Who is the worst character in all of Star Trek main cast?
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If I'm thinking "Oh my, what in the world were they thinking when they came up with character?", I'd have to go with Neelix. Watching him in any scene was like scratching fingernails down a chalkboard.
If I'm thinking "The writers / people in charge really lost track of what they wanted to do with this character", I'd go with Wesley, Jake Sisko, Tom Paris, Chakotay, Janeway, Archer and T'Pol.
If I'm thinking "Did they writers forget this character existed?" I'd go with Harry Kim and Travis M.
If I'm thinking "The writers / people in charge really lost track of what they wanted to do with this character", I'd go with Wesley, Jake Sisko, Tom Paris, Chakotay, Janeway, Archer and T'Pol.
If I'm thinking "Did they writers forget this character existed?" I'd go with Harry Kim and Travis M.
Wesley is a proof that a Gary Stu is not any better when an established writer/producer creates it. But don't feel bad, I don't believe for one second that Wesley was a realistic representation of young Roddenberry... or of anyone.
I note with a great deal of puzzlement--and not a little bit of shamelessly smug satisfaction--that Seven of Nine, considered by general consensus here to be "Sexiest Trek Character Ever" (as DevilEyes can attest) has 9 votes, and Jadzia has 7.
Smug satisfaction, because both Seven and Jadzia have more votes on this than Ezri--and this after all that talk about how Jadzia is supposed to be "clearly" superior to Ezri.
Guess there's some justice in this universe after all.
BTW...this is embarrasing, but I actually forgot how I voted. I'm pretty sure I voted "none"....
Smug satisfaction, because both Seven and Jadzia have more votes on this than Ezri--and this after all that talk about how Jadzia is supposed to be "clearly" superior to Ezri.
Guess there's some justice in this universe after all.
BTW...this is embarrasing, but I actually forgot how I voted. I'm pretty sure I voted "none"....
This doesn't give a clear picture of opinions until we compare it to a "Best Trek main character" poll. (Why isn't there such a poll, BTW? I'm sure there must have been one or more at some point.) Some characters having more votes in the "worst character" poll than some others might not mean that they are less popular - perhaps they are just more controversial (on this forum, at least).
^Perhaps....
BTW...maybe someone should start a "Best Trek Character" poll....
BTW...maybe someone should start a "Best Trek Character" poll....
Well, if you are asking...^Perhaps....
BTW...maybe someone should start a "Best Trek Character" poll....
We recently had a most popular character game, but not that many people play those games, and it's always a matter of who are the most persistent posters who keep voting every day...
Hm, how many characters should be included in the Best Trek character poll? It wouldn't be right to include just the "main" characters (i.e. those from the credits)... Garak won the recent character game, and he's technically a recurring character. So, which recurring characters have to be included? We should decide it before making such a poll, afterwards it would be too late to complain about who's missing...
I would say include "recurring" secondaries, to be fair. The more they appear, the higher the priority of inclusion. Not to make it exhaustive, though--just enough so that any secondary who could possibly get more than a few votes would be listed.
Anyone not included should be write-ins.
In effect...an "other" option.
Anyone not included should be write-ins.
In effect...an "other" option.
you forgot morn. had more appearances than half the cast of your list.
Ah come on! Morn was the lynchpin of DS9!! lol
I voted for Pulaski but I also agree about Neelix - a strange character that was supposed to be a comic relief, but didn't work for me.
Why Chacotay? I think he was the best written character in "Voyager".
I voted for Wesely and Pulaski. Pulaski because it was an obviously and entirely ill-conceived attempt to ape the "old passionate bigmouth/quiet intelligent logician" chemistry of McCoy and Spock; instead, Pulaski invariably comes off as a self-righteous cunt for constantly mocking/challenging/undermining Data and the rest of us are thinking how lucky she is that he doesn't have an emotional program that might compel to slap the shit out of her. And Wesely because... well, self explanatory.
But despite a lack of ENT selections in the poll--and this one is incredibly hard for me because MOST of the Ent main cast was just god awful--I have to settle on a two-way tie between Trip and Travis.
Travis, mainly, because besides being an absolutely horrific actor, the character was written as what Wesely Crusher would be if you made him ditzy, black and a little bicurious.
And Trip, because despite my attempts to keep an open mind I fail to see anything even remotely endearing about a ignorant blustering redneck who got a job he is not remotely qualified for just because his well connected friend put in a good word for him. That plus the "I'm transferring to the Columbia for some reason, but I'll be back next episode with no explanation at all" business puts him in my top five shitlist.
Though she isn't a regular, the Borg Queen tops my list now and forever, as this was the one character in all of Star Trek whose premise, origins, motivation, dialog, actions, background--pretty much every possible aspect of her existence--made absolutely NO fucking sense. I have to believe she was either farted into existence by Q's son, or she's the punchline of some kind of cosmic knock-knock joke.
But despite a lack of ENT selections in the poll--and this one is incredibly hard for me because MOST of the Ent main cast was just god awful--I have to settle on a two-way tie between Trip and Travis.
Travis, mainly, because besides being an absolutely horrific actor, the character was written as what Wesely Crusher would be if you made him ditzy, black and a little bicurious.
And Trip, because despite my attempts to keep an open mind I fail to see anything even remotely endearing about a ignorant blustering redneck who got a job he is not remotely qualified for just because his well connected friend put in a good word for him. That plus the "I'm transferring to the Columbia for some reason, but I'll be back next episode with no explanation at all" business puts him in my top five shitlist.
Though she isn't a regular, the Borg Queen tops my list now and forever, as this was the one character in all of Star Trek whose premise, origins, motivation, dialog, actions, background--pretty much every possible aspect of her existence--made absolutely NO fucking sense. I have to believe she was either farted into existence by Q's son, or she's the punchline of some kind of cosmic knock-knock joke.
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Like alot of characters on Voyager, his motivation became incoherent. The writers pretty much took it for granted "This is just the way Chakotay is" and he wound up being sort of a cardboard cutout of a character. Ironically, this continued--apparently intentionally--even after a concerted effort was made to explore the character in more depth. Most blatantly in that episode where Chakotay and Janeway were stranded together on that planet, only to beam back to the ship and adopt some kind of "Let's never speak of this again" pact. By the next episode, it was business as usual.
But I wouldn't vote Chakotay in this regard, because this was a systematic problem with the entire cast. Even with Kes and Neelix, whose precise reasons for staying aboard Voyager were never really fleshed out and seems to boil down to their not having anything better to do.
YES someone else voted for Riker, I am not alone.
That felt goooood..
That felt goooood..
Well, it looks like there was one such thread in April, but it was limited to the cast in the main credits (except for TOS), and it wasn't multiple choice. Spock won that one comfortably. It also included a couple of TAS characters... I'm not sure about that?
And here is the Best Trek characters multiple choice poll. Now we can compare... although my poll includes a lot more characters... including the ENT characters 
Hmm...Wesley is definitely most annoying. However worst character I deem to be Riker - a trite take on Kirk - most of the time. Frake's acting was so laboured I wanted to give him some warm milk and tell him to go lie down in a darkened room for a while.
That smug, self-satisfied smile *shudders*
That smug, self-satisfied smile *shudders*
Ezri Dax
Don't get me wrong, she was a good character, a decent actress, and very attractive, but I just don't like the way she came to, and the way she made her way into the series.
Had there been more seasons after the 7th, say, three more seasons, then maybe it woulda made better sense for her being there, but one season just isn't enough. Imagine if Seven (Voyager) first appeared in the 7th and final season, that woulda never worked. I see this as kinda the same thing.
Not sure if I woulda voted for anyone from Enterprise series (had they been among the ones you could vote for), but I don't think so, though I didn't like those seasons at all
Don't get me wrong, she was a good character, a decent actress, and very attractive, but I just don't like the way she came to, and the way she made her way into the series.
Had there been more seasons after the 7th, say, three more seasons, then maybe it woulda made better sense for her being there, but one season just isn't enough. Imagine if Seven (Voyager) first appeared in the 7th and final season, that woulda never worked. I see this as kinda the same thing.
Not sure if I woulda voted for anyone from Enterprise series (had they been among the ones you could vote for), but I don't think so, though I didn't like those seasons at all
