Meme!

[grundyscribbling]

As seen at sulien

Give me a fandom and I will tell you

1. the character I least understand
2. interactions I enjoyed the most
3. the character who scares me the most
4. the character who is mostly like me
5. hottest looks character
6. one thing I dislike about my fave character
7. one thing I like about my hated character
8. a quote or scene that haunts me
9. a character I wish died but didn’t
10. my ship that never sailed

Comments

[sulien]

Star Trek. :)

[grundyscribbling]

All of it, or would you like me to narrow it to one series in particular? (Original/TNG/DS9/Voyager/reboot movies?)

[sulien]

Your choice. Go with your favorite, or the first series you watched regularly, perhaps?

[grundyscribbling]

First series I watched regularly was TNG.

1. Troi. How on earth does she function, dealing with everyone else's emotions on top of her own? (As many people as are on that ship, how is she not stark raving mad?)
2. I started to say Worf and Data, and then realized Q. Q and anyone. It doesn't even matter who.
3. Lore.
4. Probably Geordi.
5. Picard. (Never quite got the appeal of Riker. And Worf's forehead ridges weird me out.)
6. Worf, chill out with the 'good day to die' thing. It'll happen eventually, no need to hurry.
7. I didn't really hate any characters, so I'll go with 'most disliked'. Pulaski was a pretty good doctor, even if her manner rubbed me the wrong way.
8. There's quite a few. I may need to rewatch the whole series to pick just one... Let's go with the episode "Measure of a Man". There was a lot of good stuff in that one.
9. Barclay.
10. Picard/Crusher

[sulien]

It's good to hear that I'm not the only one who wondered about Deanna Troi. Talk about building up mental shielding, that had to have been difficult, considering her half-human biology.

The Measure of a Man was definitely one of the best episodes of the entire franchise. Gene Roddenberry and the many great writers who worked for him came up with some significant and truly affecting stories, but Darmok is my favorite.

[grundyscribbling]

The whole 'half-human' part confuses me too. I get species that are not too far away from each other on the same planet/evolutionary tree being able to produce viable offspring, but two species on totally different planets that developed from completely different evolutionary trees? How does that work at all? How are their brain structures even remotely compatible? (Or any other major body systems? Do Betazoids just happen to have near identical circulatory, digestive, and reproductive systems to humans?)

[sulien]

They sort of explained that in the great archaeological chase episode The Chase, in which the galaxy was seeded with life by an an ancient species. There's an interesting time loop type crossover of that episode with Stargate SG-1 around somewhere.