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I feel like TNG, DS9, and VOY all had a specific way to mix character attributes.
Like Data wants to be human, Odo wants to be human, Tuvok and Seven are both made to be human.
Worf, Belana and Worf have anger management issues that require other characters to quell.
Harry Kim, Weasley, and Jake are all struggling to fit in.
Picard, Sisko, and Janeway are so competent that it gets in the way.
Broccoli, broccoli, and Miles are all tortured.
Q, Nelix, and Quark are all alien perverts.
Odo, Seven, and Data all have over powered abilities.
Jordie, Old man, and Kes all have less useful powers.
These mixes, allow a good variety of stories to be told, often which ask similar questions using new characters. I know you've all thought about this before.
Bashir sighs with relief that nobody’s caught on
He's just fascinated with frontier medicine!
Stumbles over his own feet
That is so speciesist that i'm reporting you to Humanoid Resources.
I miss that department before it was just Odo disguised as the table.
"Why are there two tables in this office?"
A lot of the non-human characters are following the Spock blueprint, which I appreciate: the fish-out-of-water who needs to fit in, while plotlines do the Gene Roddenberry "we celebrate our differences" thing.
Yeah, I agree, they're all kind of breaking up and riffing on attributes of the original 3.