Mayweather and Kim, the biggest slouches in the galaxy?

[Tallis Rhul]

It would have been quite interesting having a subordinate to Archer know a region of space better than he did actually...

You mean like T'Pol did in the beginning?

lol, oops... yes. Hehe, I think I saw her as someone who was supposed to be advising him and kinda forgot the subordinate bit

 

[RandyS]

I would have liked to see more Tucker, Reed, and Mayweather stories, like in "The Breach"

It seems like they had a great dynamic that would have been worth more A stories.

Remove Tucker from your list, and I agree.

 

[TheOriginalGuru]

The problem with the whole Kim/Mayweather thing is not the actors. Face it, if the actors weren't very good, they wouldn't have been cast, would they? No.

The problem was with the writers who didn't know what to do with them. There was plenty of potential for those two characters - actually, for the two series as a whole, but the writers/producers never took any risks, never took any chances on them, and the characters became stale.

The blame can't rest on the shoulders of the actors. It must lay with the writing staff!

 

[Dane_Whitman]

The problem with the whole Kim/Mayweather thing is not the actors. Face it, if the actors weren't very good, they wouldn't have been cast, would they? No.

I don't think that's a given.

Look at Garret Wang in season 1 of VOY, his delivery is terrible. Awkward to the point of it really standing out among the performances of the other actors. He grew over the years, but when he was cast he was simply bad.

 

[Tallis Rhul]

The same criticism has been made of Terry Farrel, to a lesser extent... by herself! She said she was awkward in delivering the lines to begin with, particularly the technobabble monologues, and that she fell foul of the directors once or twice!

I don't think that makes them bad actors though, it's just an acclimatisation process.