Was Trip the friendliest Star Trek character ever?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I do like Trip, but honestly he never struck me as particularly friendly. Trip can actually be kind of a jerk sometimes. Everybody thinks Trip is friendly because of his accent, but that's not true at all.

I'd say Phlox is MUCH friendlier than Trip.

 

[1001001]

 

[Vger23]

I like Trip more, but unfortunately this award probably goes to Neelix. I think of “friendly” as proactively engaging and inclusive, and not just the absence of being an a-hole. While there are plenty of “nice” characters (Guinan, Data, Phlox) I don’t think anyone was so proactively engaging as Neelix.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Trip's a pretty friendly guy, but if I was ranking characters I'd put him below D'Vana Tendi.

 

[dupersuper]

Phlox would be the friendliest overall..

Wow. One persons friend is another's genocidal monster...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Come again?

 

[at Quark's]

It's got to be Data. He never treated anyone with malice or get upset at them. Except Kivas Fajo.

I can follow Data in that respect. Kivas Fajo may well have been the most despicable character I ever saw on Star Trek. No redeeming qualities whatsoever, even if he perhaps didn't commit evil on the same scale as, say, Dukat.

Trip never struck me as particularly friendly or unfriendly.. But yes, he probably was one of the nicer characters on Enterprise.

 

[Watersluis]

I found him unreasonably unfriendly to Degra, whose favor they needed to save Earth.

 

[Kor]

^ Come again?

I think he's referring to the episode "Dear Doctor," which has been controversial ever since it aired. Lots of viewers have accused Phlox and Archer of being complicit in the inevitable extinction of the Valakians by withholding Phlox's cure from them because they didn't want to "play god" with the development of the two species on the planet.

Kor

 

[STEPhon IT]

Community participation?

My immediate thought was someone from Voyager, maybe Tom or Neelix, but I think Phlox would be my Enterprise choice.

Questions lead to discussions.

It's the limp method I find repetitive and the lack of context. A question for the topic isn't necessary, simply type "Trip Tucker the friendliest Star Trek Character" then write something to support it. This tired and quite frankly lazy form is just click bait and I find it weak.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

This has made it to two pages, which is a lot further than my thread that is all words and no question in the topic. Though the first reply here was from you, asking a different unrelated one-line question, which also got plenty of responses. The evidence suggests that this is a pretty successful technique for kicking off conversations!

 

[Ragitsu]

Why are some folks only content in contention?

 

[Richard S. Ta]

It's the limp method I find repetitive and the lack of context. A question for the topic isn't necessary, simply type "Trip Tucker the friendliest Star Trek Character" then write something to support it. This tired and quite frankly lazy form is just click bait and I find it weak.

If I find I’m not interested or if a thread lacks what I consider to be a stimulating OP, I just move on and don’t participate.

There’s actually more than a few instances of you unpleasantly wading into a thread to try to arbitrate what can and can’t be discussed on the forum. You don’t get to dictate that, fortunately and frankly speaking, it doesn’t reflect well on you.

 

[T'Bonz]

Why mostly every TrekBBS thread/ topic is in the form of a question?

Why are you posting crap like this? Knock it off. Your snark is becoming tiresome and it has now come to my attention. Drop the act now.

 

[apostle83]

If not, to whom does that honor belong?

Trip was extraordinarily friendly at the beginning of the show. This is why he was such a great candidate to get a mean streak, which was made plausible by the loss of his sister in the Xindi attack.

Some other mentions have been good. Phlox was a friendly, jovial fellow - but often his attitudes left folks feeling uncomfortable. I can't recall Tripp leaving anyone feeling uncomfortable.

As for Neelix, he does come across as friendly but I've wondered if he was actually "friendly" or just lacking in self-awareness.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Trip was extraordinarily friendly at the beginning of the show. This is why he was such a great candidate to get a mean streak, which was made plausible by the loss of his sister in the Xindi attack.

Some other mentions have been good. Phlox was a friendly, jovial fellow - but often his attitudes left folks feeling uncomfortable. I can't recall Tripp leaving anyone feeling uncomfortable.

As for Neelix, he does come across as friendly but I've wondered if he was actually "friendly" or just lacking in self-awareness.

In the beginning Neelix was a skeevy conman intent on manipulating the Federation crew to engourge his own benefit.

In the case of crewman Michael Jonas, as soon as Neelix figured out that he was dealing with a nogoodnick, the Talaxian murdered him swiftly.

 

[Ragitsu]

Murder? I don't think what happened to Michael Jonas would be considered murder.

 

[Kor]

Yeah, Neelix was trying to stop his sabotage, they struggled, and Jonas fell into the plasma fire. If there was some formal inquiry after that just to get all the facts straight, Neelix would not have been charged with murder. He probably would have gotten some kind of recognition for risking his own safety to stop the saboteur.

Kor

 

[somebuddyX]

Are we sure? We know he had been holding in his bloodlust for quite some time and finally had the opportunity to frame Lon Suder for the death of Darwin, using Suder's telepathy against him by creating his own false "Suder" sub-persona so that the actual Lon Suder would absorb those thoughts and think he himself was the culprit. We know he instigated Hogan's death by luring that creature out to kill hapless crewman. There's the theory that Neelix was the actual puppetmaster of the Caretaker, bringing ships across the galaxy, experimenting on many and the survivors to be casually slaughtered by the Kazon. What is one more death in the scheme of things?

 

[Farscape One]

I found him unreasonably unfriendly to Degra, whose favor they needed to save Earth.

Degra designed and helped build the device that killed millions of people, including his sister.

His attitude toward Degra was NOT unreasonable. I'd find it difficult, if not impossible, to even be in the same room with someone who was directly responsible for murdering someone I loved. Frankly, I'd beat that person senseless.

I do agree, however, that he shouldn't have been assigned to work with Degra directly as soon as his anger toward him was obvious. Given the stakes of the mission, that was a scenario where he shouldn't have been around Degra.