Character Meme

[selenak]

Meme, copied from various places:

Name a character in any of my fandoms, and I'll answer these questions:

1. Do you love/hate/don’t feel strongly about this character?
2. What’s your favorite trait of this character?
3. What’s your favorite moment/event involving this character?
4. If you could have one power/attribute/etc. of this character, what would it be?
5. Have you ever pictured this character naked?
6. When did you fall in love/hate with this character? I you don’t have any strong feelings toward them, why not?
7. Who’s your OTP for this character, if any?

Comments

[thirdblindmouse]

I'd go as far as say that DS9, the Bajorans and the Cardassians would not have been possible in Trek if TNG hadn't gone there first with Worf and all things Klingon and if the viewers hadn't reacted positively to it.

I'll keep that in mind next time I whine about Worf causing an increase in Klingon episodes of DS9. I wish Worf's deadpan humor had been featured on DS9 more than once in a blue moon.

I'll have to watch "Heart of Glory". I actually liked "Sons of Mogh" -- despite its awful ending, it is the one Klingon episode I've seen that made me care about Klingon tradition and the tensions between Worf's duty as a Klingon vs. Federation law. It's also one of the rare times we see the boundaries of Jadzia Dax's relationship with Klingon tradition. She may be able to participate in Klingon culture more relaxedly than someone obsessed with a heritage that was not part of his upbringing, but ultimately her participation is a factor of interpersonal bonds and a compatible disposition; for Worf, it is an integral part of his identity.

[selenak]

Well, the problem with s4 is that the Klingon storyline comes across as very artificial and an excuse for Worf to join the cast. And you can tell, because in s5 we're back to the Dominion storyline that was so rudely interrupted. But TNG was where the Klingons were actually developed for the first time from their Evil McEvil TOS days, so their politics and mythology there were all new and were among the first ongoing storylines.

Heart of Glory isn't the ep with Worf's brother, I phrased that badly, it was the ep where I had my first "aw, Worf" moment. The one with Worf's brother Kurn was Sins of the Father, which also basically introduces Klingon politics and their home planet, never seen before (this was also before ST VI).

Good Klingon TNG eps for Worf development to watch:

Emissary (The one which introduces K'eyhlar, played by the fabulous Suzie Plakson; she's flippant and sexy, and you can see how Jadzia would remind Worf of her)

Sins of the Father (introduces Kurn, Duras, Mogh's backstory and Chancellor K'empec, a wily old fox - also the Klingon banishment ceremony, and because the ending for Kurn and Worf is so different you'll see why Sons of Mogh struck me as an inferior remake)

Reunion (K'eyhlar comes back, so do K'empec and Duras, Gowron gets introduced, and so does Alexander; this is the one where for the first time a Starfleet regular character does something that puts his people's ethics above Starfleet ethics).

Bear in mind Worf and the Klingons actually weren't my favourites on TNG, just secondary interests, but still, I loved these eps.

[thirdblindmouse]

That makes me curious: who were your favourites/primary interests on TNG?

[selenak]

While I liked the entire crew and loved Q and Lwaxana Troi best as guest stars, I did have a clear favourite among the regulars. Which would be none other than my still favourite Starship Captain of them all. Jean-Luc Picard forever!

My last selective TNG rewatch, for which I posted reviews, happened after the ST reboot movie had been released and BSG ended. (I had done a complete DS9 rewatch when the dvds came out, and then some selective ones for ficathons. ) Mysteriously, the film invoked not TOS but TNG nostalgia, and so did laterday BSG.