Most Hated characters in Sci Fi
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 3:01 pm
I decided that hey, I love Star Trek, Babylon 5, and why not some other great sci Fi. I could go on into hours of my love for the genre and how it inspired and changed me... but man did a lot of it suck, and I blame a lot on some of the characters. So I decided, what character do you hate the most in a sci fi Genre and why? Only stipulation is, the character actually has some importance to the plot. You can’t name a one episode character like Okona, they have to have had a character. Now, on to mine for a few.
Star Trek: Honestly none, I can name a lot of characters I dislike but I can’t find a single recurring one I dislike.
Next Generation: Pulaski. Honestly I hated Wesley but he only became loathable by his last appearance (Still waiting for that for, I hope, Christmas) but Pulaski took the cake in her first episode. The difference between her and Bones and how they treat Data and Spock is massive. They wanted a Bones and I get that, but Data is not Spock. Spock bit back at Bones and actually was prideful and deserved a few blows to his ego, but in the end you got Bones did respect Spock and vice versa. Data has no malice and unlike Spock, is 100% pure logic. So Pulaski mocking Data comes off as more her mocking an autistic kid for being autistic, and as someone who is autistic, yeah I didn’t like that when I was a teen watching the show or now.
Voyager: Neelix. Not afraid to admit when I first watched the show, he was my favorite character. He seemed funny, I liked his actor, and I kind of painted him as the roguish imp of the group who was a lot like Quark but nicer. I still love Quark to this day. Neelix, on a second rewatch and a lot of the reviews of SF Debris... yeah he’s a shit hedgehog. He is petty, stupid, and stuff I found funny once I now realize was juvenile or me actually CHANGING what he did. I actually realized I changed actions he committed. I forgot he was a bad chef, I forgot he lied about everything, and I thought his relationship with Kes was healthy! Neelix is a shit hedgehog.
DS9: Ezri. For a character in only one season... yeah I didn’t like her. She replaced a character I like and every episode with her tried to give her something, but she never changed from what I saw her as. Pointless. She was just utterly pointless. She was Troi from TNG but probably worse. At least Troi can OCCASIONALLY be useful, I can’t remember a single episode of Ezri being good at anything that wasn’t the byproduct of someone else doing something better. Stop a serial killer? Yeah, she had a serial killer help. Find out who killed someone? She just looked at the guy smirking. Tell Worf that the Klingons are broken? ROM could have told Worf that with how obvious it was. Ezri is not as annoying as the others on this list, she’s just more pathetic.
Enterprise: Phlox. I only hate Phlox in one episode, but I will never let it go. When you commit genocide for ethnic cleansing reasons, you get on my bad side.
DIS: Michael. Honestly, Michael is just... there. I don’t hate her but I do hate how she’s 90% of the show. I didn’t care for her search for her brother and the whole mom reveal, and she just comes off as a weirdo instead of a human posing as a Vulcan, and the whole Spock sister thing just reminded me of Sybok. Michael just tends to annoy me the most because I feel like she constantly is the most important character on the show and I feel it’s undeserved. Had she been a main character but not the absolute focus that dominated the show, I woulda liked her more, but because she is the focus I just constantly see more of her and i’m Annoyed.
Babylon 5: Franklin. I honestly find Franklin dry and boring. He comes off as smarmy to me, and really self righteous. Franklin is the kind of guy who is utterly elitist to me and I never liked that, and it doesn’t help that he has the opposite problem of michael. He feels like he’s out of the plot a LOT. Like even episodes focusing on him feel like they have nothing to do with the major plot. Hell, even his own plot of drug use LITERALLY CALLED HIM OUT ON IT. He just comes off as a jerk and he never really grabbed me like the rest of B5. Still, I trust him with a scalpel more then I do Phlox or Pulaski.
Stargate: Kinsey. I get he’s supposed to be annoying, I do. But by god I hated his character and he got more and more annoying. Maybe it’s the fact that despite being a recurring foe for the cast, he’s an utter moron and one I just wanted Jack to blast away every episode he showed his face. He’s a religious nut with stupid plans that make no sense, constantly gets told the same lesson over and over and never learns, and he keeps on winning until the final episode where he dies. Sometimes I would consider that the best episode for getting rid of a villain who overstayed his welcome halfway through his first episode.
Farscape: Utu. She was creepy. She was an utter creep who hanged around the Farscape crew out of nowhere and no matter what creepy shit she was up too, no one really gave mind to her and it annoyed me. For a show that tended to be pretty smart in what the audience wanted, basically knowing what to keep and what to cut, the fact she stayed a main character despite being this weirdo who rewrote their minds and harassed them constantly while looking like a villain out of He-Man and the show never bothering to give me a reason why to like her, well I was ready for D’Argo to literally drop kick her out of Moya. That never came and I was annoyed.
Got any other characters in any other franchise or the franchises I mentioned? If so, bring them in. I would like to read them all.
Star Trek: Honestly none, I can name a lot of characters I dislike but I can’t find a single recurring one I dislike.
Next Generation: Pulaski. Honestly I hated Wesley but he only became loathable by his last appearance (Still waiting for that for, I hope, Christmas) but Pulaski took the cake in her first episode. The difference between her and Bones and how they treat Data and Spock is massive. They wanted a Bones and I get that, but Data is not Spock. Spock bit back at Bones and actually was prideful and deserved a few blows to his ego, but in the end you got Bones did respect Spock and vice versa. Data has no malice and unlike Spock, is 100% pure logic. So Pulaski mocking Data comes off as more her mocking an autistic kid for being autistic, and as someone who is autistic, yeah I didn’t like that when I was a teen watching the show or now.
Voyager: Neelix. Not afraid to admit when I first watched the show, he was my favorite character. He seemed funny, I liked his actor, and I kind of painted him as the roguish imp of the group who was a lot like Quark but nicer. I still love Quark to this day. Neelix, on a second rewatch and a lot of the reviews of SF Debris... yeah he’s a shit hedgehog. He is petty, stupid, and stuff I found funny once I now realize was juvenile or me actually CHANGING what he did. I actually realized I changed actions he committed. I forgot he was a bad chef, I forgot he lied about everything, and I thought his relationship with Kes was healthy! Neelix is a shit hedgehog.
DS9: Ezri. For a character in only one season... yeah I didn’t like her. She replaced a character I like and every episode with her tried to give her something, but she never changed from what I saw her as. Pointless. She was just utterly pointless. She was Troi from TNG but probably worse. At least Troi can OCCASIONALLY be useful, I can’t remember a single episode of Ezri being good at anything that wasn’t the byproduct of someone else doing something better. Stop a serial killer? Yeah, she had a serial killer help. Find out who killed someone? She just looked at the guy smirking. Tell Worf that the Klingons are broken? ROM could have told Worf that with how obvious it was. Ezri is not as annoying as the others on this list, she’s just more pathetic.
Enterprise: Phlox. I only hate Phlox in one episode, but I will never let it go. When you commit genocide for ethnic cleansing reasons, you get on my bad side.
DIS: Michael. Honestly, Michael is just... there. I don’t hate her but I do hate how she’s 90% of the show. I didn’t care for her search for her brother and the whole mom reveal, and she just comes off as a weirdo instead of a human posing as a Vulcan, and the whole Spock sister thing just reminded me of Sybok. Michael just tends to annoy me the most because I feel like she constantly is the most important character on the show and I feel it’s undeserved. Had she been a main character but not the absolute focus that dominated the show, I woulda liked her more, but because she is the focus I just constantly see more of her and i’m Annoyed.
Babylon 5: Franklin. I honestly find Franklin dry and boring. He comes off as smarmy to me, and really self righteous. Franklin is the kind of guy who is utterly elitist to me and I never liked that, and it doesn’t help that he has the opposite problem of michael. He feels like he’s out of the plot a LOT. Like even episodes focusing on him feel like they have nothing to do with the major plot. Hell, even his own plot of drug use LITERALLY CALLED HIM OUT ON IT. He just comes off as a jerk and he never really grabbed me like the rest of B5. Still, I trust him with a scalpel more then I do Phlox or Pulaski.
Stargate: Kinsey. I get he’s supposed to be annoying, I do. But by god I hated his character and he got more and more annoying. Maybe it’s the fact that despite being a recurring foe for the cast, he’s an utter moron and one I just wanted Jack to blast away every episode he showed his face. He’s a religious nut with stupid plans that make no sense, constantly gets told the same lesson over and over and never learns, and he keeps on winning until the final episode where he dies. Sometimes I would consider that the best episode for getting rid of a villain who overstayed his welcome halfway through his first episode.
Farscape: Utu. She was creepy. She was an utter creep who hanged around the Farscape crew out of nowhere and no matter what creepy shit she was up too, no one really gave mind to her and it annoyed me. For a show that tended to be pretty smart in what the audience wanted, basically knowing what to keep and what to cut, the fact she stayed a main character despite being this weirdo who rewrote their minds and harassed them constantly while looking like a villain out of He-Man and the show never bothering to give me a reason why to like her, well I was ready for D’Argo to literally drop kick her out of Moya. That never came and I was annoyed.
Got any other characters in any other franchise or the franchises I mentioned? If so, bring them in. I would like to read them all.
