The Saddest Guy in Enterprise

[Shatnertage]

I just wanted to take a moment to remember the saddest guy from the show, the unnamed blue humanoid from IAMD 2 who the crew interrogated in the Defiant.

Granted, interrogation is never going to be a lot of fun. But some people in Trek at least get through it with some dignity ("there are FOUR lights"). This guy just broke down and started crying right away. With everyone else in the episode being so evil, he was the only one I really felt any empathy for. It just really drove home, more than the agony booth, that in this universe, people get hurt.

I don't know, I just get the feeling that, even outside of the whole slave labor/interrogation thing, the guy could use a hug.

So here's to you, unnamed blue humanoid. I hope that things got better for you, but I suspect that they didn't.

 

[Mach5]

what

 

[Jimmy Bob]

I just wanted to take a moment to remember the saddest guy from the show, the unnamed blue humanoid from IAMD 2 who the crew interrogated in the Defiant.

Granted, interrogation is never going to be a lot of fun. But some people in Trek at least get through it with some dignity ("there are FOUR lights"). This guy just broke down and started crying right away. With everyone else in the episode being so evil, he was the only one I really felt any empathy for. It just really drove home, more than the agony booth, that in this universe, people get hurt.

I don't know, I just get the feeling that, even outside of the whole slave labor/interrogation thing, the guy could use a hug.

So here's to you, unnamed blue humanoid. I hope that things got better for you, but I suspect that they didn't.

 

[RandyS]

I just wanted to take a moment to remember the saddest guy from the show, the unnamed blue humanoid from IAMD 2 who the crew interrogated in the Defiant.

Granted, interrogation is never going to be a lot of fun. But some people in Trek at least get through it with some dignity ("there are FOUR lights"). This guy just broke down and started crying right away. With everyone else in the episode being so evil, he was the only one I really felt any empathy for. It just really drove home, more than the agony booth, that in this universe, people get hurt.

I don't know, I just get the feeling that, even outside of the whole slave labor/interrogation thing, the guy could use a hug.

So here's to you, unnamed blue humanoid. I hope that things got better for you, but I suspect that they didn't.

A. He lived in the Mirror Universe

B. He was a slave

Which leads us to C. He's a corpse.

No mystery.

 

[RegFan]

With everyone else in the episode being so evil, he was the only one I really felt any empathy for.

You say that like the characters in that episode were supposed to be sympathetic...

 

[Shatnertage]

Maybe empathy's the wrong word...once you get over the fanboy "ooh! Evil Phlox and Reed!" stuff, there's just not too much to latch on to with the characters. Don't get me wrong...I loved these episodes. My wife, though, didn't, because as she said, "Everyone's just evil. I don't care what happens to them." Which got me thinking about Mr. Unnamed Blue Humanoid. He was just onscreen for a few minutes, but I really did care what happened to him, even I think RandyS has correctly guessed his fate.

I was trying to pull off a pastiche of Archer's eulogy for Sim in Similitude in the last line of the OP, but didn't quite make it. Here's another shot:

"During his short life, he did a lot of hard work against his will, got beaten up, and cried. No one came to break down the door and rescue him when he was being interrogated, and he didn't get off any good one-liners like 'Today is a good day to die.' He just blubbered like a baby. [pause for dramatic pan around the room]

"But he was as essential to this plot as any of us, and he can rest secure knowing that his exposition helped to make this a better, more logical show." [cue bagpipes]

 

[SFRabid]

I always thought the saddest guy in Enterprise was Malcolm in E2 when he found out that he never got married or had children. A future without love.

 

[Saul]

What about Trip? His sister died in the Xindi attack. His daughter created from his and T'pol's DNA died. His clone self died. The woman he loved rejected him and used him for sex while she was on some kind of space crack and finally having had enough of life he decides to blow himself up with a few aliens from Atlantis.

 

[JiNX-01]

I was trying to pull off a pastiche of Archer's eulogy for Sim in Similitude in the last line of the OP, but didn't quite make it. Here's another shot:

"During his short life, he did a lot of hard work against his will, got beaten up, and cried. No one came to break down the door and rescue him when he was being interrogated, and he didn't get off any good one-liners like 'Today is a good day to die.' He just blubbered like a baby. [pause for dramatic pan around the room]

"But he was as essential to this plot as any of us, and he can rest secure knowing that his exposition helped to make this a better, more logical show." [cue bagpipes]

OMG, that is great!

 

[Cornholio]

I don't know, that Gorn looked pretty sad when they umm, increased the gravity in that one section and he got stuck to the floor and stuff.

 

[buckeyenation]

Yes, Unnamed Blue Humanoid (UBH for short) did blubber like a big sissy, However, Travis was pounding him pretty good. Plus threatened with a phaser set to Kill. So maybe we should cut him a little slack....

 

[Admiral Shran]

^ No slack shall be cut.

 

[RandyS]

^ No slack shall be cut.

Just his throat.

 

[Admiral Shran]

^ No slack shall be cut.

Just his throat.

 

[Dancing Doctor]

I was trying to pull off a pastiche of Archer's eulogy for Sim in Similitude in the last line of the OP, but didn't quite make it. Here's another shot:

"During his short life, he did a lot of hard work against his will, got beaten up, and cried. No one came to break down the door and rescue him when he was being interrogated, and he didn't get off any good one-liners like 'Today is a good day to die.' He just blubbered like a baby. [pause for dramatic pan around the room]

"But he was as essential to this plot as any of us, and he can rest secure knowing that his exposition helped to make this a better, more logical show." [cue bagpipes]

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"Don't cry for me, U.S.S Defiant. The truth is, I never left you..."

 

[Shatnertage]

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"Don't cry for me, U.S.S Defiant. The truth is, I never left you..."

"What's the matter? Feeling a little...blue?"

 

[CommanderRaytas]

What about Trip? His sister died in the Xindi attack. His daughter created from his and T'pol's DNA died. His clone self died. The woman he loved rejected him and used him for sex while she was on some kind of space crack and finally having had enough of life he decides to blow himself up with a few aliens from Atlantis.

We have a winner.

Space crack? Good Lord.