In order of best characters:
- Trip
- T'Pol
- Phlox
- Hoshi
- Shran
- Archer
- the Vulcan ambassador
...
The worst:
- #1 ...Parthos. (the dog) (Where the fuck was the attack dog when Archer was in danger!!!!!!!!!!!!)
- #2 ...Reed.
- #3 ...the nigger at the helm.
"Sim" was one of the best episodes. "Carbon Creek" was another one.
Too bad they ended it like that. ST Enterprise could have gone on for 10 more years.
I liked it, but it wasn't capable of going on 10 more years without the replacement of a lot of the cast.
Porthos (three musketeers) was not an attack dog. Beagles are small pack hunting dogs. They really arent very useful as guard dogs.
I'll give you trip, phlox, and shran. Hoshi and tpol were mediocre at best. Tpol wouldnt have last 2 seasons if she didnt have a great rack to emphasize.
Bakula. I just dont know how that guy gets acting jobs. He is like the most wooden actor in the world.
Surprisingly, that nigger at the helm was one of the better characters in the show, and really surprisingly, one of the better actors in this case... He could have easily been replaced with any race person. He was black only to put a black person on the main cast.
Your opinion is noted and valid. Your comment gives me much to munch on.
However, my passive pet beagle (Kaity) would have gone to red alert with snapping teeth and spitting attack mode if she would have ever been placed in the same situation. I think the writers missed the mark on several occasions.
The DOG-HUMAN relationship was there to be shown. The writers missed that opportunity. ...ask any one of them. They'll admit they missed that mark.
They did indeed miss the dog / human relationship when given the ideal presentation. Confined space, everyone welcoming of the pet.
I know i cant go 10 feet without my dogs needing to follow me.
Dog personalities differ widely as do humans. Still consider it. Reasonable size humans simply dismiss a beagle as a combatant because we can get rid of it so easily. I would have probably show it doing some scared barking and aggressiveness as a result but thats about it for dog attack type stuff i'd have allowed. We dont want them to come off as an aggressive thing that gets treated like the pit bull.
On the nigger - One of the best characters, because they made him a character with emotions and an actual backstory they could display. The trip he took to their freighter was a pretty good episode. Not believable that a black family achieved it. but replace the race and its easily one of the best in the show. Better actor because so many of them were bottom rung actors who they got for cheap, so he didnt have a lot of competition.
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