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Originally Posted by Locke
And Denise Crosby heavily regrets her decision to leave the show. Hence why she came back again and again and again at every opportunity.
Its not like her phone was ringing off the hook for work post-Trek.
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When you're in the weeds it's hard to see the forest through the trees.
If you're Crosby, you're 15 episodes in and you can't see how your character grows from where she is. Hell you can't even see the show lasting beyond the first season. You're not having fun. Get out, get some leading roles. You're a beautiful young actress, you'll get yours somewhere else. Two years later, none of the opportunities you saw yourself walking into have appeared. You flip on TNG and see Dorn, who now has your on the show job, centering main plots in multiple episodes as the second season sees the security officer's role grow. You see a show that has stabilized with episodes boasting major guest stars and a fresh-off-her-academy-award Whoopi Goldberg taking a reoccurring role.
It's a pretty easy thing to look back on, even that soon and realize "####."
I never really understood Robert Beltran's problem. He was still fairly well represented. He still saw starring episodes and major over-arching plots concerning his character. I don't really know what he expected? Especially in that last season where everything was rushed and shoved out. The final five minutes of the show sees like five major season-to-series long plots wrapped up. It's crazy. Especially if you compare it to DS9's wrap up. It was everyone's character, not just Chakotay that got rushed off.