Subj : Re: I BLAME BRAGA
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From : James Ascher
Date : Sat Sep 10 2005 02:47:33

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise

Merrick Baldelli wrote:
> On 8 Sep 2005 08:06:52 -0700, "Bozo the Evil Klown"
> <Evilklowwn@aol.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Just IMAGINE the writer's thought process:
>>
>>It's hard enough to imagine that the writers had any sort of thought
>>process or mental activity of any kind.
> 
> 
> 	Hear, hear!  I've been toying with the theory that whenever a
> thought that demonstrated itself to be cohesive within the Voyager and
> Trek writing staffs, Braga would liberally apply a Tazer to the person
> having the thought, thereby preventing them from being able to have
> another cohesive thought again.  
> 
> 
>>>Dweeb 1: Let's see, first we'll have them go as fast as anyone can.
>>>Dweeb 2: Then there's some terrible consequence of going that fast!
>>>Dweeb 3: Can we work some SEX into this?  Our ratings are the pits!
>>
>>They just wanted to brag to the local ridgeheads that their shuttle was
>>the fastest, because their warps "go to eleven."
> 
> 
> 	What made it more interesting was that the first time I read
> this -- I thought that he was talking as though Braga had three
> different personalities bidding for attention.  It would certainly
> make sense, especially when you realize Braga's attraction for Titpole
> and Seven of Sixty-Nine.
> 
> 
>>>Yeah, I'd love to have been a fly on the wall at Trek central.
>>>
>>>Seriously, if this episode isn't the absolute worst star trek episode
>>>ever, I don't know what is.  Even the boring "let's all put on masks
>>>and pretend we're Incas" of the final season of TNG can't compare.
>>
>>"Spirit Folk" is not only the single worst episode of any Trek, it's
>>the worst piece of video that can exist in our universe.  Anything
>>worse than "Spirit Folk" would shrivel right out of existence from the
>>sheer force of it's own awfulness.
> 
> 
> 	Gack..  Now there's an episode that up until you mentioned it
> -- I had blissfully blocked out of my memory.  To this day I still
> deny ever having seen it.  
> 
> 
> 
>>>It's just too bad they didn't work some encounter with the Jupiter II,
>>>lost in the Delta Quadrant.  Dr. Smith could have become a regular on
>>>the show and the robot could have filled the need for an android on the ship.
>>
>>They had a mannequin as second in command.  A robot would always be
>>short-circuiting trying to understand Oftenwrong Janeway's insane
>>commands.
> 
> 
> 	He was not a mannequin goddammit!  He was a log!
> 

I always thought Chakotay was a Drugstore Indian (tm)!

James

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