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Ken Biller Talks About His Time on Voyager |
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Posted:
05:00:12 on August 09 2001
By: GustavoLeao
Dept: Voyager
 The latest issue of Star Trek The Magazine features an exclusive interview with Kenneth Biller, who talks about his years on the writing staff of Star Trek Voyager, and the strengths of the final season.
The Voyager's Delights web site posted a complete transcript of the interview here.
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Why didn't the best ideas get aired?
By Cymro B9
() at 14:29:20 on August 11
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Why didn't the best ideas get aired?
The interview states that they'd thought of bringing the crew home mid season seven to give us a surprise and finish the character arcs with the rest of the season, so why not use that good idea? I wanted to see everyone be happy with their families, a tear come to Tuvok's eye, Torres meet her parents, Paris's father telling him "I missed you, son". As well as that I'd like to have seen the Doc face the prospect of being "upgraded" to a mark VI, Janeway get ridiculed for some of her more controversial decisions, and Seven of Nine face being subject to life as a guinea pig of tests on her cortical node.
And what happened to the borg after Janeway Blew up the heart of all things Borg- The Central Nexus unicomplex, they could have sacrificed crapy eps for those couldnt they?
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Living in a Fantasy World - again
By timmer33
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Just like K. Mulgrew, Biller is lost in a fantasy world. Quoted from the interview: Ken told us before he was aware of having to cover everything in closing out the season; does he feel they've achieved that? "Yeah, I think so. Obviously you're never going to satisfy everyone; there are fans who want certain things to happen in certain ways." Hmmm. You think you've closed out all the stories? What the hell happened to them when they reached Earth? EVERY SINGLE person that saw the episode has complained about this. What of the Maquis? Or Seven? How about Tom Paris and his father? The holodoctor? Didn't Harry Kim have a girlfriend on Earth? Did Seven still have family on Earth? The finale was the worst Trek finale yet ... all technobabble and no real epilogue or conclusion. Come to think about it, weren't most Voyager episodes like that? I have high hopes for Enterprise, but if they base the show on Voyager's format (all technology, no character development, poorly structured episodes, cliched stories, very formulaic) then we're in for another huge disappointment.
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Biller
By AntonyF
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I'll give Ken Biller some credit, I think he did inject some credibility into season seven. Most notable was the Torres/Paris relationship which *finally* seemed real, and not just mentions of it.
Of course, you can only smarten up a corpse to a certain extent, so I'm not saying season seven was wonderful. But all things considering, I think it improved in some ways.
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