Comments on: The First http://kingdomofintroversion.com/2008/12/30/the-first/ The World according to the 'introvert' and the 'nerd' Tue, 29 May 2012 13:45:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Gluon the Ferengi http://kingdomofintroversion.com/2008/12/30/the-first/#comment-1455 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:14:13 +0000 http://introvertchronicle.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-1455 Harry Kim is probably the most introverted guy on Voyager and everyone seems to walk over or ignore him. They tease him that his main romance was with a hologram. Even the show’s writers don’t seem to like him that much!

I always felt bad for Barclay even as a kid when I was watching TNG.
Even when he tried to retreat to the holodeck to be alone, they end up confronting him when he’s at his most vulnerable.

At least they did genuinely try to include him as a crew member in spite of his quirks.
Later in TNG and in Voyager he seems much more at home in starfleet.

Still, starfleet does seem to be a place that is best for type As.

I don’t think Enterprise had a single low key character I could really connect with. The original had Spock, TNG had Data, Geordi, Barclay, Worf(and Xanatos). In Voyager, Chakotay and Tuvok keep introspective private lives separate from the job and Harry Kim is the low key engineer. It just seemed like the whole crew in Enterprise were outgoing action heroes. The engineer was the most outgoing of all; he might as well have been frat president. DS9 also had fewer characters I really connected with. Odo and Worf seemed to be the only aloof, gruff ones and Julian Bashir drove me crazy.

Picard is my favorite captain because he’s grouchy and introspective(his personal nightmare is getting trapped in an elevator with a bunch of kids) compared to the others. He tends to keep people at arm’s length and only those who know him well have any inkling of his more empathetic side.

]]> By: plasmatheferengi http://kingdomofintroversion.com/2008/12/30/the-first/#comment-1454 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:27:09 +0000 http://introvertchronicle.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-1454 A great thing to watch to showcase how introverts and the like are treated by the Loud and the Correct, is the Star Trek: Voyager episode Pathfinder. Heck, watch ALL episodes of Star Trek starring Dwight Schultz as Reginald Barclay; it’s a sad thing to see that even in the 24th century (where supposedly all forms of discrimination have been eliminated), if you are Incorrect you will be treated as a second-class citizen, will never be respected, will be judged because you are more interested in problem-solving and thinking rather than small-talking and other irrelevancy… EVEN WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING!

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