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:
Those Old Scientists
Name |
Total Lines |
Percentage of Lines |
KIRK |
8257 |
32.89 |
SPOCK |
3985 |
15.87 |
MCCOY |
2334 |
9.3 |
SCOTT |
912 |
3.63 |
SULU |
634 |
2.53 |
UHURA |
575 |
2.29 |
CHEKOV |
417 |
1.66 |
The Next Generation
Name |
Total Lines |
Percentage of Lines |
PICARD |
11175 |
20.16 |
RIKER |
6453 |
11.64 |
DATA |
5599 |
10.1 |
LAFORGE |
3843 |
6.93 |
WORF |
3402 |
6.14 |
TROI |
2992 |
5.4 |
CRUSHER |
2833 |
5.11 |
WESLEY |
1285 |
2.32 |
Deep Space Nine
Name |
Total Lines |
Percentage of Lines |
SISKO |
8073 |
13.0 |
KIRA |
5112 |
8.23 |
BASHIR |
4836 |
7.79 |
O’BRIEN |
4540 |
7.31 |
ODO |
4509 |
7.26 |
QUARK |
4331 |
6.98 |
DAX |
3559 |
5.73 |
WORF |
1976 |
3.18 |
JAKE |
1434 |
2.31 |
GARAK |
1420 |
2.29 |
NOG |
1247 |
2.01 |
ROM |
1172 |
1.89 |
DUKAT |
1091 |
1.76 |
EZRI |
953 |
1.53 |
Voyager
Name |
Total Lines |
Percentage of Lines |
JANEWAY |
10238 |
17.7 |
CHAKOTAY |
5066 |
8.76 |
EMH |
4823 |
8.34 |
PARIS |
4416 |
7.63 |
TUVOK |
3993 |
6.9 |
KIM |
3801 |
6.57 |
TORRES |
3733 |
6.45 |
SEVEN |
3527 |
6.1 |
NEELIX |
2887 |
4.99 |
KES |
1189 |
2.06 |
Enterprise
Name |
Total Lines |
Percentage of Lines |
ARCHER |
6959 |
24.52 |
T’POL |
3715 |
13.09 |
TUCKER |
3610 |
12.72 |
REED |
2083 |
7.34 |
PHLOX |
1621 |
5.71 |
HOSHI |
1313 |
4.63 |
TRAVIS |
1087 |
3.83 |
SHRAN |
358 |
1.26 |
Discovery
Important Note: As the source material is incomplete for Discovery, the following table only includes line counts from seasons 1 and 4 along with a single episode of season 2.
Name |
Total Lines |
Percentage of Lines |
BURNHAM |
2162 |
22.92 |
SARU |
773 |
8.2 |
BOOK |
586 |
6.21 |
STAMETS |
513 |
5.44 |
TILLY |
488 |
5.17 |
LORCA |
471 |
4.99 |
TARKA |
313 |
3.32 |
TYLER |
300 |
3.18 |
GEORGIOU |
279 |
2.96 |
CULBER |
267 |
2.83 |
RILLAK |
205 |
2.17 |
DETMER |
186 |
1.97 |
OWOSEKUN |
169 |
1.79 |
ADIRA |
154 |
1.63 |
COMPUTER |
152 |
1.61 |
ZORA |
151 |
1.6 |
VANCE |
101 |
1.07 |
CORNWELL |
101 |
1.07 |
SAREK |
100 |
1.06 |
T’RINA |
96 |
1.02 |
If anyone is interested, here’s the (rather hurried, don’t judge me) Python used:
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"
TOS = EPISODES / "StarTrek"
DS9 = EPISODES / "DS9"
VOY = EPISODES / "Voyager"
NAMES = {
TOS.name: "Those Old Scientists",
TNG.name: "The Next Generation",
DS9.name: "Deep Space Nine",
VOY.name: "Voyager",
ENT.name: "Enterprise",
DISCO.name: "Discovery",
}
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_tablular_data(self) -> tuple[tuple[str, int, 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.append((str(k), v, percentage))
return tuple(reversed(sorted(r, key=lambda _: _[2])))
def render(self) -> None:
print(f"\n\n# {NAMES[self.path.name]}\n")
print("| Name | Total Lines | Percentage of Lines |")
print("| ---------------- | :---------: | ------------------: |")
for character, total, pct in self.as_tablular_data:
print(f"| {character:16} | {total:11} | {pct:19} |")
if __name__ == "__main__":
for series in (TOS, 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.