>No lame love for Chakotay? “Acoo-che-moya” ::cringe::
UGH. That’s when I quit watching Trek altogether. Could you get ANY more “incredibly spiritual Noble Native American” sterotypical? I just wanted to grab the flute from the dork who kept blowing it everytime Chakotay walked in and beat the writers senseless.
Chakotay’s beyond lame and into the realm of “WTF were they thinking?”
The suits at Paramount deserve Lame Shame lapel pins for:
[ol]
[li]Cancelling TOS in the first place,[/li][li]Starting a movie franchise instead of bringing it back to the small screen,[/li][li]Launching ersatz spinoff shows such as ST:TNG and its misbegotten brethren, rather than returning Kirk and Co. to my home, where they belonged,[/li][li]Freeing up Bill Shatner and allowing him to inflict TJ Hooker upon the world.[/li][/ol]
And Roddenberry deserves to hace one epoxied to his headstone for going along with it.
As to the OP. I always thought Kirk was kind of lame. And that made the show worth watching. And awaiting its actual return.
Kaylasdad, still waiting.
The lamest character in TOS – Sulu. There was nothing to him. He simply repeated Kirk’s orders back (with the occasional “Pasers ready, Captain.”) He had no personal history, never got a good storyline and in fact missed several episodes while he was making a movie, and was never missed.
He was, in short, almost a stereotype of the dutiful Asian manservant, always servile, always pleasant and always in the background.
Well, at least they’d never write such a stereotyped character in the later versions.
Oh wait. Harry Kim. Nurse Ogawa. Keiko O’Brian. Same lame, different names.
Lwaxana was married to Roddenberry.She was an irritating nurse and computer too
Make that another gajillion.
Because doing so would point out that phasers, despite being super-high-tech, are pretty much useless weapons. They rarely kill anybody. Half the galaxy seems to be immune to them. A tenth of the galaxy is actually HEALED by them. Why everyone stopped using bullets --which actually kill people-- is beyond me.
Phasers are supposed to be able to disintegrate not only people, but cover as well. Yet virtually every ST firefight involves combatants hiding behind barrels, crates, etc. which somehow are never damaged by phaser fire. I just don’t think that Star Trek’s writers are smart enough to deal with technology.
Yes. Killing off Khe’leyr was idiotic IMO, but it did give us the opportunity for one of the great moments in the series… paraphrasing:
WORF arrives aboard the Klingon vessel, his arse in his hand() and a bat’leh all ready for action*
KLINGON CREWMAN: WTF do you want?
KLINGON BAD GUY: (hastily) Pay no attention to him! He is a non-person! He has been disappeared!
WORF: I’m here to claim revenge for my mate!
KLINGON CREWMAN: (to BAD GUY) Even disappeared non-persons get that much. You’d better fight him.
Klingon crew politely make room
Whereupon very little penis, but any amount of blood and entrails, ensues.
[size](*An obscure Britism that signifies he is so far beyond merely “furious” that Captain Cook couldn’t find him with an atlas, a compass and a native guide)[/size]
Psychopathic or not, he was, however, exceedingly hot-blooded at the time.
K’parr mahk! :smack:
Eh, this a britishism as well maybe?
Nope. You’re a n00b so I’ll excuse you, but “penis ensues”, originally a typo for “panic ensues”, is a Doperism. You’ll become acquainted with a few others as you go along.
Note that I said “a few”. There are probably more Doperisms than there are adams in the universe. 
Another vote for Deanna Troi.
Did she ever really say “I sense hostility, Captain” after the Enterprise has been fired on? Or is that just Trek folklore and her entire career summed up in one line?
You can find more such Doperisms here in this thread.
Am I the only one picturing Sulu wearing a hockey helmet and drooling ever so slightly as he says this?
Really? All right then, carry on.
I believe the correct answer is Captain Pike.
(Beep)
See, he agrees with me.
Although that stupid red skirt that is in Part One is even lamer.
Seriously. And what was up with his job? He was the one who was supposed to go on the away missions while the Captain stayed on the ship. So he was like the Captain only, you know, TOTALLY EXPENDABLE! “Too dangerous to risk the Captain. Send Riker.”
How about on TOS, the transporter guy who’s job was basically to get pushed aside by pretty much anybody else when something went wrong. I always thought he was pretty lame.
You really have a way with words, Loopy. You’ve painted a very vivid mind picture, there.
My vote for lamest Star Trek character? Ooh, so many to choose from. I think I would have to go with the black pilot guy from “Enterprise.” Made such an impression as a regular character that I can’t even remember his name. T’Pol’s duck lips were pretty lame, too.