(OOC: Sorry. The thing is you said "To The Stars" and then you started talking about Star Trek characters, so it looked like you'd blended the two together for some reason. "To The Stars: The Next Generation" does make perfect sense on its own, as do the diversity problems - the only thing that doesn't work is the characters in question being Hernandez, Ilia, Decker and Xon. By the way, your excuse about the names isn't very good.)
Heather Graham was OK, but I agree that Matt LeBlanc stank - so did that kid who played Will Robinson.
Anyway, maybe we should actually get on topic d'you think?

A world without "To The Stars"... it's entirely possible that "Starship Constellation" would never have been made. It did get greenlit off the popularity of "To The Stars", and the network was willing to look past its more highbrow material in order to snag it as a suitable successor show. Without "To The Stars", if "Starship Constellation" gets greenlit at all you can say goodbye to Number One, Uhura, and probably Ortegas too.
Here's something I'll bet you don't know: "Starship Constellation" was originally called "Star Trek" (sounds rather South African, doesn't it?) but they were ordered to change it because it sounded too similar to "To The Stars". That's also why the ship was called "Constellation" - before the title change, it was going to be called the "Yorktown".