Saw That One Coming...

[Kevin]

Here's how this is going to go. Below this post I want everyone to recall at least one or more incidents in Star Trek When something beyond obvious occurred. I mean something so foreseen that its ridiculous. Here is the first example.

Entry 1:

Lower Decks

The female bajoran jr. officer is asked if she wants to go on a super secret top priority mission. It is also extremely dangerous. She accepts. She died on the mission.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Huh?

You mean "Lower Decks".

Because Sito Jaxa had already appeared in "The First Duty", and it almost seemed like she was being groomed to become a TNG recurring character in "Lower Decks", I got quite a shock when they killed her off at the end. (Although there were always rumours that TNG or DS9 was going to do an episode where Riker's Maquis twin finds her in a Cardassian prison.)

 

[Kevin]

Well her pod was destroyed so i doubt it. It was extremely obvious she was going to die.

 

[SonicRanger]

Um, like when the heroes live at the end of (nearly) every adventure and Earth is saved every time it is imperiled...

Or is that too obvious to be obvious?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Kevin said:
Well her pod was destroyed so i doubt it.

Perhaps they beamed her off first for questioning? Really, there was an intention to do a sequel to this episode.

It was extremely obvious she was going to die.

To you. IIRC, the writers had several options up their sleeve.

 

[Kevin]

SonicRanger said:
Um, like when the heroes live at the end of (nearly) every adventure and Earth is saved every time it is imperiled...

Or is that too obvious to be obvious?

WAY to obviouse... and i man specific instances.

 

[Nebusj]

What, like how any guest starship captain of the week who's an old friend of Picard will be dead before the teaser's over?

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

^^^
Didn't that only happen once, in "Contagion"?

 

[kakashi76767]

The only problem with "lower decks" is that it occured too late in the series. If it had aired earlier, there would have been many options to make all of those characters recurring, even the Cardassian. When i originally watched it, i wasn't aware the end was coming soon and so i was suprised when she died. Also, i could have sworn that i saw that Vulcan on Voyager.

 

[InklingStar]

Taurik's twin brother Vorik served on Voyager.

I believe that he was changed for partially the same reason that Robert MacNeil's character became Paris, even though he originally portrayed Locarno on TNG. Royalties.

 

[Jessica_Alba]

^^

It also helps that the actor in question happens to be Jeri Taylor's own son.

 

[Jon1701]

I'll be honest, it was pretty much a shock to see her die. Although we dont actually see her die, we just assume she did.

As others have pointed out, it could have gone anywhere really...

 

[DayOldHotSauce]

InklingStar said:
Taurik's twin brother Vorik served on Voyager.

I believe that he was changed for partially the same reason that Robert MacNeil's character became Paris, even though he originally portrayed Locarno on TNG. Royalties.

Vorrick... A twin? But seriously, was it the same actor?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

jon1701 said:
I'll be honest, it was pretty much a shock to see her die. Although we dont actually see her die, we just assume she did.

As others have pointed out, it could have gone anywhere really...

It was a total shock to me. During subsequent viewings I've found myself willing her not to get in the shuttle.. it would make a great story if she didn't actually die but was beamed off by some other faction.

 

[Therin of Andor]

DayOldHotSauce said:
But seriously, was it the same actor?

Yep, both played by Alexander Enberg, step-son of Jeri Taylor.

 

[Tino]

Jessica_Alba said:
^^

It also helps that the actor in question happens to be Jeri Taylor's own son.

You're kidding? *lol*

 

[The Borg Queen]

New technology or prototype being tested?

Strange happenings on board the ship/starbase/planet?

Gee, whatever could possibly be the cause of, or at least some way involved with, these strange happenings...?

See: Exocomps, Nanites, etc.

 

[erastus25]

I thought the Outrageous Okona "true father" story had a pretty obvious ending.

 

[Jon1701]

teacake said:

jon1701 said:
I'll be honest, it was pretty much a shock to see her die. Although we dont actually see her die, we just assume she did.

As others have pointed out, it could have gone anywhere really...

It was a total shock to me. During subsequent viewings I've found myself willing her not to get in the shuttle.. it would make a great story if she didn't actually die but was beamed off by some other faction.

Its a very un-TNG ending. Almost DS9 in fact.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Tino said:
You're kidding? *lol*

No secret. Jeri Taylor's first husband, Dick Enberg, is the father of Alexander Enberg.

Earlier I said she was Alexander's stepmother, but IMDB suggests she is his birth mother. Both parents remarried, and Jeri has another child, actress Amy Elizabeth Moessinger, to second husband David.

Alexander Enberg's first TNG role was as "Young reporter" in "Time's Arrow: Part 2". He did one TNG episode as Taurik ("Lower Decks"), eight VOYs as Vorik, and was also "Third Malon Engineer" in "Juggernaut".