An outrageous TNG character will return
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So Special Edition Han Solo?
Okona can do the Kessel run in under 10 parsecs but the real question is, who shot first, Okona or Han?
No one. Okona was late to the meeting and Han eventually left after boredom.
This just gives me ideas for Han Solo/Okona slash-fanfiction. Maybe throw in Westley from Princess Bride for a love-triangle.
Because really the Outrageous Okona and the Princess Bride have nothing in common.
No, it was a joke
Because really the Outrageous Okona and the Princess Bride have nothing in common.
This just gives me ideas for Han Solo/Okona slash-fanfiction. Maybe throw in Westley from Princess Bride for a love-triangle.
No, it was a joke
Yeah but familiarity breeds contempt... silly pun aside, a lot of people seem to want someone whom they have everything in common with... less than a year later in many cases, some even after a day, it's splitsville worse than in a malt shop filled with bananas...
mostly because they have nothing in common where it counts the most... 
Okona never shoots first. He's a ladies man, after all.
I dunno, I guess I'm in the minority here, but I really like "The Outrageous Okada." Something about the big cartoonish persona and the bad dialogue and the Bargain Bin Han Solo vibe has always appealed to me. Could be that I was 8 when this episode aired and I liked it from childhood? Also, I realize this may live in the same part of my brain that really genuinely enjoys Star Trek V.
Your mileage may (and in most cases certainly does) vary.
--Alex
Your mileage may (and in most cases certainly does) vary.
--Alex
The can bring back Okona, but they couldn't bring back Brian Brophy for Maddox????
Billy Campbell's post-Star Trek career shaped up mighty differently than Mr. Brophy's. I wouldn't be surprised if they approached Campbell for a role first and then learned that he had done TNG and only then decided to tie it into the show.
You sound like you doubt that the creative team ever watched TNG.
He's hot and the character could have been fun, but they only conveyed what he was "supposed" to be in dialogue, without any of his actions backing up what they said. He was one of those obvious examples of "show, don't tell"
I've often wondered the same thing, whether he was supposed to be "TNG's Harry Mudd". Now, I'm not a Mudd fan (I consider Mudd's women to be one of the worst episodes in all of Star Trek) but from what I remember Mudd was at least allowed to be shady. Okona seems like they constantly went "but please not too shady/roguish" and toned him down until the character had nothing left but a Han Solo costume and some scenes of flirting with backgorund extras.
I almost thought he might return in Picard- that he would be the pilot that Raffi was able to find for their mission. Not that I have a problem with Rios, who turned out to be a neat new character. :-)
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