Pol...Most Important Character on Enterprise

[Kanenas]

I voted the captain because he is the glue that defines the mission. He is obsessed with getting out ther and seeing what is out there.

compare:

Kirk: His obsession was the five year mission and protecting the ship

Picard: Self improvement and first contact

(holding nose) Janeway: ostensibly to take the voyager home, but it reduced to a joy ride. (7 of 9)

Sisko: Protect the wormhole and what it means for the quadrant. (of course he did go native, for bajor)

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Posted by Archer4Trip:
Trip was barely there:
ANIS, Minefield
(Season One: Terra Nova, Fortunate Son, Dear Doctor, Fusion)

I wouldn't say he was barely there in "Fusion." He actually had a certain amount of focus there in the subplot with trying to get Kov to speak with his father.

I voted for Dr. Phlox. PHLOX ROCKS! I love Phlox because finally we get an alien who's really alien. He still has the same range of human emotions but he approaches situations from a cultural standpoint which truly tries to be different from his human companions. He doesn't view himself as an alien on a ship full of humans. He views himself as the one normal one on a ship full of crazy aliens!

I give honorable mentions to Charles "Trip" Tucker & Malcolm Reed. I largely give the credit here to Connor Trineer & Dominic Keating for creating such likable characters (although I think a lot of it for Malcolm Reed may just be his accent and his lets-blow-shit-up attitude). Hoshi Sato is good when they give her some material to work with. Unfortunately, I think it's been slim pickin's for her this season. Her best scenes were screaming for carrots in "Singularity" and mourning over Travis Mayweather in "Dead Stop." Unfortunately though, I don't think any of the material they've given her has been quite as ambitious as last season's "Fight Or Flight." (Though I admit I haven't seen "Vanishing Point.")

I'm just really sick of the show focusing so much on Captain Archer & T'Pol, my 2 least favorite characters on the show. I suppose I'm warming up to T'Pol a little bit but I just don't think I'm able to take Captain Archer seriously anymore. He's made too many boneheaded decisions for that. And I'm very dismayed by the decision to play up Captain Archer's attraction to T'Pol. And I thought I hated Chakotay/Seven!

 

[myst123]

I voted for Trip. I would have voted for T'Pol if allowed to vote twice, but had to choose.

kkennedytx, A4T is right. There was never a plan to have an ensemble cast, but the cast is so good they are bringing to us such eps as Catwalk and Future Tense. Trip and Malcolm have such great chemistry it is going to be that which allows this show to really expand beyond the triumvirate. I wish you would be happy that Trip, along with Archer and T'Pol, are going to give Reed and the others more air time. These actors are very generous and are making this an ensemble show in spite of itself. What appeared to be the Archer/T'Pol hour is indeed becoming much more, and much richer and more interesting as a result.

 

[drmidnite66]

My vote goes for the Enterprise herself. Everyone else is secondary and replacable but you can't have Enterprise without the Enterprise.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

ensemble vs. the triumvirate

Posted by myst123:
There was never a plan to have an ensemble cast, but the cast is so good they are bringing to us such eps as Catwalk and Future Tense. Trip and Malcolm have such great chemistry it is going to be that which allows this show to really expand beyond the triumvirate.

Yeah. In fact, I think the original structure of the captain, the Vulcan, & the southerner and some of the earlier episodes strongly implied that B&B's original idea was to try to recreate the Kirk/Spock/McCoy triumvirate from the original series. But you see as the series goes on that Malcolm Reed has gotten more attention, probably due very much to Dominic Keating displaying exception acting talents and to the character's general popularity from what little material he had from the beginning. They also occasionally find a good Phlox or Hoshi Sato episode to stick in there. However, I wish they would make a more concerted effort to really find something for Travis Mayweather to do. I've missed a couple Season 2 episodes but I don't recall Travis Mayweather getting any episodes other than "Fortunate Son" (which is a shame because I thought they could have done a lot more with him in "Detained"). Perhaps this is due to "Fortunate Son"'s cold reception--which was more due to the lame plot than the character--and the fact that Travis Mayweather hasn't really produced any strong reactions among viewers besides the fact that he doesn't really get anything to do, so TPTB have no incentive to do anything with him. (Frankly, I think he would be perfect as the gay character that everyone is clamoring for.)

 

[Guest]

Re: ensemble vs. the triumvirate

I picked Trip because he is the reason I am still watching this show and that pretty damn important! Without my Trippy I would not bother with this show.

 

[Azlynn]

Porthos all the way!!!

 

[The Question]

Archer of course.

That's the reason the show has struggled to find itself is because there isn't a magnetic, carismatic captain. Just as DS9 was weak when Sisko was a weak character - as he grew, so did the show.

If Enterprise is ever ultimatly anything more that a slightly improved Voyager, it MUST start with Archer's growth as a character.

 

[Guest]

T'pol. She's becomming the Seven of ENT.

 

[7_of_7]

Posted by Archer4Trip:
I voted for Trip, because he's the reason many people start watching/keep watching the show.

I disagree. The actor portaying Trip (and pardon my forgetting the actor's name -- lack of brain cells right now -- I'm at work!), wasn't even a known actor 2 years ago. Had anyone really heard of him? It being a "Star Trek" show, and Scott Bakula is what drew the initial viewers. Perhaps he's one of the reasons people stay to watch, but I stay for Scott. Sorry.

 

[Guest]

Posted by Trigun:
T'pol. She's becomming the Seven of ENT.

She'll never be a seven. Just a wanna-be. Blalock couldn't hold a candle to Ryan. No way.

 

[Guest]

I vote for Archer.

Surely not Trip, while cutsie he hasn't enough brains to be captain, and I wonder if he has enough of them to be the engineer of Enterprise. It is a shame that B&B do not give him a wee bit more gray matter.

He is a peace activist, and can't you imagine him being a captain who would always turn tail and run when the problems arise? He would find a beach the colour of peaches and bury his head in the sand and hope the problem goes away. Or take care of it tomorrow sometime or another.

 

[Wolf359X]

Though I voted for Porthos...I mean really...the first Beagle on a Starship!!!-and Archer is obviously the central character and T'Pol that adds the sex appeal, I think it is Phlox that can really make the show 'shine.' Great character, great acting and he seems to know even more than the dreaded VULCANS!

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Captain Sisko vs. the other captains.

Posted by General Chang:
That's the reason the show has struggled to find itself is because there isn't a magnetic, carismatic captain. Just as DS9 was weak when Sisko was a weak character - as he grew, so did the show.

I'm not sure Sisko was ever that integral to the show. Granted, I think the show benefited from the character's renewed energy (which oddly seemed to coincide with him shaving his head) but the show always seemed to put more weight on its supporting cast than the other series. At times, I felt like Captain Sisko was less a lead character and more of a distant overseer on the show (kind of like General Hammond on "Stargate SG-1"). Whereas Captain Archer & Captain Kirk were more often than not the primary driving force on their shows and the action on the other 2 shows often required us to see Captain Picard & Captain Janeway in command. Captain Sisko was never as integral as the other 4 captains. Example: There was at least 1 "Deep Space 9" episode where Captain Sisko never appeared at all ("Profit & Lace"). I don't think there was ever an episode of the other series that NEVER had the captain appear, if even for a moment.

 

[Machazerd]

Re: Captain Sisko vs. the other captains.

Porthos because if he can have an episode based on him, then that makes him pretty important.

 

[espeorboy]

I like hoshi too, but I just wish Linda Pak was a Japanese. Star trek often has stories based on their origin (Chakotay.. Reed... )

There was a episode that Hoshi went insane cooking Udon soup and I was like mm mm mm.... no.... there is no secret about udon soup... it's Udon noodle she should care about .... (aw this is not linda's fault.. I know)

When Linda got the role, there was a Japanese actress trying to get hoshi's role. Her name is Yuuki Kudo (SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS /1999)I kinda wanted to see her in Enterprise!!

Her picture here
http://www.youkikudoh.net/index2.shtml

Anyway, I would like to see Hoshi growing up, not a whinny asian girl but hopefully she grows up strong like Kira!!

 

[guyute03]

I gotta go w/ Archer as well. I'm not as hard on the character as most are, he did start out a little too "lost" but he is getting stronger. I understand that every actor needs time to find the character, and with that closing speech in Canamar, me thinks Bakula is at least getting a little closer.

 

[where'sSaavik?]

Un-pinning topic.

 

[ontrack]

Who Is the Most Important Character on Enterprise?
Users may choose only one (254 total votes)

Captain Jonathan Archer
76 (29%)

Trip Tucker
53 (20%)

T'Pol
44 (17%)

Lt. Malcolm Reed
11 (04%)

Ensign Travis Mayweather
10 (03%)

Ensign Hoshi Sato
6 (02%)

Dr. Phlox
7 (02%)

Porthos
47 (18%)

I found this poll very interesting.

Only the Captain and engineer is more important than Porthos.

Travis is more important than Phlox.

 

[-Brett-]

I voted for Mayweather. I just felt like giving a stupid answer.