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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9594332" data-attributes="member: 6799660">Between her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_M*A*S*H_characters#Maxwell_Klinger" target="_blank">first husband in another life</a> wearing her dresses better than she did, and then this, she has got to feel that her femininity is being challenged.Most of the spouse characters did end up being a little one-note. Keiko was an avenue towards children and unsympathetic spouse who couldn't understand what Miles was going through. Kasidy Yates got to be the tough freighter pilot who could take care of herself, but that's most of what she got to be. And yes, it is mostly because, as uncontracted per-episode side actors, we only see them when they are doing something to further the main character's story that week (usually as a foil in some way). As unrealistic as I find it when the main cast has to always end up romantically linked with each other, at least it means they both show up in ways other than directly furthering the other's story.It would be great if they could at least hint at extensive side stories we just didn't see where Keiko saved Quark's bar from foreclosure or Worf and Dax just got back from a double date with Sisko and Yates (who were super lovey-dovey and Yates was so interesting and well-developed) or the like. But there conservation of storytelling often clips that extraneous writing.</blockquote>