What's Worse?

[Lady Rainbow]

What's worse, dying by being immersed for no apparent reason in a huge puddle of black ooze, or dying by deliberately frying yourself for no apparent reason between severed electrical conduits? (The Yar/Tucker Conundrum)

Yeesh. They're both bad, and I thought both were really DUMB ways to kill off a character, but at least if I died in the ooze, I wouldn't have purposely put myself in there. As opposed to purposely frying myself. (And at least Yar had somewhat of a memorial service. Trip didn't even have THAT. )

Siting through a water polo game with Archer (ENT) or playing baseball with a group of Vulcans (DS9)?

[panyasan]

[quote="Lady Rainbow" Siting through a water polo game with Archer (ENT) or playing baseball with a group of Vulcans (DS9)?[/quote]
I take any change to study the Vulcans, even I can't play baseball and they have at least twice the strenght that I have to pitch a ball. But watching a water polo game is a snooze fest. (I do like to interview Archer, asking some really tough questions and see how he weasels himself out of these questions.)
What is worse? Living on a star ship with ignorant, sticky humans or being bored to death working at the Vulcan Science Department.

[Aquarius]

Waking up one morning to discover that you've been surgically altered to look like a Tellarite, or waking up to discover you have been dropped into the roughest Tellarite bar in the galaxy, and you have NOT been surgically altered to look like one of them!?

I think it would be worse to actually be altered to look like a Tellarite. You at least have the possibility of escaping the bar.

Being a bonded Vulcan in pon farr with your ship lost in the Delta Quadrant in 2375 or being a bonded Vulcan in pon farr with your ship stuck in the Expanse in 2153. Either way, you are the only Vulcan on the ship.

Well duh!!! Trip is on the ship stuck in the Expanse.

I think what Eian meant is that YOU are the Vulcan far from home, experiencing pon farr, with no access to your mate who is back home.

[Aquarius]

What is worse? Living on a star ship with ignorant, sticky humans or being bored to death working at the Vulcan Science Department.

Well, if the humans on the ship really ARE ignorant and sticky, then I'd say that's worse, even though I'm a human...because who wants to live among a bunch of ignorant and sticky people???

What's worse: getting locked inside a holodeck program gone wrong, or having to save the ship in your underwear?

[Distracted]

Well, I don't like being chilly, but since malfunctioning holoprograms have been known to actually be dangerous in canon instead of just uncomfortable, I'd have to say the holoprogram is worse.

What's worse...having to send promising young sons and daughters out to fight and perhaps die for their country without any possibility of victory, or being forced to watch your tax dollars at work, paying for "medical care" which allows helpless infants to be killed for no reason but convenience?

[Aquarius]

What's worse...having to send promising young sons and daughters out to fight and perhaps die for their country without any possibility of victory, or being forced to watch your tax dollars at work, paying for "medical care" which allows helpless infants to be killed for no reason but convenience?

Wow.

I hope I'm not out of line here, but I'm wondering if we could maybe avoid hot-button issues in a game like this? Lots of people feel strongly--and differently--about these things, and I'd really hate to see a situation that's meant to be fun unnecessarily open up a whole big can of worms that can get people riled up, cause hurt feelings, or give the appearance of members trying to further their own agenda. I'm sure the board rules say "no politics" for a reason. (Yes, I actually read them! )

Please, if we can't keep it Trek-related, can we keep it hypothetical and fun? Even the "tough questions" shouldn't potentially cause hard feelings.

Thanks.

[Alelou]

Okay, moving on ... what's worse...

shaving or waxing?

(Didn't Malcolm actually use just a normal razor in Shuttlepod One? Wouldn't you have expected a higher-tech solution than that?)

[Asso]

Okay, moving on ... what's worse...

shaving or waxing?

(Didn't Malcolm actually use just a normal razor in Shuttlepod One? Wouldn't you have expected a higher-tech solution than that?)

Oh my, no waxing, not! You should see how much I'm furry! Mhhh... maybe it would be better you don't see anything.
Anyway, razor blades are the best, also and especially in space. Thanks to shaving foam, hair don't hover everywhere.

Q: do you love hats?

[Alelou]

What a practical reason to prefer a razor in space! I was thinking maybe by then they could just "phase" off their hair or something...

Do you think you could rephrase your hat question to fit "what's worse?"

[Asso]

Oops, where was my brain?
This one was for another thread.

A splendid ice cream (and you have caries) or a mountain of chocolate (and you feel sick)?

[evcake]

I'll take the chocolate, please

Q: Which is worse? Brussells sprouts or okra?

[Distracted]

What's worse...having to send promising young sons and daughters out to fight and perhaps die for their country without any possibility of victory, or being forced to watch your tax dollars at work, paying for "medical care" which allows helpless infants to be killed for no reason but convenience?

Wow.

I hope I'm not out of line here, but I'm wondering if we could maybe avoid hot-button issues in a game like this? Lots of people feel strongly--and differently--about these things, and I'd really hate to see a situation that's meant to be fun unnecessarily open up a whole big can of worms that can get people riled up, cause hurt feelings, or give the appearance of members trying to further their own agenda. I'm sure the board rules say "no politics" for a reason. (Yes, I actually read them! )

Please, if we can't keep it Trek-related, can we keep it hypothetical and fun? Even the "tough questions" shouldn't potentially cause hard feelings.

Thanks.

Sorry. I was just getting bored with all this superficial stuff and wanted to have a real discussion for a change. Won't happen again.

I like both okra and brussel's sprouts. Put enough butter on a green vegetable and it's good. If I really have to choose I suppose I like okra better.

Q: Ummm. Never mind. Somebody else do it.

[Eian Flannagan]

Ok. I will.

Brussel sprouts. Ick.

What's worse? Three minutes in the Agony Booth or having an alien lifeform attach itself to your body and take over your cardiopulmonary system?

[Asso]

You have a strange vision of the life, Eian, in my opinion. Life is beautiful, I think (Do you know the movie?). I want a third opportunity.

[Eian Flannagan]

You have a strange vision of the life, Eian, in my opinion. Life is beautiful, I think (Do you know the movie?). I want a third opportunity.

My question has absolutely nothing to do with my vision of life, Asso. Nothing. It's simply a Trek-related "What's Worse" scenario. The object of this particular game is to think of two particularly awful Trek-related things and choose which one is worse than the other. The question can be taken at face value. In any case, the question stands, I guess.