Schizoid on Enterprise
Friday, October 26th, 2001I’m back to midnight blogging, but I think I’ve gotten over my bitter maggot phase. No news is bad news on the job front, but I took the personality disorder test Liz mentioned, and I came out far healthier than I expected:
Disorder | Rating
Paranoid: Moderate
Schizoid: High
Schizotypal: Moderate
Antisocial: Moderate
Borderline: Low
Histrionic: Low
Narcissistic: Moderate
Avoidant: Low
Dependent: Moderate
Obsessive-Compulsive: Moderate
Schizoid: People with schizoid personality disorder avoid relationships and do not show much emotion. They genuinely prefer to be alone and do not secretly wish for popularity. They tend to seek jobs that require little social contact. Their social skills are often weak and they do not show a need for attention or acceptance. They are perceived as humorless and distant and often are termed “loners.”
If I genuinely prefer to be alone, what’s the disorder? Isn’t it a free country?
ENT: Well, on to Trekkier matters. I saw “Terra Nova” tonight, and I learned all sorts of things. For instance, did you know human children are immune to radiation? Dunno how I missed that one back in biology class. And that despite having faster-than-lightspeed travel, no one could be bothered to go 20 measley lightyears to check on a missing colony? So what if it would take 9 years? Bring a deck of cards. Better yet, bring a Vulcan to berate 24/7 for the whole 9 years there and 9 years back. You’d hardly get started…
A writer should never ask a question he can’t answer - it’s better to take your chances that the reader won’t spot the plot hole. So mentioning, as I think T’Pol did, that they could have just asked the Vulcans for a lift, for heaven’s sake, rather than let four hundred people die, was a big no-no. While I’m advising the Evil Twins, let me point them in the direction of the Daystrom Institute Technical Library, which they really ought to have checked before they pinned humanity down to seventy years plus at warp 1.5. I check DITL before I write anything brain-numbingly stupid. No wonder the poor things were so excited about warp 4.
