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Thanks, Dana. Off I go ...

Vonnie, from what I can see, this is a bit of a TiVo failing/feature.

The 7pm airings look like straight season one, although The Passenger seems to be missing. They're also doing an "Uncut" thing where they show two parters back to back. Which is why The Maquis 1/2 is airing on the 16th from 9-11, and Past Tense 1/2 a week later.

Nothing quite offset the loss of Jadzia though. While I came to like the actress well enough, and some of her charcter arc, if they had to replace Terry Ferrell, they should have brought Dax back as a man, and not as Ally McTrill.

Yeah, but since they'd already established the Worf/Jadzia romance, doing that would have forced Berman & Braga to deal with issues of gender and sexuality. I think they both would have fled the show in a panic before writing anything dealing with those subjects.

But were Berman & Braga that involved? I thought DS9 was that other guy's project. Wasn't that Ron Moore? Or wassname Wolfe?

I remember reading a longass screed from a guy who worked on DS9 and then moved over to Voyager when DS9 ended, and was simply appalled at the difference. It was very entertaining.

Robert Hewitt Wolfe.

I remember reading a longass screed from a guy who worked on DS9 and then moved over to Voyager when DS9 ended, and was simply appalled at the difference.

That was Ron Moore.

Berman was definitely involved - AFAIK he's been exec producer of all the post-Original Treks. But I think you're right - so great is Braga's perfidy in my mind that I imagine his influence spreading backwards in time to assassinate characterization and confuse continuity before he was even hired on the shows.

Robert Hewitt Wolfe was the producer who made the first season of Andromeda so interesting... and who got fired off the show, leading to its very sad decline. Other producers of note on DS9 were Rene Echeverria and Ira Steven Behr, so if you see their names popping up on other series, you'll probably be advised to check them out if they're got any executive power in series direction and conception. (Echeverria was involved in Now & Again, about the regular suburban guy who gets transplanted into a perfect weapon body while he pines for his wife and child, for instance.)

OK. That was fun. shalott is a kick to read. For me, the J/D slash doesn't really ... fit? I dunno. I have trouble with the Jack part of it. He's just not all that slashable for me. Daniel on the other hand ... sure. I thought she did a nice job with Jack's voice especially, and it was, you know, an actual story. And the sex in front of the aliens one had some good funny going on.

Now, Angel and Smallville slash I can buy in all kinds of permutations, because, hell, that's what they're selling. Just ... Jack. I dunno. I can't get myself there. Which is fine. Enjoyed the read anyway.

I remember reading a longass screed from a guy who worked on DS9 and then moved over to Voyager when DS9 ended, and was simply appalled at the difference.

That was Ron Moore.

Was he with Voyager first season? And did he jump ship (or get the axe) pretty much around the same time? Because that would explain why Voyager started out OK, and then quickly started sucking as any inter-personal confrontations got swept under the rug of warm-fuzzies and temporal distortions.

And total wrod, Matt, on why that didn't happen. Can you imagine how the ME folks would have handled a similar scenario, especially anyone from the House of HoYay aka Angel?