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You know, I don't know if this belongs HERE or under General Discussion ...
In "Highlander", you've got select humans who are immortal, and are battling against each other until only one remains.
Well, who says only humans have Immortals? Going to do some non-cannon crossover here ... Klingons could have Immortals as well ... and Andorians, Bajorans, etcetra.
But imagine Duncan MacLeod and his dragon-head katana going up against a Klingon and his bat'leth ...
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Hmm... could Flint/Leonardo/whomever-the-heck else he was have been a Highlander? Just a thought.
I don't know if a Klingon would mind the immortal aspect of it, so long as he COULD be killed. Where's the glory in being unable to loose? IINM, Highlanders CAN be killed. Decapitation, wasn't it?
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Savar: What, you think Klingons can die in Sto-vo-kor, too?
If you believe in an afterlife, you believe in living forever.
Just as an aside... in the RPG I run, one of the NPC's my players are going to run into is an immortal human who's been serving on a starship. But he's forgotten he's immortal, and discovering what he really is will be integral to the plot.
It's not really a non-canon crossover, Jeff... TOS had Flint in "Requiem for Methuselah," remember?
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I hate you when you're right. Valhalla DOES end in Ragnarok. Damn.
In any case, how about Anthony Michael Hall?
It's hard to have a truly immortal protagonist, I mean, how do you put them in jeopardy?
I've been working on a character I call "The Forever Man," Who is immortal, and CAN'T die, even if he tries. He always heals back to perfect condition, no matter how badly he's mangled, even if he's blown up. (although that takes a while.) And he's TIRED of life.
Living forever means that everybody you care for dies. You outlive your friends as well as your enemies. It's gotta be traumatic. Plus, in my imaginary world, magic WORKS, and this guy has had time enough to learn enough to make him a threat to virtually everyone, as well as make a LOT of powerful enemies along the way.
"I thought about walking onto an atomic test site, and get atomized... but it would be just my luck to come back radioactive."
Then a young woman (in my original story, a newly-created vampire with all the silly "romantic" delusions one can have about that species -- like a 'goth' kid of today) manages to stumble across his existence, thus putting herself in danger. (and thus becoming the narrator/focus of the story.)
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Er ... Omega ... just to clear something up real quick, "Highlander" refers only to those Immortals who come from the Highlands of Scotland ... i.e.: Duncan and Connor MacLeod ... specificly, the MacLeods.
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"I can think of nothing more repulsive to a Klingon than the thought of living forever....."
Chop their heads off they stay dead. I can see how they'd like to live an extremely long time though, fight through a lot of battles and rake up the points for their afterlife.
One question- when they get spaced, how would they reanimate?
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