Firefly goes Star Trek?
POSTED BY: Succatash
UPDATED: Friday, May 16, 2003 18:47
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Ah, Guinan! I had forgotten her. Seems the perfect choice for Book.
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Quote:I can't think of a better match for Kaylee, but Geordi is still quite a stretch.
Originally posted by Jamie:
Kaylee as Geordi (mechanic, engineer, same thing
I don't think Star Trek has a Kaylee-like character in their whole universe.
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Originally posted by Succatash:
I don't think Star Trek has a Kaylee-like character in their whole universe.
My hubby is a big Trek fan (
)and he agrees. There is no one like Kaylee in (sp?) Roddenberry's 'verse.----------------------------------------------
“It's a real burn, being right so often.”
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Originally posted by Koffee:Quote:
Originally posted by Succatash:
I don't think Star Trek has a Kaylee-like character in their whole universe.
My hubby is a big Trek fan (
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“It's a real burn, being right so often.”
I'm not sure I would go that far, but no one comes to mind. Which is odd, most shows have their resident inocent technical (er.. mechanical) genius.
Think Lucas Wolenczek of seaquest. Admittedly not a mechanic, but the innocence and genius is there.
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There's probably a hippie crew member of the Original Series we're just not thinkin' of.
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Quote:In an earlier post, I suggested that River be a young Q character. Not so sure, now.
Originally posted by Jamie:
River as Wesley (genius kid).B]
What about Reginald Barclay played by Dwight Schultz? Hmmm. The truth is, there is no River in the Star Trek Universe, either.
I like the Zoe=Riker connection, but I think Tasha (Denise Crosby) makes a good Zoe too.
I know this thread started out with a Next Generation theme, but if you look at all of Star Trek, I'd have to go Mal=Kirk, instead of Picard.
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Ok how about wesly=kaylee
inocent mechanicly savy person both
river could be a crazy version of troy.
of course she isn't really crazy, more like Paul from Dune, if he got hit on the head with a rock really hard.
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I think you should restrict it to TNG, since all the characters mentioned thus far besides Paris are TNG. Kaylee = Data and Wash = O'Brien in my book. All others as stated. While Data has the technical genius/innocence going on. O'Brien is obviously not a pilot, but he's very similar temperment to Wash and also the only married ST character (that I know of, because I saw 1 ep each of Voyager and Enterprise... ST is dead to me). Of course, they do more with Keiko/O'Brien in DS9, but he is a TNG character.
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In that case, I think River should be some Q half-breed.
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The problem with matching ST characters to Firefly ones is that ST centers on the bridge crew. Obviously you'd never have someone as unstable as River on your bridge. I think Q is the closest match. Remember, to match ST characters to Firefly you have to imagine the ST characters in the middle. They're normal (read "boring"). Firefly characters fan out in all the eccentric dimensions available.
Of course, it's a good sign that we can't establish a direct correlation between the characters in the two shows because they are quite different. Although I loved ST:TNG, characters were never their strong point. They're nearly cookie-cutters. Firefly does some of that (Jayne), but the characters had more depth to them after 11 eps than TNG did in almost the whole show. For instance, there was no sibling relationship in TNG, and no spouse until very far along (it barely counts). In Firefly, both have already had nearly an entire episode devoted to them (Safe and War Stories, respectively).
BTW, I just thought about something cool. You can set up a parallel between the last ep of Firefly aired in the US (so far), OiS, and the last episode in TNG, All Good Things. Before you call me crazy, or even after, think about it. Both involve an at least temporarily insane (or senile) person coordinating the actions of everyone else in order to save the ship. In both situations the insane person actually gains insights as a direct result of his or her condition. Both end with crew comeraderie and a game (Picard plays poker with the crew, River and Kaylee play jacks). And if you stretch things a bit and take the suggestion that River = Q (I know I was suggesting River = Picard earlier), the unbalanced and powerful person initially seen as a threat is accepted in the end.
I know it's more than a stretch 
, but it struck me.
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