Someone needs to go to your work and tell you what a piece of crap you are. My guess is someone already has, that is why you are here putting down someone else’s life work. The “Irony” for an enlightened show, is that they have an a.zz like you for a fan. Maybe if you had been abused as a child, you’d have something worthy to cry about. This is an article about an actor and about the tv show he was in. But, no, you had to come in and take a crap here, like you do in every other article you have read. If you would have gone to conventions and listened to Beltran and Wang tell about how they were told to act stiff and military like, by Rick Berman, to play down their character, to make the actors playing the alien characters The Doctor, Tuvok, 7-of-9 seem more alive and real, you’d know that the frustration they felt towards Rick Berman and Braga, Braga, who would hump 7-of-9, is earned.

You need to get your burnt-out a.zz over to Star Wars and don’t ever come back, we will be just fine with out you. Hurry, go, now, hurry, we’ll mail your diapers to you, go, run!

~ahki out

I see Beltran and Wang as kindred spirits, though. It was only a short way into Voyager’s seven seasons that it became apparent that the writers, no doubt directed to by the producers, began to favor Picardo in the script. He was often featured in many episodes, and given meatier and meatier roles to play. Picardo made the role entertaining, and the writers took off with it. One could say, though, that the role lent itself to a degree of levity whereas the roles of Kim and Chakotay did not. The writers took a much more narrrow-minded approach to those characters, and that limited Beltran and Wang to roles that really went nowhere over seven seasons.

It just seems as though both Beltran and Wang were cast aside early in the series so that the writers could focus more on their “favorites” of The Doctor, Tuvok, and later in the series, Seven. I can see how Beltran and Wang never felt that they were given the opportunity to shine.

EDIT: Also, thinking about comments made years before by Ron D. Moore, it’s pretty doggone clear that Brannon Braga is an egocentric a**. It’s not surprising that he favored Jeri Ryan’s character, either, since he almost immediately began dating her. (I am not blaming Ms. Ryan, who by all accounts is a warm and intelligent person, but rather using it as an illustration of how Braga seemed to approach casting and writing in an unprofessional way.)