From Star Trek Enterprise S02E24 “First Flight” when A.G. Robinson insults Captain Archer’s fathers engine.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      lol … classic bar fight where the hero is the guy who preserves as many drinks as he can because he knows no one’s going to win but they’ll all be expecting to find their bottles where they left them after everyone sits down again.

    • PlasmaDistortionOPEnglish
      16·
      9 months ago

      Trip is easily my favorite character in Enterprise. The poor guy goes through so much it’s like the writers just loved to torture him. I can’t fault him for saving the booze, it’s probably the only thing helping him to cope.

          • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            9 months ago

            Also [Shran]

            Yeah, but citing Jeffrey Combs characters is just cheating.

          • CptEnder@lemmy.world
            5·
            9 months ago

            God I loved Shran. Easily the best plotline of ENT, and really cool way to establish the Andorians as a signing member of The Federation.

          • eran_morad@lemmy.world
            5·
            9 months ago

            Dr. Denobulan (or whatever his name was) was my 3rd fav character. Too bad he’s so one-dimensional. Pretty great acting, though. Phlox, that was the dude. He was pretty good. But I maintain my original assertion. Edit, yes, I’ll add Shran to my list of pretty outstanding Enterprise characters. But the show is still Trip & T’Pol.

            • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
              5·
              9 months ago

              No love for archer? I felt he did a solid job too. The really forgettable ones are mr. Black helmsman who has I think one? Episode about him, and british soldier boy who always appears to be an appendix to archer or trip.

                • CptEnder@lemmy.world
                  3·
                  9 months ago

                  Yeah I tend to agree. Archer lacked a “signature personality” the rest of The Captains had. (Picard: the impenetrable diplomat, Kirk: the fuckboi, Janeway: the rogue)

                  However one could argue those captains had precedent to have charismatic virtues: they had 100s of years of Federation success backing them up. Maybe Archer being a “boy scout” was the right man for the job, because if he failed it wasn’t just his ship that would fail but the entirety of Starfleet. So everything he had to do was “by the book”. Picard or Sisko never really had that kind of pressure.

                  That being said Archer definitely had “I fuck missionary while saluting the Starfleet flag” vibe to him lmao.