The thing with acting is, you can get branded as a bad actor if you deliver 99 out of 100 lines perfectly. It's that one percent that can get you in trouble, though. Even Shatner usually only had two or three badly spoken lines an episode (occasionally more). Maren Jensen's average was probably more around 80 or 90%. There were a lot of lines where you snap back from the show and say to yourself, "She's reading lines."
Then again, bringing up Trek again, Sulu and Uhura couldn't act well either, which is why as soon as Chekov came aboard, he got all the good lines and got to go to down to all the planets while Sulu stood on the ship and counted numbers, which was what he was best at.
Back to Maren Jensen, do you realize she and Starbuck never even talked again after The Long Patrol, which was one of the very first episodes? She and Apollo barely spoke a dozen words to each other throughout the entire series. They had two brief exchanges, one in Lost Planet of the Gods when Apollo announced his engagement, and another one in The Long Patrol when Apollo mentioned that Starbuck would go to the head of the list for the Rising Star. They barely had any contact at all.
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