[Zardoz]

Originally Posted by Commodore

Worf was written differently in those days. He was much more standoffish. He would also have only have gone after a Klingon woman back then (Human women were too frail for his liking). I think he respected Yar as a fellow warrior, though.

LaForge, though, specifically looked at Yar and called her beautiful when he was briefly given back his sight and when he was earlier infected with the Psi 2000 virus, he only called out to her for help (touching her face gently in the process after removing his VISOR) and she responded by taking him personally to sickbay rather than allow another security officer to take him there.

Ah, alien diseases do make the heart grow fonder, IMO...

He can't like anyone but blondes???

[Captain Tom Coughlin]

Originally Posted by Zardoz

He can't like anyone but blondes???

He liked Leah Brahms, she wasn't blond

[Zardoz]

Originally Posted by Captain Tom Coughlin

He liked Leah Brahms, she wasn't blond

I was joking. But true, then he just chased married women (ok, I know he didn't know that, so no letters!!).

[Commodore]

Originally Posted by Zardoz

Why not? They are pretty compatable, each has skilsl th other lacks, so lots of good conversation, both can be pasionate.

It's not that I can't see it--because I actually would have liked that to happen--it's just that you're the first person I've ever seen suggest that kind of pairing...

Besides, I am sure LaForge looks better at a Betazoid wedding than Riker did.

No comment.

[Commodore]

Originally Posted by Captain Tom Coughlin

Sure, but we are talking about later down the line. Worf grew a lot as the show went on. If Yar was still around........

She would have went with LaForge as Worf would have gone after Troi.

[DevilEyes]

Originally Posted by Commodore

Worf was written differently in those days. He was much more standoffish. He would also have only have gone after a Klingon woman back then (Human women were too frail for his liking). I think he respected Yar as a fellow warrior, though.

LaForge, though, specifically looked at Yar and called her beautiful when he was briefly given back his sight and when he was earlier infected with the Psi 2000 virus, he only called out to her for help (touching her face gently in the process after removing his VISOR) and she responded by taking him personally to sickbay rather than allow another security officer to take him there.

Ah, alien diseases do make the heart grow fonder, IMO...

Remember the episode (I can't remember the title) when a Klingon woman was on the bridge and "flirted" with Worf Klingon-style (read: a lot of growling) and then tried to punch (or kill, I don't remember) Yar out of jealousy? (Ugh, that was an awful scene, wasn't it...) In season 1, besides Troi/Riker and Picard/Crusher, there were definitely hints that Yar could be a love interest for LaForge, Worf and Data (or a lot more, in Data's case).

Which might be a reason why we should be grateful for Yar's death - at least it has spared us a lot more of cheesy shipping and love tiangles/quandrangles.

[DevilEyes]

Originally Posted by Roysten

True say, neither of them were particularly successful with women, a tradition Ensign Kim kept alive a few years later.

Don't forget Bashir. The difference was that Bashir was a supposed "ladies-man" who was, ironically, constantly unlucky in love and unsuccessful with women (until the final chapter). Which I guess can also be seen as a subversion of the Kirk/Riker ladies-man stereotype. (Tom Paris was a bit like this, too, before he hooked up with B'Elanna.)

Come to think of it, one might say that, post-TNG, any male character with a womanizing aspect to him was portrayed as either unsuccessful/unlucky in love (Bashir, Paris before he started a monogamous relationship), or sinister/evil (Dukat). Or it was used as comic relief for how unexpected it was (Quark's successes with women - Natima, Grilka, Pel, Sakonna to an extent).

[Captain Tom Coughlin]

It's to bad they didn't get Denise Crosby to play Yar in the episode Parallels, that would have been interesting to see her in the various different realities. According to memory-alpha they considered it but thought it would be too similar to Yesterday's Enterprise and included Wesley instead. Lost opportunity there if you ask me.

[horatio]

Holmes and Watson, Data and Geordi ...
I think that Geordi and that overexcited ensign who spilled hot chocolate over Picard would have made a cute couple.

[DevilEyes]

Originally Posted by horatio

Holmes and Watson, Data and Geordi ...
I think that Geordi and that overexcited ensign who spilled hot chocolate over Picard would have made a cute couple.

Sonya Gomez. Apparently that was why she was introduced, as a possible love interest for Geordi, but they abandoned the idea for whatever reason.