Star Trek films

[Angrboda]

Who's your least favorite Star Trek character (besides Wesley) ?

For me it's a toss-up between Worf and Tasha Yar.

[LinuxGal]

Who's your least favorite Star Trek character (besides Wesley) ?

For me it's a toss-up between Worf and Tasha Yar.

Lwaxana Troi

You gotta be shitting me, Mr. Roddenberry

[Anomalocaris]

Who's your least favorite Star Trek character (besides Wesley) ?

For me it's a toss-up between Worf and Tasha Yar.

1.  Wesley, despite the parenthetical, I feel he must headline the list in order to provide a sense of fairness to all those who follow, distantly.

2. Neelix, he is not half a Wesley, not even a quarter of a Wesley, but his qualifications are still prodigious

3. Quark and family,  a caricature of annoying is, annoying.

4. Kira Nerys,  she seems like a product placement, without a product

5. Picard, bald popinjay

6. Deanna Troy,  annoying not so much because of the character, but because what the character says about the caliber and sloppiness of the writing.

7. Riker, would be a boot licker under any other captain

8. Tarsha Yar,  an emotional chief of security.

9. Jonathan archer,  another piece of bad writing.   Less a character suitable for command, more a test pilot.

10.  Chekhov,  the only reason why the character was written into the show was because Tass, the Soviet news agency, ran a rare positive review of an American TV show, and that caused Gene Roddenberry to think a Russian character might pursued the Soviets state television to run the show in the USSR.  detent didn’t go that far.   Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia probably put that even further out of reach.

[Fake Messiah]

I liked most of the characters in ST shows and when it comes to the irritating factor I accept it because they are people in the future, which means that they are different than us.

I mean, would we not be irritating to the people of the 19th century, or 17th, or the medieval people? To most of them, we would look spoiled and lazy. Especially women who would seem to them like privileged bitches. You can see it when women who are stuck in the medieval world of Islamic theocracies come to western nations and find local women to be irritating as they are cladly dressed from their perspective and not subjugated.

The only character I truly disliked was Ezri Dax. She was rushed in the last season of DS9 to replace Jadzia and just stank. Her acting was horrible and she ruined every scene she was in. I guess it was hard to fit in with actors who played their characters for seven years, but this woman shouldn't even have been an actress, let alone on ST. They could have easily gone without filling an empty slot after Jadzia left. And as salt in the wound, in the last episode when each character had a flashback of the whole seven seasons on the show, they featured Ezri with her flashback of that one season (without featuring Jadzia's memories that were in her).

[LinuxGal]

[Anomalocaris]

In fairness to Kirk, if there is a single iota of science in science fiction, then he would know there  is not way ceti alpha 6 could explode or have its shock somehow transmit through space to shift the orbit of ceti alpha 5.    So Khan and his wife would still be doing fine on a garden planet and not wearing bangs and a massive cleavage nursing a grievance.

[LinuxGal]

In fairness to Kirk, if there is a single iota of science in science fiction, then he would know there  is not way ceti alpha 6 could explode or have its shock somehow transmit through space to shift the orbit of ceti alpha 5.    So Khan and his wife would still be doing fine on a garden planet and not wearing bangs and a massive cleavage nursing a grievance.

The science of Star Trek II:

Starships can hide in a nebula, because they're opaque.

With "neutrino flux" a favorite technobabble trope a small asteroid can block the neutrino emissions of the Enterprise's impulse engines.

Reliant never bounced the current configuration of the planets at Ceti Alpha against Kirk's original survey.

Making a planet and its sun from a nebula takes a lot of kinetic energy, but the batteries in the Genesis device never run down.

[Anomalocaris]

to say nothing of the fact that all of the gravitational potential energy of the nebula resulting from the distributed nature of its own mass and the mass’s self gravity has to go somewhere for the substances of the nebula to congregate into a star and a planet.   To get rid of that potential energy in a few minutes means little of it can radiate away.   so after its accelerated formation the genesis planet will probably be at millions of degrees if conservation of energy is to be obeyed.

so genesis device is perfectly named.  like the book of the bible it is shock and awe through physics defying bullshit.

[LinuxGal]