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Who are you?
What's the site about?
Do you really hate Trip or what?
Can we swap links?
Can I use your photos?
What the hell does ----- mean?
What's with...
What are you going to do now that the show's
over? Is the site going to stay up?
How can I contact you?
Who are you?
"I woke up in a Soho doorway/A policeman
knew my name..." oops, sorry, that's not what you meant.
I'm evay, a Trekkie since TNG's "Tin Man." (That
episode wasn't anything spectacular; it's just the first one
I remember making time to watch, and after that I was hooked.)
I love all the series. I'm very happily married,
and we have three cats.
What's the site about?
 About
73MB. {rimshot} Back in the first two seasons of
VOY there was a site called "The Folded Spindled Mutilated
Paris Page," which was attempting to list all the times
Tom Paris had gotten the stuffing knocked out of him.
(Often.) After
watching "Vox
Sola," "Desert
Crossing," and "Two
Days and Two Nights" airing almost in a row at
the end of Season 1, I thought I could do the same with
Trip,
seeing as how he was getting abused at an alarming rate. "The
Folded Spindled Mutilated Trip Page" sounded clunky, so
friends and family helped me winnow down suggestions until
I found
triphammer in the dictionary, and that was that. The
site was launched on July 4, 2002. I designed the original
look, and my talented husband redesigned it entirely for
the first anniversary. I tweaked the internal structure
a few times, plus added other goodies as the site
expanded.
TripHammered is primarily focused on
detailing the various distresses and disasters which befall
Trip Tucker, secondarily devoted to general ENT commentary,
and entirely done in fun. I'm an opinionated wiseass. I make
a lot of dumb jokes paired with (I hope) intelligent reflections
on the episodes as they aired.
When Trip got, uh, hammered pretty badly, I
did a full recap of the episode.
If the damage was minor, it got one photo and a blurb. Plus
I rambled on the front page about what I thought went right
and wrong. Those ramblings, and all the other blather from
the site's inception, are preserved on the History
pages for later perusal if you're so minded.
Related to the show are "Extras,"
which ran during off-weeks and summers, ranging from caption
contests, Choose Your
Own ENTventure, and ENT
Libs
to DVD commentaries, essays, April Fool's Day gags, and the
ever-popular Food
Chain. Anything not related to the show (which happened
more often after ENT went off the air) is gathered under
"Off-Topic," which
has about two seasons of Battlestar Galactica 2K commentary,
plus movie and book reviews and random fun stuff about other
shows in the Trek franchise.
As of 2007 there will be limited and irregular
updates, mostly if Connor Trinneer does work on other TV
shows and his character gets "hammered" amusingly enough
to add to TrinneerHammered.
The FSMParis page went offline several years
ago, but if the author is still around, feel free to contact
me and I'll happily credit you.
Do you really hate Trip or what?
Actually, since I put up the quote "Satire
is the most aggressive form of flattery," I haven't gotten
this question. But to answer it, no, I adore the character,
and I think the actor is outstanding. I just think it's funny
that he was being used as the show's recyclable punching bag
for a while. (According to TVTropes.org, this makes Trip "The Woobie." TripHammered is linked in the entry for ENT if you scroll down far enough. However, consider yourself warned: if you enter TVTropes.org, you WILL lose three or four hours. Trust me.)
Can we swap links?
Probably yes. But I reserve the right to screen
for good taste and for relevance. TripHammered is a PG-13
site, and I prefer to link to sites which have at least some
Trek and/or ENT content. Email me and we can discuss.
Can I use your photos?
Sure! The Trek photos on the site are screencaps
or from the official site. I don't own them or any rights
to them. But PLEASE copy them to your own
computer or server and DON'T link directly
to
my
image
on
my server.
I do keep
track and I'll just replace it with a box which says "Don't
Steal Bandwidth."
What the hell does ----- mean?
FOOM: An onomatopoeia describing an
explosion. Used as any part of speech I can make it fit.
Not an acronym.
Examples: I wish we'd seen more of the ship from the top
before Archer had to FOOM it. CGI of poor Earth going FOOM
was astounding. We see the continuing FOOM of Malcolm's exuberant
shot on the asteroid. An implosion, like when the Spheres
were destroyed, is MOOFing. (That would be FOOMing, but
backwards.)
TPTB: Standard acronym for The Powers
That Be, referring collectively to the executives, producers,
presidents, and other people in high places who have control
over the show. Also called suits.
Killer Bs: ENT creators and executive
producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. I think their
priorities about Trek are seriously out of whack, and their
decisions
have damaged the franchise and squandered the show's premise.
Also called B&B or the Bs.
NPC: Non-Player Character. A Dungeons
& Dragons term referring to extras, generally those who
don't get lines, and other background or filler people.
Moogie: My
husband. Personal joke, long story. He and my best friend
John were responsible for getting me to start watching
Star Trek.
 Betsy
Boomstick: A rifle, gun, pistol, etc. Stole it from Jim
Wright's Delta Blues, which I suppose is TripHammered's
spiritual grandparent. That makes the site cousins with Five-Minute.net,
which see below.
Princess Fishstick: See below.
Blorps: The roving Plot Complications
which threatened the ship in the Expanse in S3. "Anomaly"
is a pain in the butt to spell, and "blorp" sounds
funnier.
Thrillerium: In "Impulse,"
the Vulcan ship Seleya was discovered adrift in the
Expanse. The Vulcans had lined their ship with trellium-D
ore to protect them from the effects of the blorps, but the
ore caused brain damage in Vulcans and destroyed their emotional
control. The upshot was that Archer, Malcolm, T'Pol, and a
MACO were being chased by psychotic homicidal Vulcans who
looked like zombie extras from Michael Jackson's "Thriller"
video. I combined the names.
XindiBugs, XindiSnakes, XindiWhales:
Insectoid, Repitilian, and Aquatic Xindi respectively. Sounds
less pompous.
SnakeEyes: Xindi-Reptilian chief bad
guy Commander Dolim.
Cobra Commander: Dolim's second-in-command,
from the name of a G.I. Joe bad
guy.
Death Star: The Xindi planet-killing
weapon. For obvious reasons.
Tesseracts: The trans-dimensional Sphere
Builder aliens. From the Madeline L'Engle book A
Wrinkle In Time. Much shorter to type.
Manny Coto: S4 showrunner, frequent
writer, fanboy.
EGAN: Evil Gargoyle Alien Nazi, from
"Storm Front."
SOEP: Soap Opera E-Plot. I found the
Trip-T'Pol "romance" of S3/4 to be completely
out of character for both of them, contrived
purely to show as much skin as possible to increase ratings
among adolescent boys, which Berman and Braga have
admitted, people who worked on set confirmed, and which
both Jolene
Blalock and Connor
Trinneer were really annoyed about
(and even the other
actors noticed). Connor mentioned later at conventions
that he thought there should have been some other love interest
for Trip, because he wasn't going to settle for sex only
once every seven years nor for someone who couldn't show
emotions. He noted, “It seemed to me for a long time it was one-sided. I finally said, you guys took Trip’s spine and stomped on it. I said she has to kiss him and he has to walk away. And they did it.”Jolene famously stated "You
can't substitute tits and ass for good storytelling" and added, "You
can't take T'Pol and say 'Okay, you're a Vulcan' and take
away the Vulcan characteristics." In S4, new
executive producer and show-runner Manny
Coto
dragged out the angst like
a soap opera in bits and pieces in the background of episodes.
Brent's Kids: the Augments (since the
characters are the adopted children of Brent Spiner's Arik
Soong).
SASTU: Super Archer Saves The Universe.
Referring to the writers' irritating habit (indulged by Coto)
of having Archer risk himself constantly for no reason, be
involved in every rescue, stick himself into every dangerous
situation, tell everyone how to do their job, and always
have the "right" answer so that any other suggestions being
raised narratively are given to other characters who then
look stupid in comparison. Worse in S3 and S4.
The RSs: Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens,
writers and co-executive producers in S4. Fantastic Trek writers.
Until now they've mostly done books,
but their screen work is phenomenal.
What's With...
All the links to pages which don't
have anything to do with Star Trek? Attempted jokes. My
mind works in weird ways, and the links are the references
to the things which occur to me as I'm discussing the episode.
Sometimes you have to scroll around to find the item I'm talking
about.
The makeup jokes? The show's makeup department
often overdoes it on the actors. For some reason it happens
to Dominic Keating more often than the other boys, especially
with lipstick. I folded it into a running joke about Malcolm,
but it expands to the other characters as well.
All the links to Five-Minute.net?
I love Zeke's site. It's hilarious. Remarkably, he really
likes TripHammered. So we each link to the other's site because
we think the material is worth our readers' attention. 5M.net
started on the Delta
Blues board and grew into its own huge great site, Five-Minute
Voyager, and from there has expanded so much Zeke had to drop
the "Voyager" part. I was rather influenced by Unca
Jim's wonderful funny writing, so while TripHammered didn't
actually come from Delta Blues, there's a definite family
resemblance.
The jokes which pop up sometimes if I mouseover
the photos on the front page? Those are actually text
alts. Sometimes they show up in Explorer, sometimes they
don't.
(I use Netscape and Safari.) But hey, any time I have an
excuse for a joke, I'll stick one in.
All the fish jokes in "Precious
Cargo"? I thought the guest actress was horrible,
and frankly unattractive, so I started comparing her to a
frozen fish stick throughout the recap (since she was being
kept in cold stasis). As a running joke, I refer to her as
Princess Fishstick.
Is the site going to stay up? Are you going to keep
updating?
Yes, I intend that TripHammered will stay up
indefinitely, so people coming to ENT in later
years can enjoy it as well. I may continue to add occasional
photos and blurbs to TrinneerHammered as
Connor gets work which qualifies, but I am no longer going
to add material regularly.
How can I contact you?
Editorial commentary and respectful debate
of any kind is welcome at evay
(atmark) triphammered.com. Flames will be tossed on
the mulch pile. Spam gets filtered so I don't see it, so
don't
bother.
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