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:

#!/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
# wget --accept=html,htm --relative --wait=2 --include-directories=/StarTrek/ http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/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"
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()