Saturday, May 11, 2002

A few months back, my posts here seemed to fall into weekly themes. While this was never planned, the pattern was undeniable. It hasn't happened in a while, but this tendency may be resurfacing. This week's topic: fictional characters who just got cooler in my eyes because they share my predilections.

Enterprise ran two new episodes this past Wednesday, and I watched them with my roomie Hutch on the TiVo the next day. A sub-plot in both eps is the crew's impending shore leave on Risa (a "pleasure planet" first introduced during the enjoyable third season Next Generation romp, "Captain's Holiday") and each time an unexpected mission sidetracks them.

Right before this happens for the first time, Trip (already in the running for my favorite humanoid character) shows up on the bridge ready for some serious R&R. How do we know this? Well, he's not drinking. That's a different chief engineer. No, we know he's all set for a tropical paradise because he's wearing a multi-colored, obnoxious, glorious Hawaiian shirt.

I figure if a guy who wears Hawaiian shirts can make chief engineer on a starship, there's hope for me finding a job yet.

Sadly, I can find no pics of this sartorial wonder online. I'll post one if and when I do.

Posted @ 11:48 AM

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