…and the missing Red Shirts “Have entered the Witness Protection Program”.
Hey, I have a question…
(disclaimer: Not a Star Trek Person, but my wife likes it and made me tape it for her)
The Acting-Captain Engineer guy invited the English guy and the Alien Doctor to the Captain’s mess for lunch, taking advantage of his new position and setting up the joke of his lousy Acting-Captainship.
He served bangers and mash to the English guy, and some sort of Alien Sausage to the Alien Doctor.
As the Engineer guy is some sort of Southerner, I was assuming that HE would be having Virginia ham and grits, or fried chicken, or black-eyed peas and rice, or some other cliche.
Yet, during the close-up of his consternated face as the intercom kept buzzing with Acting-Captain business, I noticed, on the end of his fork…a piece of farfalle, slightly green, as if he had ordered a cold pasta salad with pesto.
Explanation? Is this character development? An in-joke? A wry deconstruction of culinary prejudice? Anybody else notice this?
A.-- Which noodle is farfalle?
B.-- To bad it wasn’t celery!
That’s the bow-tie shaped stuff. There’s GOTTA be a reason…
Buckaroo Banzai always wore a bow tie. The Paramount Trek staff is full of BB fans. Like in TNG where we learn that YoYoDine Propulsions designed the warp engines. So, Maybe it was an inside joke
They’ve had pasta once or twice before. Does chicken tetrazini (sp?) involve pasta at all? Trip really liked it. He doesn’t eat Southern fried chow all the time.
He certainly seemed to enjoy eating–or trying to eat–more than doing the command thing, though. And he would be second in command if T’Pol weren’t around at all. Scary thought. I like Trip very much, but he really needs to shape up.
The real answer:
Chef: What you want for dinner, Trip?
Trip: Uh, i’ll get back to you later…
Chef (Mumbling): White bread cracker, you’re getting the green pasta!
Man, after watching another Firefly last night, I just have to say, WTF Berman? Can’t you guys get some edgy writing like that? And “The Seventh” was one of the better shows so far this season. When Gene started this thing, it was different. So different for TV that he had to redo his pilot to get it on air. Why is the Star Trek franchise getting so lame? Didn’t ST:TMP and the first season of ST:TNG teach you guys anything? I’ll still watch. My parole conditions demand it. But, I’m getting worried, y’all.
“You see that man hanging out of the spaceship with a big gun?”
Cool.
Yeah, Carny, that was!
Come on Star Trek universe! Be more real! (in a Homer voice while banging on TV)