Dr. Crusher could be annoying, but at least she had a clearly defined role on the ship. Deanna Troi on the other hand, was sanctimonious, annoying, useless and seemed to have no purpose on the show than to flash cleavage at the straight guys in the audience.
Wasn’t there an episode where Crusher lead the Enterprise (successfully) against the Borg?
Not to mention that it was cribbed plot point for plot point from Anne Rice’s “The Witching Hour”.
Descent Part II, the opener for season 7. But they weren’t the real Borg. They were the lame Lore-hijacked emo borg.
Gotta disagree with you there. Maybe not quite for me, but I could certainly understand if she pings someone else’s meter.
That’s the Welsh.
But for a TV show to successfully get away with cramming in Irish stereotypes, you need to go to Father Ted for instruction - which was Irish-made and could get away with the kind of things that would have seen a howling mob in the streets if the BBC had done it. 
You are correct and the people disagreeing with you might need to rewatch S2 because there’s a respectable amount of back and forth about Pulaski’s treatment of Data and I find the slightly bug-eyed outrage over her skepticism hilarious. I also never saw L.A. Law which I suspect colors some people a tetch too far.
It’s ok because Riker banged the hot one first. At least this time he wasn’t uncomfortably pushy about it.
Drink! Feck!
Oh god, her hair. It’s amazing how many ways her hair sucked, no matter how she wore it. I don’t even remember Pulaski’s hair, and that’s the way it should be.
And to be fair, this episode did have one of the great pickup lines in it…
Hot One: What’s the matter? Have ye not seen a woman before?
Riker: I thought I had…
Nicely done with the LA Law reference for the win.
I actually ended up liking Deanna, though I was fully prepared to hate her. It is only the crushers I really hate!
I was always waiting for the episode where they revealed that “Ship’s Counselor” was a euphemism.
They didn’t think to call her “Ambassador.”
OK, it’s time for an intervention.
Come on. This is either tongue-in-cheek or it’s an all-time-great ‘so terrible it’s good’ line.
That aside, Anaamika is right. I haven’t watched TNG reruns in a long time because the last time I did I found I couldn’t stomach the sanctimonious 1990s liberalism. It hasn’t aged well, so it can be pretty painful even if the show shares your general political bent. I didn’t realize they put so many of these lines into Dr. Crusher’s mouth, but it makes sense.
No, there WAS something wrong with the universe. She was trapped in a shrinking warp bubble. Her “universe” was generated artifically and was not the “real” universe. (Which was all “the boy’s” fault - you Wesley haters can laugh now.:))
But it is still one of my favorite episodes.
I remember. It doesn’t change what I’m saying about that piece of dialogue.
“I sense hostility”
No shit!? I thought those phasers they were firing at us were a salute!:rolleyes:
But her real purpose on the ship was: “I sense horniness” Kneels, sound of velcro opening…assorted other noises…