O'Brien shout obsenity

Davey Devil

I was watching Deep Space Nine last night, hardly ever watch it but there was nothing else on. Anyway it was the episode when his daughter falls into some time portal and when they transport her out she's 18. During the course of O'Brien trying to fix the portal he gets frustrated and says, "ye Bollocks". I didn't know they could use language like that on star trek, though it was well funny. Do Americans not know the meaning of that word?? Did anyone else see that episode.

bizmark

man as long as its after 8 at night you can show hard core sex..........Star trek can use obsenitys but they dont because for the most part theirs no need......and star trek is so very very pc

Woden

think there is some general cursing now in enterprise, bastards and such these days, trek getting less pc these days with more general nudity also i reckon

User45701

I saw it years ago and there was a simmilar topic. To the amercians bollox is simply a irish that is not that bad a word like crap or darn.
Him saying that did catch everyone off guard though

LastIrishMonkey

Originally posted by User45701
To the amercians bollox is simply a irish that is not that bad a word like crap or darn.
Him saying that did catch everyone off guard though

Very true lol.
Id say u need more of that if star trek tbh lifen things up Archer should take a leaf out of his book.

User45701

That is happening in Enterprise now

Trip: "Now tell me we wont be tip-toe-ing around in there tell me where going to find those basterds
Archer: "We will do what we have to"

Woden

i think it adds a bit of realism to the show

User45701

Unfortanley they cant realy have that many modern curses in TNG - Present because chances are in 3-4 hundread years people wont use the curses we do, words change over time but they can have them in enterprise.

Tpol probbley considers cursing illigicol

magick

after 8 at night you can show hard core sex.

What channel is that on?

bizmark

What channel is that on?

Thats for me to know and you to find out lol

martinoc

They should produce special eppisodes of Star Trek for after dark with hard core porn all inclusive. Oh yeah!

stormkeeper

The odd bit of ST fan-fiction seems to have these elements, though who can get aroused by a collection of words? :P

martinoc

Originally posted by Kennett
The odd bit of ST fan-fiction seems to have these elements, though who can get aroused by a collection of words? :P

I whole heartedly agree!

claire h

Originally posted by Kennett
The odd bit of ST fan-fiction seems to have these elements, though who can get aroused by a collection of words? :P

*Odd* bit? Ah, bless your innocence...

Originally posted by martinoc
They should produce special eppisodes of Star Trek for after dark with hard core porn all inclusive. Oh yeah!

Enterprise are about two steps away from it, I'd say...

Stark

Originally posted by Kennett
The odd bit of ST fan-fiction seems to have these elements, though who can get aroused by a collection of words? :P

If it wasn't possible to get aroused by words, then romance novels wouldn't sell so well.

Arousal comes from:

1) Thought stimulation
2) Visual stimulation
3) Tactile stimulation

Can't believe I just posted this in the Star Trek forum :eek:

Stark

Originally posted by User45701
Unfortanley they cant realy have that many modern curses in TNG - Present because chances are in 3-4 hundread years people wont use the curses we do, words change over time but they can have them in enterprise.

Tpol probbley considers cursing illigicol

Yeah, a little bit of realism is nice but no point in throwing in curses "just for the sake of it". If you want f'ing this and f'ing that watch some mob drama. I do like it when Captain Picard says "merde" though. I like the way some sci-fi shows like farscape have made-up curse words, although "piece of dren" and "dren-faced" doesn't have the same effect as "piece of ****" and "****-faced".

And adding curse-words to Archer and Trip's characters doesn't suddenly make them three-dimensional.

Jim

I think the main reason is to do with that in series' like TNG DS9 etc... humans and species in general are more civilised etc... and so don't curse. All except the Irish of course as demonstarted by O'Brien.

And in Enterprise the reason they swear is because its set so far back that humans haven't yet become that civilised.

stormkeeper

Originally posted by claire h
*Odd* bit? Ah, bless your innocence...

You wouldn't believe how innocent I actually am, lol

But anyway, I haven't read too much of that because I haven't deliberately set out to look for it, but what I've seen so far of it, well, the most recent one anyway, it's quite good. Well, it has a storyline as well, though you can just start to tell what other Sci-Fi it features about halfway through the first 4 chapters, lol

http://bigsteve.freeyellow.com/timelines.html if you're interested. I posted it in another ST-Themed chat room as well, one I frequecnt, but I gave it a warning of NC-17, which is pretty much 18 over here.

stormkeeper

Originally posted by k.oriordan
If it wasn't possible to get aroused by words, then romance novels wouldn't sell so well.

Arousal comes from:

1) Thought stimulation
2) Visual stimulation
3) Tactile stimulation

Can't believe I just posted this in the Star Trek forum :eek:

Good point. I guess my imagination fails me sometimes. Then again, it wasn't quite that descriptive - you just knew what they were doing. But I do take aboard your point that more descriptive stuff would do that, the less left to the imagination, the better.

And, funnily enough, someone seems to have found another, more adult spinoff for Star Trek. I'm sure I'm forbidden to say what it is, so I'll just say 'photographic', and let you work it out from there.

Capt'n Midnight

Originally posted by k.oriordan
I like the way some sci-fi shows like farscape have made-up curse words, although "piece of dren" and "dren-faced" doesn't have the same effect as "piece of ****" and "****-faced".

Too smegging right.

User45701

Star Trek has a few made up curse words

Veroul
Bat`ach
sog-vath