Dramatis Personae

We don't know the characters on The Next Generation so well yet when they do that.

And on Deep Space Nine, when they do Dramatis Personae, we also don't know the characters that well yet either.

But as you say here, even though we've only spent a little bit of time with these characters, the use here of having them act weird is to reveal who they are.

So it's actually the flip of what