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[Melakon]

If Seska had propositioned Harry, he would have acted a lot differently than he did with Seven. It was a wonderful comedic scene for Garrett, but it made Harry look like an idiot. Harry was doing the right thing given the circumstances of course, but Jeri Ryan thought it was too soon for Seven to be doing a tease as a prank on him at that stage of the character's development.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Seska would have only propositioned him (and that's a generous word) to get something from him which Harry would have been quite aware was the case. So he may have found it not particularly difficult to resist her given her obviousness and her aggression. Subtle she was not.

Harry may be a dweeb but he wasn't as stupid as the Kazon or Chak.

 

[Guy Gardener]

If she wasn't completely recovered, still all ####ed up from 20 years a drone, which she can't have been, there's only one way that she could have safely had "fullsex" with Harry and that would have been virtually in a minicollective, which would have required partial/temporary assimilation.

Oh.

I suppose Harry could have been the catcher?

That would have been well within her abilities despite recovering from numerous major surgeries and her insides being a complete mess of random dead ends.

Starbuck from BSG on Longmire said something last week to her husband in bed that she thought was playful and amusing: "Ha! The only way we can have sex if I pretend that I am weaker than you."

The husband left and didn't come back after that.

 

[Jeri]

Harry may be a dweeb but he wasn't as stupid as the Kazon or Chak.

"We were warned at the academy about Ferengi!"

I think he learned a lot from that one encounter alone.

 

[Makarov]

Chakotay was pretty menacing in that holonovel episode. I almost wish they had made him a little more like his holo novel persona.

The thing that gets me about Seven of Nine, is that they totally just added her for eye candy, but I actually think once Jennifer Lien got the longer puffy hair she was the better looking one.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I thought she looked like a cocker spaniel with that hair.

 

[Melakon]

Jennifer looked a lot like any other blonde pretty girl that I had seen on television, since I was 44 at the time. Jeri was striking, and not just due to her body, but her face especially. I only have her on 7th Season and some Borg episodes, and part of the fun is her variety of facial expressions.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

The biggest problem with Kim's character is that he was basically written as a foil for stronger personalities. He was basically Paris's Troy, so when they were playing in the Dreamatorium he always played Constable Reggie. But unlike Troy, that was the only aspect of his character. Kim hangs out with Seven, Kim is the foil. Kim hangs out with the Doctor, Kim is the foil. Kim hangs out with anybody at all, his personality follows along and reacts to their much more assertive personality. No matter who he's standing next to, he is Dr Watson. For most of the series his only function was to make whatever character he was with seem more eccentric. There's not a lot of directions you can take a character like that unless you establish some domain for the character that they are in control of, which they never did with Kim.

You notice the one episode where he actually had a noticeably strong performance was Timeless, where he was allowed to make decisions on his own and act out assertively. If they'd had Kim take a turn like that earlier in the series he would have been a way better character. Maybe then Wang would have showed up to work on time.

(Tom and Harry in the moooorning!)

 

[LMFAOschwarz]

Jennifer looked a lot like any other blonde pretty girl that I had seen on television, since I was 44 at the time. Jeri was striking, and not just due to her body, but her face especially. I only have her on 7th Season and some Borg episodes, and part of the fun is her variety of facial expressions.

She's a terriffic actress. My 'actor test' is to hit the mute button, and just watch them: can you read their emotions and such just by visuals. She passed with flying colors.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

That's actually a really good idea! I'll have to try it myself.

 

[Makarov]

Eh, I'm a few eps into season 4 and they're way overdoing the facial expressions with seven of nine as far as I'm concerned. Character walks offscreen, then a shot of seven of nine looking puzzled, then raising her eyebrow, I'm quickly getting sick of that.

 

[LMFAOschwarz]

That's actually a really good idea! I'll have to try it myself.

It's pretty fun, JG! The first time I'd done it was sort of accidentally, maybe fifteen or twenty years ago. There was some tv movie on I really wasn't paying any attention to, and the phone rang. I hit the mute button on the tv, and while talking I was sort of absent-mindedly looking at the screen. I then realized that without hearrig a word of the actors onscreen, I could read the emotional state of the character change as the silent conversation went on (believe it or not, it was Valerie Bertinelli!). I actually gained respect for her I did not have before, realizing that if she could do that with visuals alone, she must be a pretty good actress!

Since then, I employ the technique consciously, and it's very instructive. It's really fun with Star Trek. Even with such an oft-seen series, you'll even begin to notice all sorts of details in sets, costumes, actor mannerisms...all kinds of great stuff!

Have fun! I'd love to get your impressions if and when you try it!

 

[Drone]

Did Chak ever have a duplicitous streak, or even a touch of menace? No, no, no. Just didn't have it in him

Tuvok seemed to be able to visualize some of those qualities in him given his portrayal in The Worst Case Scenario holoprogram, though. True, that was done when it was early days, but still....

 

[Guy Gardener]

I just noticed that if I stress different parts of your name, it becomes "Dr One"

Which is an obvious Doctor Who citation, but it's also tenuously a reference to The EMH1.

And there was after all an episode where we couldn't tell the difference between the Doctor and Seven at all, who is one of the more infamous Drones on parade.

 

[Drone]

Uh, thank you!?!?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Of course then when you say Docone, it sounds lot like Dark One, which might suggest that you are the prince of Evil, Lucifer, the lord of hell, but with a minor pronunciation Do Cone, it's just a subconscious reaffirmation to your love of weed... Although I did notice how similar that sounds to Ducane, the Captain of the Relativity who murdered Seven of Nine several times, and if you value the murderer of the epitome of woman, then you can't like any regular women less well then the best woman who we have already scientifically proved your feelings abouts.

But then say Drone backwards and you get the sound E-Nerd.

Flagrantly yelping what a computer geek you are as if any one but our grand parents aren't these days.

 

[Drone]

And there I was, cursing the sky gods and obstinately refusing to make my maiden post in a snit because I screwed up and misentered the user name I had really wanted to employ!!!! If I had stepped back and just given my "mistake" a little bit of thought, I might have realized all of these serendipitous benefits that you have pointed out!!!!

Oh, it was Braxton, by the way.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I like the crazy grampa version best.

"Quasi-Cardassian Totalitarian!"

Oh.

Depending on how many wives Seska's kid took, it wouldn't take that long, 200 years, until his DNA had saturated the Kazon and they would be thunk of as Quasi-Cardassians.

Was that who Braxton was talking about?

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

I finished "Hunters" and "Prey". Really liked them. The Hirogen were pretty cool-looking. I felt bad for Janeway and Tom (regarding their letters, or lack thereof).

 

[Melakon]

Mark: Hey, uh, Kathy, and wow, what a surprise. You know, a funny thing happened the day after we got the news that Voyager was lost and I was cele-- uh, drowning my sorrows at the bar. I met this woman, she's about 5'4", trim, with red hair, and she loves dogs, so we're getting married! Isn't that great? Well, hope you guys don't have anymore trouble getting home. See you in 50 years.