They jerked the actors around a lot. Wil Wheaton left because he had a chance to do a role in a big movie (this was when he was still kind of up and coming) and they told him no on the grounds that he would be needed for an important role in an episode. Not true.
Mulgrew hated working with Jeri Ryan (first female captain increasingly sidelined for T&A)
Refused to let them do anything too challenging. In the episode where Riker falls in love with a genderless alien (and the alien ends up expressing as a female and gets harsh treatment for it) Frakes thought it should be played by a man and he was totally down to do the first same sex kiss. Berman didn't like that.
He had no problem when Dax kissed another woman years later though.
It was wages too.
They jerked the actors around a lot. Wil Wheaton left because he had a chance to do a role in a big movie (this was when he was still kind of up and coming) and they told him no on the grounds that he would be needed for an important role in an episode. Not true.
Mulgrew hated working with Jeri Ryan (first female captain increasingly sidelined for T&A)
Refused to let them do anything too challenging. In the episode where Riker falls in love with a genderless alien (and the alien ends up expressing as a female and gets harsh treatment for it) Frakes thought it should be played by a man and he was totally down to do the first same sex kiss. Berman didn't like that.
He had no problem when Dax kissed another woman years later though.
He did have a problem with Dax staying in that relationship however.