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53. Ash Tyler
I serve TKuvma the Unforgettable, who will never be mentioned again.

So, setting aside the question of how a culture with the most advanced disguise and plastic surgery technology in the galaxy could discriminate against albinos when an albino could just get turned into a normal Klingon (hell, he can even get turned into a normal human), Im curious how you can screw up this character.

In theory, Klingon double agent who has second thoughts and wants to save both sides and have a forbidden romance with the protagonist should be bulletproof. In theory, Klingon successor chosen by TKuvma and must play Klingon politics to do whats right should be bulletproof. In theory, Klingon sleeper agent whose awakening memories cause him to murder an innocent man, then feel guilt over it, also his love interest freaks out at the discovery should be bulletproof.

Its a testament to how poorly the show is written that Ash still ends up boring. I think its because hes a satellite character of Burnham, but Im not sure. He has enough stuff going on in his arc to be interesting on his own, but instead he ruins what could have otherwise been an interesting arc of the outcast Klingon who has to make his way in the galaxy for whats right (from his perspective). Other characters who arent Burnham satellites but have less going on are still better than him, so I cant really nail down why he doesnt work for me.

Maybe I should travel to the Klingon time travel monastery, age sixty years in a week, and take one of the crystals at the price of locking in a destiny that causes me to become wheelchair-bound in exchange for granting me forbidden knowledge.

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Started: July 6, 2005