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Most Cringeworthy Character in Star Trek History

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Bog Cotton wrote: »
    Alexander Roschenko! definitely the most cringe-worthy character ever.

    Kid version or grown up version?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12 Bog Cotton


    Both! :D

    Although I did like the time traveler Alexander. Played by a good actor as well.

    Not so much cringeworthy, but plain irritating, and that was Kira. It was her tough butchiness and then aweful outbursts of crying, her sappy religiousness or make-me-gag sexiness either as the alternate sleazy Bi-sexual version or with some Bajoran minister and Odo. Odo was cool, why he ever liked Kira is beyond me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,177 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    Kira kind of annoyed me, she always had a scowl on her face and was p1ssed about something or other. And the whole, these are my beliefs, the occupation, you've offended me with your religious insensitivity yadda yadda yadda, sigh no one cares anymore.

    I felt sorry for Alexander. His dad wasn't really interested in raising him, and he ended being a half assed Klingon warrior. His heart as whats his name said, wasn't really in it so why did he persist in it? He would never be as great a warrior as Worf and I think that's not where his talent lied, he could have been a better artist/musician/bohemian as his kinship with Luxwana Troi suggested. But instead he grew up to be a crappy warrior who was ridiculed by his cohort maybe because he wanted to impress Worf or because his identity was compromised in not being a warrior. Its this kind of every Klingon must be a warrior or every human kid has to join starfleet which was indicative of bad writing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,928 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    I have to say I loved Jelico - the great Ronny Cox (who was in everything in the 80s, as well as the voice for Admiral Bosch in the epic Freespace 2) - you were supposed to hate the guy though and aside from making Troi wear the regular uniform :p I thought he was great.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Wes Crusher. really bugged me...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭cml387


    Can't agree on the Jellico thing. He saw right through Riker for a start, who went off in a monumental sulk and should have been fired...out of a photon torpedo tube.

    Riker's dad is the most cringeworthy character in a cringeworthy episode.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    cml387 wrote: »
    Riker's dad is the most cringeworthy character in a cringeworthy episode.

    Thats only coz he fancied Pulaski :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,177 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Thats only coz he fancied Pulaski :D

    He also wore a onesie.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12 Bog Cotton


    Wesley is an obvious cringeworthy character but I think "The Traveler" beats him. The Traveler had great potential to be an amazing character, which I think they should have developed more, but instead they made him into some frail wimp with a paedo fascination for that annoying brat Wesley. If the traveler could travel the Universe why did he like Wesley? That's what makes me cringe!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0lNwmstY84&feature=related

    Just look at this clip. They are transported into another Galaxy, How cool is that! Yet, the scene is made so lame by Wesley and the Traveler with their horrible dialogue.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMwNisSGXv0
    :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    I think Wesley is about the only cringeworthy character but there are a few I don't like, TNG episode Rascals with the annoying kids comes to mind.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12 Bog Cotton


    Yes, I mean that kid looks nothing like Keiko. I suppose they just got the first oriental kid actor available, (because they all look alike!:rolleyes:)

    "I want my Faarther!" :D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufHZy80dmXM


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    Just watched DS9 The Passenger and Rao Vantika played by Alexander Siddig is defiantly a cringeworthy candidate, Siddig wasn't the greatest actor in the early DS9 episodes but this one is terrible.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Just watched DS9 The Passenger and Rao Vantika played by Alexander Siddig is defiantly a cringeworthy candidate, Siddig wasn't the greatest actor in the early DS9 episodes but this one is terrible.

    Dreadful stuff that. Season 1 of DS9 is a bit of an ordeal to get through.

    Ra-oh...Vant..ika...:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,551 ✭✭✭Goldstein


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Dreadful stuff that. Season 1 of DS9 is a bit of an ordeal to get through.

    Ra-oh...Vant..ika...:rolleyes:

    Nooooo, not bloody season 1!

    Allamaraine, count to four,
    Allamaraine, then three more,
    Allamaraine, if you can see,
    Allamaraine, you'll come with me...


    Ingrained in my brain...forever!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Goldstein wrote: »
    Nooooo, not bloody season 1!

    Allamaraine, count to four,
    Allamaraine, then three more,
    Allamaraine, if you can see,
    Allamaraine, you'll come with me...


    Ingrained in my brain...forever!

    Move along home :D I have to say, for some bizarre reason, that episode doesn't nearly bother me as much as it should :o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    Doesn't bother me either since I skip it :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭komodosp


    Yes, I mean that kid looks nothing like Keiko
    Keiko! I forgot about Keiko, she was fairly cringeworthy... I'm sticking with Jadzia though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12 Bog Cotton


    Yeah Jadzia, was pretty cringeworthy... but she was HOT! likewise I really didn't like it when she was talking Klingon, especially that Ablino assassination episode, where she was acting the hard-man.
    That whole marraige scene was aweful.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12 Bog Cotton


    I always thought Keiko was a bit scary. I wouldn't like to be in her bad books.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQtt8K-2GZw


  • Registered Users Posts: 31 mister_h


    Bog Cotton wrote: »
    Yeah Jadzia, was pretty cringeworthy... but she was HOT! likewise I really didn't like it when she was talking Klingon, especially that Ablino assassination episode, where she was acting the hard-man.
    That whole marraige scene was aweful.

    I must admit though, the Albino Klingon was an interesting story. but it rapped up to quickly i could have seen that go for a half season at least. The identity of the Klingon being kept secret for as long as possible. However i would agree Jadzia was the worst person to take the lead for that storyline, Should have been kept for worf


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭Daith


    mister_h wrote: »
    I must admit though, the Albino Klingon was an interesting story. but it rapped up to quickly i could have seen that go for a half season at least. The identity of the Klingon being kept secret for as long as possible. However i would agree Jadzia was the worst person to take the lead for that storyline, Should have been kept for worf

    It had to be Jadzia. While the episode chickened out in the end by having Jadzia not kill the Albino, the entire point of Blood Oath was to see if Jadzia could kill.

    Having Worf kill someone wouldnt mean anything. Besides Jadzia became more of a Klingon then Worf ever was.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭Dave0301


    Cal Hudson form DS9, the Maquis episodes. There was just something so cringe worthy about him! Really set my teeth on edge watching it, thought the his acting was poor as well!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭GreenWolfe


    Dave0301 wrote: »
    Cal Hudson form DS9, the Maquis episodes. There was just something so cringe worthy about him! Really set my teeth on edge watching it, thought the his acting was poor as well!

    I think he tried to match Ben "I-pro-nounce-ev-ery-syl-la-ble-in-ev-ery -sen-ten-ce" Sisko at his own game, and failed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    Harry Mudd always annoyed the hell out of me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 323 ✭✭Underdraft


    Kira kind of annoyed me, she always had a scowl on her face and was p1ssed about something or other. And the whole, these are my beliefs, the occupation, you've offended me with your religious insensitivity yadda yadda yadda, sigh no one cares anymore.

    Agreed. I think if these characters were real people then across the 5x shows she's defo the last one I'd want to spend time with. She's just so uptight and boring (second possibly being Chakotay). Most of the other characters in ST have some interesting quirks or backstory but she has nothing. I hated when the did a 'resistance' episode and when she'd be doing an ep with Dukat he'd be knocking it out of the park and she'd just be dead weight. Even her costume/general look is stupid and when she's trying to be 'sexy' (eg in a holodeck or mirror ep it just comes off as pathetic).


  • Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭OldeCinemaSoz


    Mr ATOZ in ALL OUR YESTERDAYS...

    flounding around and completely dumbounded on what was all
    going on around him...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Flotter.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 873 ✭✭✭somuj


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Flotter.jpg

    Who the heck is that guy? First time i've havn't recognised a trek character :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    somuj wrote: »
    Who the heck is that guy? First time i've havn't recognised a trek character :(

    Flotter. Naomi Wildmans holodeck character friend thing. Cringeworthy for sure


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Flotter.jpg

    I watched that episode today, that whole holodeck creation was never a favorite of mine but then again neither was Naomi Wildman.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Flotter.jpg
    somuj wrote: »
    Who the heck is that guy? First time i've havn't recognised a trek character :(

    I thought it was the annoying holodeck character from the Alexander Rosheko/Lwaxana Troi for a sec. AHA


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 873 ✭✭✭somuj


    I think I must have repressed that whole episode. With good reason too. How am I going to un-remember it now :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    somuj wrote: »
    How am I going to un-remember it now :P

    Don't :D


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