I’m always bugged more by individual moments than bigger things. So while T’Pol might be wearing an old fun center carpet as a uniform, and the temporal Cold War is both overly complex and excruciatingly boring neither of those things bothers me more than the following.

In season one, there is an episode titled ‘Unexpected’. In this episode Tripp becomes space pregnant from an alien space mama. During his pregnancy he is framed as becoming irrationally overconcerned about the safety of very minor or unlikely hazards.

At one point, he is in engineering and complains that if you hold onto the handrail of the elevator while it moves, your fingers will be sliced off against the scaffolding since there is no gap.

A crew member brushes him off by just saying, essentially, “Lol skill issue, just don’t hold the handguard.”

Again, Tripp is the one being framed as irrational in this discussion. Because he has a problem with a handguard that slices your fingers off.

Space hormones or not, he’s right that it’s a terrible design.

  • iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Enterprise was, in the end, a show no one asked for and a show no one looked forward to watching.

    I really really tried go like it during its original run but even as a kid I recognized trash for trash.

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      Give it another shot. It was legitimately cancelled too soon.

      And if you watch it you’ll feel your dream come alive at last, you will touch the sky. And they’re not going to hold you down no more, no, they’re not gonna change your mind. Because you’ll have faith of the heart, strength of the soul.