I was giving him a mulligan on that one. It doesn't demonstrate he's a total idiot nearly as well as the other point. Though if you say he's just a bad shuttle pilot he should have first had the sense not to get that close and second seriously rethought telling Mayweather how to fly later on.Rochey wrote:Don't forget the bit where he rams a shuttle into the Enterprise in the pilot as well.
It would have been a stupid comment about an aircraft, a piece of technology several centuries older. For someone living in a period of time when interstellar travel was common it's inexcusably moronic, doubly so considering how intelligent he should have been and the fact that he's a "starship," engineer. I get the OOU thing, but even that is just stupid. It doesn't make deep space travel new and exciting, it makes the crew of Enterprise look like a bunch of jackasses.me,myself and I wrote:To be fair, that was a symptom of the whole show. B&B were trying so hard to let the audience know that space travel was new and exciting and dangerous that Everyone, with the possible exception of Phlox (yes Phlox) and T'Pol looked like complete and utter morons at one point or another.