What star trek character do yo most identify with?

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i just watched "devil in the dark" [TOS] and i definitely identify with the Horta.

Malcolm Reed .. from the new Enterprise series.

Very focused, antisocial, quiet type and not even his parents knew his favorite dish.

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Your trekkieness is confirmed sir!

Live long and prosper

Reginald Barclay because my last name is barclay lol

I'm not going to ask how old you are, but I bet it's a generational thing. When I saw this thread my first thought was 'Of course all aspies will say Spock'. But Data makes perfect sense for those more familiar with TNG than the original series.

I'm going to go with the doomed character Tulix or Neevok or whatever they called him.

the one that was a cross between Nelex and Tuvok?

That's a good point, and I think you're probably right to a degree. But Data also has an harmless/friendly/innocent quality about him which I find identifiable and I've not seen in Spock (but I must admit that I have watched only a little of the original series).

Spock, he's awesome.

Actually arn't the Horta genetically engineered to be Aspies? Sharp minded, Hunter's intellect but with superior IQ, sensitive to stimulae like the smells and tastes of poisons for starters, and asexually reproduced in cloning tanks? One has to wonder then if there is a God. Are they just a bunch of Genetisis who have picked our linages to be the mutant ones the evolved ones? To be an important but seperate part of the whole (dominion, or humans in the real world's case).

Now the really strange thing was the Horta were used as dioplomatcs though, one has to be open to other people to be diplomats even if to maniuplate them. Like the Insular North Korans eventually have to shake hands with their cousins who they detest, and China will eventually have to open up fully, or else suffer as it has in the past, constant boom and bust modes. America, is a very open country, tourists, academics, business, artisans, flow in and out of it.

The Federation is like America, (militarialy arrogant at times, jingonistic), BUT a United federation of PLANETS, that values liberal philosophic principles, such as rule of law, inclusion (ie Geordi's visor, and Alien captains).

If anything, stereotypically the Vulcans, would be very aspie like. Very insulated, (their mysterious chamber of elders), their monestaries, and logic vs emotional outbursts of love, and xenophobia of say humans. For instance Spock is a Human Vulcan, who is constantly insulted with racism. (most illogical), and prejudice even from his graduating comittee, who look at his tainted human DNA genes, from his mom, rather than his marks, thus they are choosey for inclusion, just as Aspies are choosey of who they want to be friends with, as likewise we may not necessariy be Bigots, and xenophobes, but not as willing to be as open.

i would've chosen the character Spock but he has such a high IQ that there is no way it would be proper to compare myself to that character.

Worf and Garak.
Both are outsiders. Worf is the only Klingon serving on the Enterprise, and later, DS9. Worf finds himself constantly trying to contain, or explain his violent, savage Klingon nature, while feeling lost that nobody else understands his need for Klingon ritual and culture.
Garak is the exiled enemy, living among people who hate or are suspicious of him for being the Kardasian he is. He even went as far as to undergo a procedure which would lessen the emotional impact of the hostility toward him. A procedure which had a long running side effect which nearly caused him to lose his life (but at least we got to hear three different stories of how he ended up on DS9).
That sense of isolation while being in a crowd is well known and understood by an Aspie like me.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I would kill to be able to hold a conversation like Garak ><

i would rather debate the finer points of logic with spock, or haggle with Quark.

Yes. He seemed to be unable to control his emotions at all.