[MistyMountainHop]

Originally Posted by beyond insane (View Post) She's probably my favorite captain her or Picard

Originally Posted by crazy_diamond (View Post) She is my 2nd fave Captain..

It's hard for me to choose my favorite captain among Kirk, Picard, Janeway, and Sisko. They're all great and all totally different.

Originally Posted by crazy_diamond (View Post) I really liked Janeway/Tuvok friendship, I wish we had got more scenes with them in later seasons..

Same. The show built up their backstory early on, and it would've been great to see their relationship get some real development.

Originally Posted by Chris (View Post) We could have used more scenes between Janeway and Tuvok. Those really fell by the wayside over the years. Although I suppose it made sense for Janeway to develop a closer relationship with Chakotay as her second in command.

It does make sense, story-wise. Especially when the Janeway/Chakotay romance was nixed. If the show had gone there fully with them, Tuvok might've kept a more prominent role as Janeway's counsel.

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I think that's pretty much true where all captains fall somewhere on the favorites lists and easier to not rank them love each of them for their own reasons and its impossible to compare cause of how they are all different to each other

[ParkDundee]

Shout out to Archer.

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Let me bump Enterprise's thread

[MistyMountainHop]

Originally Posted by beyond insane (View Post) I think that's pretty much true where all captains fall somewhere on the favorites lists and easier to not rank them love each of them for their own reasons and its impossible to compare cause of how they are all different to each other

Exactly my difficulty with ranking them.

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Even the Kirk's can say they are similar but yet different at the same time

[crazy_diamond]

Originally Posted by MistyMountainHop (View Post) Same. The show built up their backstory early on, and it would've been great to see their relationship get some real development.

Exactly

[Chris]

Originally Posted by beyond insane (View Post) I think that's pretty much true where all captains fall somewhere on the favorites lists and easier to not rank them love each of them for their own reasons and its impossible to compare cause of how they are all different to each other

Well said Sarah. They each had their strengths, and worked well with their particular crews.

[MistyMountainHop]

Originally Posted by crazy_diamond (View Post) Exactly

Tim Russ fought for Tuvok to get more backstory in eps wherever he could. In one episode in particular (wish I could remember it rn), his lobbying got Tuvok a whole monologue about his life before Voyager. The writer wrote it into the script during shooting the ep, IIRC. Tim thought he'd get a line or two, but he was happy to get basically a scene centered on Tuvok's backstory.

The episode where Seven goes back in time to the Excelsiorin ST: 6 is really cool. We get to see Tuvok's early career in Starfleet as well as way more of Sulu's role as a captain in the events of ST: 6.

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I'm glad that Russ fought one of the most important things about a character is that exact thing backstory with how am always a curious and I feel backstory really helps to deepen and develop a character

[Chris]

Overall the various Treks have been good to give us backstory about characters, and develop friendships between crew members, but there's always somebody that could be fleshed out more.

Originally Posted by MistyMountainHop (View Post) The episode where Seven goes back in time to the Excelsiorin ST: 6 is really cool. We get to see Tuvok's early career in Starfleet as well as way more of Sulu's role as a captain in the events of ST: 6.

Yes, it was nice to see Captain Sulu, and young Tuvok.

[crazy_diamond]

Originally Posted by MistyMountainHop (View Post) Tim Russ fought for Tuvok to get more backstory in eps wherever he could. In one episode in particular (wish I could remember it rn), his lobbying got Tuvok a whole monologue about his life before Voyager. The writer wrote it into the script during shooting the ep, IIRC. Tim thought he'd get a line or two, but he was happy to get basically a scene centered on Tuvok's backstory. The episode where Seven goes back in time to the Excelsiorin ST: 6 is really cool. We get to see Tuvok's early career in Starfleet as well as way more of Sulu's role as a captain in the events of ST: 6.

and glad that Tim fought for that..

Really good eppy and glad we got to see Tuvok and Sulu

[Meliana]

That is good to know. Having backstory for the characters really makes them come alive.

[MistyMountainHop]

I've read in quite a few interviews with (or memoirs by) actors who share how much they had to fight for their character either to stay consistent or be fleshed out or to get more than a line per episode. Sometimes it works out quite well, as with Spock and Tuvok and Janeway, and sometimes it gets an actor fired (like Gates McFadden).

[scififan2009]

Fired? Is that why she wasn’t in season 2 of TNG?