This, but more abusive and they never really get closer:
Pretty much, and I think they did him dirty.
They buddied Trip and Malcolm and Mayweather was just kind of…there.
It’s like they didn’t know what to do with his character. He got some mild focus with his barge-faring family, but it didn’t help endear us to his perspective. There was a nod in SNW “Those Old Scientists” which I liked. Just left him floundering most of the time.
I don’t think it helped that, at least at that point in his career, Anthony Montgomery was simply a bad-to-meh actor. I think they maybe saw a wide-eyed optimism that they liked in the audition or something, but his line-readings were often school-play amateurish, to say nothing of communicating any lifelike emotion or pulling off the “I’m young but I’ve seen more shit than most of you” vibe a boomer was supposed to have. The episode on his old ship should have been really powerful, but it just sort of fizzled.
Padma Lakshmi was better. There. I said it.
Not a fan of spinoffs just for the sake of it but… A star trek series set up in the earliest stages of human interspace travel (akin to the tales of his family) would be so interesting. Not necesserily focused on Mayweather, but surely with his presence. No federation in sight, just starfleet being a couple of cargos in space barely surviving with little technology and a lot of hope.
And lots of ghost stories of course. Space is new for humans and very scary.
Star Trek: K/\ssidy Y/\tes
I’d watch that.
Honestly, I didn’t like the portrail of Harry’s and Tom’s friendship either. Harry often plays second fiddle to Tom - most vividly in the holonovels. Tom is usually the main character while Harry is playing the sidekick. It never felt to me like they were seeing eye to eye.
I mean, yeah, that’s a deliberate part of their relationship. I think Harry complains about having to always be the sidekick at one point, and their friendship does evolve over the course of the show. Harry gets him back sometimes, or his cool head prevails. But mostly Harry is just there to suffer like O’Brien lol
Paris was frequently condescending to Harry early on, though it did taper once he was more assertive.
