Star Trek Meme: Day 11

[selenak]

Day 11 - What's your least favorite species? (See question 9 about species.)

I was going to say "pass" on this one because I don't like kicking someone who is down, and complaining about, say, the Pakled or the Kazon would amount to that. Also I know someone is going to name the Ferengi as a reply to this one and that I will mind because I like them a lot, sexist trolls (tm Kira) that they are.

But then I remembered one of my few big pet peeves in Star Trek: THE PROPHETS. And there was inner rejoicing. I will never feel guilty about complaining re: Prophets. Never. To repeat myself from earlier rants: Originally, I wasn't wild about them but the whole "people who don't experience time in a linear way" was satisfyingly alien, plus the show very very rarely used them. But in the later seasons, they not only graduated to literal dei ex machina, but we were also supposed to accept the Prophets versus Pagh Wraiths scenario as good versus evil, when the Prophets' actions included long term rape (and didn't include them doing anything good for anyone unless Sisko begged them to). Even without the misfortune this storyline had in inviting a direct comparison to the simultanously running Babylon 5's Vorlons versus Shadows - which culminated in both being rejected, as the Vorlons had shown themselves no less ruthless with lives than the Shadows - it would have amounted to an awful show versus tell.

Now the Pagh Wraiths are equally irritating (and together they're responsible for the part of the DS9 finale that prevents it from being great, to wit, ), the Sisko versus Dukat punch-up in the fire caves, just so that Sisko has something to do in the finale but I name the Prophets because of the presumption of virtue on the part of the narrative. The Pagh Wraiths are supposed to suck. Upon repeat watchings, I'm rooting for them to kill the Prophets in their Celestial Temple during The Assignment anyway. That's how much of a Prophets resenter I am.






Day 1 - Which Star Trek series is your favorite?
Day 2 - Who is your favorite character?
Day 3 - Who is your least favorite character?
Day 4 - What was the first episode/movie you watched?
Day 5 - What was the first Star Trek series you watched?
Day 6 - Your favorite canon pairing? (Canon being the series and the movies, including the reboot.)
Day 7 - Your favorite non-canon pairing?
Day 8 - Your favorite actor/actress? (Not the same as character.)
Day 9 - What's your favorite episode?
Day 10 - What's your favorite species? (Humans are a species as well.)


Day 12 - What's your favorite funny moment?
Day 13 - What's your favorite dramatic moment?
Day 14 - What's your favorite Star Trek quote?
Day 15 - How did you get into Star Trek?
Day 16 - Are you involved with Star Trek fandom?
Day 17 - Have you read any of the books? If so, which ones?
Day 18 - If you could be any species in the Star Trek universe, what would you be?
Day 19 - How did the Star Trek reboot affect you?
Day 20 - Of the minor characters (one shots, not the recurring ones) who’s your favorite?
Day 21 - Which Star Trek food would you want to try at least once?
Day 22 - Which Star Trek world would you want to visit at least once?
Day 23 - Is there anything you'd want to change about Star Trek? Why?
Day 24 - Is there anything about Star Trek that has disappointed you?
Day 25 - How has Star Trek changed you?
Day 26 - Lots of Star Trek Parodies out there. Which do you dig?
Day 27 - What would you cross over with Star Trek?
Day 28 - Your favourite friendship in Star Trek?
Day 29 - If you could tell Gene Roddenberry one thing, Star Trek related or not, what would it be?

Comments

[nolivingman]

I can never hate the Pakleds, as they are comedy gold. And I have infected my entire workplace with their dialect, so that when we are talking about getting something work-wise done, we say that "[Person] can make it go"

[selenak]

:) Good for your workplace!

[lilacsigil]

Ugh, the Prophets. I found them interesting all the way up until the horrible rape storyline and then I was hoping they and the Pagh Wraiths would take each other out and go away.

[selenak]

No such luck, alas. :(