Day #29 of the 30 Day Television Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #29 of the 30 Day Television Challenge. Getting near the end - which is a good thing, since I'm growing weary of it.

The prompt is ...Character whose introduction improved a television series.

I'm drawing a blank. I know there's something...can I use Buffy again? It's my meme, my rules. I can do whatever I want.

I am going to go with Farscape instead. Chiana - showed up towards the end of S1, and that's when the series suddenly got really good. I'd almost recommend folks starting Farscape, to skip ahead to the Chiana episode.

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[shadowkat]

Agree on Pulasky. I found the character more interesting than Crusher (who felt a bit cliche to me, set up as an obvious love interest for Picard - but had zero chemistry with Patrick Stewart.) I found the first season of Trek kind of boring, to be honest.

Pulasky also was in one of my favorite episodes of the series...and by far the best use of the Holodeck - where an AI literary villain, Moriarity, becomes aware and conscious. Mainly because in order to make the program challenging for Data, they had to upgrade the character. Otherwise Data was pretty much playing a lesser computer, as opposed to an AI. The episode also was among the first times that the show examined what made one human or real. There's a great love story between Moriarity and Pulasky. And it's followed up by Ship in a Bottle - where Moriarity tries to escape the holodeck, they let him believe he's escaped into the universe, when in reality he's just escaped to another computer stimulation.