Paris + B'Elanna scene, absolute cop-out

[JanewayRulz!]

Is it bad of me to care more about Vorik than Tom and B'elanna?

Why yes... yes it is.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhO5FfuumbM

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhO5FfuumbM[/yt]

Do you realize that B'Elanna is the "catch" on Voyager.

Vorick wanted to mate with her...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhU5AvfIKS0

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhU5AvfIKS0[/yt]


Tom to date/marry her...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-2SWpttJE

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-2SWpttJE[/yt]

and even Seven wanted to bond with her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p42a8HeBYBc&feature=player_detailpage#t=104s

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p42a8HeBYBc[/yt]

 

[Melakon]

Is it bad of me to care more about Vorik than Tom and B'elanna?

I was never a fan of Vorik, and that was before I thought nepotism had something to do with the casting. But that's show business.

 

[Sadara]

I tend to prefer the minor Vulcan characters. Solok and Vorik are awesome. Tuvok and Spock... meh.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Vorik.. awesome?

 

[Melakon]

I had to look up Solok. Turns out there's two of them. One was the Ferengi in TNG: Chain of Command, played by Lou Wagner, who I remembered as Lucius from the Planet of the Apes films. He was also on the series CHiPs as the mechanic.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Yeah, Tom wasn't a guy to take advantage of such a situation. He always seemed someone that would have been a character Bogart would have played, he'd kill if necessary but would never do that if he couldn't, and a lady is someone you respect without reservation whatever comes.

 

[Guy Gardener]

"The wrong twin is good enough"????

"Dude, it's an identical gidget, so who cares who she is on the inside, just shut your eyes and pray you don't scream out the right name inside the wrong sister."

"Sigh"

 

[Gov Kodos]

24th century zen...

 

[JarodRussell]

Didn't Paris create a pon farr masturbation holodeck program for Tuvok?

There's this extremely annoying scene where both the characters scramble about in some underground passage, B'Elanna has been affected by Vorik's mating drive since they were partially linked, and she's practically begging Paris on her knees to have it off with her. He refuses.

What please is the reasoning for this other than a plain cop-out on part of the writers? Letting her enter a possibly-fatal combat with Vorik where either or both of them might get seriously injured in order to resolve the dilemma is fine, but not letting two people enjoy themselves?
O.k. I can understand a man of honour refusing a woman in this state if he knows that he's the last person on earth she'd ever consider when she's normal. But in this case all her disinhibition does is bring her real feelings to the surface.
So basically, here's this woman you fancy like anything, and she's forced to admit she has the same feelings for you, and she's throwing herself at you and unless you comply she might die. And you don't??
I got insanely frustrated just watching this. Have at already, the pair of you!!

Well, once you're over the frustation of being a virgin or a long time single, you realize that situations like that are not worth to be exploited.

 

[Guy Gardener]

It's the question of blame.

Who do you blame?

The hand that tickled Tuvok's tackle, or the mind that told the hand to tickle Tuvok's tackle?

Tuvok might have seen his wife when he threw himself at that clunge, but he was actually frakking Tom.

 

[Melakon]

It's too bad Reginald Barclay wasn't an original member of the crew. Barclay Program 9, the only one he didn't delete, must have had some really good stuff.

 

[Gov Kodos]

It's the question of blame.

Who do you blame?

The hand that tickled Tuvok's tackle, or the mind that told the hand to tickle Tuvok's tackle?

Tuvok might have seen his wife when he threw himself at that clunge, but he was actually frakking Tom.

So, when Tuvok tinkles, does it trouble him that Tuvix might have tickled his tackle? Only Neelix knows, I suppose?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Since men stand right next to each other and pee all the time I don't think it will bother Tuvok that this one time when he was someone else and Neelix was someone else the someone else had to whip it out.

 

[Gov Kodos]

In my experience there's usually an empty urinal put in between whenever the option is available. Your mileage may differ of course...

 

[Melakon]

I don't know what it's like these days, but when I was in high school there were no separate urinals, just a long trough with no dividers, and you could see everyone's shortcomings.

(I stole that last part from David Niven's quip when the Oscars were interrupted by a streaker)

 

[Guy Gardener]

If we really made as much mess as women claim, the male public toilet would be a greased hole in the wall we'd have to hump.

I've never seen much at public toilets, but public changing rooms at public swimming pools is a fantastic monster show of creatively different penises.

 

[Captain Kathryn]

Tom wouldn't do it with a mentally compromised B'Elanna.

But making weird reptilian babies with lizard-Janeway? That's where it's at!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

What annoys me is that these lizards are supposed to be human evolution a million whatever years from now.. but no one every discusses whether this means we devolve back into an animal state or whether these lizards are super beings, so super that Janeway and Paris's puny human brains can't remember that existence.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I thought it was that a recessive gene had been supercharged and fast forwarded a million years.

Hmmm?

If the Lizard Children had stayed on board, would the Monkey's running the ship have not been treated as such Pariahs by the Voth?

Or would the Voth see this as a quick "out" to repopulate the homeworld with a ruling reptilian class using the lizard babies as a template for a super weapon?

 

[R. Star]

I always wondered why those lizard babies couldn't be handwaved back into human kids like Janeway and Paris. It always struck me as cold that they left the lizard babies there to fend for themselves with no other alternative for survival than repeated incest.

Boy, they'll have mommy and daddy issues one day to say the least. And considering how quickly they breed, they can populate a planet and build an empire in a few dozen years. Then, they go to the stars to seek their revenge!