Geordi La Forge is my all time favorite character. I empathize with him the most out of all the characters in Star Trek and see a lot of myself in him. When I was younger I gravitated toward Data but as I grew out of a few "phases" as a like to call them, Geordi took the top spot as a young adult and now grown man. In addition to being witty and entertaining to watch, Geordi is the one guy on the crew of the Enterprise to put a situation in terms the everyday person would understand with a dose of healthy humor, which is really needed in the heavy episodes. La Forge went from a adventurous hot shot Lt to a introspective and often self deprecating Lt. Cmdr. In Season 3's "Booby Trap" (in hindsight that name is also a pun for this episode) I was like " oh TRIBBLE he's getting dumped again" (I've been there so many times its almost comical) and in the episode of "Galaxy's Child", after meeting his crush in Dr. Brahms and finding out she was married I was like "poor guy can't catch one break, where's a damn coolant leak when you need one". Unlike Harry Kim's crash and burns, I root for La Forge because the guy just deserves it for being nice when so many senior officers could be as prickly as Picard was in the early seasons of TNG or Worf who can be downright scary in TNG Season 2.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] "This planet smells, it must be the Klingons"
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Captain: Picard
First Officer: Riker
Doctor: The Doctor
Engineer: Trip
Security Chief: Worf
Non-Starfleet: Seven of Nine
Honorable mentions include Geordi, Hoshi, Reed, and Kira (didn't really care for Kira for the longest time, but for some reason when I decided to watch the last episodes of DS9 on Netflix and finally saw her in a Starfleet uniform, something about that uniform completely changed my mind about her).
Now that you mention it, Ael.
Riker in TNG
Worf in DS9
7 in Voyager
Tripp in Atlantis wait wrong show again, Enterprise.
Sisko from season 3 onward. I thought he was a winer the first couple of seasons until Worf showed up to straighten him out. Then Sisko manned up.
LOL
O'Neill transcends franchises!
and Quark. They made DS9 great without the need of an added "again".
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Simply because he was a pioneer, having to learn how to do things without the history of Starfleet or the Federation behind his back to support him.
Also his response to T'Pau in the first episode. Something along the lines of "You do not know how much i am restraining myself from knocking you on your Vulcan TRIBBLE" immeditately won me over