STC: Vic Fontaine VS. Christopher Pike

[Pere]

Vic Fontaine


Christopher Pike

[Pere]

If you're thinking Vic Fontaine doesn't look like a Star Trek character, you're right; he's a deliberately anachronistic holographic construct (in DS9). But he is self-aware, just like Voyager's holographic EMH Doctor, or the androids Data and Lore, for that matter. And he has a surprisingly large script presence. Those were pretty much my standards for inclusion.


Christopher Pike, of course, has very little script presence, but by show-production date he was the first-ever Captain of Enterprise.

[PSXer]

Tough call

Are you including mirror universe people as separate characters in the poll? Because mirror Vic Fontaine was a real badass

[Pere]

Originally Posted by PSXer

Are you including mirror universe people as separate characters in the poll?

No.

If you want to, you can consider the coolness of a character's MU counterpart in voting for the "prime" versions. Technically they are separate people with separate lives, but usually the contrast with the, uh, PU character was where the interest was.

[Pere]

I liked many things about the long-running Kira/Odo romance plotline of DS9. I did not like Vic figuring into it. Odo did not learn to learn love moves from a holographic lounge singer.

And we probably didn't need to hear half as much of Fontaine's singing as we did.

[PSXer]

Fontaine's singing was worth it to hear Sisko's singing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmXzamLDgFk