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Jun. 15th, 2015
Star Trek Meme: Day 11
Jun. 15th, 2015 03:32 pmDay 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, ( something finale spoilery ) 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.
( The other days )
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, ( something finale spoilery ) 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.
( The other days )
