Amph [NERRRD] Observations, rhetorical questions, comments & 55 Years of Star Trek (General Thread)

Neelix was quite bad.

 

Lwaxana was supposed to be annoying. Wesley was supposed to be the Most Specialest Guy in the Universe, so I pick him.

 

No character on Trek will ever be annoying as Star Wars' Jar Jar.

That being said, Eddington, before he was revealed to be Maquis (and suddenly a much more interesting character), annoyed the hell out of me oftentimes.

Oh and here we go again, speaking of annoying things that won't die (talking about the rumor, not the character)

 

Yeah. Lwaxana and Q were the only two characters who could consistently push Picard's buttons. Wesley was annoying, but he was annoying because they wrote him as a teenage genius but didn't really do anything with him beyond a bunch of Wesley saves the ship/goes to the academy episodes.

 

And killed plants!

 

And he killed plants. Yes, we will never forget that, will we?

 

Wesley was definitely the most annoying. He was just bad all through his entire arc really...First Duty is only good because of Picard's awesomeness. Although, Lwaxana really overstayed her welcome as well. She was mildly amusing the odd time on TNG, but she was just excruciating on DS9. Neelix got a bit more tolerable in the later seasons of VOY.

 

Chakotay

 

First Duty is pretty fantastic and Wheaton is great in it but, c'mon, Wheaton was great in Stand By Me so he obviously had it in him. But I will admit I am a huge fan of the very Wesley centric "The Game" because I just find it amusing that the entire crew gets taken over by this addictive videogame but meanwhile Wesley COMPLETELY misses it because him and Ensign Lefler were basically off camera making out the entire time that happened. Which is totally okay because Lefler is played by early 90s Ashley Judd so it makes perfect sense. Basically Wesley didn't save the ship that time because he was smart but basically it was because Lefler is so hot it allowed Wesley to miss what was going on and then save the ship. Which he does via Data using a flashlight.

 

I also really liked the first Wesley-takes-the-Starfleet-exam episode, which I think was the first to cover exactly what the Picard/Crusher relationship was as well (I may be misremembering that)...

 

Hm, now that I think about it, I only vaguely remember her first appearance on DS9. I was thinking of other Lwaxana-centric episodes like Fascination (where everyone falls in love with each other), and that other one where she's married to some guy and then has to marry Odo. Or something.

 

**** Yeah!

 

So Kurtzman out?

 

This actually sounds pretty promising. Apparently he's a hardcore Trek fan and he became a writer with the stated intention of writing Star Trek.

 

I'll be very interested to see his take on the Abramsverse (if they are going in that direction).

 

Okay, now I'm excited.

 

But... still on CBS streaming only which blows...

 

Exactly.

Good creativity potentially going in vain.

 

Wow. Wow. Wow. Bryan ****ing Fuller? Now I have hope. Wow.