- Vordus ( @Vordus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English19•11 months ago
Elim Garak, because how can you not love a
patently duplicitous and yet still somehow generally benevolent smooth-talker who chews all the scenery and exudes the queerest energysimple tailor?- Daryl ( @daryl@friendsofdesoto.social ) 3•11 months ago
- val ( @val@infosec.pub ) English17•11 months ago
It’s a basic ass answer but Sisko. Star Trek has tried moral compromise a lot by now, but Sisko remains the only one where it really hit for me. Later Trek, where it’s more common, just doesn’t have the same level of professionalism or idealism for it to feel meaningful.
Wow I love how you put that into words.
Janeway for me. She expresses anger in the right way and she sways her enemies with forgiveness. And she’s a scientist.
- krolden ( @krolden@lemmy.ml ) English11•11 months ago
The Doctor carried Voyager.
fight me
Photons be free
- Bebo ( @Bebo@literature.cafe ) English5•11 months ago
Janeway’s my favourite too. I love her for her moral rectitude and strength of character. And everything else you said.
- krolden ( @krolden@lemmy.ml ) English12•11 months ago
Garak
- JWBananas ( @JWBananas@startrek.website ) English6•11 months ago
Especially the Garak
Interesting answer. Can you say why?
- krolden ( @krolden@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months ago
No
- JWBananas ( @JWBananas@startrek.website ) English9•11 months ago
It’s a tie between Mariner and Burnham.
- EmergMemeHologram ( @EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ) English7•11 months ago
Odo. Hmph.
- lolcatnip ( @lolcatnip@reddthat.com ) English5•11 months ago
The crystalline entity, because it’s pretty.
- Akuchimoya ( @Akuchimoya@startrek.website ) English5•11 months ago
Dukat. I don’t like him a person, but he’s a great character. No other Trek character has ever been written as richly or layeredly as he.
At first you assume he’s your basic racist bent on hatred and power. Then you realize his obsession with Kira isn’t just about destroying an enemy, but his secret love-hate for Bajoran women. We meet Ziyal whom he mostly loves, but is ashamed of. He goes mad, starts a cult, makes himself appear Bajoran and starts a relationship with Kai Winn (ostensibly with other motives, but I think he reveled in it), and ultimately dies for and in his mad faith.
DS9 is lower on my list when I rank the various series, but some of the characters, and defininitely Dukat, top the list of characters.
- Prouvaire ( @Prouvaire@kbin.social ) 4•11 months ago
Spock.
The why should be obvious, but this video goes some way to explaining it.
- Lophostemon ( @Lophostemon@aussie.zone ) English4•11 months ago
Chewingbacca. His laser sword was the best and he had nice eyes.
- infinitevalence ( @infinitevalence@discuss.online ) English1•11 months ago
Janeway is still my Captain.
But they have so many good characters in New world and lower decks… The new feeling and energy is so refreshing.
- Shawdow194 ( @Shawdow194@kbin.social ) 1•11 months ago
Sisko. I believe he captures the essence of what DS9 was trying to portray and conveys it onscreen incredibly well. It’s an incredible product of it’s time regarding civil rights that is still incredibly relevant
His divide between being an Starfleet officer, a friend, a father, a profit, and even being a black man is so well done and performed by Avery Brooks it’s hard to not being impressed by the character
- 73ʞk13 ( @73kk13@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•11 months ago
First, I love characters that are regularly puzzled by human beings / being human:
Spock
Data
Odo
The Doctor
Seven of Nine
SaruSecond, I love strong female characters:
Katherine Pulaski
Kira Nerys
Kathryn Janeway!!!
SNW Uhura
SNW ChapelThird, I love queer characters:
Guinan
Garak
Jadzia Dax
Adira and GrayI might have forgotten an awfull lot of equally amiable characters, which doesn’t mean that I don’t love them.