that annoying, insufferable cretin you describe. Well, at least you didn't call him Jar Jar. That idiocy seems to have pretty much disappeared.
Parturition, Jetrel, Fair Trade, Mortal Coil, Rise, Once Upon a Time, Riddles, and numerous individual scenes in other episodes seem not to have made much of an impression on you or at least given some pause to be a bit more thoughtful of the character. As you say, to each their own.
As for SF Debris, he clearly is extremely knowledgeable about Voyager (and I don't doubt the other creations he has covered as well). Unfortunately, from my perspective at least, he chooses to insert his personal animus or displeasure about certain decisions TPTB made, in the obnoxious/sophomoric manner of a smartass par excellence, which I suppose he might think is a sign of sophistication or a wink to his audience of knowing comprehension. To my eyes, it severely depreciates the seriousness that one can accept his criticism to the realm of tiring and tiresome bilge that offers little of value to a thoughtful appreciation of the positives and deficiencies of the show, and as such I religiously avoid the productions.
I do admit, though, that I find his evaluation of Kes as a character throughout her run, was cogent, appreciative of what Jennifer Lien brought to the role, and even was quite questioning of the logic of her being dispatched from the show, when she would have offered so much more given the opportunity.
QUOTE=Icthulhu;11393495]Let's see Seska as a recurring villain, slowly reverting to a full-on Cardassian soldier and megalomaniac, as she violates the Prime Directive and creates a fascist spacefaring empire from some backwater industrialized world with no ethical inhibitions about anything.[/QUOTE]
This is good. She had wanted to expedite getting home, but she could've decided to put that on hold until she established a meaningful presence in the quadrant that would hew to Cardassian principles and tactics, would answer to subsequent Cardassian dictates, and would give them an overwhelming advantage among the AQ powers out there. It would be more than a slight feather in her cap, and of course she would still take advantage of messing with Voyager as much as possible!!!
Well, it seems that you choose to overlook the implications of the number of episodes that very crucially sketched out the underpinnings of his character and why, on the surface, he seemed to have no content other than that annoying, insufferable cretin you describe. Well, at least you didn't call him Jar Jar. That idiocy seems to have pretty much disappeared.
Parturition, Jetrel, Fair Trade, Mortal Coil, Rise, Once Upon a Time, Riddles, and numerous individual scenes in other episodes seem not to have made much of an impression on you or at least given some pause to be a bit more thoughtful of the character. As you say, to each their own.
As for SF Debris, he clearly is extremely knowledgeable about Voyager (and I don't doubt the other creations he has covered as well). Unfortunately, from my perspective at least, he chooses to insert his personal animus or displeasure about certain decisions TPTB made, in the obnoxious/sophomoric manner of a smartass par excellence, which I suppose he might think is a sign of sophistication or a wink to his audience of knowing comprehension. To my eyes, it severely depreciates the seriousness that one can accept his criticism to the realm of tiring and tiresome bilge that offers little of value to a thoughtful appreciation of the positives and deficiencies of the show, and as such I religiously avoid the productions.
I do admit, though, that I find his evaluation of Kes as a character throughout her run, was cogent, appreciative of what Jennifer Lien brought to the role, and even was quite questioning of the logic of her being dispatched from the show, when she would have offered so much more given the opportunity.
