Helo and Athena: true, though they - or rather, Athena in regards to shooting Natalie - are also used to show the dark side of parental protectiveness by the show.
Ron Moore interview of ages past: worst excuse I've ever heard, given that he had no problem writing Sophie and Libby in s1 of Carnivale (Libby going heterosexual on us can't be blamed on him, since this happened in s2 when he had left the show), and of course was on the record about the following (http://www.genders.org/g27/g27_st.txt):
Ron Moore, author of "Tapestry" and co-author of the series finale, "All Good Things . . . ," noted that the creative staff conceived of Q as being "in love with Picard," but further commented that Q would never admit to being in love with a human.
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Date: 2008-12-13 01:22 pm (UTC)Ron Moore interview of ages past: worst excuse I've ever heard, given that he had no problem writing Sophie and Libby in s1 of Carnivale (Libby going heterosexual on us can't be blamed on him, since this happened in s2 when he had left the show), and of course was on the record about the following (http://www.genders.org/g27/g27_st.txt):
Ron Moore, author of "Tapestry" and co-author of the series finale, "All Good Things . . . ," noted that the creative staff conceived of Q as being "in love with Picard," but further commented that Q would never admit to being in love with a human.