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-Leap_Year_Boi-

How could you say that when we don’t even know his favorite food?


yurmamma

Not even his parents know what his favorite food is


TheRealPaladin

They probably didn't even know that they had a child.


Familiar-Virus5257

Best comment.


soverytiiiired

I have never met a single person who has said a fruit is their favourite food. It’s always a meal like pizza or burgers or ramen or steak. Not a fucking pineapple


mc_foucault

REED ALERT


Stardustchaser

JUST rewatched that episode last night.


DrFloyd5

I still chuckle at that one every now and then.


mc_foucault

me too. my partner and i now say REED ALARM in the packled voice way too often.


DrFloyd5

Lol. Omg. I am literally loling right now. I can hear it so clearly in Lower Decks Packled. Read Alarm. Read Alarm.


mc_foucault

exactly what i hoped for! glad i could spread some laughs. im hoping they do some enterprise stuff in lower decks beyond the grappler for the last season.


Mondilesh

Malcolm was boring and unlikeable and when he finally got a dedicated B plot it was just all his friends and family confirming that he's boring and unlikable. Kinda hilarious tbh


Bytor_Snowdog

Umm, someone is forgetting about the torrid yet repressed chemistry between Reed and the MACO commander. You never knew if they were going to fight or fuck, and Reed only comes to admit his feelings to himself when his forbidden love is dying in his arms. The most tragic love story in Trek.


Ok-Owl2214

YES. The tension between Reed and that MACO made T'Pol and Trip look like platonic teenagers. I was mad when they killed him off.


organic_soursop

Yes. Pure COWARDICE. I was fewmin.


Ok-Owl2214

It felt like they chickened out with the storyline. Or some higher-up realized the writers were throwing in gay subtext and literally killed the idea.


organic_soursop

You are so right. Malc and Major Hayes having a knockdown drag out? Suddenly there is a sniff of sex about the show and they kill it. Meanwhile Ive struggled through several seasons of dreck, pew pews and punching. Cringed as actresses go through creepy-ass decon chamber scenes and lingering massage and skinsuit shots. So much of it is just weird, unwanted 'fan service'.


BuvantduPotatoSpirit

I know it's exceedingly hard to remember, but .... ..... ..... *Travis* is literally on the same show.


antinumerology

A character has to be on a show for them to be bad


DemythologizedDie

I swear they devoted a whole episode to whatsisface's backstory and I can't remember if he played any part in it.


BON3SMcCOY

"My dad always liked to keep the grav plating at 0.8g. It put a pep in his step." Is the only single thing I can remember from *Fortunate Son*


Ipearman96

Their ship was attack by pirates who placed a limpet mine and then came back later to collect the ship, oh and the inside of the engine supposedly was signed by Zephrane Cochran himself.


Fnangfteck

That’s from Broken Bow lol


JamesTKirk1701

I just watched Fortunate Son today and my biggest takeaway was that the guest stars were better actors than Anthony Montgomery (Travis).


Dibbix

Who?


HumansDisgustMe123

Ignore him, he's just trying to inject an OC. Nobody ever heard of a Travis Mayweather


SparkyFrog

Yeah, that must be some boomer joke that I just don't get.


HopefulAlbedo

I don't know, Ortegas idolized him.


HumansDisgustMe123

Who?


HopefulAlbedo

You know, she's a war hero. Famously flew the ship.


HumansDisgustMe123

..........Who?


Scherzokinn

how could you say that when ch*kotay exists


AngryBudgie13

I see someone is far from the bones of *their* ancestors today.


MaintenanceBudget889

The weird thing about Chakotay is it seems like they genuinely tried to avoid stereotypes. Like he's a member of modern society and comfortable with technology. They never present his culture as obnoxious or annoying. He has a life outside of being miserable from the genocide. ...But then you've got the weird pop culture vision quest shit, using a fake tribe to excuse inaccuracies, having an "expert" that I'm pretty sure everybody knew was a fraud and a bunch of other sketchy shit. God media had warped ideas of minorities in the 90s. That being said I could see somebody arguing *Journey's End* is worse.


PixelNotPolygon

When we getting some Amish representation on Trek?!


MaintenanceBudget889

In Star Trek the Amish are fixated on smartphones and cars.


DocSprotte

That would be hillarious.


MaintenanceBudget889

IRL a lot of the stuff the Amish are resistant to actually were already invented when they formed, in a lot of ways they really went backwards rather than just sticking in the past.


DocSprotte

Why stop half way I guess.


quirkyredpanda

So Tom Paris is Amish?


LegoRobinHood

That explains so much!!


AlicijaBelle

You mean the group of drunk Irish luddites that tried nearly set fire to the cargo bay wasn’t enough for you?


PixelNotPolygon

As an Irish person, I felt seen


Remote-Pie-3152

As a fellow Irish person, I find that episode hilarious. Colm Meaney got so offended he almost walked out on it.


Relevant_Outside2781

Did he?! 😂. I just watched the episode again a couple days ago and was wondering why as someone who is Irish he wasn’t written into the episode more …. And now I know and it makes total sense lol


Remote-Pie-3152

It’s clearly the *best* racist episode of TNG! 😂


utterly_baffledly

I think maybe Owo is as close as you're going to get for a little while.


DevelopmentNew1823

The screen (i think that's what they were called) from ds9 seemed very amish


LegoRobinHood

Oh yeah, the Skrreeans! (had to look it up, even the spelling of it invokes nails on a chalkboard) The oatmeal-faced arrogant farmer-refugees that wanted to take Bajor as their pRoMiSeD LaNd and hELp WiTh fArMiNg -- which Kira interpretted (correctly imho) as a stealth invasion of the first world they saw. They looked like they had the plague or something, and I still can't figure out if we were supposed to have sympathy for them or not. They didn't come off as being likable at all. On the one hand, I can't help but wonder if they really could have helped Bajor to get out of famine mode sooner. A well-fed Bajor would have been in a much better position for later seasons, and might have even avoided that abusive witch Kai Winn. On the other hand, screw those guys, Bajor was absolutely *not* in a position (culturally, socially, spiritually, psychologically) to welcome in any outside species, benevolent or not, and certainly not en masse. Even if it worked out logistically and even if they did in fact worship the same prophets, there absolutely would have been religious clashes worse than when the emissary-ship was in question. Kira (edit: and the government) made the right call.


nmyron3983

The dude they brought in to "explain" the American Indian culture to the producers was exposed as a fraudster. That's why that all happened. https://redshirtsalwaysdie.com/2021/02/26/voyagers-native-american-consultant-was-a-fraud/


FrankZappatista

Too lazy to Google, but Berman hired an already-discredited not-an-actual-native-American “consultant” to help write the Chakotay backstory… it’s why the character reads like a faaaaaake


Courtbird

Dont forget the cheesey flute playing every time his tribe is brought up! Its such a let down, id imagine norrh american native cultures evolving as society does would be so fascinating when given the correct insight, this is the world so many of us dream of when we want some damn peace, and I don't think indigenous folks are an exception.


wibbly-water

Add on top of this that they did actually hire a consultant to try and get it right but it was *that very consultant who turned out to be a hack and butchered the representation*. Chakote should have been well ahead of his time in terms of rep.


eatmyass422

He was basically blacklisted from the show almost immediately due to confict with how he wanted to be written and what eventually his character was used for.


MiserableStomach

I swear I heard a sound of flute when I read his name


unsuspectingllama_

Sir or Madam, this is shitty daystrom.


Timewarps_1

No, this is Admiral Patrick


obzerva

That's a stupid question!


Scherzokinn

yea


sputnikconspirator

Rewatching voyager at the moment and I audibly cheered in an episode where Chakotay got twatted in the face with a pipe....


RambleOnRose42

It’s just so unfortunate because he really could have been such a great character. He was so underutilized and therefore relegated to stereotypical and annoying.


DagonThoth

This, but Lwaxana I genuinely did not expect this level of rage and white knighting for the lesser Troi, lol.


Scherzokinn

wrong.


techm00

def wrong. Lwaxana is the goddess of mirth


Individual-Schemes

And the Daughter of the Fifth House, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Riix, and Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed.


man_speaking_is_hard

And she said that as she stabbed the man with six fingers in his heart. “Can you bring my father back, you son of a bitch?” She whispered in his ear as he died.


That1chicka

Even Kai Winn would sing her praises if it meant "being with the prophets"


spiralbatross

More like goddess of *girth* hubba hubba dubba bubba


DagonThoth

I guess I don't find mirth in someone insisting that "no," in fact, means "yes" when it comes to sexual advances. Like Picard already said, in no uncertain terms he doesn't want to fuck you, Lwaxana, stop humping his leg


DagonThoth

It's like the writers room asked themselves "what if Pepe lepew, but it's a lady? And also what if shes terrible to her daughter? And all of her daughter's coworkers?"


Stardustchaser

The writers did her justice in DS9 and really rounded her out


DagonThoth

Yeah that was a good episode. Doesn't excuse her sex pestery


swiss_sanchez

True, but 'permanently horny' as a primary character trait is pretty faithful to Roddenberry's vision of the future.


Individual-Schemes

*"a"* good episode?? I feel like you didn't watch enough DS9 As well, if we're taking names of characters that can't take a hint and cross into pervert status, you gotta start at the beginning with the dudes in TOS. That list will be mighty long.


MaintenanceBudget889

Lwaxana is genuinely a really great character. It's really nice seeing a character who's life evolves after 50.


DagonThoth

Not taking "no" for an answer when your sexual advances are rejected is a real bad look for someone of any age


MaintenanceBudget889

When did that happen? Like genuinely I don't remember.


DagonThoth

Every episode with her and Picard.


MaintenanceBudget889

Gene having to explain to Patrick Stewart that his wife was gonna hit on him the entire time and he would have to reject it had to be fun.


DagonThoth

They looked like they had a blast filming those episodes, for sure


Different_Nature8269

And a couple with Odo.


EdgelordZeta

Cullah There's nothing redeemable about him.


Antique_futurist

If Voyager was an RPG, Cullah and the Khazon are the level 1 sewer rats you have to grind so you can level up enough to move on to the monstrous spiders and gnolls.


Alive-Ad5870

This is a very apt metaphor!


gahidus

Oh god. It was hilarious that Voyager spent two years being nuisanced by Great value Klingons. A group of people who somehow had space travel yet couldn't find water.


slashystabby

He seemed sad when Seska died and didn't abandon his son.


the908bus

A moustache twirling villain with no moustache


zenswashbuckler

That's an awfully strange way to spell "Neelix."


fromidable

Neelix is a character with, like, traits and depth and an arc. Personally I like him, but even if I didn’t, I can’t see him being comparable to the utter banality of Reed.


CletusVanDayum

I've never watched more than a few episodes of Enterprise. Is Reed like Worf if all we ever saw of Worf was h being knocked out by stronger aliens?


fromidable

Reed is like Worf if Worf was a British man with very few other character traits. And sadly I can’t recall ever seeing him being thrown across the bridge. So not quite.


generic-user1678

I thought he was supposed to be French.


obzerva

He's more French than Picard.


Levi_Skardsen

Reed is like Worf if Worf never relaxed and had zero character development. Reed's entire character is just British guy with a stick up his ass.


Boom_doggle

> just British guy with a stick up his ass Finally I'm represented on Star Trek.


futuresdawn

Nah I'd watch an entire series about Malcolm over a single episode of neelix. His interactions with other characters are at least enjoyable while neelix is excruciating and one of the big reasons I hate voyager... The other being every other character that's not 7 or the doctor


MikeyMike138

It is a weird way to spell keiko, you’re right


yurmamma

Pah Keiko was awesome


theGuyInIT

Pah-Wraith Keiko was awesomer


BON3SMcCOY

Kinda embarrassing admitting you've never seen DS9


MikeyMike138

Are you talking about me or you?


fromidable

Boooooo


MaintenanceBudget889

That jokes doesn't work there's no way to even intentionally misunderstand the other person.


RRW359

What's wrong with Reed?


MaintenanceBudget889

According to this post, he's apparently the worst character in Star Trek.


AtomicBombSquad

They must've forgotten about the space devil from "And The Children Shall Lead". I've sure tried to.


MaintenanceBudget889

The space devil in *The Magicks of Megas-tu* is much better.


coffeestealer

Worse than The Jack The Ripper Space Cloud?!


Hipposplotomous

I don't hate that one tbh. It's so bad it's kinda funny.


tysonedwards

He was so viscerally despised by everyone who met him that Reed Alert was named after him, and centuries later it continues to exist as a reminder to his extreme by-the-bookedness!


NerdyKnits

If he was a spice, he’d be flour.


LatinBotPointTwo

Nothing. After all, he isn't Worf.


fradleybox

he's such a petty, small, morose coward who is basically begging for death whenever he's in any danger at all


gahidus

How do you figure that he's a coward, especially given his willingness to die?


fradleybox

he tries to sell it as noble sacrifice, but it's always too soon, before anyone has had a chance to try even the simplest thing to help him. he's so terrified that he can only see his impending death and not, you know, his actual job. there's something cowardly (about a security chief especially) embracing a quick death instead of enduring the stress and pain of trying to live.


ground__contro1

Yeah you really don’t want someone with a death wish in charge of your safety, Odo knew that when he fired worfs brother.


Lastaria

You can criticise him on a lot but I think saying coward is unfair.


MeggiePool-pah

I like that 👍


Resident_Course_3342

He whines a lot. Also a big ol crybaby.


organic_soursop

The super annoying thing, is Malcolm could have been a revelation. Uptight Brit who finds his feet in space? Protects his captain and his crew, falls in love with the MACO whose presence he resents? Same with Hoshi and Travis. We even see Hoshi get fucking _recruited_ man, this show has to be about her personal and professional development in space, right? Godamn Enterprise drops the ball over and fucking over. No please, another scene with T'Pol and Archer eating dinner please. And more massages.


LavenderGwendolyn

It’s Star Trek: The Non-Woke Years. I’m convinced that people who are like “when did Star Trek get so woke??!” only ever watched Enterprise.


Roonlo

Nah Malcom is great


brydeswhale

That’s a weird way to spell Jonathan Archer, AKA “slavery is okay as long as I get my stuff”. 


gahidus

He felt so much like Captain George w Bush that even Scott bacula's charisma couldn't save him.


Domram1234

I always imagined Trip as Bush, but that might just be the southern accent doing some heavy lifting


Kerberos42

Connor Trinneer even played George W in the movie [American Made](https://youtu.be/o4Qx71tdsGE?si=6yltC8bca9NGqH5v)


Hipposplotomous

I always thought they looked quite alike. If you put George W, Trip and Brad Pitt in a lineup in that order they looked like an evolution poster lol


panicboy333

OMG that is perfect


brydeswhale

Scott Bakula having charisma is news to me. After enterprise I refused to watch anything with him in it. 


veryverythrowaway

It’s unfair you got downvoted, you’re right. Bakula did some of his worst work ever on ENT (see the Mirror Universe episodes for some especially egregious “acting”) and his character was written quite poorly. If that was the only thing you’d seen him in, it’s fair to think he’s unlikable.


brydeswhale

Everyone has different opinions. I do know his fans are very fervent(I picture them all as Aunt Gail from Bob’s Burgers). 


veryverythrowaway

Yeah, Patty & Selma + MacGuyver vibes. Totally.


Nearby_Name276

Neelix isn't malcolm... btw


CertainPersimmon778

He got better as they gave him some real story lines like season 3 and 4. Neelix and Chakotay are way worse.


Mandrake420

I'm putting you on Reed alert.


Finger-of-Shame

It's Kes. Every time she screams, I just want to reach through the screen and slap her.


kaaskugg

Now that's child abuse.


kkkan2020

malcolm reed is the most one dimensional security chief.


obzerva

No Odo. He's a dimensionless fluid.


NVJAC

Are we pretending the Kurtzman-era Trek doesn't exist? Because if it does exist, Tilly makes me want to stab my eardrums with an Ushaan-tor


grichardson526

This post is very offensive to Neelix.


RobbiRamirez

Because he's ~~a bastard man~~ from Enterprise.


Nic_Danger

The man likes pineapple on pizza ... probably.


KingDarius89

Now that is slander.


Alive-Ad5870

Idk Alexander is pretty awful in every way, from the blackface child actor that played him to the whiny brat they wrote him as. I guess the character succeeded in one way: he allows us to understand why Worf is the father that he is.


imadork1970

Armus, or, Wesley Crusher.


jackity_splat

Tilly. Tilly is the worst character in Star Trek. I cannot stand her. Looking at her annoys the hell out of me.


bateau_du_gateau

That’s some other show, we’re talking about Star Trek


obzerva

Wait til the whole series centered around her comes out.


Still-Swimming-5650

Tilly was good


Jceggbert5

Tilly was decent after the Killy incident. Still kinda obnoxious sometimes. Makes a good sidekick for Reyner though. 


maearnheart

Wrong.


Mysterious_Clerk2971

Humans, What is this 'Star Trek' and who is Moclam Deer?


Syrric_UDL

This is far from true, Wesley holds this honor


devmus

Kes, Kes, a thousand times Kes.


gahidus

Only when they brought her back as an inexplicably angry old lady


DrFloyd5

Reed was fine. He did things. Impacted the plot from time to time. He cared about his job. I think Reed was better than Trip.


I_likeYaks

Because a warp core is exactly like a fishing boat….. what is this Star Wars where a hyper drive is repaired like a lawn mower engine


-Leap_Year_Boi-

Star Trek had a good ol country doctor, it needed a shade tree mechanic too.


Bytor_Snowdog

Trip was one of the three best characters on the show (along with T'Pol and Phlox). Not exactly like being one of the three best on TNG, but still he's goofily likable, charming, and melted that cold Vulcan heart.


DrFloyd5

Phlox was very cool. He had sort of a I know more than you need to know thing going on. Sort of like a certain tailor. I loved his alien medicines that really challenged when human thought of as healthcare. I thought T’Pol was a good solid Vulcan. Not starfleet. Not half Vulcan. Just what if we put a typical Vulcan on a human ship.


organic_soursop

TPol? 😳 You include HER in your list of best characters? I'm aghast.


gahidus

She was great, especially whenever she got a storyline. Jolene Blalock mastered playing a Vulcan pretty quickly.


organic_soursop

Not a fan tbh. I think I'm resentful on Hoshi's behalf. Hoshi had nothing to do while T'Pol pouted her way through the seasons.


Bytor_Snowdog

Not the actors' faults when the writers suck.


organic_soursop

Very true, but at least she was given material! Others did a better job with far less material. No one wanted a space soap. But I actually liked Trip. T'Pol, The Least Favourite Vulcan.®


MarmosetSweat

Worst character? Ah, don't worry, Malcolm Reed. You know, they said the same thing about Neelix? … That little snot chef, I'd like to smack that Talaxian!


root_27

Malcom isn't the most interesting, but he is so much more bareable than characters like Neelix and Tilly.


lifegoodis

Kes was awful And Ezri Dax was unnecessary, but not the worst


Falloutboy2222

Stinky.


TheRimz

I was with you until I remembered discovery and picard exists and I cant even remember half their damn names they were so bad.


Atryaz_25609

Reed Alert


Most_Victory1661

Well it’s can’t be Ortega she flies the ship. She. Flies. The. Ship.


thereverendpuck

Jurati is right there folks.


cliffyfromboro

The way he speaks reminds me of that episode of FRIENDS with Gary Oldman spitting when he talks.


Azikt

Because you have forgotten Neelix.


concolor22

You meant worst character in like bad, not worst character like in Kai Winn.


mx1701

You obviously haven't watched Discovery...


Warm-Pomegranate2657

Reed Alert 🚨


Warm-Pomegranate2657

Michael Burnham by a mile yet SARU IS AWESOME


Midwinter77

Reed sucks but Harry kim is the worst.


t_sakonna

Worst in what sense?


TiredCeresian

It's actually Tom Paris, but Malcolm gives him a run for his money.


didthat1x

Pineapple.


HyrinShratu

My dude, Reed was a Section 31 James Bond before he got assigned the job of blowing shit up on the most powerful ship in Earth's fleet. Even when he was losing his mind, his focus was on making the ship more capable of combat. I will not tolerate slander of this man when Neelix sits right there, at a minimum the court ordered 500 feet from both a school and a kitchen.


EastLansing-Minibike

You mean “Stinky”?!?!


Flat_Revolution5130

Tom Paris. "Sorry.."


coreytiger

There are more than a few Tom, Kim, and B’elanna’s I would list first


MaintenanceBudget889

Wait who else do you mean? That's the entire polycule.


futuresdawn

Because we're pretending neelix, Harry Kim, chakotay, lwaxana, mayweather and Wesley don't exist?


generic-user1678

Hey, don't dis Mrs Troy like that. She's a character who added some fun to tng. And I actually really liked her dynamic with odo in ds9


LavenderGwendolyn

Yeah, she had actual depth to her personality. She was not just a rich space socialite. She was also a good grand-godmother, an activist for seniors’ rights to exist, and a grieving mother, in addition to her story with Odo.


AGoogolIsALot

You bite your tongue, sir. You bite your tongue. I can name a worse character in that series alone: T'Pol. I bet the only reason you didn't say it was T'Pol was titties, huh? 🤔


LatinBotPointTwo

No. NO. WORF EXISTS. WORF. WORF IS A CHARACTER THAT EXISTS. Also, as a fellow pineapple-allergic person, I must disagree on so many levels.


Von_Wallenstein

Still better than every discovery character