#emh cast

[cantyouseethewords]

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[trek-tracks]

It occurred to me, given your posts of Bones and Crusher: Is the CMO always the most attractive member of the cast? Bashir certainly keeps up the trend, Holo-Doc is more questionable, but we've got some strong contenders in the recent series. (M'Benga, oh man)

If the question is whether the Star Trek doctor is always the most attractive to me personally, the answer is yes, surprisingly (or unsurprisingly), most of the time (though a lot of it is that I just really like the characters, as Bones, Crusher, and Bashir are my favourites in their respective series).

I love the character of the EMH, but don't find him particularly attractive, per se (sorry Robert Picardo, but I think you're awesome). I don't know who it'd be on Voyager for me--there are several candidates, because, of course, I find many Trek characters attractive.

I think there's a case to be made for Culber, as well.

SNW is a hard call, because that entire cast is ridiculously good looking, but I think I'm somewhat more bi for Ortegas than for M'Benga. I have to stop accidentally sitting behind Melissa Navia at plays before it gets awkward.

But, to judge the attractiveness of the Star Trek doctors for yourself, I present my post of every doctor in a slutty v-neck. Unfortunately, the last time I updated it was in 2019, so before SNW, but if anyone wants to find me a picture of M'Benga in a v-neck I will not be complaining.

EDITED: Never say I didn't give you anything; here's the updated v-neck post now feat. SNW M'Benga

[habitual-creatures]

Of course! I'm glad you like it

-Mystery guest

(That's hilarious. I haven't met an owl bear in my campaign sadly. Plus this one is almost done, then I get to be the DM. Yippie!)

Yeah, it's really cute...

[everyones-story]

the slenderverse has rly yummy men

[jone-slugger]

Unpopular opinion, but I don't feel Voyager s.6 is so Doctor/Seven-centric as people say? I'm probably completely wrong but this is entirely based off of ✨️vibes✨️

[rowenasnumberonefan]

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[angsty-prompt-hole]

hi hi hi ☕️ i want to hear you talk about horror movies. as a fellow horror enthusiast. pwease

There are so many different horror rants I have stashed away in my brain. My friends on Discord were recently subjected to a massive ramble I went on about the three distinct eras of 80's horror (because 80's horror is my favorite). I adore the genre and its one of my favorite things ever. The fact that I love horror movies is probably the first thing people learn about me, especially since I moved out of my parents house and can pick my own wardrobe now, which is about 60% horror merch lmao

Right now my slasher phase is coming back and hitting me hard because I've been SO obsessed with Scream 6. I am also incredibly obsessed with the Chucky TV show again since the news came out that season 3 has started filming, which does not help at all.

My other really big horror obsessions are the Evil Dead franchise, Hellraiser, and internet horror like Marble Hornets and EverymanHYBRID.

I've always liked dark things, but horror movies specifically got me through a tough time in my life and became a bit of a comfort for me, especially slashers ngl. I always liked having stories where someone managed to beat the monster because it really gave me hope that I could beat my own monsters. I got really, really attached to the concept of the final girl and a lot of my favorite horror characters are final girls.

[dalekofchaos]

Doctor Doom gets ruined AND WHITEWASHED AGAIN!

4 attempts to get Doctor Doom right

4

And we STILL can’t get this right

A master of magic and science. A man who rivals Doctor Strange and Reed Richards as the most powerful sorcerer and the smartest man alive. He rules an entire country with an army of Doombots. Considered to be one of the greatest Marvel villains. And they still can't get him right. They have to make him a fucking Tony Stark variant. Tony Stark is not Victor Von Doom and Doom is above Tony Stark.

Victor wearing the mask always is integral to his appeal and aura like Vader's mask. It not only hides his vain scars he caused due to his failures, but it closes him off from humanity and makes him believe he’s beyond it.

As far as I'm concerned Marvel Ultimate Alliance and EMH are the only good adaptations of Doom

Doctor Doom being a romani man with a background CENTERING his family's racial persecution. with his ethnicity at the forefront of his motivations and his tragedy. and they really just brought back Robert Downey Jr.

Being romani is INTEGRAL to doom’s character and without that he’s not doom. he NEEDS to be romani and played by a romani character. full stop, don't believe me? Read Book Of Dooms.

Since 1964 Victor von Doom has been established as a Romani character. His childhood was filled with antiziganism and his parents deaths were caused by it. This later led him to become Doctor Doom and overthrow the Latverian government to protect his people

I am so fucking sick and tired of this whitewashing bullshit and the ethnoerasure of Marvel characters.

The Maximoff Twins, The Ancient One, Moon Knight and now fucking Doom.

God fucking forbid an actual Romani actor PLAYS A ROMANI CHARACTER.

But no they pulled another fucking multiverse shit all so RDJ could return and it all feels like blackface from Tropic Thunder

I DON'T GIVE A FUCKING SHIT ABOUT ANTHONY STARK FROM EARTH-11029 OR INFAMOUS IRON MAN

If you wanted evil Iron Man so fucking bad, why didn't you just do Superior Iron Man?

The LAZIEST, DUMBEST, most CONTRIVED BULLSHIT casting ever, Marvel continues to not beat the whitewashing allegations. Doctor Doom deserved better.

Romani actor Charlie Clapman was right fucking there AND HE ENDORSED IT!

I'd even suggest Romani actor Óscar Jaenada as Doom. Again another Roma actor who's actively interested in playing Doom

And you know what? As bad as the 1994 movie was, Joseph Culp the first actor to play Doom in the Fantastic Four (1994) movie by Oley Sassone & Richard Corman. Culp was also white but he very clearly cared for the comics background of Victor von Doom

and you also know damn well they're going to erase everything about Magneto too that makes him who he is… which is his entire fucking background. how horrible of a person do you have to be to repeatedly disrespect the minorities who created these stories?

Doctor Doom is Roma Romani. He is not white. The MCU loves to whitewash its Roma and Jewish characters and it’s time we called them out for it. Dr Doom is not a white man, he is Roma!

They will never nail down the complexity of Victor Von Doom

Every year Doom goes to hell to fight Mephisto to rescue the soul of his mother. He finally won her soul with the help of Doctor Strange only for her to reject him.

No evil Stark replicant will ever fucking match the complexity of Victor Von Doom.

I don't care if this is a one time thing for RDJ. They specifically chose to do this when the fans were begging for a fucking Romani actor. It also doesn't fucking help that Marvel has erased nearly EVERY fucking ethnic character has been whitewashed.

Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver: Erased Romani heritage and whitewashed. Moon Knight & Wiccan: Casted non-Jewish actors. Sabra: Featured in anything at all, and actress is an IDF soldier to make matters worse.

The MCU is full of ethnic erasure, military propaganda & racism. it’s disgusting this is continuing with Dr Doom’s casting. remember to continue to boycott marvel, because of the genocide they support by casting an iof solider to play a character from the zionist terrorist occupation

Dr Doom is one of those villains that it should be IMPOSSIBLE to fuck up but wasting him on a cheap Iron Man nostalgia casting pop might be the way

[cantyouseethewords]

oh that hurt actually

[lesbiancalkestis]

Voyager cast trailer anecdotes from the 30th anniversary panel on Star Trek The Cruise:

Bob Picardo had a little EMH action figure with a speech bubble that said “HELP ME” taped to the inside of his trailer window.

The inside of Kate Mulgrew’s trailer looked like a little English cottage, and included things that Ethan (Johnny) Phillips would knit for her as gifts.

You could barely fit in Robert Beltran’s trailer because whenever they were given a box of merch, magazines, etc. he would never open them or take them home, and just left them stacked everywhere in his trailer. Apparently even the beds were covered.

[the-oracle-of-the-lost]

VOYAGER DIALOGUE ANALYSIS

fourth show breakdown! if you'd like to see this entire project check out my tag #star trek dialogue analysis, this spreadsheet, or the below posts:

overview // TOS overview // TNG overview // DS9 overview // Enterprise overview // gender analysis // race analysis

this post will give an overview of all the Voyager data i collected broken down by season and character.

cast composition

Voyager starts with the biggest main cast of any Star Trek show in the first season (9 characters: Janeway, Chakotay, Tuvok, Paris, Kim, Neelix, EMH, Torres, and Kes) with a single cast change in s4 as Kes was replaced with Seven of Nine. this is the first Star Trek show to have the same amount of main characters in each season.

season 1:

like every other season, we start with the Captain having considerably more lines than any other character. however unlike other shows, there isn't a clear secondary character in the first season as all the secondary characters except for Kes, Neelix, & the EMH have roughly equal amounts of dialogue. with the exception of Janeway, all the characters have amount the same amount of dialogue as characters in early DS9 (and more than early TNG).

season 2:

Janeway has fewer lines this season and Kes and the EMH have more but otherwise not a lot of changes. while i haven't specifically measured this (yet), judging by the graphs this season probably has the most equal amounts of dialogue between cast members of any Star Trek season.

season 3:

not a ton of changes from s2 – Janeway, Torres, Kim, & Neelix have slightly fewer lines while Chakotay, Tuvok, the EMH, Paris, & Kes have slightly more. this is the only season Kes appears in where she does not have the least amount of lines.

season 4:

Seven is added to the cast this season and following the pattern of Worf & Ezri's introductions – she has considerably more lines than most of the rest of the cast. Tuvok, Torres, Kim, & Neelix also have considerably fewer lines while Chakotay & Janeway both have considerably more.

season 5:

the EMH and Kim have considerably more lines than in s4 but otherwise, the numbers for everyone remain roughly the same. this is the season of Voyager with the least equal amounts of dialogue for all of the main cast.

season 6:

everyone except Torres & Neelix has considerably fewer lines in season 6 than in nearly every other season, possibly because a lot of episodes in season 6 tend to focus on one-off or recurring characters more than the main cast. this is also the only season where Tuvok has the least amount of lines.

season 7:

everyone except for Neelix has more lines than in season 6, particularly the EMH with over 15 more lines of dialogue more per episode. interestingly, while both TNG & DS9 had pretty dramatic changes in line count from s1 to s7 (going up for most characters in TNG and down for most characters in DS9), the line count in Voyager remained fairly consistent in comparison.

by character:

JANEWAY

while every other Captain besides Kirk generally had fewer and fewer lines as the series went on, the amount of dialogue Janeway has remains farily consistent with only noticeably decreasing in s2 and s3. across the show, she has an average of 69.51 lines per episode with 11,677 lines in all. she appears in all 168 episodes of Voyager and has 57 episodes with 80 or more lines (high line count) and only 4 episodes with 10 or fewer lines (low line count). she has the most lines in The Void with 159 lines (though including double length episodes, she has 282 lines in Endgame).

CHAKOTAY

not a ton to comment on Chakotay's amount of dialogue as it remains fairly consistent throughout the series except for a dip in s6 where every character has fewer lines. throughout the show, he has an average of 34.68 lines per episode and appears in all 168 episodes of the show (5826 lines in all). he has 17 high line count episodes and 30 low line count episodes. he has the most in lines in the episode Shattered with 156 lines.

TUVOK

Tuvok goes from being one of the characters with the most lines in s1 to one of the characters with the least lines by s6 and s7. nevertheless, he has an overall average of 28 lines per episode (4704 in total) across 167 episodes of the show (he does not appear in the episode Life Line). he has 10 high line count episodes and 35 low line count episodes. the most lines he ever has is in Repression with 123 lines.

EMH

the EMH has some of most growth in amount of dialogue from s1 to s7 out of any Star Trek character, nearly doubling the amount of lines he has per episode. overall he averages 35.26 lines per episode (5923 in all). he appears in 164 out of 168 episodes of the show (not appearing in Prime Factors, Non Sequitur, Resistance, or Day of Honor. he has 21 high line count episodes and 47 low line count episodes. he has the most lines in Projections with 166 lines (or Flesh and Blood if we include double length episodes with 183 lines).

SEVEN

Seven is introduced in s4 and has roughly the same amount of lines in her first two seasons and last two seasons with a drop in between. she has an average of 40.81 lines per episode, the second highest in the series after Janeway, (4251 lines in total) over 103 episodes. she has 17 high line count episodes and 17 low line count episodes. she has the most lines in Human Error with 164 lines.

TORRES

Torres is another character who has slightly decreasing amounts of lines across the series with an uptick in s7. she has an overall average of 26.3 lines per episode (4418 in all) across 164 episodes (not appearing in Unforgettable, Living Witness, Riddles, or Body and Soul). she has 12 high line count episodes and 61 low line count episodes. she has the most lines in Lineage with 147 lines.

PARIS

Paris has relatively consistent amount of lines across the seasons (save for s2 and s6 where it dips a little) so i don't have a ton to add. he has an overall average of 31.39 lines per episode (5274 in total) across 167 episodes of the show (not appearing in Sacred Ground). he has 11 high line count episodes and 36 low line count episodes. he has the most lines in the episode Thirty Days with 154 lines.

KIM

Kim has a more dynamically changing line count across the seasons than other characters, getting relatively few lines in s3, s4, and s6 respectively. overall he has an average of 26.88 lines per episode (4516 total) over the course of 166 episodes (not appearing in Fair Trade or Blood Fever). he has 10 high line count episodes and 45 low line count episodes. the most lines he has in a single episode is 178 in Nightingale (the highest of any main cast member in any single length episode).

NEELIX

as a character with heavy prosthetics, Neelix has considerably fewer lines than the other cast but remains generally consistent through the seasons (with a dip in s4). overall he has an average of 19.68 lines per episode (the second lowest of the show) and 3306 lines in total. he appears in 159 episodes and of those, 11 are high line count episodes and 89 are low line count episodes. he has the most lines in Homestead with 158.

KES

out of all the main cast members, Kes appears in the fewest seasons/episodes and has the least amount of lines with (in my opinion) make her the most underused character on Voyager. she has an overall average of 18.18 lines per episode – the second lowest of any adult main character thus far (after Troi). she appears in 65 episodes across the three seasons in which she is a main character and returns for an additional three episodes as a guest. she has four high line count episodes and 40 low line count episodes. the most lines she has in a single episode is 137 in Before and After.

things of note:

Janeway is the 90s character with the most lines on average (though Picard has more total lines as there are more episodes of TNG than Voyager).

despite having the largest main cast, Voyager characters tend to have more lines on average than both TNG & DS9.

additionally, unlike DS9 & TNG, it's very rare for a character to not appear in an episode (only regularly happening with Neelix, a character that requires a lot of prosthetic work).

unlike TNG (and DS9 to an extent), there is not a clear second lead of the show with Tuvok, Chakotay, Seven, and the EMH each sharing spots for the second most lines depending on the season.

however, Voyager starts out as much more of an ensemble show in the early seasons and becomes less of one as the seasons go on though not to the extent of DS9 (again perhaps because of less serialization).

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Premise of a movie:

“Marvel’s The Time Variance Authority”. As a one-off, rated-R movie, this movie focuses on a squad of time displaced heroes sent on a suicide mission to rescue Mobius. The reason why these are the heroes being chosen for this mission is that Mobius is being held captive in “the forbidden timeline”, aka the worst possible timeline in the multiverse. Since this is a suicide mission, the TVA assembled Marvel characters they feel no one would miss.

Basically, Marvel’s version of Suicide Squad, but multiverse.

Based on the final rankings:

1st place survives and is the main protagonist

2nd place also survives

3rd place also survives

4th place survives, but is badly injured

5th place heroically sacrifices themselves to ensure Mobius and the others escape the forbidden timeline

6th place is disintegrated by the main villain

7th and 8th place accidentally step into a “time hotspot” and are horrifically and rapidly aged up so that they die of old age in seconds

9th place tries to abandon the team and is shot dead by the protagonist

10th, 11th, and 12th place die in horrific ways at the start of the mission. This is to let you know that this movie isn’t fucking around.

[habitual-creatures]

Maybe,, Maybe after do you wanna cast spells on people we don't like?? ^^

- 💜 anon

YESSSSSSS.

[ REGARDS, HABIT ]

[lostyesterday]

Percentage of Star Trek Voyager Episodes Focused on Each Major Character

I’ve been thinking about which major characters Voyager spends the most time focusing on, and which characters are more often left in the background. I decided to collect data on this topic, and I made the following graph:

The percentage for each character on the graph represents an estimate of the percentage of the total number of Voyager episodes that are focused on that particular character. Double episodes were counted as singular episodes, bringing the total number of Voyager episodes counted for the graph to 160.

Episodes that I judged as focusing fairly equally on two major Voyager characters counted as half an episode for each of those two characters in my percentage calculation. I decided to do this because I felt it more accurately represented the overall proportion of time that Voyager allocates to each character than if I were to only count episodes that focused solely on one character. Episodes that focused equally on three or more major characters were not counted in the graph.

After tallying every episode that I judged as focusing primarily on either one or two major characters, 22% of Voyager’s episodes remained uncounted. These were generally episodes that focused on the crew as a whole, or on characters outside of the main cast.

Obviously, all of my decisions about which episodes to count for which characters are subjective. There are a lot of complicated questions to ask, such as, how does one draw a distinction between an episode focused on Janeway in particular versus an episode that focuses on the whole crew where Janeway takes the most significant role in the plot simply by virtue of being the Captain? Or how does one count episodes such as Someone to Watch Over Me or The Haunting of Deck Twelve where the major subjects of the story and the character whose perspective it is told through differ? I made my own determinations for each episode, but there is plenty of room for alternate interpretations, some of which might cause a significant shift in the allocation of episodes to each character.

I welcome any disagreement with or discussion about the methodology I used here. I also welcome analysis of what this data means – whether it reflects positively or negatively on Voyager as a show, how it fits with or contradicts popular perceptions, or anything else.

A full list of episodes that I counted for each character is below the cut.

Kathryn Janeway:

Parallax (with Torres – half points)

Time and Again (with Paris – half points)

The 37’s

Resistance

Alliances

Deadlock

Resolutions (with Chakotay – half points)

Sacred Ground

The Q and the Grey

Macrocosm

Coda

Scorpion (with Chakotay – half points)

Year of Hell

Concerning Flight

Prey (with Seven – half points)

The Omega Directive (with Seven – half points)

Hope and Fear (with Seven – half points)

Night

Counterpoint

11:59

Equinox (with Chakotay – half points)

Fair Haven

Good Sheppherd

The Void

Q2

Endgame

Seven of Nine:

The Gift (with Kes – half points)

The Raven

Prey (with Janeway – half points)

Retrospect (with EMH – half points)

The Omega Directive (with Janeway – half points)

One

Hope and Fear (with Janeway – half points)

Drone

Infinite Regress

Bliss

Dark Frontier

Think Tank

Someone to Watch Over Me (with EMH – half points)

Relativity

Survival Instinct

One Small Step

The Voyager Conspiracy

Tsunkatse (with Tuvok – half points)

Collective

Child’s Play

Unimatrix Zero

Imperfection

Body and Soul (with EMH – half points)

Human Error

Natural Law (with Chakotay – half points)

EMH/The Doctor:

Heroes and Demons

Projections

Lifesigns

The Swarm

Real Life

Revulsion (with Torres – half points)

Message in a Bottle

Retrospect (with Seven – half points)

Living Witness

Nothing Human

Latent Image

Someone to Watch Over Me (with Seven – half points)

Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy

Virtuoso

Life Line

Critical Care

Body and Soul (with Seven – half points)

Flesh and Blood

Author, Author

Renaissance Man

B’Elanna Torres

Parallax (with Janeway – half points)

Faces

Prototype

Dreadnought

Remember

Blood Fever

Day of Honor

Revulsion (with EMH – half points)

Random Thoughts (with Tuvok – half points)

Extreme Risk

Juggernaut

Barge of the Dead

Muse

Drive (with Paris – half points)

Lineage

Chakotay:

Initiations

Tattoo

Maneuvers

Resolutions (with Janeway – half points)

Unity

Scorpion (with Janeway – half points)

Nemesis

Waking Moments

Unforgettable

In the Flesh

The Fight

Equinox (with Janeway – half points)

Shattered

Natural Law (with Seven – half points)

Tuvok:

Ex Post Facto (with Paris – half points)

Learning Curve

Meld

Innocence

Flashback

Alter Ego (with Kim – half points)

Rise (with Neelix – half points)

Random Thoughts (with Torres – half points)

Gravity

Riddles (with Neelix – half points)

Tsunkatse (with Seven – half points)

Repression

Harry Kim:

Emanations

Non Sequitur

The Chute (with Paris – half points)

Alter Ego (with Tuvok – half points)

Favorite Son

Timeless

The Disease

Warhead

Ashes to Ashes

Nightingale

Neelix:

Jetrel

Parturition (with Paris – half points)

Investigations (with Paris – half points)

Fair Trade

Rise (with Tuvok – half points)

Mortal Coil

Once Upon a Time

Riddles (with Tuvok – half points)

The Haunting of Deck Twelve

Homestead

Tom Paris:

Time and Again (with Janeway – half points)

Ex Post Facto (with Tuvok – half points)

Parturition (with Neelix – half points)

Threshold

Investigations (with Neelix – half points)

The Chute (with Kim – half points)

Vis a Vis

Thirty Days

Alice

Drive (with Torres – half points)

Kes:

Elogium

Cold Fire

Warlord

Darkling

Before and After

The Gift (with Seven – half points)

Fury

[clementine-kesh]

ok here’s who i would cast in star trek drag race: garak, quark, spock, q, the borg queen, and the emh

[animentality]

the main reason ds9 isn't remembered as well as the original series or tng by the general populace is not just because it wasn't the very first trek or the most popular trek (tng's popularity was what really brought trek into the mainstream).

it was hated by Rick Berman, who was the head of the franchise at its height, and who deliberately spited it by never including its canon in other treks.

and that effect has lasted to this day, as modern writers who only bother to watch Star Trek movies never seem to remember ds9 even exists. the way the Pine-Quinto movies mention Archer and his beagle, and trek movies and shows make multiple references to TOS, and newer treks center entirely around tng plots or the Borg.

the way they brought back seven of nine before literally anyone on the cast of ds9.

there's a reason that the damn tng movies had a million references to Voyager, with Janeway and the EMH actually having cameos, but ds9 never even got a passing reference, even where it actually would've been appropriate.

Berman hated ds9 for its focus on serialization, i. e., connected storytelling, rather than syndication, i. e. episodic storytelling, because he was a money grubbing misogynist and homophobe, who thought all the money was in syndication. he hated the writers/other producers of ds9 for going behind his back and doing their damnedest to make quality star trek.

one of my favorite spiteful Berman stories is that in star trek first contact, the 2nd tng movie, he wanted to blow up the defiant and destroy it permanently, just for no reason at all.

and the ds9 writers were upset because no one had asked them about it. so they said you can destroy the defiant, but we're just gonna keep using the defiant and pretending it didn't blow up if you do.

which is why Worf asks Picard, in a completely thrown in line, what's the status of the defiant, and Picard says adrift, but salvageable.

and this particular movie is funny to me also because in that period, Worf is technically supposed to still be serving on ds9, and bringing him into the movie was basically justified as something of a side quest for him, being dragged off the station for a little tng romp.

so you see the crew of the defiant, but... again. Berman spite. rather than letting ANYONE on ds9 cameo in the first contact movie, even though that might've been cool... they just have some randos. one might be Adam Scott.

and remember that JANEWAY AND THE EMH are in that movie.

so berman deliberately wanted to spite ds9 by destroying the defiant, stealing worf (even making fun of him for his role on ds9 in another thrown in riker line) AND snub the entire crew of ds9 by having none of them anywhere in the movie, even though they COULD HAVE CAMEOED TOO, or at least been mentioned...

and to me that's pretty funny, because Rick Berman could have as many tantrums as he wanted behind closed doors, and hate the staff of ds9.

didn't make a difference. they'd still keep defying him, and you know...

not to be a total prick but... ds9 still has a thriving fanbase to this day. tng does too, and so does tos, and star trek in general is doing pretty well...

but out of all the old treks, ds9 has aged the best, not just in how it looks, but also in how it bridges the gap between, old world optimistic charm and more gritty, humanistic sci fi story telling.

it balanced syndication and serialization really well, and had great standalone episodes AND a fun connecting overarching narrative that made the world of star trek feel richer and more lived in. I also want to say that for modern audiences, who are accustomed to serialization more than syndication, ds9 is a far easier entry point into the world of star trek than any other trek.

Rick Berman can go fuck himself, is what I'm saying, in summation.

ds9 will stand the test of time.

and you know what?

both tng and voy succeeded in spite of Berman. not because of him. everything that makes those two shows work, is in defiance of the Roddenberry mandates that both Roddenberry and Berman constantly tried to uphold, even though it was to the detriment of the stories.