Favourite 'Spock-like' Star Trek Character?

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I personally like them all.

I voted for Data, but I really like them all

Of course you know I like Data but I also like Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager. Both characters learn from their limitations and seek all they can in human experience.

I think I can relate to Odo most of all. He is human-like, but also completely alien. He can understand some human customs, but most of them are peculiar and downright weird to him. Yet he doesn't try to fit in; he simply goes his own way.

Odo is a brilliantly written character. Toward the beginning of the series, they had an episode where they explored Odo's past and the difference between justice and his need for order. Later in the series, we see him siding with humans to protect their freedom... or is it just because he cares for them? I'd like to think that because he was experimented on and controlled through behaviorism, he wouldn't want to inflict the changelings' version of order on them. Also, it would be so awesome to link with people physically and telepathically the way the changelings do.

^I totally agree! I can imagine that having to morph into a solid state and stay that way for 18 hours would be difficult, so I definitely relate to finding humanoid bodies awkward or cumbersome. I like the episode where Odo meets up with the scientist who found him, and the two have to reconcile and learn important things from each other [that just because something doesn't look alive doesn't mean it isn't, and that some humans are narrow-minded about such things, but can overcome their shortcomings]. I can't remember what that episode is called...

In The Alternate, Dr. Mora and Odo visit a planet together. In The Begotten, Odo and the doctor clash on behaviorism/how to coax the baby changeling into sentience. I think Odo's character arc is the best part of DS 9.

Yes, The Begotten, that's the one! I think that one was one of my first DS9 episodes. I sat in front of the tv and watched it, back when I was at my old house.
I agree totally.

Randomly switching topics here, has there ever been a Star Trek episode involving gay/lesbian relationships?

Not in the human sense of gay and lesbian, as far as I know. There was a TNG episode, The Host. Beverly Crusher I think, she was caring for a trill that she cared for as a man, but the trill became a woman. There was also a DS 9 episode with one of Kirzon's former lovers, who was a woman. There were others about androgenous people, a woman who could become "the perfect mate," Vulcan love, stuff like that.

Aww. That's disappointing! Imagine the possibilities, what could have been! Oh well.

For the sake of diversity, it would've been cool. I wonder if there any other possibilities, aside from your every day human relations. Maybe some conflict about GLBT issues with some of the cultures the humans come across? Either way, I recommend the episodes I mentioned highly.

Maybe the next series will have more diversity in that regard, maybe even, I don't know, a female alien and a female human becoming a couple.

Speaking of diversity, I read a fanfiction story along time ago about a character with autism in the Star Trek universe. This character has nothing to do with Spock, but anyway, the story was pretty good. If anyone's interested, I ould attempt to locate it again.

The other character that sort of counts is Voyager's doctor, like Data, always wishing he was human.

Of the list above I think the original Spock and Seven of Nine were the greatest. I think Seven is under-appreciated in some circles because she was made into a Barbie-doll character, but the characterization was brilliant and Jeri Ryan did a magnificent job of creating her personality, which had many aspie-like traits.

If anyone had a need for order, Seven certainly did. I like the way she fought her isolation in the beginning, and she never stopped stating her unpopular opinions. It's interesting also that she lived most of her life in an amoral, asocial environment, and she still learned the value of compassion on Voyager. More reasons I like her.

When I was little, I watched Voyager with my mum. I saw Seven and asked 'Who's that?' and my mum replied that her name was Seven. I said 'Seven? What kind of name is that?' Then I asked if she was an alien, and my mum replied that she was human.
Does anyone else have fun memories of watching Star Trek for the first time?