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Spoilers Crazy shit happens to every ship

F. King Daniel

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Boimler's girlfriend lists a bunch of things she's done as part of the Vancouver crew, including resetting the timeline. Seems like every Starfleet ship goes on crazy, over-the-top adventures on the weekly and not just ones named Enterprise.

Too much? Or not enough?
 
Makes sense, since while Picard admittedly is a Q magnet, our heroes in general are not all that special a bunch in the Starfleet context.

Whether this makes any particular set of heroes less of a thing, or actually more of a thing, can be debated. We could argue that for any given era, only a handful of ships actually survive a whole string of these as such commonplace adventures, and those survivors are the ones the Starfleet PR Dept cameras retroactively stick to, for our viewing pleasure. But given the Vancouver, it seems more fruitful to think that the odds of surviving seven seasons of absurd events aren't all that low after all, and we would have gotten our entertainment from sticking with that ship instead of Picard's or Freeman's or Janeway's.

Timo Saloniemi
 
@F. King Daniel, please be mindful of putting spoilers in a thread without either adding the red Spoilers tag to the title or putting the actual spoiler behind spoiler code in the post itself. :)
 
Given that Boimler had only been to three planets (not including Earth or stupid Vulcan), despite serving on the Cerritos for a year, makes me think that they hadn't had crazy adventures every week until just now. And Envoys was a simple escort mission (nothing crazy about a drunk Klingon) and this week's episode had a bog-standard moral dilemma that none of the lower decks crew cared or thought about.

During the Rage Virus, the first crazy adventure we see, Rutherford seems to tell Ensign Barnes that "this stuff happens every week" (paraphrase). This could be because Rutherford might be relatively new to the ship. He's a "recent Cyborg" (of a few weeks), so it might be that his injury was incurred on some other ship and he was on the prior transfer before Tendi. Barnes may have been on the transfer with Tendi.

And of the three crazy adventures we have had (Rage Virus, Gelrakian Boarding, Terraforming Emulsion), all three could've been easily avoided and were caused by shipboard incompetence (Ransom not being screened, giving the Gelrakians the wrong totem thingy, the rival ship getting destroyed because they wanted to be in control).
 
Given that Boimler had only been to three planets (not including Earth or stupid Vulcan), despite serving on the Cerritos for a year, makes me think that they hadn't had crazy adventures every week until just now. And Envoys was a simple escort mission (nothing crazy about a drunk Klingon) and this week's episode had a bog-standard moral dilemma that none of the lower decks crew cared or thought about.

During the Rage Virus, the first crazy adventure we see, Rutherford seems to tell Ensign Barnes that "this stuff happens every week" (paraphrase). This could be because Rutherford might be relatively new to the ship. He's a "recent Cyborg" (of a few weeks), so it might be that his injury was incurred on some other ship and he was on the prior transfer before Tendi. Barnes may have been on the transfer with Tendi.

And of the three crazy adventures we have had (Rage Virus, Gelrakian Boarding, Terraforming Emulsion), all three could've been easily avoided and were caused by shipboard incompetence (Ransom not being screened, giving the Gelrakians the wrong totem thingy, the rival ship getting destroyed because they wanted to be in control).

It's also possible that it's the "Stargate planet vs. Base Under Siege" episode. Boimler has never left the ship until Second Contact as far as we can tell so any adventures he'd have would be on the ship. He doesn't seem particularly perturbed by the invasion by crystal guys so its possible he's still facing the "Base under Siege" elements.
 
I doubt many ships have Enterprise level stuff happen frequently, but I'm sure many of them have enough. Like Jayneway said to Kim (2.0) about Starfleet: "Weird is part of the job."
 
Resetting the timeline is a prettybig deal though. With MASSIVE repurcussions galaxy wide.

I'd get a kick out of them doing it and it being the reason the Disco look replaces TOS:p

I unambiguously state I'd love for them to do an episode of changes to reality that only die-hard would get.

* Classic Bridge to Pike Bridge
* Classic Klingons to TNG Klingons to Disco Klingons
* Big Hair Mariner to Ponytail Mariner
 
I've a feeling most the the Enterprise's time is spent doing "boring" stuff. We just happen to catch them on the exciting days.

I believe Ian Fleming said something similar about James Bond; he spends most of his time getting intelligence briefings, studying international politics, and physically training for the one or two missions he'll go on each year, but there's no point writing about that bit.
 
Even if ships like the Enterprise actually are doing the kind of exciting adventures that get chronicled on the show every mission they are on, the simple reality of space travel is that the majority of the time is going to be spent travelling to destinations, which is likely to be boring and uneventful. Which actually might be a good setting for a strictly character oriented bottle show. Though I guess Voyager did tackle this subject anyway in the episode Night.
 
I always get Night and Void mixed up... crazy that they did the same concept twice in the same show XD
 
Yeah, isn't that twisted... Shattered some illusions of mine. Oh, well, one episode in hundreds - blink and you miss it. Wink wink.

Timo Saloniemi
 
It seems right to me that all the other starfleet ships have some weird stuff happen to them, considering what we see about Voyager, all the Enterprises, Discovery etc if we think of them as ships just out there randomly running into things. But on the other hand I always liked the plot point in the novel Q-Squared that Martinez pretty much only visited the Enterprise because it was such a weirdness magnet and is expecting something weird to go down while she's aboard and then goes on to list every weird time anomaly the E had encountered in the seven years of TNG as to her reasoning. It was fun metacommentary on the whole necessities of being a TV show vs what might be seen in "real life."
 
...It would be easier to swallow the "it only ever happens to the ships we see" concept if we didn't follow three different ships named Enterprise and have the weirdness happen to all of them. Okay, perhaps only one ship out of a hundred gets to face weird on a weekly basis. But why three Enterprises?

And the problem there isn't that weirdness would happen to three similar ships. It's that the E-nil and the E-D have nothing in common beside the name. One is an expendable frontier workhorse, the other is the Flagship of the Federation... One encountering weirdness would almost have to be counterindication to the other doing the same!

Timo Saloniemi
 
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