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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9778500" data-attributes="member: 6799660"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_O%27Brien#cite_note-:0-3" target="_blank">Apparently</a> that is the case. She turned down a full time role and instead Keiko became a recurring character. I get it -- regardless of how much you like the biz, full time scripted tv shows of that era were 100+ hr/week jobs, and I believe she had young children at the time. Chao certainly did more with a minor role in the final of M*A*S*H (and AfterMash) than she did with Keiko in two series. The Keiko role did get a pretty impressive adventure in the ST: tNG episode "Rascals", where Caroline Junko King takes over as a de-aged-back-to-childhood Keiko. If the showrunners are willing to handle the logistic/legal difficulties of working with minors, they must think the character has value. So if we know the actor could have done more, and the writers seemed to be willing to do more, the actor not wanting to do more is a pretty reasonable explanation.Still, it would be nice if the did a little more to show that they had a great relationship that we just didn't get to see (if they can make Morn the most eloquent and exciting guy we just weren't focusing on...). Or just not go to the 'the wife has me...' well quite so often.</blockquote>