Paul Gadzikowski

Why do people always parody Star Trek captains with characters who behave nothing like Star Trek captains?

I'm reading the Doctor Who novel Blue Angel by Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad. The Federation starship captain in it is cranky, loud, goes into first contact situations shouting, and is jealous of his first officer for being more competent than he is. That's not parody, that's slapstick.

If you want to parody the behavior of a Star Trek captain, then have the villains tie your captain up, suspend him or her upside-down over a fire, and display visual of the starship being immobilized and ritually cut apart and destroyed with the crew aboard, while he or she is still saying, "I'm sensing some hostility. You just don't realize what the Federation can do for you."

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