It was discussed upthread that replacing Jadzia with a male character would've made Kira the only lead female character on the show. Season 7 would've been Star Trek: Deep Space Sausage Fest.

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The Klingons killed their years. They were more trouble than they were worth.

Surely you had Dogpile? Man, I loved Dogpile when I was a kid. You could search ALL the search engines. Great fun for a nerdy 12 year old in 2000.

You're right. I believe her timeframe would've been somewhere around DS9's third season.

I'm surprised UPN never forced Enterprise to do some episode title false advertising.

I think I've said it before, but I suspect that part of the problem with Voyager was the time period in which it was made. It would've been a lot of fun to see a season-long "Year of Hell" arc with lasting repercussions, or see the ship slowly being repaired and upgraded with alien technology as the show went on, but…

Everyone's mileage varies, but I think DS9 had the better share of episodes in the first couple of seasons, as well as the most solid Trek pilot episode.

Have you ever seen Avery Brooks just being himself? He must've been on Prozac while starring on DS9 to get that "reserved Sisko" look.

"Times Orphan" was the original premise for TNG's "Firstborn," the one where future Alexander comes back to kill his younger self. Frankly, this would've worked considerably better with Alexander as some sort of proto-Klingon warrior teen and Worf deciding whether or not to leave him in his new life.

He still writes occasional, short text reviews and scripts for some of the videos.

Sounds like you know more than I do. Still, if it's being paid for out of his own pocket (I'm just assuming here, not really sure), then I'm just glad it's still around for me to peruse the archive occasionally.

I believe there was some swapping and adjusting of character traits and names between the series bible stage and the casting stage. I think Yar originally had a different name ("Macha" sticks in my mind, not sure if that's right), and Marina Sirtis was going to be in that role.

"I never really got a sense of how old/young they were supposed to be…"

I quietly decided to myself that the whole "promote Kirk from cadet to captain" thing was a massive publicity stunt by Starfleet—reassure the public after the destruction of Vulcan by honoring the young man who saved Earth from the same fate. Would've been nice if that played out in Into Darkness (e.g. by having the…

I can't help but wonder if creative exhaustion/time constraints were to blame for some of the below par episodes in this season and (SPOILER ALERT) the next one. Hour-long sci-fi dramas have to turn out shows rapidly as it is in order to accommodate special effects, location shoots, and production deadlines. Star Trek…

I've heard it said that DS9 wouldn't have looked the same if it premiered after 9/11, simply because it portrays Kira and former Bajoran terrorists in a positive light.

Interesting how almost every Academy episode deals with some super-elite group of cadets screwing up royally, behaving unethically, etc. (The First Duty, Paradise Lost, and Valiant, specifically).

I think some of the people on here would've liked an entire episode of Kira smacking around those arrogant Red Squad cadets. In the end, she'd show up at DS9 in the captain's chair, surrounded by hogtied, whimpering teenagers.