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It would seem that I have far too much time on my hands. After the post about a Star Trek "test", I started wondering if there could be any data to back it up and... well here we go:
The Next Generation
Name | Percentage of Lines |
---|---|
PICARD | 20.16 |
RIKER | 11.64 |
DATA | 10.1 |
LAFORGE | 6.93 |
WORF | 6.14 |
TROI | 5.4 |
CRUSHER | 5.11 |
WESLEY | 2.32 |
DS9
Name | Percentage of Lines |
---|---|
SISKO | 13.0 |
KIRA | 8.23 |
BASHIR | 7.79 |
O'BRIEN | 7.31 |
ODO | 7.26 |
QUARK | 6.98 |
DAX | 5.73 |
WORF | 3.18 |
JAKE | 2.31 |
GARAK | 2.29 |
NOG | 2.01 |
ROM | 1.89 |
DUKAT | 1.76 |
EZRI | 1.53 |
Voyager
Name | Percentage of Lines |
---|---|
JANEWAY | 17.7 |
CHAKOTAY | 8.76 |
EMH | 8.34 |
PARIS | 7.63 |
TUVOK | 6.9 |
KIM | 6.57 |
TORRES | 6.45 |
SEVEN | 6.1 |
NEELIX | 4.99 |
KES | 2.06 |
Enterprise
Name | Percentage of Lines |
---|---|
ARCHER | 24.52 |
T'POL | 13.09 |
TUCKER | 12.72 |
REED | 7.34 |
PHLOX | 5.71 |
HOSHI | 4.63 |
TRAVIS | 3.83 |
SHRAN | 1.26 |
Discovery
Note: This is a limited dataset, as the source site only has transcripts for seasons 1, 2, and 4
Name | Percentage of Lines |
---|---|
BURNHAM | 22.92 |
SARU | 8.2 |
BOOK | 6.21 |
STAMETS | 5.44 |
TILLY | 5.17 |
LORCA | 4.99 |
TARKA | 3.32 |
TYLER | 3.18 |
GEORGIOU | 2.96 |
CULBER | 2.83 |
RILLAK | 2.17 |
DETMER | 1.97 |
OWOSEKUN | 1.79 |
ADIRA | 1.63 |
COMPUTER | 1.61 |
ZORA | 1.6 |
VANCE | 1.07 |
CORNWELL | 1.07 |
SAREK | 1.06 |
T'RINA | 1.02 |
If anyone is interested, here's the (rather hurried) Python used:
#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# This script assumes that you've already downloaded all the episode lines from
# the fantastic chakoteya.net:
#
# wget --accept=html,htm --relative --wait=2 --include-directories=/STDisco17/ http://www.chakoteya.net/STDisco17/episodes.html -m
# wget --accept=html,htm --relative --wait=2 --include-directories=/Enterprise/ http://www.chakoteya.net/Enterprise/episodes.htm -m
# wget --accept=html,htm --relative --wait=2 --include-directories=/Voyager/ http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/episode_listing.htm -m
# wget --accept=html,htm --relative --wait=2 --include-directories=/DS9/ http://www.chakoteya.net/DS9/episodes.htm -m
# wget --accept=html,htm --relative --wait=2 --include-directories=/NextGen/ http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/episodes.htm -m
#
# Then you'll probably have to convert the following files to UTF-8 as they
# differ from the rest:
#
# * Voyager/709.htm
# * Voyager/515.htm
# * Voyager/416.htm
# * Enterprise/41.htm
#
import re
from collections import defaultdict
from pathlib import Path
EPISODE_REGEX = re.compile(r"^\d+\.html?$")
LINE_REGEX = re.compile(r"^(?P<name>[A-Z']+): ")
EPISODES = Path("www.chakoteya.net")
DISCO = EPISODES / "STDisco17"
ENT = EPISODES / "Enterprise"
TNG = EPISODES / "NextGen"
DS9 = EPISODES / "DS9"
VOY = EPISODES / "Voyager"
class CharacterLines:
def __init__(self, path: Path) -> None:
self.path = path
self.line_count = defaultdict(int)
def collect(self) -> None:
for episode in self.path.glob("*.htm*"):
if EPISODE_REGEX.match(episode.name):
for line in episode.read_text().split("\n"):
if m := LINE_REGEX.match(line):
self.line_count[m.group("name")] += 1
@property
def as_percentages(self) -> dict[str, float]:
total = sum(self.line_count.values())
r = {}
for k, v in self.line_count.items():
percentage = round(v * 100 / total, 2)
if percentage > 1:
r[k] = percentage
return {k: v for k, v in reversed(sorted(r.items(), key=lambda _: _[1]))}
def render(self) -> None:
print(self.path.name)
print("| Name | Percentage of Lines |")
print("| ---------------- | ------------------- |")
for character, pct in self.as_percentages.items():
print(f"| {character:16} | {pct} |")
if __name__ == "__main__":
for series in (TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DISCO):
counter = CharacterLines(series)
counter.collect()
counter.render()
This is really cool stuff! Thanks for posting the code!
This definitely goes to show why people felt Discovery was the Micheal Burnham show. Not that she had an unusual number of lines but that no one else spoke even half as much as her, with all of the other percentages of lines broken up by more characters than the other series.
Also does GEORGIOU count for both prime and mirror versions of the character?
That was my takeaway as well. I just wish I had data for the other seasons. It'd be interesting to see how that might change the percentages as they are.
As for
GEOGIOU
, I'm reasonably sure that this refers to both versions of her.As the prime version of Georgiou's lines basically amounted to "Hi!" "Oh crap!" "Bye!" the overall math shouldn't be too affected.
Georgiou also got fridged for Michael's character development. And then we follow Michael over the timeskip. Right out the gate, the universe exists to tell a story about Michael.