>I have to agree with Mercutio, the B'Elanna you introduced in UF is as
>close to the original character you can get without the ST version
>dropping in via plot contrivance. I'll say that in retrospect that
>what I hate about Voyager is largely the same as what hated
>about Enterprise, namely the wasted potential of the series.
>One of the orders from Berman early on was that all the human
>characters had to act as bland as possible, because he didn't feel the
>aliens that Voyager would encounter would be "believable" if the cast
>was expressive and well-developed.I didn't know that. It just makes me despise the man so much more. (I went off to college and lost access to TV on a regular basis just after Voyager debuted, and I *loved* the idea of Kathryn Janeway. I'm so frustrated by how the show ended up going.)
Grr. It could have been so cool...
In some universe, there's a cool Voyager out there. I just wish it were mine.