Inspirational characters.

[Inactive-Shapeshifter]

Sometimes i just go search for Picard's speeches on the net so i can hear and have hope for humanity again.

One habit i got too, is to use Odo's voice wen talking about something i don't like to. I remember once a girl that i liked telling me that she just didn't like me at all. Wen my friends showed up asking about it i just said: "Humanoids... I'll never understand them"

Odo... Buddy... You won't know how much you helped me.

 

[plynch]

I grew up in the age of Star Trek and Adam-12 and Emergency. Heroes were heroes. They weren't all angsty and backstoried.

Kirk mainly, but the whole Enterprise crew "went about doing good." You protect the weak. You spare your enemy. You get to know the Horta. You sacrifice yourself if need be for others.

They are among the people both fictional and physical who have taught me there is a purpose to life more than just making money and buying toys and dying.

Thank you very much for this thread, Shapeshifter.

 

[Nightdiamond]

Captain Picard-- his speeches are the most memorable parts of the Trek Universe.

For some reason, even a simple sentence he says stays in your memory. His way of mixing poetry, Shakespeare and philosophy at certain moments just works.



Sisko -- he's not emulating some other leadership character. He's a unique leadership character like Kirk. He's brave and confident, and just as moral as the other Starfleet captains.

When Eddington tricked him out of the replicators, the crew (Kira, Worf ect) wanted to take some of the responsibility.

KIRA: What do we tell the Cardassians?

SISKO: The truth. He fooled me. And he got away with it.


KIRA: He fooled all of us.

SISKO: Everything that happens on this station is my responsibility, Major.

You've got to respect that. He took all the responsibility himself.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Trek has many characters worth emulating for their intelligence, self-sacrifice, perseverance, sense of justice, ... . Day in an day out, the characters that promoted good fatherhood matter more to me: O'Brien, Sisko, and even Nog. I don't know if I would kiss my son on the forehead every day if it were not for their example.

Thanks for the topic, Shapeshifter.

 

[Inactive-Shapeshifter]

Trek has many characters worth emulating for their intelligence, self-sacrifice, perseverance, sense of justice, ... . Day in an day out, the characters that promoted good fatherhood matter more to me: O'Brien, Sisko, and even Nog. I don't know if I would kiss my son on the forehead every day if it were not for their example.

Thanks for the topic, Shapeshifter.

Well, all i did was start it, it's you guys that make it special with every reply!

 

[Dales]

I think Uhura.

Whoopi Goldberg once said:

Uhura been on TV in the 60s and not a maid or in a derogatory role that many blacks women had to take in the 60s was what made her want to go into acting. ironically whoopi will go on to be a major character in star trek the next generation.

So that is very inspirational, uhura was a ground breaking character and a role model to mayn African American women.

 

[kirkfan]

Well, I wouldn't call them exactly "inspirational" as by the time I learned of the ST universe I had already had my fill of inspiration (long story) but characters that I am fond of, definitely.

As the least unobservant of you have already noticed Kirk is at the top of my list, even though I am the first one to point out his most glaring flaws. I also like Odo when he's not unwittingly siding with fascists,which unfortunately happens a few times. Picard is Ok, when he's not interpreting the prime directive as an instruction to being a cold hearted sob, which unfortunately happens a few times. The prime directive was initially meant to protect pre-warp cultures against intrusion and more pointedly exploitation by post-warp cultures, it never meant to watch people die en masse without helping them. That's a late distortion and a betrayal of its spirit.

 

[mythme]

yes I would have to go with Picard as well. Very few leads in any sci-fi were intellectuals rather than men of action prior to him.

 

[kirkfan]

yes I would have to go with Picard as well. Very few leads in any sci-fi were intellectuals rather than men of action prior to him.

Robby The Robot from Forbidden Planet was fluent in 188 languages along with their various dialects and sub-tongues.

 

[Taylirious]

As a kid Geordie, Data. As an adult Seven Of Nine.

 

[kirkfan]

If I had to choose one, I guess Spock.