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#46 Rom
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. brother?"

Rom's funny, though not always for the reasons which the writers intended. For starters, he's kind of a dark dude in the first season of the show. His dumbness is already established (although his smart-on-the-inside traits are not yet present) but he's also kind of a brooding, vengeful father/brother figure. He outright attempts to kill Quark in the first big Ferengi episode of the series. Would the Rom of any future season come within seconds of pressing the airlock button? Family is everything to him thereafter. He's also a hostile and unappreciative father to Nog at first -- another clash.

I can tell you all that fresh off my memory because I just finished season one in my latest rewatch. But of course, Rom doesn't really come into his own until later on. He's thrifty, innovative, and has a heart of gold -- not gold-pressed latinum. He's a good dad and an even better mechanic. The whole shtick gets old sometimes. Really old. For every genuinely hilarious Rom moment, there is at least one Rom moment in which his freak-outs and high-pitched wailing during an otherwise-serious occasion are like tripping in plaster. But hey, the good moments are good.

I've never been bothered by Rom becoming Grand Nagus in the penultimate episode of Deep Space Nine but I know some fans who absolutely hate it. (I think @Eddv is one of them.) I find it funny, and I don't tend to think of any Ferengi society episodes as attempting to be anything but funny. Quark keeps the bar; Rom and Leeta run off to radically rule the Ferengi Alliance. So be it. It's comedy.

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