Posted: 26 September 2017 at 7:50pm | IP Logged | 3
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Its hard for actors to really embody characters when those characters are written in a wildly inconsistent way, also. I mean, Picard for example is a wild throwing together of seemingly random character attributes. He's a Frenchman with a British accent who loves British tea. He also randomly loves early twentieth century detective novels, archaeology, and he either hates children or regrets never having them depending on the episode/movie. He loves his women prim and proper...or has escapades on Risa depending on the episode.
Data uses or can't use contractions, does or doesn't understand humor, etc. depending on the episode.
Geordi was constantly speaking nonsense technobabble and had no character beyond being brilliant, and lousy with women.
Riker, Troi, etc. were all over the map. Crusher had no real personality written for her character.
Characters just did and said whatever the plot required on that show. It was plot driven rather than character driven. DS9, at least in the later seasons, was just the opposite, which is why I liked it more. TOS was pretty much a perfect balance between the two. There was a strong premise to each episode, and then the action revolved around the characters' interactions flowing from that premise.
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