Best Star Trek Character?

[Seven of Nine]

There were the officers... the aliens... and then there was Q.

Who was YOUR favorite Star Trek character?

[Hank the Cowdog]

Data, Spock, and Scotty.

[Seven of Nine]

Data, Spock, and Scotty.

What about me?!

Just kidding.

[Highway of Life]

Data and the Doctor.

[darkon]

I really liked Deanna Troi... but the best character in all series has to be Dr. Phlox

Esspecialy when he´s smiling

[DBranford]

Q, Odo & Quark

[Jackanape Jack]

I'm clearly a TOS fan, unapologetically, but I believe the triad of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are at a level that Trek has tried to reach again and again over the years, and coming very close a few times.

Picard, Data, and Crusher were an excellent team, filfilling, story-wise, much of what the TOS Trio did, with the only exception being that Picard was TOO level-headed and logical, which tended to imbalance the combo. I know, I know, Ryker was supposed to be the "impetuous" Kirk-type character, but that never really flew, and he ended up being alot more like Picard...

I LOVED what DS9 did with Sisko, Odo, and Kira. They took the triad and tweaked it JUST a bit, to fantastic results...

I have to go to work, so I'll return with more, if I'm boring anyone...

[Highway of Life]

So what was the triad in Voyager?

[Ika]

So what was the triad in Voyager?

I would say Janeway, Chakotae (sp?), and Paris...

[Jackanape Jack]

There are two ways of looking at the basic Trek Triad, and I believe the original writers caught on to this early in the series.

1) Mind, Body, and Soul

2) Head and the Heart, with Man as the crucible...a balancing act.

I believe many fans still gravitate towards this natural metaphor, and the fan favorites are generally these characters.

However, I confess to not having seen as many episodes of Voyager as I would have liked. (I work nights!) Those that I DID see, seemed too steeped in soap opera--rather than space opera--for me, as though every character HAD to get an even amount of screen time per script. The main characters seemed TOO balanced, themselves, giving no real opportunity for such categorization. I am uncomfortable trying to make an uneducated guess as to who would fit the bill for that series.

For fear of taking this topic in another direction, I'll pose this question to you Voyager fans: Which three Voyager characters best fit either of the two metaphoric definitions above?

Enterprise is another series I started watching too late, but I enjoyed all the episodes I did see...thanks to the SciFi network, I can now enjoy it every Monday. I think Archer is the most human of all the Captains since Kirk, and that aids in the crucible metaphor. Tucker undoubtedly played the part of the heart, while I am hard-pressed to confidently place the mind--it's too easy to just point at the Vulcan here, and I'm not sure she fully fits the bill, as something of an enigmatic outsider for much of the series...

OK, I'm done rambling now, Good Night!