Cast your vote here. It could be anyone: villain, crew, member of the admiralty, etc.
I have to say that Berlinghoff Rasmussen is possibly (IMHO) the most obnoxious character in any episode of any ST franchise series. I especially hate the way he addresses the Captain as 'Picard'. So disrespectful in a smug, smartass sort of way. Just once, JLP should have assumed his vengeful god persona and said, "It's Captain if you please."
Is this like a trick question? Wesley Crusher master of the universe and the Enterprise. The David Hogg of the 24th century. A distant second would be Dr. Pulaski.
shareTroi! Easily!!!!!!!!!!
share1. Wesley Crusher: forever and for all time!
2. Troi.
3. Riker.
Am I the first to name Data? He was such a badly realized character, claiming he was free of emotion yet always displaying feelings for effect. And he annoyed me because parts of him were stolen from my beloved Spock, and Brent Spiner is a crap actor who always rubbed me the wrong way.
And the damn "Pinocchio" was enough to give him an edge over Alexander and Wesley.
PS: I sort of like Dr. Pulaski, which probably makes me her biggest fan.
The only one I can think of was Dr. Pulaski. The moment she referred to Data as an "it" she became Star Trek public enemy number one and, not so surprisingly, lasted only one season.
shareBut "it" is actually correct, Data is not actually male, he was just built to resemble a male human. He isnt' male any more than Lal was female, after she chose a human female-esque look as her finished form, so it was ludicrous of Data to take offense at the pronoun.
But like I said, I dislike Data and sort of like Dr. Pulaski, and if I sort of like her it's because she said what she meant and she meant what she said.
One of the characters I did not dislike (this may surprise some of the hard corps Star Trek fans out there) was Wesley Crusher. He was charismatic, likeable, the only problem was the producers didn't know what to do with him.
shareI don't dislike him, not much, not like I dislike the annoying and inconsistent Data. Wheaton did a decent job with him, and I liked his awkward relationship with Picard.
And it wasn't the character's fault that the writers made him a full-time member of the bridge crew instead of letting him, you know, get an education. It was so ludicrous, putting a kid who isn't a member of Starfleet on the bridge in combat situations, and doing some junior officer out of a job that could have really helped his or her career. So while I hardly think that Wesley was a successful character, I don't hate him the way lots of people do.
I often felt kids should not have been on the starship to begin with. The original series didn't have kids and I didn't see why this one should.
shareYeah, I disagreed with that from a practical POV, and because children are annoying and I don't like watching them on TV. Yes, a ship with a crew that large is going to have parents on board, even single custodial parents like Worf. But it's a spaceship that enters combat and is frequently in danger of destruction, nobody should be on board full-time unless they're an adult who's willing to accept destruction by Borg, Romulans, Q, supernovas, etc. Having minors on board would not only be a risk to the kids, but it would compromise the ship's mission if they ever had to back off of a dangerous situation because there were kids on board.
That's actually one of the few things I liked about DS9, at the beginning it showed what could happen if a Starfleet captain dragged his wife and kid along on dangerous missions. And it also showed that Starfleet has plenty of jobs suitable for a custodial parent, that a career officer doesn't necessarily have to put their kid on the flagship of the fleet during a Borg invasion.
Lwaxana Troi.
shareCardassian poop! Lwaxana Troi was one of my favorite characters.
shareI refuse to watch any episode with her in it.
I would watch a Lwaxana episode if she hit with a Varon-T disruptor point blank.
Agree to disagree. I always enjoyed Lwaxana's appearance. Even the one where she was trapped in the elevator with ODO on DS9.
shareWhen I started watching its first episode, it was Captain Picard! He came across as cold, stand-offish, unpleasant at times. By the time the episode was over, though, I liked him. The only character that truly annoyed me was Dr. Pulaski (calling Data an "it" doomed any chance she had for being accepted by the Star Trek fandom).
shareI kinda like Diana Muldaur. The red-head Dr. Crusher was absolutely fine with me, but she was hired for her looks as much as her acting, while Muldaur was convincing as a tough-minded, independent woman. The crew seemed to like her (she played poker with them, as I recall). I liked seeing her in other roles, too. She plays an intelligent and thoughtful woman very well.
I really could have done without Wesley. Just something about his character made me cringe. Bad actor, goody two-shoes character, hanging with Momma, a peer of Geordi's (but needing emotional advice), wins over the Captain. Blech.
The show could have done without any kids. Period.
shareOh, I wouldn't go that far. Worf's kid wasn't very appealing, but there were guest spots that worked. Picard being stuck with kids in the "elevator." As much as I didn't like Wes, he had a love interest that was pretty and charming. A little girl with a funny nose had a character arc over two-three episodes, and there was a boy who aliens convinced him his mother was alive when they impersonated her. They weren't all bad. I mean, there wasn't very much on the show that was convincing when it came to characters. For me, it was about telling an interesting and fun story, all the gadgets and always very colorful. It's kitschy good.
shareI would rephrase what I originally said. The show could have done without any kids AS MAIN CHARACTERS. Period.
shareI totally agree, it was absolutely ridiculous to have children living on a ship that went into combat, sometimes without notice.
That doesn't mean that they couldn't have brought kids onto the ship on a semi-regular basis, because yes, having Picard freeze up in the presence of children was hilarious! They could have had groups of school children brought on board when they were peacefully orbiting a civilized planet, they could have had teens from Starfleet Academy interning, they could have had children visiting non-custodial parents when they weren't on deep space missions, they could have had Alexander get stuck on the ship in defiance of Starfleet policy, etc. They could even have spiced up some episode by having the Enterprise get into a combat situation when OMG THERE IS A CHILD ON BOARD!!! Because yes, having children live on board wasn't believable.
Excellent ideas!!!
shareGosh, thanks!
Because yeah, the writers were wrong to have children living on a part-time combat ship and never make a big deal about their lives being endangered every time there was a Borg incursion or something. By starting with a bad idea, they cost themselves the chance of some heart-rending drama.
Troi's mother.
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