Shot out of an airlock

[JoeZhang]

Which original (as in original to the books and other spin-off media) characters would you like to see shot out of an airlock?


For me, the current main one is T'ryssa Chen who is so irksome that I'd prefer the airlock closed on her head to make sure there was no chance for the character to come back.

 

[Elias Vaughn]

Really? T'ryssa is awesome.

I want to say Leybenzon, but that's a little too late.

 

[ToddCam]

What is it with fans and the need to have characters they dislike killed?

Well, at least you are not advocating one of the other characters murdering her.

I guess if I had to have one specifically die, it is the now gone Astall from early Voyager post-finale novels. It seemed pretty unfair that Kaz and Campbell were killed off unnecessarily (and in the latter's case, gruesomely), and she just got transferred. She was INCREDIBLY annoying. Counselors should not be more upset than their patients. Didn't help that I imagined her as a giant purple rabbit.

 

[Mage]

What's her face, the Vulcan counsellor on the E-E from Before Dishonour. I have not read any of the post-Nemesis novels set before Before Dishonour, so perhaps it was just the way Peter David wrote her but my God, she was such an insufferable little know-at-all. You'd think Starfleet psych-screening would make sure people like this were banned from serving in the Fleet. I mean c'mon, her logic was flawed beyond such a believe, that even she must have realized something was wrong when her train of thought derailed somewhere along the line.

 

[Christopher]

^She did eventually realize something went wrong, as Greater Than the Sum establishes.

 

[RandyS]

Really? T'ryssa is awesome.

Agreed. I really liked her. For some reason, when I was reading the TNG relaunch, I pictured Chen as Robin Curtis' Saavik, despite the fact that Chen and Saavik are nothing alike, Chen DID strike me as Robin Curtis as she was when I met her.

 

[Nathan]

Even tho' I like CLB's work, Chen was aweful. Yeah, when you first met her she had unique knowledge for the mission, but comes off immature/annoying and hides behind the "i'm embracing my human side"

I can't believe Picard would put up her with her BS (or for that matter anyone who talked to him that way)

Then her role as "Contact Specialist" became, "Well, I'm not needed as a contact specialist, but I'll just help out where I am needed...uh...let's say I'll work in engineering"

Not saying on a ship you can't be dual-hatted, but it came across as she thought, "Hmmm.....i'm bored, I'll go help LaForge"...but I digress.

My main issue was that she wants to come of quirky, but hey when you are a low ranking officer, you gotta keep it in check.

She'd be my first person out the airlock.

 

[Christopher]

Then her role as "Contact Specialist" became, "Well, I'm not needed as a contact specialist, but I'll just help out where I am needed...uh...let's say I'll work in engineering"

Not saying on a ship you can't be dual-hatted, but it came across as she thought, "Hmmm.....i'm bored, I'll go help LaForge"...but I digress.

That's an odd characterization. Naturally, as a junior officer in a starship crew, she doesn't pick her own work assignments but is ordered to undertake them by her superiors.

As I conceived T'Ryssa, she was a science officer with a specialty in first contact and interspecies interaction. I assumed that if there weren't any need for a contact specialist, she'd serve more generally as a science officer. But Dave Mack introduced Dina Elfiki in that role, so when the events of the later TNG novels took the Enterprise away from exploratory and diplomatic missions, their writers/editors decided that Trys needed to fill some other role, and apparently they picked engineering. Which I suppose is a natural outgrowth of the backstory I created for the character, in that she's had eclectic experience in her life.

However, in the upcoming Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within, she's back to her contact-specialist job in a big way.

 

[William Leisner]

Then her role as "Contact Specialist" became, "Well, I'm not needed as a contact specialist, but I'll just help out where I am needed...uh...let's say I'll work in engineering"

Not saying on a ship you can't be dual-hatted, but it came across as she thought, "Hmmm.....i'm bored, I'll go help LaForge"...

No.

Reread Losing the Peace pages 125-126.

 

[JWolf]

Then her role as "Contact Specialist" became, "Well, I'm not needed as a contact specialist, but I'll just help out where I am needed...uh...let's say I'll work in engineering"

Not saying on a ship you can't be dual-hatted, but it came across as she thought, "Hmmm.....i'm bored, I'll go help LaForge"...

No.

Reread Losing the Peace pages 125-126.

Please at least give the chapter as well as the pages as those pages do not correspond to the pages in the ePub edition that a lot of us read.

 

[Elias Vaughn]

Chapter five.

 

[Mage]

^She did eventually realize something went wrong, as Greater Than the Sum establishes.

She did, that's true. But still, the way she acted in BD was just to weird. So I suppose a 'thank you' is in order for adding some sense to it all.

 

[TerraUnam]

The premise of having Chen and Choudhury alone on detached service leads me to think that Choudhury is going to lose her sanity at the end of The Struggle Within.

 

[NSTrekfan]

No character really calls out for a spacing to me but Chen is as good a choice as any. More than enough characters with daddy issues already.

 

[JD]

I don't think it would even would be anywhere near possible for me to disagree with you guys more. For me Chen is one of highlights of the entire TNGR, she's a fun character and that's always a good thing.

 

[Mage]

So much hate towards Chen, I didn't realise she was so unloved. I really liked her character.

 

[JoeZhang]

No character really calls out for a spacing to me but Chen is as good a choice as any. More than enough characters with daddy issues already.

She's got it all, daddy issues, half-human, runaway, childish yet over 25 - a space-uzi to the face is the only way.

 

[flandry84]

The entire relaunch crew could IMO suffer a major containment breach and I wouldn't care but Chen,yeah she would be my first choice.

 

[Christopher]

So much hate towards Chen, I didn't realise she was so unloved. I really liked her character.

One thing I've learned: the more deeply some people love something, the more deeply others will hate it. And usually vice-versa. They're two sides of the same coin. I've found that T'Ryssa is a character who evokes strong reactions from people, and fortunately, the positive reactions outnumber the negative ones. But I'm just glad she's so memorable.

 

[Nick M]

I really love the Chen character, she makes me laugh and adds some light moments to plots that can be pretty heavy. I thought her character was great in Paths of Disharmony.