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As the British General Election approaches I was startled at Weyouns likeness to Tony Blair, and indeed most politicians. Kissing babies one minute bombing them the next. "Which is why, I must inform you, that moments ago, British troops reduced the city of Basra to ashes...." Anyway, i don't know if much has been said regarding the best recurring characters in Trek but Weyoun is undoubtedly my personal favourate, the double-handed treachery, the childlike love of the founder, he even manages to bicker with himself in "treachery..." Coombs is an outstanding actor who deserves Hollywood recognition, if he's so inclined!
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Not much of a field, though, is there? Might as well say he was the best recurring character on DS9. Which some might disagree with. But it's easy to make such sweeping statements when Weyoun is compared to. . . Well, pretty much anyone from the other shows, be they very-short-lived as recurring characters (Harry Mudd), one-dimensional (Seska), crappily-acted (Bareil), painful to watch (Lwaxana). . . The only non-DS9 recurrer of sufficient stature is Q, and the other DS9 candidates (various Cardassians, Ferengi, Bajorans, shapeshifters etc) present a formidable list.
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Garak, Dukat & Winn were all good and complex. I even thought Brunt (F...C...A..) was a good recurring role for what he was and was also played by Coombs.
His Andorian character on Enterprise has managed to be Archer's Dukat except leaning a great deal more towards the, you know... non-demon-possessed side.
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Of course, Weyoun edges out Dukat in the critical "not totally ruined by the end of the series" category.
I'd make a case for Damar, though, especially since he's really the only one to undergo meaningful personal change that isn't of the "surprise: this week you're crazy go nuts!" variety.
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Indeed. DS9 actually had it's share of recurring characters that ranged from somewhat to very involved.
Nog. Rom. Leta. Morn. Female Changeling Who Narrates Caveman Movies Starring Daryl Hannah. Even Opaka made some memorable vision appearances and turned out to be a traitor.
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Er, yeah, there was some sort of weird collaboration deal she was involved with during the occupation; it's the reason why Winn got to be Kai without any opposition from Bareil (who wanted to protect Opaka's memory, or was involved in the cover-up, or something). I think.
Kai Opaka sold out her son's resistance cell in order to keep the Cardassians from wiping out a village looking for them. So I guess she technically wasn't a traitor... she just made a choice between two evils. Which adds to her complexity and makes her an even more intriguing character. I always wished they had brought her back.
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SHe' sback in the DS9 books: great stories there. The best Trek books I've ever read, actually.
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The books strat off with Avatar pt 1 Avatar pt 2 (those introduce the new charcaters and explain whats happened in the three months since the final episode of DS9) Then there's a "section 31" book : Abyss After that, there's three books called Mission Gamma and one called Rising Son. Theres a couple of books that I cant recall the titles of and finally there's Unity that wraps the storylines up in one book.
The most recent books are the Worlds Of DS9 series that have two novellas in each (Andor/Cardassia, Ferenginar/The Dominion, Trill/Bajor) and the upcoming Hollow Men
Just start with the Avatar books and you'll get hooked: they read very much like how the episodes played out onscreen (commerical breaks are replaced with chapter breaks but the pacing is the same). A review of Avatar.
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I have read the Avatar books, but I wasn't sure where to go from there. Guess I'll have to see how reliable my chapters is for old books. They can't seem to handel ordering new ones...
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Used paperbacks rock (though I once got some bullshit book instead of what I ordered: it's used to complaining is useless, but I only paid a buck so it's no real loss).
I really wish Pocket would collect two or three of the Ds9 novels into hardcover anthologies: the book Unity was originally hardcover and it looks odd next to the dozen or so paperbacks that are before and after it on my bookshelf.
They did a good job of collecting the (excellent) trilogy DS9: Millenium into one biiig book so it's do-able..
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