Is Okona a really terrible character?
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Quod erat demonstrandum.
Had Okona returned, what might his angle have been? Mudd came back once in a mirror image of himself, sort of: the smooth operator now was the underdog begging for our heroes to save him. And then he came back again as a likeable victim of circumstances, the very role he always tried to play but this time had to face for real.
Okona tried to run circles around our heroes in the introductory episode, too, and got defeated but not humiliated in the end; he was left in pretty much the same limbo as Mudd. What sort of a calamity would you have wanted to see befall him for his "I, Okona" return? Be creative. Be cruel. You know he deserves it...
Timo Saloniemi
Had Okona returned, what might his angle have been? Mudd came back once in a mirror image of himself, sort of: the smooth operator now was the underdog begging for our heroes to save him. And then he came back again as a likeable victim of circumstances, the very role he always tried to play but this time had to face for real.
Okona tried to run circles around our heroes in the introductory episode, too, and got defeated but not humiliated in the end; he was left in pretty much the same limbo as Mudd. What sort of a calamity would you have wanted to see befall him for his "I, Okona" return? Be creative. Be cruel. You know he deserves it...
Timo Saloniemi
Hmmm, yeah. Not a bad guy.
Thinking on it, I kind of wonder if he was really a 'Walter Mitty' type. That is, someone who always dreamed of being a space-pirate / scoundrel /whatever. He finally scrapes together enough cash to get his own ship AND is able to dress and behave how he thinks someone in that line of work should. Just a thought.
Thinking on it, I kind of wonder if he was really a 'Walter Mitty' type. That is, someone who always dreamed of being a space-pirate / scoundrel /whatever. He finally scrapes together enough cash to get his own ship AND is able to dress and behave how he thinks someone in that line of work should. Just a thought.
I think the reviewer missed half of the plot, weak as it was with an annoying B side, even while he regurgitated it. Ultimately, I think it comes down to the reviewer's jealousy of wanting to nail Teri Hatcher.
Well, I think he did alright.
He got two people who clearly were in love to see each other, at the risks of their over protective, and honor bound parents; and was willing to take the rap for it, when the parents thought he both knocked up that chick, and stole that diamond. And he did not kill anyone while doing so.
Plus he impressed Worf by standing up to him with that, "Let's step outside" stare down they had.
I think, with some more writing, he'd be a pretty likable character, I like him already.
If I can get my comic underway, maybe I'll toss him in a few stories, as well.
Maybe he's running away from a previous life he wants to forget about. Maybe he's from a world, like what we saw in the episode "First Contact", wanting to see what's out there, have some adventures, but stuck on a world where the society, or at least the government, is so intent on maintaining the old ways, and so he up and left.
Terrible? No. A wimpy Han solo clone? yup.
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