Favourite recurring character

Q definately, apart from Picard and Data, he would be my favourite character out of all trek. He's an excellent critic of humanity and generally takes the p1ss out of humans but is also a kind of teacher, one who delivers hard lessons but lessons well learnt by his human subjects. He has some of the best lines in trek

"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid. "

(Imo the most accurate description of the nature of this universe we actually inhabit)

"Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you had never considered. *That* is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."

(Again, something I would agree with, Q is basically saying that collecting data, dotting Is and crossing Ts isn't going to push humanity forward, it will be achieved through imagination and insight.)

Barclay in TNG would be another recurring character that I like. Kehylr was cool , shouldn't have been bumped off so soon. Lore I guess aswell. I very much liked Garak, he was a likeable villain who I actually wanted to suceed most of the time, he wasn't such a bad guy, he had good ideals, its just that circumstances made him get confused in executing them. And he perfectly showed up the pomposity of Sisko and Bajorans by being a laissez faire libertarian.

Reg

He was so inept it was funny every time.

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Reg

He was so inept it was funny every time.

I don't think he was necessarily inept, he had many moments of brilliance which left the other crew members trailing in his dust. The problem was that he didn't fit into the regimented heirarchical structure of starfleet nor did he conform to its cultural emphasis on personality traits such as displays of self assuredness/confidence, being a good communicator etc. In many way his story is allegorical of those (aspergers/introverts/eccentrics) who are unable to conform to the increasingly draconian cultural demands of the workplace and are therefore overlooked/ostracized even though they may be highly capable.

EnterNow wrote: »

Is that just an elaborate way of saying he had no self confidence in social situations? If so, agreed...he was a great character

Well not quite, yeah he had no confidence but the other characters were displaying their own in built prejudices which they derived from their cultural environment by making him a pariah and exacerbating his lack of self confidence. The only one who understood him and treated him with any modicrum of respect was Guinan. Picard also. Geordi eventually got the idea too but Wesley and the random officers acted like assholes and that simply reflected the fact that they were unconsciously carrying out the unspoken prejudices of star fleet culture towards people like Barclay.

In manys a way it conveys the idea that in nature the odd element/mutation is attacked if it isn't strong enough to rapidly multiply or find a niche, most humans act in the same way towards people who flout convention, the episode was advocating for the conscious attempt to exercise one's humanity (sentience/critically evaluating the procedures of nature and choosing to align with them or reject them) in being accepting (within reason) of people who don't conform to the meme pool of cultural rules, with respect to non dangerous individuals such as Barclay.

Kiith wrote: »

Are you the Architect? :pac:

haha lol :pac:

EnterNow wrote: »

Toss up between Garak & Dukat :cool:

Came in here to post this.

Both of these men had so many sides to their character it was always entertaining to see them on screen. Dukat in particular because he had such a good character arc throughout the show.

I'd have to go with Dukat for the reasons above closely followed by Garak

Honorable mentions for (TNG) Q - although he lost it a bit with the Vash episode I thought, Martok, Weyoun, and Gowron

KenSwee wrote: »

Captain Braxton.
The poor guy went mad because of Voyager. I'm sure many Star Trek fans will sympathise.

I don't feel much of anything for Voyager. The wasted potential of Enterprise really annoys me though.

If someone just randomly approached you and blamed you for a temporal explosion that destroyed our solar system in the distant future you'd think he'd offer up a little more evidence. It's even more unlikely that Braxton didn't think that Voyager would offer up any resistance to being wiped out of existence and plan accordingly to a number of scenarios. Bear in mind that he's one of the people from an advanced Federation that travels through time as a matter of course, you'd think he could plan ahead given all the consequences that could happen because of their jobs.

I haven't thought of that episode in a while but it's a particularly bad example of a flimsy premise.

Personally, he was a potentially interesting bad guy turned into a cardboard cutout. The guy who stole his ship may be for the cringeworthy character thread though.

Off the top of my head, Garak... Though I would nearly think of him as a main character....

And special mention goes to Robin Lefler, but that's only because she's so te...