Rom has an honest-to-goodness stutter. He stammers and sometimes has trouble expressing himself.
Before Deep Space 9, I had never seen that on any screen without it being a joke. Or a couple times as a character that appeared for less than 2 minutes.
HOWEVER, on DS9, not only does Rom have a decent-sized part, but:
- he's portrayed as a loving and supportive father, son, brother, and husband
- he LEADS his co-workers in forming a union
- he leaves a toxic workplace for an equally menial but safer job, and does it with dignity, and then earns promotions
- he invents new technology, and comes up with it almost as a side thought while planning his wedding, showing the genius that he's usually not recognized for
- and ultimately, he's chosen as the next ruler of an entire planet
I still don't see anything equivalent to that now, in the 2020s. And DS9 was made thirty years ago.
If movie and television producers are so keen on reviving things from the past for the sake of nostalgia, how about looking at Star Trek for ideas on not only increasing diversity and inclusion, but normalizing and celebrating them?
Sorry if someone've already joked about this, but Film!Abe and Comic!Abe be like...
Kay I can't get over "Improbable Cause"/"The Die is Cast" because Garak stabs Odo in the back without a moment's hesitation the second he gets the invite to return to the Obsidian Order/Tain/Cardassia/Whatever, and then he tortures Odo nearly to death looking for info on the Dominion and all he gets out of Odo is that Odo really wants to go home to his people and join the Great Link despite Everything, but when Odo gets the chance to go home, despite how much he wants to, he sticks to his morals and refuses.
So Odo gets stabbed in the back, and tortured into revealing a shameful secret. He should kick Garak out on his ass and never speak to him again, but he doesn't.
So whereas Garak took the chance to go home without hesitation, Odo refused his own chance to go home with equal conviction, so Odo could sit on his moral high horse and judge Garak for giving into temptation, but he doesn't.
Odo might not forgive Garak for what he did, but he understands why he did it enough to stick around and be his friend despite it all. Like, the guy really says "hey you did a really shitty thing to me but I understand, let's get breakfast sometime."
Something about that just hits, you know?
OMG! Thank you so much for answering me! I'm really, really happy that you like The BPRD Comics, too!! And... Since your requests open now... May I get Abe as a comic book character with female s/o who is just an ordinary person, not an agent... Well, ordinary person with absolutely extraordinary love for this fishman:)
WOW this got very long. I was thinking about Fallout Far Harbor and got inspired. Sorry lol
Lately, strange things have been strange along with your little seaside town. There’s been absolutely NO fish, the fisherman hasn’t been catching anything, the seagulls that squeaked overhead were absent, the sea lions that sat on the shore barking and flopping about were missing. The waves were rough, the skies were dark and the whole town has been on edge.
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This needs to be a disclaimer for all fangirls.
So I have a new obsession XD
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Weyoun + Odo
Bonus:
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Water is a powerful tool in witchcraft. Whether you collect it from the weather, the ocean, a lake, or from your own sink or shower, it can be used in many spells and incantations and has strong magical properties…
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🌊 Water: love, banishing, beauty, calm, change, compassion, creativity, emotions, femininity, fertility, flexibility, healing, intuition, meditation, psychic powers, purification, dreams, sensitivity, sadness, life
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🌊 Swamp water: disease, invisibility, connection, links
🌊 River water: charging, energy, movement, power
🌊 Pond water: limitations, silence, conjuration, immobility
🌊 Melted ice: creativity, growth, harmony, motivation, purification
🌊 Melted hail: pain, curse, bad intentions, anger
🌊 Melted snow: change, balance, endings, healing, power, purity
🌊 Morning dew: love, charm, fertility, sensitivity
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- Practice daily energy cleansing under the shower. - If you have a bathtub, create bath spells to give you power. - Open windows when it rains. - Make sprays with specific herbs for your home or your bed. - Listen to waterfall / rain playlists. - Charge jars of water under the moonlight to collect moon water. - Dress with blue colors to use the power of water.
Awww, the kelpien dad is trying so hard to make his children feel at least a little better (even despite his "stress hormone levels are off the charts" too)