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Selar Question

there was no smartness with which the audience can connect. I'm also sure that Suzie Plakson would have been subject to unnecessary criticism.

????

You and I must have seen different episodes.

Selar: Further attempts at violence would be illogical.

Yeah, really hot. :vulcan:

As Torme explained it, the Worf/Selar romance arc would have all happened offscreen, as comedy relief. eg. Worf reporting to sickbay with bruises, fractures, etc. After the third episode, we realise that his secret partner is Selar. Whether she was to have continued beyond that arc wasn't decided.

Torme did comedy romance well, eg. "The Big Goodbye". Crusher's jealousy of Whalen invading her special holodeck invitation was wonderful!
 
As Torme explained it, the Worf/Selar romance arc would have all happened offscreen, as comedy relief. eg. Worf reporting to sickbay with bruises, fractures, etc. After the third episode, we realise that his secret partner is Selar. Whether she was to have continued beyond that arc wasn't decided.

Torme did comedy romance well, eg. "The Big Goodbye". Crusher's jealousy of Whalen invading her special holodeck invitation was wonderful!
See, I would have enjoyed that. :techman:
 
As Torme explained it, the Worf/Selar romance arc would have all happened offscreen, as comedy relief. eg. Worf reporting to sickbay with bruises, fractures, etc. After the third episode, we realise that his secret partner is Selar. Whether she was to have continued beyond that arc wasn't decided.

Torme did comedy romance well, eg. "The Big Goodbye". Crusher's jealousy of Whalen invading her special holodeck invitation was wonderful!

Would the viewer have known by the second episode that something was fishy with all those injuries?
 
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Worf: My blood boils for you!

Selar: inadvisable. Such an elevation of blood temperature would cause your death.

Worf attempts to back-hand her but Selar blocks him with one hand and neck-pinches him with the other.

Selar: Further attempts at violence would be illogical.

Yeah, really hot. :vulcan:
:guffaw::guffaw::guffaw:

Selar by herself might have been an interesting character (or not - TNG-era writers seemed not to know what to do with Vulcan characters, look at how underused Tuvok was). But a Worf/Selar romance seems to be one of the worst ideas ever. I'm sick and tired of the way that Trek writers seem only able to write alien romances as a comedies. Klingon mating only seemed to be treated as comedic on DS9 and VOY.

Worf/K'Ehleyr, on the other hand, was one of the best Trek romances, one of the few convincing canon pairings, and a rare example of Klingon mating being treated seriously and actually looking hot.


I would have enjoyed a Vulcan/Klingon romance, if done right.
If done right, it wouldn't include so many stereotypes and it would have to be treated as least somewhat seriously, which Worf/Selar, as planned, probably wouldn't have been.

I'm pretty sure that Selar as a long-term character would have been a turn-off. She may have been hot and sexy, but as was the case with the full-Vulcan T'Pol, there was no smartness with which the audience can connect.
:wtf:

Actually, I found T'Pol to be one of the most relatable characters in Enterprise.
Ditto. She is my favorite character on ENT and I can relate to her a lot.

The thing with full-blooded Vulcans is that they're not supposed to display feelings much. Suppression of emotions is more natural than with cases like Spock, who in his later life flips back and forth between witty logic and feeling cool, but still in between two extremes. T'Pol's bouts of emotion are a bit too extreme.
Yes, we can't have alien races displaying any kind of diversity, can we? Every individual must have absolutely the same temperament and personality, as well as views and attitudes (and preferably dress and haircut, too). :vulcan: :rommie: :klingon: :cardie: It's not like real-life humans (the only sentient race we know) display a lot of variety in character - no, sir, all humans act the same, so it makes perfect sense for aliens to be all the same. :rolleyes: :borg::borg::borg::borg::borg::borg::borg::borg::borg::borg:
 
Wow-- I would've loved to have seen more of Selar.

But Selar and Worf? I can't imagine her putting up with Worf for one second.
 
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