I think that was a big part of what made Trek what it was--it wasn't the science so much as the cast felt like people you can relate to. I've read a lot of the reason that Uruha and Chekov and Sulu didn't get so much screen time was because producers felt iffy about too many non-white faces being shown from what I've heard at the Trek boards (,a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_bHeoqaOc">this scene made it past the sensors because both parties were brain-washed), but Roddenbery and Co did the best they could to make them viable characters on their own.
Makes me damn glad he never saw Voyager or Enterprise. Go get a copy of any season of Enterprise (preferably season two) and any season of Deep Space Nine from the library and compare the behind the scenes features. There is a HUGE difference between the writers of the latter and the way the producers/writers on Enterprise describe the show. The DS9 crew are jazzed to talk about their favorite episodes and the cast have nothing but good things to say.
Quite a difference from Enterprise, where there's a full ten-minute segment of the cast and writers actually DEFENDING an episode that is easily one of the most unpopular episodes of the series. I head about that, and was "...O_o" Every show has their stinkers, but the DS9 writers didn't yammer on about what reasons they had to put Quark in drag (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXKiX1vsJzc) for the sake of comedy.
I'll write that as soon as I get those drabbles published. ^_~ Your pairing is by far the most difficult to write, because my tastes in pairings are pretty vanilla. ...And far too Rukia-centric. But it's coming. :D
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Date: 2009-05-28 06:05 am (UTC)Makes me damn glad he never saw Voyager or Enterprise. Go get a copy of any season of Enterprise (preferably season two) and any season of Deep Space Nine from the library and compare the behind the scenes features. There is a HUGE difference between the writers of the latter and the way the producers/writers on Enterprise describe the show. The DS9 crew are jazzed to talk about their favorite episodes and the cast have nothing but good things to say.
Quite a difference from Enterprise, where there's a full ten-minute segment of the cast and writers actually DEFENDING an episode that is easily one of the most unpopular episodes of the series. I head about that, and was "...O_o" Every show has their stinkers, but the DS9 writers didn't yammer on about what reasons they had to put Quark in drag (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXKiX1vsJzc) for the sake of comedy.
I'll write that as soon as I get those drabbles published. ^_~ Your pairing is by far the most difficult to write, because my tastes in pairings are pretty vanilla. ...And far too Rukia-centric. But it's coming. :D