Which TNG character do you identify with the most?I have to offer up the caveat that I do not identify with any TNG character that well. Hardly any effort was made to present the characters as real. They were the representation of Gene Roddenberry’s vision of human perfection in the 24th century--a perfection which I not only do not buy into, but also think is a twisted product of a warped, progressive utopia that I do not aspire to live in.
The Next Generation was not big on character development at all. Characters were said to be a certain thing, and we were expected to believe without question. Is Picard really a ladies man? Someone who commands unquestioned loyalty? Someone Beverly Crusher would fall for, since he is responsible for her husband’s death? Is Riker really a natural born leader when he absolutely refuses to assume command on his own? Does he really have a true romance with Troi? Is she a great counselor after she advises data to make himself angry after he murdered a Botg the last time that happened? Is worf an honorable warrior, or a moron who destroys anything he does not understand, which is pretty much everything? Etc, etc.
The only character who had any interesting growth over the series was Data. That was a lucky break. It was part of his Pinnochio wants to be a real boy character theme or else he would have been the show’s version of R2D2.
But you asked who I identified with the most, so I am going to say Ro Laren. You may consider that cheating, since she was supposed to join DS9, but when Michelle Forbes opted not to commit to the series, the character of Kira Nerys was created instead. I like Kira more. I dentifyy more with her, but there is enough of her in Ro that I can see many things from herr perspective. I am not as emotionally damaged as Ro was, but othwise, I am just as edgy and cynical. I would not want to be on the Enterprise around all those cardboard cut outs posing as people, either.
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