What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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To his credit, he recognized all these very things in himself. He is one of the most self-aware and introspective starship captains we've ever seen in Trek, IMO. That includes Kirk and it definitely includes Picard.
"Forgive me. At some point, asshоlе became a substitute for charm."
Other memorable quotes in this vein:
"That leads me to First Officer Hansen. More accurately, Seven of Nine. Hell, I'm a relic of an older time. By the book. By God, the book is boring. Hansen is reckless. She's unrelenting, doesn't give a damn about protocol or procedure. However... she is brave and loyal and... the book that she writes is gonna be great. And the rules that she breaks... maybe they were broken to begin with. So, in light of that, I have a recommendation: promotion to Captain when we return to port."
"Why—why me? I'm just some dipshit from Chicago."
This is a leader I could get behind 100% until the antimatter containment magnetic bottles cracked. Unencumbered by blind ego and bravado. Brilliantly written; brilliantly portrayed.
I definitely enjoyed this aspect of the character.
You’re probably right, but by God, Todd Stashwick made it work.
To me, he is the most memorable character that has come out of CBS Trek.
He and Robau are trading drinks and war stories in that special area in the Afterlife reserved for supremely bad-ass Trek Captains.
The Captain’s Table?
Exactly.
Served by Captain Esteban
He would need to check with Starfleet Command first.
Styles may qualify, but only to spit-shine their boots.
Styles may qualify, but only to spit-shine their boots.
Wait staff has their own entrance.They wouldn’t even let him in the door.
When Shaw listed his flaws I didn't think "What an introspective and self-aware captain", I thought "Oh, so you noticed too, huh?"
We all interpret things in different ways.
What I am going by, is Navigator Jose Tyler's comment that the time barrier had been broken. Where I get my twenty fold improvement is from Kirk's comment about how long freighters take to get out there. If the time barrier is broken, then it makes more sense to have done a series about the after affects of that breaking. Twenty fold improvement in speed, is a radical change. Furthermore I am looking at the specifications of the original USS Yorktown, having a maximum speed of 6,400c. I postulate that a 'time warp ' contracts time in a similar way that a space warp contracts linear distance. I am also taking into account another comment about the early Galactic Survey Cruiser Valiant, having weak impulse power. Which implies directly low acceleration, meaning that it took time to get up to speed. Hence the need for a time warp. This implies that the four days for the Enterprise NX-01 to get to the Klingon home world, is reasonable. "Acceleration " is a component to the warp field.
I think Stashwick did a damn fine job with what he was given, but Shaw was too flawed in too many ways for me to think, "yeah, I'd follow this guy into the unknown." Someone like Troi would've had him in therapy and away from the Captain's chair.
That's why you blow Troi out of the airlock, while still in Spacedock. With appropriate gear, of course.
Yeah, exactly. It came across to me like the writing was lampshading the problem. If you're aware that you're a bigoted asshole and you've not done the work to pull yourself out of that, then it's really not worth much - you're still just a bigoted asshole.
I don't think he was bigoted, just broken. Broken by his experiences with the Borg.
Wolf 359 and realizing he survived that battle only because of sheer luck and the random chance of a senior officer picking him to board a lifeboat changed him forever. For the next 34 years he was a sarcastic asshole and egomaniac, and like the character or not Stashwick did an excellent job depicting how fragile Shaw really was beneath the verbal bullying and bravado.
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