[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Pizza

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holy ####, what's with Ted Danson and unexpected heel turns? First it was his real life self in black facing, then The Good Place and now this?

Should've pulled the same sinister laughter in the Orville

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I don't know if it was really a heel turn. Like Charley he saw no possibility of piece with the Kaylon. He thought what he was doing was protecting his race from extermination. He knew he had a weapon that couldn't be used against humans. That he gave it to the two enemies of Humanity to do the dirty work is a whole other discussion.

Even at the end he was duty bound, he was returning home to turn himself in.

He's certainly not a hero, I wouldn't argue that in any way. But he wasn't a mustache twirling villain.

His story line was similar to the Admiral in Star Trek 6 who couldn't see any good in ending the war with the Klingons.