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   From: BillV2320@webtv.net   
      
   Why Robert Beltran felt Seven of Nine 'diminished' Star Trek: Voyager   
       
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   There's one thing that can't be argued with about Star Trek: Voyager:   
   It's that the series took a new turnâ€"make that a very sexy new   
   turnâ€"with the arrival of Jeri Ryan as former Borg drone Seven of   
   Nine during the sci-fi show's third season. It was a shift in focus that   
   had co-star Robert Beltran, who played Commander Chakotay, rather   
   displeased.   
   During a lengthy interview with Star Trek.com  , Beltran opened up   
   about his displeasure regarding how his character, Chakotay, was used on   
   the showâ€"especially when Brannon Braga took over from Michael   
   Piller and Jeri Taylor as executive producer, and changed Star Trek:   
   Voyager's focus to Seven of Nine, Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and   
   Robert Picardo's Doctor, almost to the detriment of the other   
   established characters:   
   During the Michael Piller-Jeri Taylor years, they listened intently [to   
   what the actor had to say and his concerns over his character]. It was   
   after that ... I guess when Brannon Braga took over, when the Seven of   
   Nine character made her entrance, the focus changed. That was fine with   
   me. That was fine with me, but I think writers have an obligation to   
   fill out all the characters if they're regular characters on a series. I   
   think several of the characters were diminishedâ€"Chakotay and Tuvok   
   and Kim and Neelix. I think it was just easier for these new writers   
   that came on to write stories about the captain and about characters   
   that weren't really human, like Seven of Nine and the Doctor. Those   
   three characters were kind of all-seeing, all-knowing, omnipotent, and I   
   think a lot of the tension and drama that was available was lost because   
   you have to really dig hard to find tension in all-knowing, all-seeing   
   characters. They know everything, right? They have all the answers. Or   
   else you have a redundancy of the same scene written over and over and   
   over again, with slight variations.   
   It's all fine and dandy to voice one's concerns about the well-being of   
   the other Voyager characters, but did the actorâ€"being so vocal on   
   the subjectâ€"get into trouble with the cast and crew? And does he   
   believe it affected him and his work?   
   I don't know what the effect was. I'm just kind of a blunt person and,   
   because I have brain, I can see problems and so I'm vocal about them. I   
   think a lot of the actors were feeling the same way, but for me it was   
   like, "OK, you can fire me if you want to. Go ahead, and I'll leave."   
   That gave me a certain amount of freedom. I was single at the time. I   
   didn't have to worry about a family like everybody else on the show,   
   except maybe Garrett. I felt like I was telling the truth, and if people   
   can't take the truth, that's fine with me, but I'm not going to be   
   stifled by the prospect of being fired.   
   Adding, however:   
   See, I never pissed off anybody on the set. None of the actors ever got   
   mad at me and said, "Hey, you should shut it." It was always kind of an   
   inside joke. So it didn't affect my relationship with anybody, not even   
   Rick Berman or Brannon Braga, and they were quite aware of what I was   
   saying. It was one of things that I didn't understand, either. I was   
   being blunt. I was being honest and truthful, as far as I could see the   
   truth, and I think they understood that. I think the series was safe. It   
   was going to go seven years with or without me, and they decided to stay   
   with me because, in the long run, I don't think what I said made very   
   much difference, except to a very, very small percentage of fans who   
   maybe didn't like what I said. There's a small percentage of fans who   
   hold Star Trek and the Star Trek franchise sacrosanct, like it's their   
   god. It's a very small minority, but what I said didn't make any   
   difference to the vast majority of the audience.   
   What do you guys think about that?   
   (via TrekWeb  )   
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