Cringe Trek
- Thread starter F. King Daniel
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Actually, I was so drunk that the second part of the evening is nothing but a blur. It's a good thing I was among friends or who knows what might have happened?
FYI: I've never told any of that to my parents. I don't think there's a statute of limitations with parents. If my father still lived and he learned of that, he'd still take me to the woodshed about it!!!
I don't know about other countries, but Hungarians believe that drunk people have specialist guardian angels whose only job is to ensure they don't get in too much trouble, to explain how you end up in your own bed after a party with no recollection of how you got home.
But about vodka...... uuugh. It brings up unpleasant memories of my university freshman camp. I don't know how common they are, but imagine a sports competition where every single event is a prank disguised as some kind of sport, usually organized by the student government. One of the games was a relay race with the added twist that you had to drink 1dl (about half a US cup) of wine in one go, keep turning around until the person before you crossed the finish line and then run.
There were always pre-selected suckers who were pranked on top of the known prank. For this particular game, it was me, so instead of the 1dl of wine, I was given the same amount of vodka. Then I had to turn around for like 6-7 seconds before having to run. In direct sunlight, I might add; it was also above 30°C (around 90°F) that day. Needless to say, I'm still unable to smell vodka without immediately retching.
That movie was a slap in the face of DS9. First they rewrite Romulan Ale now being legal then they don't acknowldge Worf is a ambassador to Kronos and have Chief O'Brien make a cameo instead of out of left field Janeway who had nothing to do with the show.
Jason
Sayeth the bible belt: Prove that Star Trek makes people become lesbians..."I'm mesmerized by her breasts."
Try the german dub then...the voice actress makes the whole scene sound as if she´s having sex with the ice cream.....I swear!
In all fairness, I originally wanted to use Kirk's "note to the galley - Romulan ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions" and Chekov complaining about a radiation surge the size of his head, but I couldn't find it anywhere
Nemesis had to make do.
That's part of his character. I think cringy is when the writers aren't aware of how cringy a character might be behaving.
Jason
The Ferengi in general... though they were a little more silly in their first appearance, with their overly furtive physical mannerisms.
Kor
I think cringy is when a character does something that creepy and he gets away with it. What would you have said if Quark had uttered racial slurs on and on for an entire episode?
If Quark, or any Ferengi, were thrown off DS9 for sexual harrassment there wouldn't be much of a DS9 left.
I don't know which episode you are referring to. If Quark did harass his employees it would be cringeworthy if no one called him out on it, or worse, if it was played for laughs.
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Profit and Lace, which is cringe on a number of levels, but Quark provides an employee with a book titled "Oo-mox for pleasure and profit." It's not great.
oo-mox is gross and cringeworthy every time it's brought up, which is too often. If they had made it so that Ferengi were just very susceptible to female's touch generally, that would be one thing, but to make this a sexual "act," give it a name, and always use it the way they do is beyond gross. Some of the most "cringle" examples:
Rom gets an ear infection so bad that he almost dies. Leeta asks him "what happened?"
Rom- "Too much oo-mox"
Leeta- "Who's the lucky lady?"
Rom- "uhhhh....to myself"
Then Rom asks if Leeta would do it for him, and says "we could ask bashir(her boyfriend at the time) if he's okay with it."
Another one is in "Little Green Men," where Rom and Nog take turns getting Oo-mox from the human female.
And another one is when Dax just starts giving quark oo-mox, casually, right in the ops room, in front of everyone. I don't remember the episode.
Rom gets an ear infection so bad that he almost dies. Leeta asks him "what happened?"
Rom- "Too much oo-mox"
Leeta- "Who's the lucky lady?"
Rom- "uhhhh....to myself"
Then Rom asks if Leeta would do it for him, and says "we could ask bashir(her boyfriend at the time) if he's okay with it."
Another one is in "Little Green Men," where Rom and Nog take turns getting Oo-mox from the human female.
And another one is when Dax just starts giving quark oo-mox, casually, right in the ops room, in front of everyone. I don't remember the episode.
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