Maybe not, KidPurple. Next season is suppossedd to bbe larrgly about a military operation. A several epp arc. Plenty of chances for Quantum to act like a hardass. (Maybe)
Maybe
I think he should’ve diciplined Tripp, though
Maybe
Quirk?
Quirk!
The hell kind of crack is that?
Three quarks for Master Quirk!
Ok I finally saw it, (so sue me, I was acting). And I must say really good.
Finally we get an episode with really nice folk who are just out to help. Finally the more than 2 gender thing addressed and finally Trip’s naviety and southern morals have serious backlash.
The whole episode I was saying TRIP YOU FOOL! And then at the end it all came back at him. I liked how Archer knew that Trip just wasn’t getting it. It was very good.
For Star Trek I mean… 
Tripp’s Southern morals?!
Don’t make me come over there, young man!
Tripp’s Southiness doesn’t come into play, IMHO. People of all cultures can (and DO) make mistakes. Please don’t ever confuse being a Southerner with making wrong moral judgements.
Kind of a sticky point for me, you see. Sorry to come down on you.
I have to agree with NCB here (I feel dirty)… what Southern morals are you talking about?
it wasn’t “morals”, it was the fact that he is motivated by emotions first, and rationality second. He is the anti-spock. Which is why I stick to my earlier point that he is a lousy engineer.
To state it again. “Oh, thats cool, your warp technology can ramp up my engines by 30%, but anyway, back to your sex life…”
Scotty would’ve been busy copying schematics and teaching them about single malt.
In fact, when T’pol saw the what he was up to, she should have used ye olde neck pinch and put him in the brig. NOW THAT WOULD HAVE ROCKED !!!
and then, for torture, played the archer dream decon chamber scene over and over on a vid screen for him to watch. It might make His nut sack drop, since all the men on Enterprise seem to be on estrogen.
Skillet is right!
whooooooo 5 months on the boards and I finally get kudos
thanks NoClueBoy !
[crunch]
[munch munch munch]
What flavour Kudos do you like?
This episode was not bad. Considering they lifted it from the TNG ep “The Outcast”. In that one, Testoste-Riker gets the hots for a member of an androgynous alien race causing it to be outcast and “reprogrammed”.
Aha! Mr. Blue Sky is a genius!
I didn’t say a bless-ed thing about your crack!
I’m not on crack.
I just have quirks. And quarks.
By Trip’s southern morals I meant his sense of right and wrong, the Cogenitor had to have rights as a person regardless of what the culture said. He was kind and his intentions were good, but he was naive and didn’t think it through to see what could happen.
I wasn’t confusing being from the south as making wrong moral judgements, sorry if it came off that way. I was just refering to his, tip your hat; avert your eyes when a girl shows her skivies; never hit a woman; always do the right thing; set of southern morals. They are good and fine, but the two cultures had different definitions of the right thing, and by interfering and pushing what he thought the right thing was the Cogenitor ended up killing itself.
Hmm, I can barely understand my point now. Oh well.
I preferred Rom.
God damn you, Wearia! Now my post is an NCBesque non-sequitir!
Oh, he will. [evil grinning smiley here]
And he does, in Viva’s Special Anti-UPN Slasharific Pandamonious Satellite Feed Version of Enterprise, called Otherprise, which no one else has ever seen:
INT. READY ROOM
Final scene of the episode, plus bonus footage:
Trip goes out the door and Archer remains looking out into space. Then Archer suddenly bolts for the door, opens it, and yells:
ARCHER: Commander, come back here! I’m not finished with you yet.
BRIDGE CREW: Oooooooh. Busted.
Trip comes back inside, slowly, looking nervous but slightly hopeful that his best bud might want to be pals again.
TRIP: Sir?
Abruptly, the entire universe flips into that TOS Mirror/Mirror universe. Archer now has an eyepatch, a mohawk, pierced nose, and missing teeth. Trip has a huge scar running from his forehead to his chin, chains around his neck, tattoos on his arms, and no hair.
ARCHER (menacingly): Your agonizer, please.
Trip hesitates, but slowly hands it over. Archer blasts him with it for a minute while Trip screams and crumples to the floor. Archer finally drops the agonizer.
ARCHER: Pick that up. It doesn’t belong on the floor.
TRIP (pulling himself to his feet, gasping, yet looking oddly satisfied): Aye, Cap’n.
He picks it up. Then Archer comes up close and gets right in his face.
ARCHER: Meet me in my quarters for make-up sex in an hour. And don’t you dare be late, or I’ll have to get tough with you for a change.
TRIP: Aye, sir. Ah’ll be there.
ARCHER: (smiling, chuckling) And watch out for Porthos. I don’t remember if I replaced the chain or not. He broke the last one and killed one of the stewards. Good little slavering beast mutant that he is. Porthos, I mean.
TRIP: Right.
ARCHER: Oh, and tell Chef to bring in the hot wax. And if it isn’t hot, I’ll throw it on the floor just like that old bastard on a 60s TZ episode. And then I’ll throw Chef in the Agony Booth for two hours.
TRIP: Got it.
ARCHER: Dismissed.
TRIP: Thank you, sir. I mean, thank you. You’re the best.
ARCHER: You’d better believe it.
Just substitute Aesiron and NoClueBoy for the characters’ names above and you will have an accurate version of their relationship.
As always, this skit is dedicated to the working girl Kn*ckers (however it’s pronounced).
–vivavixen
Aesiron being Archer, of course.
Wait… no, I mean, no it isn’t!
All my quarks are charmed.
And Wearia, I understand. I just had to make a point. Chivalry, as epitomized by the stereotypical Southern Gent™, would actually have prevented Tripp from doing what he did. Because that would’ve been interfering.
However, he must have justified it as coming to the aid of an unfortunate, a trait that the Southern Gent™ shares with the Abolitionist of yore. An admirable trait, when used correctly.
But, the Tripp was totally unfamiliar with the Vissian culture (and the species), and he went against the advice of several cosmopolitan (right word?) spacers.
His fault comes down to pride.
“Pride goeth before the fall.”
Aes spells like a Klingon. Smells like a Targ.
Where is Tars, anyways?
Funny, that sounds exactly the opposite of the prevailing Southern Morals prior to the Civil War.