Not to mention the fact that it would be the first, historic appearance of a toilet seat in Star Trek.
Who would you have killed off?
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Not to mention the fact that it would be the first, historic appearance of a toilet seat in Star Trek.
TRIP(winking at Archer): "Did a courtesy flush for ya, Chief..."
(*Dies*)
Oh, I didn't read the whole poll. I would have killed off Travis long before the season finale.
"Golly gee willikers, I'm the helmsman!"
"Golly gee willikers, I'm the helmsman!"
You have GOT to be fricking kidding me.
My sentiments exactly.
Agreed. Trip was at the heart of the whole show. His death undermines the whole thing, especially if his sacrifice is without meaning...
I've come to terms with Archer living to a ripe old age. Moving on from exploration and into politics, later an Ambassador to Andoria.
Thinking about this, to improve "These are the Voyages...", the only character I think would've felt right blowing himself up, to save his Captain (while the MACOs were evidentally on a coffee break)?
Malcolm Reed.
The guy felt more in charge of munitions, than security thanks to the Xindi mission and having his position usurped by space marines. He could've had a spare room full of weaponary he had been stockpiling, because the Armoury was full up. That to me would've been perfect. It was even already a running joke, used recently during United, about how Trip was good at fixing things and Reed just enjoyed blowing stuff up. Even if, in the end, he had to take an enemy with him.
I've come to terms with Archer living to a ripe old age. Moving on from exploration and into politics, later an Ambassador to Andoria.
Thinking about this, to improve "These are the Voyages...", the only character I think would've felt right blowing himself up, to save his Captain (while the MACOs were evidentally on a coffee break)?
Malcolm Reed.
The guy felt more in charge of munitions, than security thanks to the Xindi mission and having his position usurped by space marines. He could've had a spare room full of weaponary he had been stockpiling, because the Armoury was full up. That to me would've been perfect. It was even already a running joke, used recently during United, about how Trip was good at fixing things and Reed just enjoyed blowing stuff up. Even if, in the end, he had to take an enemy with him.
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Nope, I found Trip to be an unlikable jerk who constantly shot his mouth off without thinking, and a bigot who put down the Vulcans every chance he got. Seriously, he came off as a petulant child in those scenes. Just look at the scene in the second season premiere where Soval and Forrest were talking to the Enterprise crew over the viewscreen. It was Archer's infamous "gazzelle speech" scene. Trip screamed at them when he had no right to. And that's just one example.
Archer should have spaced Trip and wrote it off as a transporter accident. It WAS new tech after all. Reed should have been the third star. A much more likeable, relatable fellow by far. Or Mayweather. Either (or both) were preferred.
Trip was a waste of screen time.
I could deal with them killing off Trip (my favorite Trek character of all time), but the way they did it was STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, THIS I agree with.
But, it WAS in character for Trip. That moron never thought anything through.
You do NOT agree with me. Trip would NOT have killed himself in such a s stupid manner. He knew every circuit, conduit, etc. on that ship and would have have come up with something better. His carelesness was COMPLETELY out of character. He was no moron. He was an every man kind of person. Quintessentially American
and really dreamy, too.
RandyS are we talking about the same Character?
Trip thought through many things.
When he was in command of the Enterprise in Cease fire he was very decisive. He put the enterprise between the Andorians and vulcans and prevented them from starting a fire fight.
He did the same in the Forge Arc.
He was decisive when he climbed that line between Columbia and Enterrprise and then saved Enterprise by purging the Warp drives of the Klingon computer thngys. (Mind is mush right now)
Lots of instances of Trip thinking things through and of his intelligence.
He could not be a Chief engineer and not be intelligent and educated.
I don't know why Trip offends you so much but he seems to.
He was my favorite charcter on Enterprise and the TnT romance was special to me.
Trip thought through many things.
When he was in command of the Enterprise in Cease fire he was very decisive. He put the enterprise between the Andorians and vulcans and prevented them from starting a fire fight.
He did the same in the Forge Arc.
He was decisive when he climbed that line between Columbia and Enterrprise and then saved Enterprise by purging the Warp drives of the Klingon computer thngys. (Mind is mush right now)
Lots of instances of Trip thinking things through and of his intelligence.
He could not be a Chief engineer and not be intelligent and educated.
I don't know why Trip offends you so much but he seems to.
He was my favorite charcter on Enterprise and the TnT romance was special to me.
so what archer should have been spaced considering he was even more bigoted..
frankly i suspect trip didnt get reprimanded because most of starfleet bass agreed with him at that point.
i still say first flight should have been a first season episode because it gives a lot of background why trip and jon felt the way they did.
considering the vulcans had to know that they were near a solutions with the intermix problem but still wanted starfleet to shut down the program i can see why they are not that trusting.
RandyS is basing his opinion of Trip on just the first few episodes. But even by "Unexpected" he was becoming less prejudiced of other cultures.
If the series would have continued, we might have seen Trip & T'Pol trying to balance career/marriage and eventually family (not Elizabeth, though). It's too bad.
It would have been great.
I agree Aikiweezie.
Trip and T-Pol married trying to keep it secret and then having a child and caring for it while trying to keep it safe from Terra Prime and others. Best place would be Enterprise.
Imagine Trip and T-Pol having to take a day off every other day to baby sit. Bet t-Pol would get the lions share of that.
NAH Pipe Dream.
Trip and T-Pol married trying to keep it secret and then having a child and caring for it while trying to keep it safe from Terra Prime and others. Best place would be Enterprise.
Imagine Trip and T-Pol having to take a day off every other day to baby sit. Bet t-Pol would get the lions share of that.
NAH Pipe Dream.
Not in the show I watched. Trip was never likeable, and by the third season his bigotry had both gotten old and wore thin.
I reiterate: Reed should have been the third guy.
to complain about how trip was in the third season is to ignore just how far he had come and just what had set him back concerning a certain set of people..not all aliens.
heck in dawn trip in the end helped the save the alien who had shot him down.
he was just about the first person to reach out to phlox. we see phlox eating with trip and in a later episode see phlox looking around but no one else asks him to eat with them..it still takes a while for that to change.
heck in dawn trip in the end helped the save the alien who had shot him down.
he was just about the first person to reach out to phlox. we see phlox eating with trip and in a later episode see phlox looking around but no one else asks him to eat with them..it still takes a while for that to change.
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