If Lon Suder Lived...

[Farscape One]

I absolutely loved his character, and a chilling performance by Brad Dourif.

I do understand why he was killed off... the writers weren't sure what to do with him. He did get a good sendoff.

But... I would have preferred to see him live. But how would he fit in with the crew afterward? I can see Janeway pardoning him because of how instrumental he was in getting the ship back, but at the same time I can see her still keeping him in his quarters.

What do you think?

 

[publiusr]

His was an interesting character. It wouldn't do for him to have been an ESPer through the negative energy barrier

 

[Refuge]

I felt kind of scared for Suder, he so wanted to impress Janeway but had become vulnerable to his own heightened level of self-awareness. Even though his Betazoid telepathy was stunted it was like the meld with Tuvok had turned it inward. I could see him being a raw nerve trying to navigate a distrusting crew and then having to retreat to meditate and regain the calm he learned to value. His salvation made him tragic.

 

[Tosk]

I do understand why he was killed off... the writers weren't sure what to do with him.

How very Voyager of them.

 

[Voth commando1]

He died redeemed and at peace though.

Had he lived through Basics I'm sure his rehabilitation would have continued and eventually he may have been allowed supervised duty.

He probably would have had to serve time if and when Voyager made it back the AQ though if he was fully reformed by that point Janeway and Tuvok would probably argue for time served.

He was a good character.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Suder would have been amazing as a series regular. I'd have loved further adventures of the recovering sociopathic murdering Starfleet officer.

TPTB were far too conservative to allow anything like that, though. They killed him because that's the only way they could see his plot being tied up cleanly.

 

[Voth commando1]

Tuvok standing over his body and wishing him peace was a satisfying death but being a regular would still have been interesting.

 

[publiusr]

Brad Dourif was at his best in Exorcist III--the visuals of that movie--and IT FOLLOWS are very good.

Things in the distance sometimes scare us more.

 

[Refuge]

It's the eyes..

 

[JirinPanthosa]

This question raises an interesting philosophical question, same one that they explored in Repentance. If somebody commits crimes because their brains are incapable of processing empathy, and their brains are later cured, could you say they're not guilty by reason of temporary insanity?

And if you establish that as the precedent, could a sociopath then see themselves as having free range to murder, because worst case scenario, they get cured of their sociopathy and freed?

It's an interesting question but I think it would be a copout if they forgave him that easily.