Unintentionally Funny Scenes

[Cepstrum]

In VOY: Waking Moments, Tom, Harry, B'Elanna, and Neelix are discussing their nightmares. Neelix says in his he was being boiled alive in his own stew. B'Elanna remarks that that sounds awful, but Neelix rejoins almost pensively and barely audibly, "Well, it was perfectly seasoned." It was so quiet and he said it so thoughtfully that it was far funnier than it was supposed to be.


Also, there's a scene in TNG — can't recall which episode — where Geordi tells Picard that there's something wrong with the right-hand power coupling (or some technobabble). Picard reacts violently to the inappropriate thing and repeats loudly, "The RIGHT one?" I think that wasn't supposed to be the big deal; rather it was the piece of equipment that he was supposed to react strongly to (not the fact that it was the right instead of the left one).

 

[The Badger]

Also from VOY: Waking Moments. Each crew member suffers terrible nightmares. For dedicated Captain Janeway, it's the failure to get her crew home. Top pilot Tom Paris fears loss of control of a shuttlecraft and a fatal crash. The dignified Tuvok finds himself on the bridge naked. And Harry Kim...

Harry Kim's worst nightmare is being kissed by Seven of Nine.

 

[The Wormhole]

^What's the point of doing a log if you expect him just to make orders. Of course, he's going to order his crew. The log is just for him to record what's going on. It's kinda like making notes on my lesson plans. Of course, I will tell the students, but I'll also write down my thoughts as I write the plans.

Okay, maybe my post muddled this up a bit, but the part where he says "I must follow them back..." wasn't from the log, it's from actual dialogue he says on the bridge.

It's especially bad, because Data has informed them that the Borg time vortex is closing. There is only one real option open to them, and so Picard feels the need to provide an explanation as to what needs to be done. Dude, everyone on that bridge knows what needs to be done and they don't need to listen to you explain it for them. And oh yeah, your window of opportunity is closing. So instead of spelling it out, just give the order and carry on already. This line is inserted for the benefit of the audience, of course, but in the contect of the scene it is just odd.

 

[Too Much Fun]

TMF no like "Star Trek: First Contact" nitpicking. Boo! Hiss! How's this for an explanation...Picard was just thinking out loud?

 

[Cepstrum]

Also from VOY: Waking Moments. Each crew member suffers terrible nightmares. For dedicated Captain Janeway, it's the failure to get her crew home. Top pilot Tom Paris fears loss of control of a shuttlecraft and a fatal crash. The dignified Tuvok finds himself on the bridge naked. And Harry Kim...

Harry Kim's worst nightmare is being kissed by Seven of Nine.

^^^

yeah. I thought about mentioning Harry's weird excuse for not telling what his dream was about:



When he awakens in sick bay, the Doctor tells him he's been asleep for 17 hours. As he's about to tell the Doctor his dream, Seven arrives to listen. Harry becomes uncomfortable, so he exits with the strange excuse of being "famished" after sleeping for 17 hours.


I guess one might be hungry after that, but 17 hours isn't *that* long. Couldn't he come up with a better reason to hastily leave the Doctor, such as, "I'm late" or "I have to take care of something"?

But, "I'm famished"?!

 

[DevilEyes]

Also from VOY: Waking Moments. Each crew member suffers terrible nightmares. For dedicated Captain Janeway, it's the failure to get her crew home. Top pilot Tom Paris fears loss of control of a shuttlecraft and a fatal crash. The dignified Tuvok finds himself on the bridge naked. And Harry Kim...

Harry Kim's worst nightmare is being kissed by Seven of Nine.

Yeah, they got nightmare mixed up with wet dream.

I suppose the idea was that Harry is attracted to Seven but also terrified of her... but they should have made it a real nightmare: Seven says "Resistance is futile" and kisses Harry, they are making out... but then in throws of passion she accidentally rips off his arm... or head... (it would be even better if she ripped off his penis or balls, but that could of course never be shown on a show like VOY).

 

[Cepstrum]

^^^

well, she did turn into an alien in his dream. That'd be scary.

 

[The Wormhole]

^^^

well, she did turn into an alien in his dream. That'd be scary.

But the alien showed up right at the moment when the dream got to its worst point. EG, right before Tom Paris impacted, after Tuvok humiliated himself. But with Harry it was right after he made out with Seven of Nine.

 

[Sadara]

In "Journey to Babel" it made me laugh that, when talking about the 'teddy bear' McCoy's pronunciation of the word (which he just learned) is completely different than what he just heard.

I wrote that off on his accent.

 

[Bad Atom]

The first thing that came to mind was the scene in TNG's "Gambit, Part I" where Riker and Troi discuss Picard's death. The acting is way too overplayed and melodramatic, and really out of place in a seventh-season episode - I guess they were having an off day or something...

 

[Kirby]

Picard's meltdown in First Contact where he screams and breaks his little ships.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I suppose the idea was that Harry is attracted to Seven but also terrified of her... but they should have made it a real nightmare: Seven says "Resistance is futile" and kisses Harry, they are making out... but then in throws of passion she accidentally rips off his arm... or head... (it would be even better if she ripped off his penis or balls, but that could of course never be shown on a show like VOY).

Didn't Seven actually break a guy's arm once when she went on a date with him? It wasn't Harry, but she most likely doesn't know her own strength. She'd probably kill anyone she has sex with.

Not that that would be a bad way to go, really...

 

[Mike Ram]

One of the powerful moments in "The Bonding" comes when Jeremy Aster tells the captain that he's "all alone now, sir...", and Picard replies that "On the starship Enterprise, no one is alone. No one."

Then, the next few times we see Jeremy, he's sitting alone in his quarters!

 

[Mike Ram]

Can't remember the episode, but Bashir says, "Fit. As. A. Fiddle." in the weirdest way...

Also, Chekov screaming in "The Tholian Web." Spock grabs him and there's one shot where they dubbed in an extra scream even though his mouth is almost closed

 

[Kertrats47]

Can't remember the episode, but Bashir says, "Fit. As. A. Fiddle." in the weirdest way...

Ah yes, season one's "The Passenger." Apparently Bashir did an odd voice for his character's possession by Rao Vantika. In post, they did not like the voice and had Siddig dub over it in his "regular" voice. Unfortunately, because he'd been speaking much slower as Vantika, the dub sounds very strange. "His body is... how do you say? 'Fit as a fiddle'?" was, by far, the oddest line. So much awkwardness in that episode.

 

[Trek Survivor]

Some of you don't quite get "UNINTENTIONALLY funny".

1) Lots of moments in "Phantasms" were supposed to be humourous, including the telephone.

2) Kurn and Troi's discussion over "stopping himself from killing Riker" - yes, that was supposed to be a comical reminder of the culutral gulf.

3) Worf asking Sisko (when disguised as a Klingon) if he intended to challenge him, and Sisko's polite "not at all" - was supposed to be funny!

Trek doesn't do good comedy very often, and its sad that when it does, lots of people assume they meant it to be serious!

 

[Eddie Roth]

I was always amused by the three-step translations from technobabble to metaphor and the fact that it was so often Riker who had to deliver the simpleton's explanation."

My favorite example of this is from First Contact:

DATA: "There are chronometric particles emanating from the sphere."
PICARD: "They're creating a temporal vortex!"
RIKER: "Time travel!"

This exchange always makes me giggle. To the rabid Trek fan: chronometric? Ah! Time stuff!

Then, the casual fan: Temporal? Ah! Time stuff!

Everyone else: Oh, time travel? 'Kay.

Love it!

Yes. The TNG "Nitpicker's Guide" called this (fairly common) practice "cabbageism", a word that has stuck with me every since. "Cabbageism" is defined as a character explaining to other characters something that they should by all rights already know... but the audience probably doesn't. That often results in some unintentional humor.

Like Troi "needing" to be enlightened by Ro in "Disaster" about what the result of a "warp core containment failure" or some such thing is, which is something even the audience must've known by then: "the ship explodes."

 

[DevilEyes]

I suppose the idea was that Harry is attracted to Seven but also terrified of her... but they should have made it a real nightmare: Seven says "Resistance is futile" and kisses Harry, they are making out... but then in throws of passion she accidentally rips off his arm... or head... (it would be even better if she ripped off his penis or balls, but that could of course never be shown on a show like VOY).

Didn't Seven actually break a guy's arm once when she went on a date with him? It wasn't Harry, but she most likely doesn't know her own strength. She'd probably kill anyone she has sex with.

Not that that would be a bad way to go, really...

Yeah, probably. That's why poor Harry had reasons to be terrified!

Hmmm... I've never thought about it this way, but this is the first time I find myself wishing Seven had hooked up with Chakotay a few seasons earlier...

 

[Alienesse]

In "Amok Time" when Spock punches the computer terminal in his quarters so hard that it gets all crumpled up. I find that very funny although I don't think it was intended that way.

 

[The Badger]

I suppose the idea was that Harry is attracted to Seven but also terrified of her... but they should have made it a real nightmare: Seven says "Resistance is futile" and kisses Harry, they are making out... but then in throws of passion she accidentally rips off his arm... or head... (it would be even better if she ripped off his penis or balls, but that could of course never be shown on a show like VOY).

Didn't Seven actually break a guy's arm once when she went on a date with him? It wasn't Harry, but she most likely doesn't know her own strength. She'd probably kill anyone she has sex with.

Not that that would be a bad way to go, really...

Now that's probably the best excuse ever for a bit of light bondage...
"Seven, you know I love you, but I'm also scared you might kill me...so do you mind if I tie you up first?"

Come to think of it, that's probably a good idea for anyone dating a Klingon, too.