PerrySimm wrote:I voted for Archer because of his unique combination of madness and ineptitude. I might have liked to see the journey from Surak to Presidency. But what we got in the show was just, all over the map.
This. I lost what little respect I had for Archer in that one early episode where the ship is at warp and he asks T'Pol how long it will take to get somewhere. A few minutes later they drop to impulse and T'Pol reports again on how long it'll take now. Archer actually looks confused and upset that it'll now take them longer to get there now they're moving slower!! This is the guy they put in command of a starship? A guy who doesn't understand speeds and travel times? But then again this is the same ship that has a boat mechanic as a chief engineer, so presumably Starfleet was hoping some aliens would blow them all up for them.
Archer always looked uncomfortable on the bridge, like he couldn't decide between sitting down or walking around and looking stupid like he had itching powder in his uniform. To be honest, Bakula's performance of Archer made me think more of Bakula playing Sam Beckett playing Jonathan Archer. It would explain why Archer is seemingly completely incompetent at everything, including being a trained diplomat and not committing genocide...
My theory is that he was just functional/intelligent enough not to get himself killed, or to be obviously crazy/moronic to those who only spent a few minutes in his presence, and nepotism allowed him to stay in Starfleet.
Also, he was a pilot, right? Maybe that's the one thing he's good at, and that plus nepotism allowed him to gain command.
thisithis wrote:I'm still holding on and saying that Stargate Universe was the worst
I agree it's the worst of the Stargates, but oddly SGU held my interest through its sheer kitchen-sink approach to drama, versus Atlantis' predictable iteration on SG1. I could guess what would happen on Atlantis, versus on SGU it just makes no earin' sense at all!
I don't think the show even established a canon Captain. Dr. Wray? Dr. Rush? Col. Young? I'll play the wildcard and say Greer.
PerrySimm wrote:I agree it's the worst of the Stargates, but oddly SGU held my interest through its sheer kitchen-sink approach to drama, versus Atlantis' predictable iteration on SG1. I could guess what would happen on Atlantis, versus on SGU it just makes no earin' sense at all!
I don't think the show even established a canon Captain. Dr. Wray? Dr. Rush? Col. Young? I'll play the wildcard and say Greer.
Col. Young, was the Captain of SGU. Dr. Rush was someone that Col. Young should have toss out a airlock from EP one. Dr. Wray was just an idiot, listening to Rush to mutiny against the world trade marines when all she had was Basic sciences. Even Eli Wallace the Computer genius went on the marines side. If you knew anything about marines, you would know that they will only follow who ever there CO made in charge, or just follow rank. But the CO David Telford put Col. Young Col. Young in charge before everyone thought David Telford died and was left on Earth. If you didn't know, he was left on Earth and lived. Dr. Rush was a character that was created with Dr. Zachary Smith from Lost in space, and Dr. Gaius Baltar, on the new Battlestar Galactica show.
I got nothing against the actors of the show, just piss poor writing. And an asshole Producer, who killed SGA because SGU failed in the ratings. In fact he killed all of StarGate because SGU was canned. He even bitched to all the fans on twitter about it, blaming them.
