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TUCKER: Where's the fun in exploring if you know how it all turns out? Hand me that micro-caliper. Suppose you could look into some future book and find out the name of the woman you're going to marry. Would you want to know it?
REED: Absolutely. Think of all the awkward first dates I could avoid.
TUCKER: Fine. So one day you meet Jane Doe. You go out a few times, and you pop the question. She says I do, and the two you live happily ever after.
REED: Sounds perfect.
TUCKER: Now, did you marry her for love, or because some book told you to?
REED: If we're happily ever after, what difference does it make?

WarpGirl wrote:OK I love Malcolm he's actually quite unique. Let's take a look at Starfleet Security Officers for a minute. I'm not really sure who filled that role in TOS, probably Checkov... Actually figuring out who did what in TOS is tricky. Only Kirk, McCoy, and Scotty are really well defined. Spock does everything! Anyway back to my point, Security Officers are a might dull in Trek. There's Checkov who never really got a chance to go BOOM! Worf who loved battle like a Klingon loves battle but wasn't much for Explosions, and honestly he wasn't so much a protector as a warrior. Which is why he is a Klingon I'm not complaining. Odo who wasn't Starfleet and rather more of a police chief than anything else. But he did have some Sherlock moments. And Tuvok who was great at his job but kind of got stuck being more of a Jimminy Cricket than a blow the bad guys away type. Which is fine he's Vulcan he's supposed to be that way. But Vulcans are pacifists I never thought the profession meshed well.

Then you have Malcolm, he's not a fake Brit. Or a Brit who is faking something else. He's sarcastic, introverted, military to the core, and he's a PYROMANIAC! He's can be charming as all heck but completely clueless when it comes to interacting with people on ship because he has trouble Fraternizing. He can get any woman he wants but can't keep one. He's completely estranged from his family, it's obvious he and his father have MAJOR issues. And his mother seems like she "buries her head in the sand." He's never requested a favorite food from his own family! DANGER WILL ROBINSON! He's got one heck of a back story.

Now look at his career choices, No Royal Navy for him. Section 31 I'm sorry ENT might not have shown it but he did some pretty dark stuff there. He learned to be absolutely cut off from everyone. To only trust himself, that takes a lot of strength. Especially to walk away from that and still be sane, he's not a weak man or one with a death wish. And I still say he uses his spy skills to do his job on Enterprise To borrow a quote from the movie "The Queen" '"Duty first self second." it's his duty to keep his Captain and crew-mates from harm. He accepts that he could die doing that, he doesn't court death. How is that different from most soldiers? He's good at what he does, and his job is to keep people alive he can't do that dead.

I know I got some comments that I made him a little too guilt-ridden about Masaro and Terra Prime. But I think he takes his duty very personally. And Enterprise is the only real family he's got particularly Trip. But I can't see him wallowing for long, even if he is overly-dramatic sometimes he's practical. All in all Malcolm is fascinating and fun to play with.

JadziaKathryn wrote:As the happily ever after conversation shows, I think Malcolm is very much a pragmatist. Now a lot of the others among the crew tend to be idealists to some extent or another, but not Malcolm.