>>118215172>say it's lazy because they subverted itSubverted what? They didn't subvert shit, they ignored the solution that the character would organically suggest and which would solve the problem because it was inconvenient for them as writers.
The correct answer there is to re-write the situation so it isn't an option. It's not fucking hard. Here, I'll do it for them:
FREEMAN (resigned): Shaxs, I guess it's your lucky day...
FREEMAN: Blow the warp core.
SHAXS(panicked): I'M TRYING CAPTAIN BUT IT WON'T WORK AGGHH DAMN MACHINE
SHAXS attacks the panel
TECHNICIAN: Sir, control of engineering has been severed!
SHAXS: Damnit! If we want blow this thing we'll have to do it ourselves!
And then they actually have a reason to leave the bridge and go somewhere that's not "uhh some people are coming in and phasers don't exist right now"
>>118215211They literally joke that he's probably blowing up warp cores in the afterlife.
Wanting to blow up warp cores is literally his entire gag.
