Who is your best main character IV-Star Trek: The Next Generation

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Best character-Deep Space Nine: [url]http://community.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?59262-Who-is-your-best-main-character-III-Star-Trek-Deep-Space-Nine[/url]

It's time for part 4...the beginning of modern Star Trek.

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Stardate 41153.7/The year 2364. Almost a century after the exploits of James T. Kirk, the United Federation of Planets continues its existence in an era where the Klingons are allies, and there are many more strange new worlds, new life, and new civilizations. The ship given the task to boldly go where no one has gone before is the USS Enterprise-D, under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Over the next seven years the Enterprise will get into a multitude of adventures and misadventures, and some of them will change the way of Star Trek forever...
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For many, and for good reason, TNG is considered the best Trek of them all. What started out as a gigantic mess of a show in its first two seasons turned into a television powerhouse that gave way to the modern idea of Trek and entering the pantheon of popular culture that rival's TOS. Voyager and DS9 owe its existence to it, and almost half of the film franchise is taken up by the TNG cast.

So, in this thread, vote your favorite character in The Next Generation: Picard, Riker, Geordi, Tasha, Worf, Beverly, Troi, Data, and Wesley.

I think every character has their merit, but Picard is Picard. I'd probably put Geordi in second place though.

I was tempted to give my vote to Crusher out of sympathy, but couldn't bring myself to do it... Picard all the way!

My vote went to Riker. He was always my favorite, although I really did enjoy the whole cast. I liked that he wasn't afraid to go against Picard if he thought it was necessary. Plus Frakes' first acting job was Captain America for Marvel. :)

Hard to go against Stewart as Picard, so I won't.

but so many of them had such strong performances over the years, and it seems unfair to not give them all credit. it was a great cast that loved one another.

I loved Data and for some reason I never cared for Riker.

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Gotta go with Data-the best parts of the somewhat weak first two seasons usually featured him-"Datalore" "Measure of a Man" etc. plus a lot of the later classics- "Offspring" "Brothers" "Data's Day" etc.


It's too bad the TNG movies sort of fumbled with him, and reduced him largely to comic relief, although he had a few good moments (Stellar cartography in GEN, his scenes with the Borg Queen in First Contact).

I went with the come-from-behind character, Worf. I loved Picard originally, but began to find him more tedious the longer the series ran after the fourth season.

Worf of course probably had the most development out of all the characters-which of course, continued on Deep Space Nine.

Picard I think was originally sort of written as sort of stern, socially awkward and stuck-up, although he later softened after the Borg and Inner Light stuff. I think they sort of wanted to make him as far from Kirk as possible to start-middle aged, bald, strict and more by the book, more diplomatic etc. (Although Riker certainly had some of Kirk's characterization). Another problem with the films is that they sort of tried too hard to have Patrick Stewart as an action star (Although the series was guilty of this at times-"Starship Mine" comes to mind). I think that actually might have been Roddenberry's original concept for Kirk-in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and some other early episodes, Kirk seems to be more of an intellectual and somewhat stuck up, before becoming more of the action-oriented, swaggering ladie's man. Some of this comes across in the first movie (Of which some of the concepts-and also that of the TV series Phase II that was never made-were recycled into TNG)