Re: Trek/SFB conversions

Allan Goodall writes:

@:) The problem with Star Trek is that the characters never change,
@:) never evolve. Everything must end the episode at status quo.

  To be fair, although they haven't reached B5's level, the DS9
writers have been a lot better about this.  In fact, given that they
haven't got the self-imposed apoptosis of B5, I think they're doing
about as well as can be expected.  Much less pleasing is Voyager.
Here is a perfect opportunity to plan the large-scale plot of the show
in advance and move everything slowly towards a conclusion, and they
completely blew it.

  DS9 has a continuing plot involving the Dominion and the insidious
shapeshifters thereof.	The Federation is (apparently) riddled with
spies, and the Klingon empire was actually being run by a shapeshifter
until recently.  Also DS9 doesn't dance around the religious issue as
much as typical ST.  A few weeks ago, Sisko turned into a prophet and
vision junkie who was willing to die rather than lose the
ever-clarifing ability to understand the future.

  So it's not B5 - where a character vanishing is usually NOT (gasp!)
the sign of a contract deal falling through, but it keeps me
interested.  It's better than nothing.

-joachim