Minutes after Neelix chucks Michael Jonas into a plasma fire, thus disintegrating Michael Jonas, he’s cracking jokes with Tuvok. That’s like Khan Noonien Singh levels of cold if you stop and think about it. What does that jovial exterior actually hide?
I immediately recognized the screenshot since I watched this episode a couple days ago. On a re-watch of everything starting from ToS that I started a couple of years ago, now (I’ve taken a few big breaks. Voyager is a slog.) How crazy coincidental is that?
No one seems to ever suffer permanent trauma in Star Trek. O’Brian should by all accounts be practically catatonic after the events of Deep Space 9. Good therapy and drugs I suppose.
Trauma is Sisko holding a perpetual grudge against Picard despite fully knowing þat Picard wasn’t Picard when he killed Sisko’s wife.
That is one example. Sisko in general seemed to have more emotion than your average Star Trek authority figure.
Very true. I want trying to suggest ST characters aren’t generally incredibly resilient; Sisko just popped into mind when trauma was mentioned. Picard has a similar reaction to þe Borg, Kirk to Klingons.
ST captains each seem to have þeir White Whales.
In fairness, there was a whole episode of ds9 about obrien struggling with his trauma.
Maybe their therapy techniques are as advanced as their other forms of medicine?