Or rather I hate that no one ever calls this guy by his name. Either one, first or last. It's always just "chef". Never "Chef Johnson" or "Chef Bob". Every single time it's "chef". Without fail.
Did everyone on Enterprise get together and decide to never learn the guy's name? I'd understand if they called him just "chef" most of the time, but over four years you'd think his name would slip out once or twice.
It really feels artificial to me. Every time someone mentions "chef" the only thing I can think is "there is no chef". Chef does not exist. The characters are not talking about a person that exists and that they know or have ever spoken to before, they are just reading words on a page that happen to refer to someone who cooks for a profession. Somewhere. In the minds of the writers only, most likely. A lazy writer who can't think of a decent first or last name.
If it's supposed to be some sort of meta joke it's not really funny. I mean, I guess it was *kind* of humorous that one time in the Catwalk when he shows up and is only shown from the waist down... if you're super starved for humor, it's passable.
But if the writers didn't want to spend five minutes on getting together and deciding what the guy's name is, they maybe shouldn't have kept having the rest o the characters talk about him constantly, because every time they have the characters talk about an alleged element of their environment that so plainly doesn't exist, it kind of damages the illusion of the show.
Either that or everyone hates the guy and has decided to shun him as much as possible.
Did everyone on Enterprise get together and decide to never learn the guy's name? I'd understand if they called him just "chef" most of the time, but over four years you'd think his name would slip out once or twice.
It really feels artificial to me. Every time someone mentions "chef" the only thing I can think is "there is no chef". Chef does not exist. The characters are not talking about a person that exists and that they know or have ever spoken to before, they are just reading words on a page that happen to refer to someone who cooks for a profession. Somewhere. In the minds of the writers only, most likely. A lazy writer who can't think of a decent first or last name.
If it's supposed to be some sort of meta joke it's not really funny. I mean, I guess it was *kind* of humorous that one time in the Catwalk when he shows up and is only shown from the waist down... if you're super starved for humor, it's passable.
But if the writers didn't want to spend five minutes on getting together and deciding what the guy's name is, they maybe shouldn't have kept having the rest o the characters talk about him constantly, because every time they have the characters talk about an alleged element of their environment that so plainly doesn't exist, it kind of damages the illusion of the show.
Either that or everyone hates the guy and has decided to shun him as much as possible.
