the GREEN person

[RobertScorpio]

Of all the starfleet officers that were part of the main crew of a STAR TREK series, which one do you think was the most...green. Meaning, at the start (or heck even at the end)you wondered how did they even get through Starfleet Academy???

Rob

 

[Shazam!]

Harry Kim. I don't even know why he was there.

 

[Finn]

^or why this question was even asked. Harry Kim was so green he made an Orion look deathly pale.

 

[USS Triumphant]

Harry Kim. I don't even know why he was there.

I understood why Harry was there - he never seemed incompetent or anything. The writers just didn't give him much to do. And, this comes from someone who didn't care for his character - or Voyager much, for that matter.

I'm going to vote for Reginald Barclay. I love the character and I'm glad he was there, but I certainly can't say that I understand his having being assigned to the Enterprise. Especially not to begin with.

 

[RyuRoots]

^or why this question was even asked. Harry Kim was so green he made an Orion look deathly pale.

Quoted for truth. The thing about Harry is that so far,(I just started S5) he's still the noobish Harry "I'm locked out!" Kim he was in "Caretaker". I was thinking it'd be so cool to watch a green academy graduate slowly turn into this show's O'Brien. My hopes for that have diminished a bit. No Star Trek TV main could compare with Harry.

 

[Chuckling]

Of all the starfleet officers that were part of the main crew of a STAR TREK series, which one do you think was the most...green. Meaning, at the start (or heck even at the end)you wondered how did they even get through Starfleet Academy???

Rob

And here I was thinking you were going all *environmentally friendly* all of a sudden!

Chuckling

 

[USS Triumphant]

And here I was thinking you were going all *environmentally friendly* all of a sudden!

Before I clicked in, I thought it might be a thread about Gaila.

 

[Vonstadt]

Oh Harry Kim for sure

Click for his 'inner theme song'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbCI68eSNsA&feature=related

Vons

 

[Star Wolf]

Harry Kim. I don't even know why he was there.

I think Ensign Kim was there to show you Starfleet from the eyes of the "green" officer. Sort of a continuing "Lower Decks" arc for the Voyager series. TPTB however failed in the execution of the concept just as they did when the Maquis became indistinguishable fro the Starfleet crew, except in the handful of episodes where it was the subject.

How about Geordi as the blind helmsman before they killed off Yar and tightend the show up.

 

[Rulius]

Hm I tried to think of someone besides Harry... and I can't...even Barclay seems to be more... with it hehe.

 

[Anticitizen]

Harry Kim. I don't even know why he was there.

I understood why Harry was there - he never seemed incompetent or anything. The writers just didn't give him much to do. And, this comes from someone who didn't care for his character - or Voyager much, for that matter.

I'm going to vote for Reginald Barclay. I love the character and I'm glad he was there, but I certainly can't say that I understand his having being assigned to the Enterprise. Especially not to begin with.

It was actually explained in a TNG episode, 'Hollow Pursuits' I think - it was mentioned that Barclay was transferred to the Enterprise with a high recommendation from his previous superiors. Geordi, I think, reckoned that this was done so they could get rid of him!

 

[kes7]

Harry was really personally naive, but he was a decent officer. Barclay tended to get into a lot more professional trouble with his naivete.

Anyone remember Sonya Gomez from Q Who? Now SHE was green. I guess she wasn't really main cast, though.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Harry was really personally naive, but he was a decent officer. Barclay tended to get into a lot more professional trouble with his naivete.

Anyone remember Sonya Gomez from Q Who? Now SHE was green. I guess she wasn't really main cast, though.

perhaps...but a great choice. I actually had a crush on her for quite some time, especially when it was discovered that she had three breasts (okay..it was her prior life on Mars (Total recall) when she did)

Rob

 

[Crewman47]

Following on from the above replies I'd have to mention Harry as well cause the guy just came straight out from the Academy and he's given a Senior Officer position and then he moans to his Captain years later saying that he should've been a Lieutenant by then.

I liked Harry but I think he should've been given an Assistant Ops Manger position rather than Senior Ops Manager. Given Ayala's Lieutenant rank he could've filled in as Senior Ops but still given a secondary cast role so we'd still have Harry on screen.

 

[Pauln6]

Chekov has always been hopeless. It is so ludicrous that he was promoted to security chief in TMP. Tactical officer he could manage but security chief? He's only a lieutenant and has no practical security experience and if you watch his efforts at investigation in TUC you just cringe. He didn't even know that a phaser set on kill would set off the alarms. It's such an outrage that he is put in charge of the ship instead of Uhura - I have way more confidence in her ability to run things.

 

[Eyes]

Harry never struck me as green, just an ensign out of Starfleet academy on his first mission.

Season 1 Bashir however was very green. He was just too enthuastic about the new situations (frontier medicine) to the point where he became annoying, such as in Past Prologue, where he's so excited a possible spy just talked to him he rushes straight up to Ops to talk to anyone who cares. It was to DS9's credit that they turned him into the veteran he becomes from Season 5 onwards. Voyager is a decent show, but if Bashir had been on Voyager, he would have been less experienced in Season 7 than Harry is in Season 1.
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[Star Wolf]

How about Ensign Nog when he and the Chief runs across Red Squad?

 

[Yeoman Randi]

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I'm going to vote for Reginald Barclay. I love the character and I'm glad he was there, but I certainly can't say that I understand his having being assigned to the Enterprise. Especially not to begin with.

I was also thinking Reg, although i don't know if he was green so much as he was incompetent. I also never understood how he would have made it on to the Enterprise, seeing as how that ship appeared to have the best of the best. But i LOVED the Reg character too. And, I think he and i would have made great friends.....

 

[barnaclelapse]

I gotta go with Harry Kim on this one, especially since he didn't seem to improve a whole lot.

I know no one is going to agree with me on this, but I thought Tasha Yar was awfully damn green at times.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I gotta go with Harry Kim on this one, especially since he didn't seem to improve a whole lot.

I know no one is going to agree with me on this, but I thought Tasha Yar was awfully damn green at times.

I agree on both counts. I didn't care for Crosby's acting style, which, compared to Shatner's, made him look like a stone statue.

Rob