Originally Posted by Trollheart

Oh I am NOT having that! Have you not seen Walter Koenig as Bester in Babylon 5?? That man can ACT! Mind you, Shatner now .... Also remember both Sulu and Chekov were yougn actors, and more or less brought in in an "all-racial-inclusive-isn't-the-future-great? bull**** ideal of Roddenberry.

And you're surely not going to diss Picard? You're not, are you? Measuring TOS up against VOY is unfair; that was the sixties, and sci-fi was in its infancy. You were EXPECTED to overact. Even then, TOS had some very decent acting.

Edit: anyway, we're not going Trek v Trek: he's defending Voyager, I'm pouring petrol on its corpse and dancing maniacally around it. Well, as maniacally as a fifty-one-year-old man can dance, that is! Also, don't forget that though ALL the Trek series started out with poor acting, they all improved, particularly Riker and Crusher in NExtGen and of course Odo, Sisko and even Quark in DS9. Voyager? Point to one character --- other than the two mentioned already --- who developed even a little over seven years. And yes, I'm including her Janewayness in that. Cardboard actors in a cardboard series. Pah! Pah I say!

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.