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Post by chgowiz on Jan 6, 2010 10:34:54 GMT -5
Title says it all. Based on the number of Kirk avatars I'm seeing here, I have a guess what the early results will say, but perhaps we'll be surprised.
I know that when I truly role played Star Trek (when I was the young age of 6 to 9) every day after school and on weekends, I would normally be Kirk or Spock. Somehow I always managed to be Kirk . Go figure. ;D
If there are others that I should add, please let me know!
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Post by slortar on Jan 6, 2010 11:15:14 GMT -5
Scotty, all the way.
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Post by algolei on Jan 6, 2010 11:36:37 GMT -5
Well, if I was just playing the game like I used to, with very little roleplaying (because all my friends SUCKED at it), then I'd be anyone other than Kirk. But if you're going to roleplay, then there's really only one character worthy of imitation. And that character's name is: William Shatner. (If he'd played the ship's chef, then we'd all want to be that guy, too.)
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Post by coffee on Jan 6, 2010 12:42:09 GMT -5
There's a reason he was the star, after all...
I'd have to go with Kirk also. I remember one time, in the old FASA game, I was the captain. A lot of crap was going down, so I went down to sickbay with a headache. (Same as Kirk did in The Trouble with Tribbles.
I don't know what kind of goofy pills the good doctor slipped me, but they made me "happy" for a while. And I really roleplayed that! It was amusing, but didn't get the mission accomplished.
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Post by finarvyn on Jan 6, 2010 14:16:05 GMT -5
Growing up, my best friend and I were both huge Trek fans. Over the years we develped a Kirk-Spock friendship (I tend to be bossy and he has multi-cultural issues). Since Kirk was one of my biggest heroes growing up, it worked well for us. (Heck, Kirk is still one of my all-time heroes.)
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Post by Falconer on Jan 6, 2010 14:24:05 GMT -5
Given the choice, it would definitely be Kirk; but I would have loads of fun with Spock, McCoy, Scotty, or Chekov, too.
BTW, I often wonder why people sometimes leave Nurse Chapel off main cast lists like this. She was in all 5 seasons of TOS+TAS (Chekov was only in 2 seasons), and in as many episodes total as Chekov was, by my count. Slightly less, if you don’t count TAS and do count the movies, but still definitely prominent in my mind.
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Post by slortar on Jan 6, 2010 15:52:01 GMT -5
Also, as much as I love Chekov, Chapel was a stronger character, I think. Her whole fascination with/unrequited attraction for Spock vs "I'm really Russian" makes for more interesting writing.
Chekov, however, is a heck of a lot funnier, though.
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Post by chgowiz on Jan 6, 2010 15:59:04 GMT -5
Argh. You know, I was going to put Nurse Chapel, but ... and now I apparently can't edit the poll.
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Post by Falconer on Jan 6, 2010 16:10:21 GMT -5
In some of his early episodes in Season 2, I sometimes get the feeling that Chekov was introduced as the first new “point-of-view character” since Kirk; sort of an up-and-coming Kirk on his first mission. However, this does peter out rather quickly and, like Sulu (who also had a couple good episodes early in Season 1), becomes for the most part bridge ambience. Uhura, too, is just ambience 99% of the time, but such constant ambience that you really have to put her just under Scotty for her influence. Chapel is sick bay ambience a lot of the time, too, but she almost always has dialogue (which you can’t say for Sulu) and if you broke it down I’d guess she had an actual influence on the plot more than any of the other minor characters. Consider The Naked Time, What Are Little Girls Made Of?, Amok Time, A Private Little War, Return to Tomorrow, and Plato’s Stepchildren, as well as quite a few episodes of TAS (where she is a Lieutenant, incidentally).
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Post by finarvyn on Jan 6, 2010 22:45:52 GMT -5
...all 5 seasons of TOS+TAS... Typo, Falconer? I'm pretty sure there were 3 full seasons of TOS and only one season of TAS, by my count totalling to 4 total. Unless you're counting "The Cage" as a season of its own or something?
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Post by Falconer on Jan 6, 2010 23:35:56 GMT -5
There are two seasons of TAS.
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Post by coffee on Jan 7, 2010 0:17:57 GMT -5
Two seasons of 11 episodes each? Because there are 22 episodes total.
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Post by Falconer on Jan 7, 2010 0:27:11 GMT -5
The first season had 16 episodes, the second season had only 6. It must have been cut short.
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Post by coffee on Jan 7, 2010 0:29:20 GMT -5
I never knew that.
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Post by Lieutenant Moreau on Jan 7, 2010 3:25:14 GMT -5
As the only actual female on this board, I totally would have voted for Chapel if she were an option. Chapel kicks ass.
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