Trek characters' hobbies and interests

[retroenzo]

I've been surprised by some of the more unusual interests expressed by Star Trek characters over the years. My favourite has to be Captain Archer's passion for water polo and it made me wonder what other weird interests have the crew displayed in the past?

 

[F. King Daniel]

Picard - horseriding

Kirk - horseriding

Pike - horseriding

Waitaminute, I think I'm noticing a pattern.

 

[Spot261]

The horse is symbolic of riding things.

Like starships.

Adventurously.

And people say film criticerisering is intellectually challenging

 

[Tracy Trek]

Data likes to write poetry, sometimes about his cat.

 

[1001001]

Picard was a big ships-in-bottles guy.

So was O'Brien.

 

[Kevman7987]

Riker was a tromboner.
Kim played clarinet.
Crusher & Troi did sexy yoga stretching in that one mirrored hallway.

 

[drt]

Scotty: drinking

 

[at Quark's]

Data likes to write poetry, sometimes about his cat.

We also see him paint in several episodes. And playing theater. Playing the violin. Probably all with the goal of coming closer to "humanity". I have little doubt he would also have tried things like sculpting, etc, even though we didn't get to see it.

Sisko: cooking
O'brien and Bashir together: playing darts, re-enacting historic battles
Tom: collecting and playing with 20th century trinkets (either replicated or real)

BTW most of these (and those mentioned in previous posts) I wouldn't even call "weird", as specified by the OP

Oh, and Sisko plays baseball! Not weird in our century, but certainly in his

 

[Tracy Trek]

I have little doubt he would also have tried things like sculpting, etc, even though we didn't get to see it.

I think he did sculpt in the episode Masks.

Sisko: cooking

Riker likes to cook also.

BTW most of these (and those mentioned in previous posts) I wouldn't even call "weird", as specified by the OP

I couldn't really think of any truly weird hobbies. Although I thought it was kind of amusing that Data wrote poetry about his kitty.

 

[at Quark's]

I think he did sculpt in the episode Masks.

Ah, I was thinking of a different kind of sculpting, the kind in which you begin with a block of stone and chip away, until you get a statue.

Riker likes to cook also

I can only recall one instance where he cooks (the scene with the eggs that only Worf likes). Are there more instances?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Kirk- Antiques and American History
Spock-Playing the Vulcan Lyre
McCoy-?
Scotty-Drinking and reading tech manuals
Sulu- Fencing, botany, firearms, ancient aircraft
Chekov-faux-Russian facts
Uhura-Singing and dancing

 

[Cyke101]

Picard was a big ships-in-bottles guy.

So was O'Brien.

And Carey, the poor shmuck.

 

[The Old Mixer]

So was O'Brien.

O'Brien was just kissing up.

 

[The Wormhole]

O'Brien was just kissing up.

Not necessarily, AGT would indicate his ships in a bottle hobby was actually in his Starfleet file back in season 1, two years prior to him kissing ass.

 

[Tenacity]

I can only recall one instance where he cooks (the scene with the eggs that only Worf likes). Are there more instances?

In Remember Me, Beverly includes in her description of Riker that he "loves to cook."

Stemming from Charlie X, I get the feeling that Kirk enjoys working out.

 

[Mojochi]

The tap dancing Doctor Crusher has to take the cake. That crazy came out of nowhere

 

[stardream]

I don't think Paris has a real job. Everything he does is a hobby.

 

[Tracy Trek]

I don't think Paris has a real job. Everything he does is a hobby.

Well I don't think he liked filling in as a medic, so he might have considered that a job.

 

[Galactic Alignment]

Geordi makes a model HMS Victory in Elementary, Dear Data. Not sure there are any other later references to that particular hobby though.

 

[The Old Mixer]

The tap dancing Doctor Crusher has to take the cake. That crazy came out of nowhere

Hardly out of nowhere--Gates McFadden is a choreographer as well as an actress.