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Robert Beltran Critizes Voyager's Writing, Once Again Posted: 07:58:42 on April 20 By: GustavoLeao Dept: Voyager Ian Spelling's Inside Trek column just posted an exclusive interview with Robert Beltran, in which the Voyager actor once again critizes the series's writing and the under-development of his character. "I just felt let down, ignored and insulted" Beltran told the journalist "I think they did a grave disservice to what I thought could have been an interesting character." "I'm just sorry that iy has gotten to the point where I'm feeling so unexcited, that I got to be so disillusioned with it" Beltran continues "I'm sorry that happened. I'm sorry the writers didn't see the possibilities. I'm sorry for all the missed chances, not only for my character, but for the whole 'Voyager' story." "I just feel like it's been a disappointment" he says "That is the hardest thing to talk about." Read the full interview here Below : Beltran and Kate Mulgrew at Voyager's Wrap Party. TREKWEB TALKBACK (9 comments) Sort Controls: Newest Posts FirstOldest Posts First Threaded PostsNested PostsFlat PostsNo Comments Start New Thread | Help! Something Rotten in Quadrant Delta... By Imbarkus (imbarkus@mindspring.com) at 14:32:47 on April 20 URL: http://imbarkus.home.mindspring.com/library/trek.html | User Info Well that's just the smartest thing in the world to do, badmouth your old employers before you have new work. Every series is imperfect and every series is a challenge to get written in a way that pleases most folks. Now let me ask you, if YOU were producing a series, would you want someone on board who made sure to use their public prominence to highlight the problems they perceive? What about actors whose main complaint centers around their wasted on-screen potential--and who insist that blame belongs on the writers, and seems unwilling to reflect on the portrayal choices they could have made that would have sparked the imaginations of the writers and the audience alike. Worf and Dax's relationship on DS9 was not a planned thing, it grew from Terry Farrell's fun and lustful interpretation of one line when she first met him. The personal development work done for the Doctor, the conflicts between Janeway and Seven, Paris' and Torres' relationship, Tuvok's conflicts with the nature of violent emotions--all of these plot threads appeared as something small, and were PICKED UP ON by the writers and expanded because they worked. So what happened to the Maquis/Starfleet conflict? The Chakotay/Janeway flirtation? The Paris/Chakotay conflict? They fell by the wayside, even though the same writers had started those threads. Now some of that could just be due to the writer's interests. Or it could be that nothing all that interesting came out of the performances. J/Cers have the holy bible of 'Resolutions,' which was a good performance. But they forget his awkward jealousy in 'Q and the Grey,' which I was very happy never to see again. The Chakotay/Paris conflict was great in 'Caretaker,' but by the time it reappeared in the Kazon Informant Arc, Beltran was as wooden as oak in the face of what McNeil was playing as a very personally directed rebellion. Nearly every scene in the early season when Chakotay talked down his Maquid crewmates from the anger at 'starfleet,' he didn't seem to me to be portraying any inner conflict at all--heck it was at least in part due to Beltran's performance (such a calm, easy transition to taking orders from Janeway) that any semblance of Maquis behavior disappeared completely. Yeah and I'll bet Robert made sure to take in every TNG or DS9 episode having to do with the Maquis, to better inform his performance. He had all that extra time not suggesting any character ideas or caring if he had any other skills like directing in case that acting thing didn't work out. Robert Beltran has been in some of the best scenes of the show, the arguments with Janeway in 'Scorpion' or in 'Equinox.' He has definite ability when given overt, direct dramatic material. There were times in the series when I got more goosebumps when he yelled out 'fire' commanding the bridge than when his captain did. There are a lot of things I like about his character and performance. But the reason Spock, as a first officer, became a primary focus of the original series and movies, was that his charcetr, not just the written one but the one that arose OUT OF the words THROUGH the performance, was 'fascinating.' Beltran and Chakotay not so much so. 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