Box Busting mama

[RobertScorpio]

Have you ever been watching STAR TREK (2) and the writing so surprises you, in a GOOD way, that you think to yourself..."Damn, where did that come from?"

For me? To this very day? Its when they let Worf kill Durass. When he swung that Batleth back and brough it down I said to myself "No way, this show is so vanila, they are not going to let him do that..he'll just miss and give some mushy reason how Picard has changed him"...

But no...HE KILLED DURASS. And I'm like thinking..wow...I like this show.

In the years to come, TNG's writing would become so predictable, but on that day, when Work killed Durass, TNG wrote 'outside of the box' in such a away that, to this day, I have to give it it's props...

Rob
Scorpio

 

[JiNX-01]

ENT:
Similitude: Phlox murders Sim to save Trip.

 

[RobertScorpio]

ENT:
Similitude: Phlox murders Sim to save Trip.

That is my favorite ENT episode of all time..good pick Jinx

Rob

 

[JiNX-01]

ENT:
Similitude: Phlox murders Sim to save Trip.

That is my favorite ENT episode of all time..good pick Jinx

Rob

Thanks! It's mine too. I had Connor autograph my script on the page where Sim tells Phlox he was a good father. John Billingsley is scheduled for Creation's New Jersey con and I plan to have him autograph it too.

 

[RobertScorpio]

ENT:
Similitude: Phlox murders Sim to save Trip.

That is my favorite ENT episode of all time..good pick Jinx

Rob

Thanks! It's mine too. I had Connor autograph my script on the page where Sim tells Phlox he was a good father. John Billingsley is scheduled for Creation's New Jersey con and I plan to have him autograph it too.

Yep..I talked with Conner two years back in Vegas. And was very happy to see him in his short appearence on 24. And he looks so much like George W..its uncanny. Good sense of humor too...down to earth guy.

Rob

 

[WendellM]

Star Trek III:

Kirk and Kruge are fighting. Kruge falls off the edge of a cliff and barely catches himself. In the expected hero move, Kirk reaches down and offers, "Give me your hand!"

Instead of accepting this mercy, Kruge grabs Kirk's ankle to drag him down with him.

Kirk: "I" <kicks Kruge in the face> "have had" <kicks him in the face again> "enough of you!" <kicks him a third time; Kruge falls to his death>.

 

[SFRabid]

ENT: Damage - They board a crippled alien ship and take what they need for repairs, stranding that ship and ignore the pleas from the ship captain. That event was more real than anything I had seen in any previous Star Trek war setting.

 

[JiNX-01]

ENT: Damage - They board a crippled alien ship and take what they need for repairs, stranding that ship and ignore the pleas from the ship captain. That event was more real than anything I had seen in any previous Star Trek war setting.

I originally put that with Similitude but decided since Archer did supply them with food, water and trellium ...

Still it was a nice nod to the pirate in Anomaly who warned Archer he'd do the same some day...

 

[Red Ranger]

My favorite has to be in DSN, when you think Gul Dukat is going to attack the Dominion fleet that's come through the wormhole. When Kira calls him to say don't do it, I was surprised when he said, "I'm not attacking the Dominion fleet. I'm joining it." And then the revelation that the Cardassians decided to join the Dominion. That's my favorite WTF/out of the box moment in ST history. -- RR

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

ENT: Damage - They board a crippled alien ship and take what they need for repairs, stranding that ship and ignore the pleas from the ship captain. That event was more real than anything I had seen in any previous Star Trek war setting.

Those aliens should have been Cardassians. What a first contact that would have been.

 

[caisson2delta]

I can't remember the episode, but it was also one from enterprise. Archer ends up blowing a person out of an airlock. I was thinking wow, Kirk was a badass and he never did that.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I can't remember the episode, but it was also one from enterprise. Archer ends up blowing a person out of an airlock. I was thinking wow, Kirk was a badass and he never did that.

He didn't actually flush the guy out the airlock, just locked him in and threatened to. I think Archer would have done it, though, if pushed.

 

[bluedana]

I can't remember the episode, but it was also one from enterprise. Archer ends up blowing a person out of an airlock. I was thinking wow, Kirk was a badass and he never did that.

He didn't actually flush the guy out the airlock, just locked him in and threatened to. I think Archer would have done it, though, if pushed.

I think caisson2delta might be thinking of ENT:Regeneration, where the ship was boarded by Borgified aliens. The Ent crew originally thought to rescue them, but then the Borg tried sabotage the ship. Archer orders Malcolm to clear the section where the aliens are, then has T'Pol open the airlock. It's a great scene, and definitely out of the box.

ENT actually had several "out of the box" moments: denying asylum in Cogenitor, piracy in Damage (as mentioned), torture in Anomaly, sacrifice in Similitude. They were pretty good at putting the crew in no-win situations.