no he was good as a minor character. the thing about burton was, every episode he had to spout all this technical gobbledygook the writers came up with, and let's face it they weren't great writers. but he was not just playing the engineer, he was playing an engineering nerd who actually loved this shit: "i know! i'll use the phase differentiator to synchronize the transporter's annular confinement beam to the warp core frequency!" and he sold the fuck out of those lines. that can't be easy to do for 6+ years.
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