Of course, Worf’s real job on the show was being the Super Tough Alien Guy who proves how much tougher the Alien of the Week is, by getting beat up by said Alien of the Week.
Martinis are like breasts: one isn’t enough and three are too many!
Absolutely. Worf’s won/lost record in combat must have been well under 50%, due to being essentially a plot vehicle.
I really like the wrestling term “jobber” for these kind of characters where losing is entirely their job in life. It’s like how anytime cops show up in an action movie and their not the main character, their entire purpose is to get killed to show off how badass the bad guys are.
That might be his real job, but his really real job is to be there so everyone can shit on his suggestions.
So, it would have been yet another way in which they gave Guinan more to work with than Troi.
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nm, I read that as it was Guinan who was supposed to have 3 breasts.
Not picking a fight! I’m not that invested.
But that sort of described Troi. At least Guinan’s mystical nonsense actually helped. “This isn’t right!” from Yesterday’s Enterprise vs “I sense they are hiding something” from virtually every episode.
Plus, she’s responsible for Lwaxana invading the show like, well, Angel Martin. 
Oh, I think they woefully misused Troi. In a sense, a ship’s counselor would be an invaluable asset to its captain- they’d have the pulse on morale, mental health, etc… I mean, I have to figure that PTSD and other sorts of mental trauma related stuff would be rampant on the Enterprise during TNG’s run.
Even accounting for the 1980s production time frame, it seems to me that she should have been more of a confidant for the Captain- sort of his confessor, so to speak. And the same for the rest of the crew; there was a lot of really fertile ground for character development both via the characters and their interactions with Troi, and even for her, with maybe some of their experiences rubbing off on her, or maybe her doing some subtle manipulations, etc…
But instead, we get “I sense that it’s angry, Captain”, when the giant energy anomaly is trying to dissolve the Enterprise via ionized muons or whatever.
“Have you noticed how your boobs have firmed up?”
I agree with you. Troi could have been used so much better. Your suggestions are great.
Instead her character building episodes are how bitchy she got when her telepathy left her. Though she did great as a Romulan.
She was better as a fish. 
Couldn’t stand Troi. I agree it was a total wasted opportunity.
AND all that …unless im misremembering…couldn’t Troi and Riker communicate telepathically in the pilot? I seem to remember her calling him “Imzadi” and he hearing her thoughts.
GAG.
If I ran first season TNG, first things I’d do is fix Wesley and Troi.
Speaking of Troi and Romulans, I just remembered it wasn’t just Guinan who ate her lunch. As early as the first season, the show already had other people doing her job in that episode with the Romans when she is off doing some boring ancestry.com search with the lady frozen from the 1980s and it’s the mean frozen 1980s banker guy who has to tell Picard that the Romulans are keeping shit from them.
I never really liked Gill Chesterton … bit of a one joke character.
I did like Noel Shempsky however.
Riker makes some snarky remark alluding the the immaturity of 20th century humans, and yet…the banker was right. He did get revived in The Future and the did cure what killed him. Sounds pretty s-m-r-t to me. Maybe they should have made him a crew memeber and ditched Troi.
How about Gunther from Friends? His role was the barista who had a crush on Jennifer Aniston’s character, Rachel. Except it was an unexpressed crush, so basically, he was just a sad and unfulfilled character… In a comedy show
It wasn’t like he was always hopelessly flirting with Rachel. He would just pine for her from a distance. I’m not sure he ever even got any funny lines.
Jij hebt seks met ezels.
I think one of us may have had a stroke.
For “Gill”, read “Gil” throughout.
For those who don’t get the reference, that was what Gunther said in one episode when he insulted Ross in Dutch.