Best Star Trek: The Next Generation Characters

Of course he's the best one! He is funny. And he maybe the most human, or humane, or at least relatable and likable despite not being a human. And often displays peculiar emotional-like instances, despite not having an emotion chip. I love him, his sarcastic wit, his awkwardness and seriously, the Enterprise-D crew would have died a long time ago without him!

Data is by far my favorite character in all of Star trek. No one. I repeat NO ONE could come close to nailing the Android role like Brent Spiner. My favorite characters from favorite to least favorite:
1. Data
2. Data
3. Data
And it continues until 5. Then it's the others.

I think Data is my favorite in all the Star trek episodes in every series. If you watch carefully, he does on occasion smile slightly.

By far the most likeable and interesting character of any star trek series.

Data's fun, but when you watch more than a handful of episodes you realise this is really The Picard Show and not the ensemble you were led to believe. Consider how many of your favourite episodes are all about this man (Darmok, The Inner Light, Tapestry, All Good Things...)

Captain Picard is not only the best character in TNG but the best Captain in starfleet history! Played by one of the greatest actors of all time!
Especially the TNG Recut Picard.

An explorer's brain but a poet's heart, he was one of the best characters of Star Trek.

Why is riker at second? Commander data must be in second place. Come on people!

The first Klingon to ever enter and graduate from the Starfleet Academy and being part of the USS Enterprise! And klingons are awesome. So, double awesomeness.

How is Troi above Worf and Geordi? Seriously Worf is the best, especially when he is in a bad mood.

"I am not a merry Man! ", "Assimilate this", "Kehlar was my mate! ". Then death by Batlith. Seriously, he's awesome

Quite a good character.

He was my favourite as a kid. A real hero type.

I love Marina, so of course Troi is my favorite pick! I just wish the writers would have done more to develop her character over the years. I was happy to see the Troi/Riker relationship FINALLY be a part of the final 2 movies!

One of the best characters.

The show would be significantly worse if it wasn't for Q. He is a cheeky trickster and you always get the feeling that he entertains Jean-Luc more than any other character on the show, even though Jean-Luc would be too proud to admit this.

How is Q on the bottom? I guess he's not the best character, but he's a hilarious villain and a great response to the overdose of omnipotence in the original series.

Q's not the best character, but it's always funny to have suck a stuck-up, aristocratic character and watch him fail. He's good comic relief.

Tell the truth. Was there a single Q episode that didn't make you laugh? I think not.

Chief is the man. It was he who really kept plans on track. Colm could do serious, straight funny, and irony.

Doctor Beverly Crusher isn't a bad character at all, but I just wish her character got more to do. I mean, she did turn up occasionally whenever a medical crisis turned up, but apart from that she just stood in the background. Her characterisations should have developed more, and definitely be more included in plots, but I think she's quite a cool character.

Why does everyone hate her? She's one of my favourite characters! It's not the character's fault she died so lamely! Blame that on the writers.

Wesley's not bad. In fact, as a kid myself, he's actually one of my favourite characters.

He gets a lot of undeserved hate.