Comment on Reason #72151 why I don't tolerate Neelix hate
Stamets@startrek.website 1 year agoOooo good choices. The “You killed my family/committed genocide! Of course fuck your medical expertise” episode and the “The afterlife isn’t real?” episode. Fucking STUNNING episodes. I’ve been rewatching Voyager and Mortal Coil played a couple of days ago. Always utterly captivating. Especially with poor Naomi asking about the forest after Neelix didn’t see it. Truly a heartbreaking episode.
Meld is also a fascinating episode. I’m a big fan of Vulcans so that episode was really great to see. A Vulcan revert to a sort of basic level of Vulcan. Their logic only attitude is derived, primarily, from a pants shitting level of fear that they’ll repeat the mistakes of the past. Vulcans used to be hyper violent and barbaric but logic helped them realign. The entire species seems to be collectively terrified of sliding back into that so they hold onto logic like a life vest. It’s a little tragic to be honest.
Also, I love that duplicator option simply because it actually makes the problem worse. Duplication is extremely hard to pull off but lets say they do. Now you’ve got two Tuvix. Both of them with the equal level of “I don’t want to die.” Now you have to make the same question of “Do I kill him?” but with the added level of “Which one do I kill?”
TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Glad you liked my picks. :)
Oh, I’m fully aware of the Vulcan “logic only” background, but to me watching them behave and act the way they do, I’d rather watch paint dry. ^^
Regarding the double Tuvix plot: It’s why you have to split the copy Tuvix the same second he’s being created. Not aware of wtf was going on, Tuvok and Neelix show up again and are like: “Who the hell is that lad?” :D
Stamets@startrek.website 1 year ago
Also sorry if that came off as annoying in explaining something you already knew on Vulcans. More meant from the way I understand the character, not trying to overexplain. He says. Overexplaining. Sorry, anxiety and worry this morning are burning bad.
Your picks are indeed stellar. My Tuvok episodes are tied between Meld and Gravity, the one where we see Tuvok as a kid for a hot minute. Then again I just like seeing the explanation from the warp-9-level of sass he usually carries.
I’m just imagining the entire Tuvix duplication/split process causing the rest of the Doctors hair to fall out.
Oh yeah, Sybok was dope. I got way too excited when they name dropped him in Strange New Worlds. NEED MORE!
TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Don’t you be worrying, love. All’s good.
Agreed, Vulcans do win all gold medals for sass! In that regard I’ve got to admit that my fav is probably T’Pol. But it’s hard to pick a winner with Spock and Tuvok participating in that race.
Had to laugh so hard trying to imagine how the Doctor’s hair would first turn grey and fall out a second later :D
Sybok returning in SNW would be epic!
Also, Gravity is a very good Tuvok episode. Stubborn lil snot, back in the day. ^^