Least favorite character

[Myasishchev]

You just don't like the idea of us agreeing completely on everything in a thread, right?

Nah, I found them funny. "We look for things. We look for things to make us GO." Perhaps not everyone's cup of tea, but I enjoyed it.

Interesting interpretation of that episode, but whatever its intentions may have been, all I saw were extremely irritating characters that it made me cringe to hear and watch. Unlike Kai Winn or Keiko when she was possessed by a Pah Wraith for example - villains who make you feel like punching them, but at the same time you have to admit are great villains because you "love to hate them". Those guys I just hated as poorly-conceived characters with no quality besides being annoying.

I think Evil Rosalind Chao got more lines than Good Rasalind Chao.

Also, I find all the Bev Crusher hate in here very upsetting. I thought she was delightful...I wish she'd had more lines and more episodes built around her in the series. I think her finest moments were giving Data dancing lessons in "Data's Day" and her adventure with Picard in "Attached". I don't know how anyone who loves the rest of the cast could not at least have some affection for her based on her interactions with those two key members in those situations.

I lay it at the feet of the writers who couldn't figure out how to give one of only seven main characters more (interesting) screentime in twenty-six hours per year.

Even a broken watch (or clock) is right twice a day.

Yeppers.

 

[Keith1701]

Wesley for me too.

Wesley for me too......

 

[Saga]

Pulaski, for two related reasons:

Reason 1: Her conception amounted to something like self-plagiarism. They tried to make a Leonard McCoy with ovaries. This alone wouldn't be enough to make her my least favorite TNG character (and some might even argue it was to her credit), but for

Reason 2: When they created Pulaski, they must have been thinking that the Bones/Spock dynamic was something vital to the success of TOS. They would be right. Unfortunately, when they tried to replicate it with Pulaski as a stand-in for McCoy and Data as a stand-in for Spock, they took the usually good-spirited quasi-racism McCoy needled Spock with and turned it into Pulaski's deeply harbored belief that Data wasn't even a person. In virtually every scene between them, Pulaski comes off not as McCoy's lighthearted provacteur but a Goddamn Nazi. Doctor Pulaski? More like Doctor Mengele.

What was worse was that no one ever told her to just shut her carbon-chauvinist, narrow-minded mouth, at least so I recall. I can't name the episode, but there's a bit where she is really just being incredibly insulting to Data's sapient dignity, and Picard just sits there and lets her do it. I was disgusted by every moment of that scene. Wish I could remember the episode.

i was about to voice my dislike of Pulaski till i read this. you hit the nail on the head. nuff said.

 

[SheliakBob]

Argh! Wesley Crusher--evil-bad-wrong!
Hated the character and thoroughly enjoyed the Millenicon convention way back in the '80's where the "101 Ways to Kill Wesley Crusher" board started as a quick joke and soon turned into "1001 Ways to Kill Wesley Crusher" and by the end of the weekend was just "As Many Ways to Kill Wesley Crusher As it Takes!" ah. Good times.
(The only one of my own contributions I remember was "Guest Judge at a Medusan beauty contest.")

I sometimes feel guilty about that, since I actually rather like Wil Wheaton. It's not the guy's fault he was hired to play an unbearably awful character!

 

[datafan]

Well I know its not a popular answer, but I would half to say Worf. I never liked any of the Klingon episodes either.

 

[Myasishchev]

Well I know its not a popular answer, but I would half to say Worf. I never liked any of the Klingon episodes either.

I could see it. I liked him alright, but he could get really obnoxious.

 

[kitsune]

Well I know its not a popular answer, but I would half to say Worf. I never liked any of the Klingon episodes either.

I could see it. I liked him alright, but he could get really obnoxious.

I did get a bit tired of how often he said he'd be dishonored for X generations if something didn't happen...

 

[CaptainStoner]

About the Pakleds: I distinctly remember seeing them come out of an airlock on DS9. They had no lines, just background aliens, but it was a "hey!" moment.

I liked that story in some ways. I think it's a good one on the theme of not underestimating people who seem stupid, particularly mental disabilities. Though there were a lot of annoying things to the episode, a lot Troi "sensing" the obvious plot device that was often...underestimating the audience's intelligence.

Hmm. Least favorite. I'll stick with main characters. It's a terrible question, really.
It was Riker when the show first ran. I'm not sure why, as Riker episodes are generally awesome. I think it's the "cop" side to his personality. And, I had a hard time respecting a man that just kind of gave up on Troi - for career - but then doesn't take Captain - and I think it breathed a lot of life into both of them when they resumed their relationship in INS.

 

[Myasishchev]

About the Pakleds: I distinctly remember seeing them come out of an airlock on DS9. They had no lines, just background aliens, but it was a "hey!" moment.

I liked that story in some ways. I think it's a good one on the theme of not underestimating people who seem stupid, particularly mental disabilities. Though there were a lot of annoying things to the episode, a lot Troi "sensing" the obvious plot device that was often...underestimating the audience's intelligence.

It's unfortunate they undermine it by scaring them into surrender with hydrogen, though. Still, I loved those guys. I want to see a Pakled Starfleet engineer. "Captain, I can't find anything to make us GO."

 

[kitsune]

I want to see a Pakled Starfleet engineer. "Captain, I can't find anything to make us GO."

Have you tried Neelix's leola root soup?

 

[CaptainStoner]

Hmm, Pakled engineer. Tamorian communications officer. The first two positions filled on the U.S.S. Failstar

 

[kitsune]

Hmm, Pakled engineer. Tamorian communications officer. The first two positions filled on the U.S.S. Failstar

What's a Tamorian? There's no entry on Memory Alpha...

 

[Praetorian]

Tamarian I think it's the name...

"Mirab, his sails unfurled!"

 

[Oparu]

Pulaski, I didn't like the way she interacted with most of the cast, especially Picard and Data. I have to agree with Myasishchev. Pulaski's distinctly creepy hatred of artificial life represents a very bad choice by the TPTB although she did seem to get over it for awhile when Data beat the strategy guy in the game with the finger sleeves. (I have no idea what the episode was called).

I also really dislike B-4. Lore was an amazing, evil precursor to Data but I found B-4 frustrating. The idea of a mentally deficient data clone is as useless as a mentally deficent clone of Picard (which I suppose we had) or Geordi. I didn't see the point.

I do find the Dr. Crusher and Troi hatred a little disappointing. They both suffered more from bad writing than a bad character concept. Being an empath is an interesting idea...but how do you have mystery if Deanna can tell the bad guys are going to blow up the ship? (Lwaxana Troi pointing out the fish people are terrorists in the end of Manhunt comes to mind.)

Being Mozart's/Marty Stu's mother and the captain's old flame isn't much of a character concept (as Beverly's was originally) but she improved drastically from s3 onward. (Descent, Suspicions, Data's Day) Both Beverly and Deanna really felt like part of the family to me whereas Pulaski never did.

 

[The Grim Ghost]

Hmm, Pakled engineer. Tamorian communications officer. The first two positions filled on the U.S.S. Failstar

 

[SpaceProg]

Hmm, Pakled engineer. Tamorian communications officer. The first two positions filled on the U.S.S. Failstar

I wonder if the Failstar would even make it out of the dock, let alone into a 5-year mission...

 

[Myasishchev]

^With Captain Reginald "Reg" Barclay in command, the impossible becomes possible. Mainly because he doesn't leave the holodeck, where physically impossible scenarios are, indeed, possible.

 

[Danoz]

Pulaski was bad...a third-rate stand in for a second-rate regular

I wont say Wesley because that's obvious...

I will get flack for this, but I didn't like Guinan...her character was fine, but Whoopi Goldberg has turned into such a shrill, overbearing know-it-all, I can no longer separate the two...

Whoopi Goldberg was AWESOME as Guinan. I also liked Pulaski... in fact I enjoyed her performance as the doctor even more than Crusher, especially as her character warms towards Data and the crew. Wesley is pretty insufferable, but I don't think the writers really knew what to do with him. I would have liked him better if they had really pushed forward with the whole "kid genius" thing and made him more of a prodegy and less the kid you always wanted to punch in the face growing up.

 

[32JaX]

I will get flack for this, but I didn't like Guinan...her character was fine, but Whoopi Goldberg has turned into such a shrill, overbearing know-it-all, I can no longer separate the two...

Interesting - I liked Guinan (I would have loved an episode or movie addressing what the heck is up with her and Q) but totally agree with you about Whoopi

Pulaski, I do find the Dr. Crusher and Troi hatred a little disappointing. They both suffered more from bad writing than a bad character concept.

I am surprised too. I think it took a season for Troi to stop using gushing as her main acting device, but I liked her overall.

I would say Tasha Yar was my least favorite but I may have changed my mind had she lasted. I also did not care for Geordi until the later seasons and the movies. Wesley didn't bother me.

 

[Too Much Fun]

I don't understand how someone could evaluate the character of Guinan based on what they think of Whoopi Goldberg right now. This is a character she played over ten years ago. Her current public persona should not have any influence on how you feel about the character. Either you like the way it was written/acted or not. What you think about the actress in the present is irrelevant.