Who's Your Favorite...?

[Count Zero]

Alright, here's my breakdown by series:

TOS: Spock
TNG: Picard
DS9: Bashir / Odo
VOY: The Doctor / 7 of 9
ENT: Archer / T'Pol

 

[Jetfire]

TOS: Chekov
TNG: Data
DS9: Jadzia
VOY: Seven Of Nine
ENT: Hoshi & Travis Mayweather

 

[Merc1083]

TOS: Khan Noonien Singh (Only one episode, but also even with my favorite Movie character)

TNG: While the main cast is great, I find some of the guest stars to be top notch, especially the villians. Professor Moriarty (Second outing), Gul Madred (yay Cardassians), and Sarek (not a villain obviously).

DS9: Garak, Gul Dukat, Martok.

Voyager: hard to pick one that really stands out, but I found that the character of Annorax from "Year of Hell" to be my favorite character. The Doctor is by far the best series regular.

Enterprise: Same as above, but Shran overall would be my pick, or perhaps Soval... better yet, Shran vs Soval scenes.

Movies: General Chang... There can be no other. (well, Khan)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

As I said before, Admiral Forrest is my favorite character. But if I had to pick others:

TOS: Scotty
TNG: Data
DS9: O'Brien
VOY: The Doctor
ENT: Archer

 

[Kirkman1987]

Kirk. Shatner's Kirk (along with Spock and McCoy) defines Star Trek for me.

 

[Methos]

TOS: Kirk... he just makes me laugh

TNG: Data... fantastic episodes based around Data and his 'views' of humanity made the best of the series

DS9: Dax... love the character and history they built around Dax, fantastic back story set up in the books, and wonderful character growth throughout...

VOY: Seven of Nine... again, love watching her views of humanity, how she views what people do and why they act like they do...

ENT: Malcolm Reed... love the character, he just makes me laugh with every scene he's in... loved his Section 31 storyline and wish they'd done more with that

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[Tora Ziyal]

I think I am the only person who never cared for Data.

He's never been one of my favorites. I think I enjoyed him more in the beginning, but then I got kind of bored with him. Except for his interaction with Spot. That, I love!

In fact, I think I'll add a few names to my favorites list... My favorite recurring characters are Spot, Tora Ziyal (surprise!), Garak and Sarek.

 

[The Dominion]

To be honest, I can't pick a favorite out of DS9 in particular. I liked virtually all of the characters a lot.

 

[Lowdarzz]

Kirk. It will always be Kirk. When my friends and I used to act out scenes from Star Trek III when we were young it was always me who flipped the guy playing Kruge even though it didn't happen that way in the film.

I'll sum it with a paraphrased quote from Inside Star Trek by Herb Sollow and Bob Justman:

Picard may be the superior officer but I'd follow James T. Kirk through the gates of hell.

 

[sojournaut]

I always liked Miles O'Brien - the few times we saw more of him in TNG were a real treat, and he's in my opinion one of the most relatable characters in Star Trek - just a regular guy, pretty much. Despite being infamously tortured and stepped on in many of his story lines, he always found ways to move forward.

On DS9 he always seemed a little exasperated, but you could tell he genuinely loved his work.

 

[BillJ]

I'll sum it with a paraphrased quote from Inside Star Trek by Herb Sollow and Bob Justman:

Picard may be the superior officer but I'd follow James T. Kirk through the gates of hell.

Because Kirk punched the bad guy, saved the day and got the girl. It may be simple but it's what every guy wants to do deep down.

 

[MHT1138]

I think I am the only person who never cared for Data.

He's never been one of my favorites. I think I enjoyed him more in the beginning, but then I got kind of bored with him. Except for his interaction with Spot. That, I love!

In fact, I think I'll add a few names to my favorites list... My favorite recurring characters are Spot, Tora Ziyal (surprise!), Garak and Sarek.

I love love love Data and Spot. It is amazing how human like his reactions with Spot are. I have acted like that with my pets.

I also love Data and Geordi's friendship. I feel it's so genuine.

 

[BillJ]

Kirk then Picard from early-to-mid TNG.

How do you feel he changed?

Sorry I missed this before.

First I'll point to two quotes from differing characters...

Captain Jean-Luc Picard. I wish I could say you've been like a father to me, but I've never had one, so I don't know what it feels like. But if there was someone in this universe I could choose to be like, someone who I would want to make proud of me, it's you. You who have the heart of an explorer and the soul of a poet.

Remarkably analytical and dispassionate, for a human. I understand why my father chose to mind-meld with him. There's almost a Vulcan quality to the man.

It seems the writers' late in the series took the second quote to heart and ran with it. Picard seemed to lose his verve for exploring and wrapped himself up in a weird sense of morality that really disconnected me from the character.

For a long time I really thought he was going to pass Jim Kirk as my favorite character... but then the flame seemed to get snuffed out. YMMV.

 

[sonak]

Kirk then Picard from early-to-mid TNG.

How do you feel he changed?

Sorry I missed this before.

First I'll point to two quotes from differing characters...

Captain Jean-Luc Picard. I wish I could say you've been like a father to me, but I've never had one, so I don't know what it feels like. But if there was someone in this universe I could choose to be like, someone who I would want to make proud of me, it's you. You who have the heart of an explorer and the soul of a poet.

Remarkably analytical and dispassionate, for a human. I understand why my father chose to mind-meld with him. There's almost a Vulcan quality to the man.

It seems the writers' late in the series took the second quote to heart and ran with it. Picard seemed to lose his verve for exploring and wrapped himself up in a weird sense of morality that really disconnected me from the character.

For a long time I really thought he was going to pass Jim Kirk as my favorite character... but then the flame seemed to get snuffed out. YMMV.

Hmmm.. I don't get that sense at all. Picard was always kind of the cerebral, aloof guy. "Trek" magazine's review of EAF commented on that aspect of the character from the beginning. And he was also a moralizer from the beginning as well(ironic considering the moral monstrousness of some of his positions over the years)

in the very episode you bring up, SOE, he's speechifying to Armus about those who are enslaved who serve things evil, and in "pen pals" he's already a PD fundamentalist.

I think later Picard's actually a bit warmer, look at "disaster," "rascals," etc.

 

[BillJ]

Hmmm.. I don't get that sense at all. Picard was always kind of the cerebral, aloof guy.

Cerebral and aloof doesn't necessarily make one a poor leader.

in the very episode you bring up, SOE, he's speechifying to Armus about those who are enslaved who serve things evil, and in "pen pals" he's already a PD fundamentalist.

In Skin of Evil he was attempting to agitate Armus. The "I'm not taking you anywhere" was a fitting "screw you". As was "the coils stay here" from Symbiosis, using the Prime Directive for an outcome he was personally satisfied with. We see in Justice, Pen Pals and Who Watches the Watchers that Picard will finesse the Prime Directive when he doesn't think the situation fits.

Early seasons Picard had style and he also spelled knife with an "n".

The morality shift made him a far less likable character as did the fake "warmness" they tried in Disaster. Picard was envisioned as a stern authority figure who could bend the rules and stand by his people. Turmoil seemed to exist in early seasons Picard, that made him interesting. Later seasons Picard became as black and white as Bele and Lokai of Cheron.

I look at episodes like Homeward, Journey's End and the film Star Trek: Insurrection and can't believe I'm looking at the same character...

 

[captcalhoun]

THE WOMEN!

well, most of them. certainly Uhura, Deanna, Kira and Jadzia, Seven and B'Elanna and T'Pol. plus Leeta.

and of the men: Worf and Shran.

 

[T'Preea]

My ultimate favorite is Spock! I've loved him since I was a little girl. It's so hard to make me cry, but in his death scene in Wrath of Khan, I cry like a baby. I know he comes back in ISOS, but it's still sad watching him die. *a piece of me dies everytime*

 

[Bones_McCoy21]

TOS:McCoy,McCoy,McCoy,McCoy,McCoy,McCoy,McCoy (You get the idea)
TNG:Pulaskie;I love the episodes of TOS when she appears,Keiko,and Miles O'Brien
DS9:Sisko,Keiko,Miles O'Brien
(I genuinly dislike Spock and Data though spock was more enjoyable to watch they were both verey monotonal but I do love Spock at the end of Amok Time) And just so you all get the message the all time best charactor is...MCCOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Lucky]

Overall: Captain James T. Kirk. The guy was one of my heroes as a kid.

By individual series:

TOS: Kirk (for reasons said above)

TNG: Riker (he always seemed cool to me)

DS9: Kira (one of the most complex characters in Trek)

VOY: Seven (I always found her really interesting)

ENT: Trip (one of the most relatable characters)

 

[gomtuu20]

Shatner's KIRK! (Is it my imagination, or was this character always at his best when he was being a complete bastard?)
Kirk, Spock and McCoy are sort of the different aspects of one character, kind of like what Shakespeare did in The Tempest. They sort of function as one, all the while conducting a debate within themselves. Spock obviously got the most attention when the series first came on the air, and he is in outstanding character all on his own, but it is as a third of Kirk, so to speak, that his character is really at home.

The guy that played Trip on Enterprise would have been a much better captain than Scott Bakula. I thought Trip was the best character on that series, largely due to the actor's portrayal.

Garak was Jadzia Dax were really the only interesting characters on DS9 that I found interesting.