Trip and Other Dramatic Mortalities

[Aedilus]

I don't know of anyone who liked the fact of the writers killing Trip off in the series finale of Enterprise, but this kind of story telling is not new to Star Trek. Let's see... We have Spock, Data, Tasha, Dax, and finally Trip... All of them died at some time, and many of them were VERY popular characters.

What are your thoughts about trip? Also, have you EVER enjoyed having your favorite characters die? Why do writers enjoy this topic?

Discussion begins... NOW. ;D

[Nathan]

I hate when they do that!!! Spock... Data.... Dax...Trip... all of them were great till somebody got it in their head to kill them. As for Tasha... well never really liked here anyways.

[Aedilus]

Nathan said:

As for Tasha... well never really liked here anyways.

Ha ha! Yeah, she wanted out of her contract anyway.

...but I really liked the episode in which she died. Not because she died, but because that episode is basically my first memory of Star Trek -- probably because I was really young and the black-oil-goop monster scared me to no end.

[Nathan]

Ya, I remeber that episode for the same reason. I would have like to see her go out in a good way... but some the have a way of having contract dodges(Dax) die in a stupid way.

[Watson]

being destroyed by a oil slick aint exactly the best way to go aint it

[Nathan]

YOu think they could have come up with something better than an overly intelligent blob of motor oil..

[Aedilus]

iamthepolarbear said:

YOu think they could have come up with something better than an overly intelligent blob of motor oil..

Oh, I don't know. Blobs are scary! I mean, ever seen the movie The Blob?!! ...ok, so that movie wasn't scary, but I think the TNG episode was still fairly good.

[Watson]

www.imdb.com/title/tt0051418/

I agree, Ooooh!! Very Scary! ;D