1. I feel like one thing they had to do to quickly establish Ezri's character is have other characters be really ostentatiously different with her. Sometimes they use this well (so we get to see Julian's character growth quite well in this way, for instance) and other times it can be a bit jarring. I don't mind it and I understand they were under some constraints, but yeah I think that might be what was happening with the Kira being a bit odd.
2. I love the Quodo potential suggestions, but to me the one that stands out is a slight variant on the "return the favour" idea. Like you say there is this parallel with Quark helping out Odo, and Odo is a smart fella so he would see that and cos he's also quite moral would try to do something out of gratitude. But also he's far far less worldly than Quark so his advice would be nowhere near as good. To me that could have a funny and sweet sorta dynamic or feel, idk.
3. To be a bit of a hater, I will just add that I think part of what makes Kor's character so fun and even touching is that he sincerely buys into very different (and often bad!) cultural values and tries to live up to them. The writers take that seriously and thereby take him seriously, even where he is comedic. Whereas in NewTrek (other than Lower Decks) they tend to think that everyone's values are really that of a middle class professional from North America. They are tolerant in so far as they do not condemn people for being otherwise... but they do tend to psychoanalyse it away. So if you don't share that value scheme it's because you have some unresolved trauma, and coming to be healthy will involve coming to share the one true value system. It just makes for more boring writing, and Kor is a nice counterpoint.
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1. I feel like one thing they had to do to quickly establish Ezri's character is have other characters be really ostentatiously different with her. Sometimes they use this well (so we get to see Julian's character growth quite well in this way, for instance) and other times it can be a bit jarring. I don't mind it and I understand they were under some constraints, but yeah I think that might be what was happening with the Kira being a bit odd.
2. I love the Quodo potential suggestions, but to me the one that stands out is a slight variant on the "return the favour" idea. Like you say there is this parallel with Quark helping out Odo, and Odo is a smart fella so he would see that and cos he's also quite moral would try to do something out of gratitude. But also he's far far less worldly than Quark so his advice would be nowhere near as good. To me that could have a funny and sweet sorta dynamic or feel, idk.
3. To be a bit of a hater, I will just add that I think part of what makes Kor's character so fun and even touching is that he sincerely buys into very different (and often bad!) cultural values and tries to live up to them. The writers take that seriously and thereby take him seriously, even where he is comedic. Whereas in NewTrek (other than Lower Decks) they tend to think that everyone's values are really that of a middle class professional from North America. They are tolerant in so far as they do not condemn people for being otherwise... but they do tend to psychoanalyse it away. So if you don't share that value scheme it's because you have some unresolved trauma, and coming to be healthy will involve coming to share the one true value system. It just makes for more boring writing, and Kor is a nice counterpoint.
Anyway love the write ups keep them coming!