Can Boobyprise Get More Pathetic?

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2002-11-25 09:32pm

I happened to tune in on this week's entry on Boobyprise and the brazeness of BragaTrek's™ contempt for the audience continues unabated.

In "Singularly Awful Rehash", we see yet another Starfleet crew experience a stripping-down to their hidden inner selves. Archer becomes obsessed with writing the preface to his father's autobiography. Trippy becomes the Tool Man and boot-licker supreme in trying to rebuild the captain's chair. We learn that Reed is a closet Nazi and that Dr. Phlox just might have excluded "concentration camp doctor" from his resumé. Hoshi Sato becomes the Iron Chef. T'pol, however, remains the same anal-retentive, talentless cipher we've come to know and loathe (since she has no inner personality or outer personality either for that matter), and Porthos (the spy from the Dog Star, Sirius) again proves to be the most intelligent being aboard the Enterprise when he simply curls up in a corner and sleeps away the episode.

We know that Berman Braga (spotted that at TrekWeb and I thought it quite appropros as a name for this two-headed monster) is simply recycling the scripts from every other Trek series to fill out the season for Boobyprise, as was done with V'ger. This one was just a rehash of Deep Sleep Nine's "Dramatis Personae". Instead of technobabble mysterious spores as the cause of the personality changes, this time out its technobable mysterious radiations from a distant black hole. Substitute T'pol for Odo. Substitute Trippy for Sisko. Substitute Reed for Kira. Substitute Phlox for Bashir. Substitute Hoshi for Dax. Substitute Porthos for Quark, who I think also just hid in a closet until everything was over and done with. This has to be the laziest episode of this misbegotten abortion of a series to date.

Oh, and this week's Trek invention: Red Alert. Nice to know now that we finally have the origin for this important and time-honoured aspect of Starfleet service culture; answering a question which has bedeviled historians and philosophers for decades.

Next week, a transporter accident causes Hoshi to slowly disintegrate. Want to bet that this is simply a rewrite of TNG's "The Next Phase"? And which will disintegrate faster —Hoshi, or the plot?

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2002-11-25 09:33pm

would be if she disintegrated uniform first

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-11-25 09:33pm

You don't wanna know how bad they can get. Believe me.

data_link · Post by **data_link** » 2002-11-25 10:10pm

Oh Enterprise can get much worse than this. If Barman and Brega are unable to find something sufficiently stupid to top this (unlikely, as they have shown a tendency to get stupider over time), we could always ask Jack Chick if he'd be interested in writing sci-fi.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-25 10:39pm

It can and will get worse. Once they run out of good episodes to copy, they'll start copying Voyager epsiodes. And then the true meaning of horrifying will be revealled.

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2002-11-25 10:42pm

Just think they could always have David Brin writing.

paladin · Post by **paladin** » 2002-11-25 11:05pm

B&B could get Jar-Jar as a guest star. Does that thought just make your blood run cold!

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-25 11:11pm

paladin wrote:B&B could get Jar-Jar as a guest star. Does that thought just make your blood run cold!

The sad thing is, I think I like Jar-Jar better than any character on Enterforaprize, except maybe the dog.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2002-11-25 11:53pm

paladin wrote:B&B could get Jar-Jar as a guest star. Does that thought just make your blood run cold!

Bah. DarkStar!

Fear the Wall of Ignorance!!!!

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-11-25 11:54pm

Stormbringer wrote:
paladin wrote:B&B could get Jar-Jar as a guest star. Does that thought just make your blood run cold!

The sad thing is, I think I like Jar-Jar better than any character on Enterforaprize, except maybe the dog.

Ouch. That's cold.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-11-25 11:55pm

Wait.

What happens when they run out of Voyager episodes?

Post by **Vympel** » 2002-11-25 11:57pm

They have 7 seasons worth of utter shit to play with. They won't run out.

But if they did, hopefulyl Braga's head would explode, that no-talent monkey-sucking hack.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2002-11-26 12:24am

CmdrWilkens wrote:Just think they could always have David Brin writing.

Read his books. David Brin is a much better writer than B&B.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-26 12:43am

Enlightenment wrote:
CmdrWilkens wrote:Just think they could always have David Brin writing.
Read his books. David Brin is a much better writer than B&B.

Behold the Postman and cringe!

True it's horrible but you're right, he's not B&B horrible.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-26 12:46am

Let's see how long until they try to start copying stuff from other non ST sci-fi.

Post by **Vympel** » 2002-11-26 12:50am

If they even go near Babylon 5 I will be incensed.

data_link · Post by **data_link** » 2002-11-26 12:57am

Vympel wrote:If they even go near Babylon 5 I will be incensed.

Too late. See Deep Space 9.

Post by **Vympel** » 2002-11-26 01:17am

data_link wrote:
Vympel wrote:If they even go near Babylon 5 I will be incensed.
Too late. See Deep Space 9.

Ah, I meant if they go near Babylon 5 AGAIN I will be MORE incensed

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2002-11-26 01:25am

data_link wrote:Oh Enterprise can get much worse than this.

Isn't that the "No Limits" fallacy?

:D:D

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-26 01:29am

Ender wrote:
data_link wrote:Oh Enterprise can get much worse than this.
Isn't that the "No Limits" fallacy? :D:D

But Enterprise is just bad. It can get much worse. It's a fact.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2002-11-26 01:51am

neoolong wrote:
Ender wrote:
data_link wrote:Oh Enterprise can get much worse than this.
Isn't that the "No Limits" fallacy? :D:D
But Enterprise is just bad. It can get much worse. It's a fact.

As supporting evidence ----> Voyager

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2002-11-26 02:59am

Stormbringer wrote:Behold the Postman and cringe! True it's horrible but you're right, he's not B&B horrible.

Book or movie? I've never read or seen it, but with very few exceptions sci-fi movies&TV are pure shite. The book is bound to be better than either the movie or anything yet seen on Enterprise.

Even though I don't agree with its social points, Brin's Earth was pretty good, too. Crertainly orders of magnitude better than the schlock that Bozo and Bitbrain puke out on a weekly basis.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2002-11-26 03:18pm

Vympel wrote:If they even go near Babylon 5 I will be incensed.

$5 says they'll rip off the Shadow war and turn it into the Earth - Romulan War

Dennis Toy · Post by **Dennis Toy** » 2002-11-26 04:09pm

Told ya so.... This rehash of "Night Terrors." from TNG

Who wants to bet 10$ they won't rip off saturday morning cartoons..

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2002-11-26 04:58pm

Ender wrote:
data_link wrote:Oh Enterprise can get much worse than this.
Isn't that the "No Limits" fallacy? :D:D

No its more like extrapolating a trend outwards, we have a rather hefty chunk of data indicating a continual decline so, theoretically, it should contineu to decline. So long as they keep going they'll keep going lower

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Can Boobyprise Get More Pathetic?

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