The actual behind-the-scenes reason is much funnier.
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Just a REALLY distressing percentage of Hollywood does. The apologia for that fucking freak is absolutely baffling.
Yep, "happily married" is definitely a phrase that comes to mind when I think of Miles and Keiko.
They had a black woman in a respected, professional position with an officer's rank. The same with an Asian man.
And a Russian in a trusted role. That was a pretty big deal during Cold War times, too.
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I don't know, I think he usually finds a way to thread the needle.
A real shame. The first generation product was such a piece of crap and the product name itself was so incredibly bad that by the time the Zune HD, which was better than any competing product in just every every way, came out, the damage to the brand was irreparable.
What I love the most about that episode is that Mr. Freeze was a total joke villain before B:TAS. They took a guy whose entire existence was just dumb ice puns in non-serious stories and they did... that.
Incredible show. Gargoyles and ExoSquad were the cartoons of my early adolescent years.
I was SO hoping that the nubbin bugs would make an appearance in Picard.
Did she really have to? Nurses act independently in regular medical settings, but when there's a doctor with the sum total of a civilization's medical knowledge available 24/7, everyone else is just a pair of helping hands.