One of the reasons Odo is like one of the best characters to ever do it is because the writers were like, "He was raised in a lab, he doesn't know who he is, he's in love with his best friend but she doesn't know it, he's reclusive and blunt and has the most extreme daddy issues imaginable, he's got all the angst and he still manages to be a sarcastic bastard" and today, writers would make that character some conventionally attractive, gloomy bad boy who's either eighteen or twenty-something but the DS9 writers slapped on, "And he's played by a middle aged man" and that - THAT the's secret, right there.




















