• @cyd
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    51 year ago

    I think you can even argue that in each case there are two main characters plus a third wheel (Riker/McCoy).

    But McCoy never faded from view, whereas Riker almost became a background character during the second half of TNG. They should have written Riker out of the series after Best of Both Worlds; after the character stuck around, the writers seemed unable to figure out what to do with him.