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How did you feel about Vic Fontaine?

Tallifer

Tallifer

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The first time I saw Vic Fontaine, the Sinatra-like lounge singer, I was intrigued and entertained. Certainly a better holosuite character than Dixon Hill or Jane Austen-way. But he recurred so many times and we had to listen to his lounge music so often, that it lost both its novelty and charm for me.

I will say this much: Deep Space Nine had a much better rationale for the holosuites than the other tow shows: Quark is a businessman catering to his customers' vices. On the other hand, Voyager was lost far away in space with limited resources, but they constantly ran the holodecks.
 
Honestly Vic Fontaine was too much of specifically American culture for me. The same goes for all the Baseball references.
I'm not saying these were bad things to include but to me as a European Robert Picardo singing Italian opera or Data being Sherlock Holmes just worked much better.
 
Didn't care for Vic when I first saw him. I was glad that he finally got Kira and Odo together, but other than that, he really didn't appeal to me. When Ezri was brought on the show I thought - "Good, a counselor. Now we can get rid of that pseudo-singing-counselor."

However, he really grew on my after I saw It's Only a Paper Moon. He really shined in that episode.

Now, I feel that he was a good addition to the show. He's not one of my favorite recurring characters, but I really like him. Mostly, I like him for the same reasons I liked The Doctor on VOY. He brought a unique twist to hologram characters. Whereas The Doctor constantly wanted to grow and do different things, Vic was content with what he was. I like the difference.
 
Loved Vic from first episode to last. He lightened up a season that was quite dark and did it without diluting the more serious aspects of the arc.
 
didn't hate him, but I felt they wasted WAAY too much valuable season 7 plot arc time on his irrelevant nonsense. They practically had two whole episodes(Badda-bing and paper moon) devoted to this guy. That's very sloppy when you're working to tie up series-long storylines.
 
I liked him a lot. I have a thing for lounge music...and James Darren was charming and likeable in the role.

He was a nice "breather" in an otherwise intense series.
 
Rush Limborg said:
I liked him a lot. I have a thing for lounge music...and James Darren was charming and likeable in the role.

He was a nice "breather" in an otherwise intense series.
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I rather enjoyed his presence for the same reasons and some others. I liked that for once in the history of holographic characters in Star Trek, that he was self aware and there was no malfunction or hidden agenda. He was what he was and that was good enough.
 
He irratated me. I like how he got Odo with Kira but like said above they wasted too much time with him and that was the point...they didn't have the budget to pursue the war in Season 6 and 7 so it was cancelled for large sections of those seasons for filler episodes and he was filling alot of space I wanted to see more battles and strife..

Didn't make any sense.
 
I was surprised how little Vic there was. Id heard all about how Vic Fontaine took over the last couple of seasons, and ruined the show, so when he actually appeared I was braced for the worst.

I didnt mind him, although I still think Kira and Odo was a mistake, and I think he was a more interesting holo-character than Voyager's EMH. It was also nice for the main characters to have somewhere away from Quarks to relax, sort of an officers (and O'Brien) club.

Hated Badda-Bing though.
 
He mostly annoyed me, and this might shock some, but I rather watch Meridian (at least I can grin how dang creepy Combs is under that makeup.) then watch the Nog/Vic episode, even if the Nog/Vic episode is a much stronger story wise.
 
I liked Vic, the plausibility of his sentience and level of control in the station computers notwithstanding. As a character and a plot device, I enjoyed him. I thought the lounge and its music were pitch-perfect counterpoints to the ongoing war storyline. It gave a certain flavor to the happenings which I liked. A lot.
 
Rom's Sehlat said:
He was OK. He appeared with about the right frequency. He was not main character.
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Agreed. I liked him, but I never cared for the Vegas stuff. My one and only visit to the real city was unpleasant to say the least, so I don't care for that stuff.

As for James Darren, I always thought he should have played a starship captain.
 
I don't get all the complaining about Vic. I liked him. Not my fave character or anything, but he made me smile.
 
Saquist said:
...they didn't have the budget to pursue the war in Season 6 and 7 so it was cancelled for large sections of those seasons for filler episodes and he was filling alot of space I wanted to see more battles and strife..

Didn't make any sense.
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Deep Space 9 is my favourite Star Trek because of the politics, commerce, espionage and warfare. I would have been exhausted however had too many stories in the sixth and seventh seasons been about the grim realities of war. Even during our own second world war, people still watched movies, fell in love, made money and went to Las Vegas.
 
First time I watched DS9 I hated him.

HATED HIM.

Never one to enjoy holodeck eps I found him horribly tedious.

Last time I watched DS9 all the way through (would have been the 3rd rewatch) I actually liked him. Not sure what happened along the way there, but he's fine, amusing at times.
 
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