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I recently rewatched DS9. Nog’s character is one of the more notable ones because the Ferengi are often used as a form of comic relief in the series. His deve
by knolan 7y ago
I recently rewatched DS9.
Nog’s character is one of the more notable ones because the Ferengi are often used as a form of comic relief in the series.
His development from an obnoxious teenager rebelling against his culture and befriending Jake and later embracing a military career and the family conflict that entailed was interesting but his later development was was most compelling.
His conflict when dealing with the illegal actions of Red Squad, his almost fanatical loyalty to Captain Sisko were all built upon this initial development. Then we get his Catch 22 moment where he embraces his culture and his new life in a wonderful bit of comic relief which leads us to be blindsided by his decent into despair following his injury.
One of the best character arcs in Trek.
- bane 7y agoDS9 has some of the best written character arcs of any show in memory. The long list of truly dimensional characters who wrestle with all sorts of things, and the story around their growth or descent is fantastic. Further added to the way that some of the main characters pull their respective peoples onto various sides and even their "nations" seem to breath more than in almost any other series. While the Ferengi episodes were often semi-comedic, the show also fleshed them out and (dare I say) humanized many of the recurring characters as interesting, sympathetic, and complex -- challenging viewers to think deeper about superficial archetypes.
- ldng 7y agoI agree, if the Ferengui most of the time were semic-comedic, I think that when they were not the starkness of it helped highlight the point and some episode do play on that subtly.
- DonHopkins 7y agoVedek Winn Adami always drove me coo-coo with her demeaning power-hungry mother superior attitude, always dismissively calling people "child", while lying and manipulating people in her unquenchable quest for power, that led to her ultimate fate. Then I finally realized why she is such a contemptible character who drove me so totally mad that I wanted to strangle her: she's played by Louise Fletcher, aka Nurse Mildred Ratched in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest! But I feel much better now that I have my lobotomy. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Winn_Adami https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Winn_Adami https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Louise_Fletcher https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Louise_Fletcher
- dnautics 7y agoI have a thesis that the most compelling thing about the ds9 characters is that they're all struggling with impostor syndrome. The first episode is a microcosm with sisko feeling IS about staying in Starfleet, morphing into IS about being the emissary; kira, Bashir, dax 2, odo, quark, rom, all do too in their own ways. And of course nog's character exemplifies this, over his arc. Incidentally the foils (Winn and dukat) all exemplify aspects of toxic leadership so well.