Thirty Days of Star Trek: Least Liked Character

Day 21 - Least Favorite Character

Now here's a position that hasn't changed due to all the new canon Star Trek canon I've consumed since last doing a Star Trek meme: it's still an entire race of people, who, however, are presented without individual differences and uniform in mind, and no, I'm not talking about the Borg. My least favourite characters in all of Star Trek are still the Prophets from DS9, who win over characters actually designed as villains as well as other not-called-villain irritants by virtue of my loathing the s7 Sarah Sisko reveal and (Ben) Sisko subsequently dealing with it with basically a shrug and "oh well, that explains why she wasn't around". ( More spoilery remarks follow. )

I mean, I wasn't that keen on the Prophets before s7, either. As long as the show played them as truly non-linear aliens who were simply having a different frame of reference, I was Prophet-neutral. Then during the last two or three seasons the Pah-Wraiths showed up, supposedly the Prophets' opposite number, in a good/bad, light/dark fashion. Which meant we were supposed to accept the Prophets as good without them actually having done anything to deserve that label. Plus Babylon 5 had just wrapped up, and B5's reveal that the Vorlons were just as bad as athe Shadows had effectively undercut this entire pseudo Christian angels versus demons set up. Episodes like The Reckoning deepened my Prophet dislike. And then came s7 which promoted them to the least favourite spot which they've remained on ever since.

If it can't be the Prophets because it has to be a distinct individual, I'm going with Voyager's Chakotay. Who isn't guilty of anything like this, mind. I just find him bland and boring, and it baffles me to this day on a Watsonian level that Seska, Be'lanna, Janeway and - pause for a special boo, hiss - Seven were all at different points shown to be into him. Archer at least had his devotion to Porthos and s1-s2 occasional sincere geeking out about space as saving graces; Chuckles hasn't anything like this. Get thee gone from my Star Trek, Chakotay.

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Thirty Days of Medici: Fight to the Death

Day 27 ~ Fightin’ words: Who would you like to see in a fight to the death?

Montessecco is a professional condottiere who doesn't go up against his employer, as long as said employer honors the contract, too, and pays, and Jacopo Pazzi is his employer, so they have no reason to fight, but: these two, in slightly different ways, would be a match in ruthlessness. (Also Jacopo is played by Sean Bean who has ample sword fighting practice through the decades.)

Alternatively, since the fight doesn't have to be a duel of swords or knives, a cross-generation and cross-season fight to the death between Giovanni de' Medici and Jacopo would be something to behold. Both are arrogant evil patriarchal life ruiners who now and then make a good point and entirely deserve what the respective other would dish out.

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