Writing Sela Better

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hammerofglass wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 11:05 am And that wouldn't work because they already have a barely restrained ball of rage and emotions doing rails in the bathroom.
How cruel can you guys be to Raffi, Star Trek's best abusive girlfriend racist!
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Nobody700 wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:19 pm
hammerofglass wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 11:05 am And that wouldn't work because they already have a barely restrained ball of rage and emotions doing rails in the bathroom.
How cruel can you guys be to Raffi, Star Trek's best abusive girlfriend racist!
Out of all of the new characters introduced in Picard she is the one I could not stand.

Going back to Sela, I do think it would have well suited her if DS9 could have brought her in as a guest star character for the Romulans during the Dominion War. Instead of the one and done Romulans that appeared, she could have been placed there. Her being half human and all that.
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McAvoy wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:44 pm
Nobody700 wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:19 pm
hammerofglass wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 11:05 am And that wouldn't work because they already have a barely restrained ball of rage and emotions doing rails in the bathroom.
How cruel can you guys be to Raffi, Star Trek's best abusive girlfriend racist!
Out of all of the new characters introduced in Picard she is the one I could not stand.

Going back to Sela, I do think it would have well suited her if DS9 could have brought her in as a guest star character for the Romulans during the Dominion War. Instead of the one and done Romulans that appeared, she could have been placed there. Her being half human and all that.
While bashing Raffi is fun, I actually hate Elnor vastly more and consider him the single worst Star Trek main character ever. Worse than Archer, worse than anyone else, Elnor remains the single bane of my existence.

Sela being on DS9 woulda been real fun, but only for us. She has no connection to the DS9 crew aside from Worf, and I doubt she and Worf would hang much.
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Nobody700 wrote: Wed Jan 17, 2024 1:58 am
McAvoy wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:44 pm
Nobody700 wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:19 pm
hammerofglass wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 11:05 am And that wouldn't work because they already have a barely restrained ball of rage and emotions doing rails in the bathroom.
How cruel can you guys be to Raffi, Star Trek's best abusive girlfriend racist!
Out of all of the new characters introduced in Picard she is the one I could not stand.

Going back to Sela, I do think it would have well suited her if DS9 could have brought her in as a guest star character for the Romulans during the Dominion War. Instead of the one and done Romulans that appeared, she could have been placed there. Her being half human and all that.
While bashing Raffi is fun, I actually hate Elnor vastly more and consider him the single worst Star Trek main character ever. Worse than Archer, worse than anyone else, Elnor remains the single bane of my existence.

Sela being on DS9 woulda been real fun, but only for us. She has no connection to the DS9 crew aside from Worf, and I doubt she and Worf would hang much.
To be fair Dukat on DS9 was fun, but only for us (and maybe Dukat).
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Nobody700 wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2024 6:01 pm Really if they wanted to do anything with this... have Tasha Yar BE in the klingon/romulan commune, she had Sela with a Romulan soldier, and that Sela is someone trying to bring peace between Romulans and the Federation so while she's a Romulan soldier, she is actually an inside agent who is working with Spock secretly.
Eh, Sela is a fine character and at least a villain with legs.
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Nobody700 wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:19 pm How cruel can you guys be to Raffi, Star Trek's best abusive girlfriend racist!
Still a better partner for Seven than Chakotay.

Then that psyhco lady who cut out Icheb's eyeball was a better partner for Seven than Chakotay.
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CharlesPhipps wrote: Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:13 pm Eh, Sela is a fine character and at least a villain with legs.
That she does indeed. Two of them, in fact.
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stryke wrote: Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:29 pm
Nobody700 wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:19 pm How cruel can you guys be to Raffi, Star Trek's best abusive girlfriend racist!
Still a better partner for Seven than Chakotay.

Then that psyhco lady who cut out Icheb's eyeball was a better partner for Seven than Chakotay.
Chakotay just outright ruined men for her, apparently.
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hammerofglass wrote: Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:27 pm
stryke wrote: Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:29 pm
Nobody700 wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:19 pm How cruel can you guys be to Raffi, Star Trek's best abusive girlfriend racist!
Still a better partner for Seven than Chakotay.

Then that psyhco lady who cut out Icheb's eyeball was a better partner for Seven than Chakotay.
Chakotay just outright ruined men for her, apparently.
and trees, she can never date an Oak again.
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So I'm gonna say it... I think Chakotay on paper is a good match for Voyager-era Seven. Calm, patient, cultured, an expert in multiple fields *rolls dice joke*. All skills you would need dealing with her. And he isn't ugly by any means.

The problem is that Beltran had given up by season 7. Season 3 Chakotay may have been a better match.
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