BING-go!
Yes, but she’s still almost never the most annoying character in the episode. However, the writers had a problem coming up with uses for her empath abilities, so they wound up making her state the obvious a lot. The joke is that she is “the autistic kid’s guide to Trek” since she’s always telling you emotions that are clearly present in the body language of the character.
So while I’m like you, and don’t mind her, I understand why some people are so annoyed by her. And it has apparently made people retroactively hate her.
When you know it’s a spoiler, use a spoiler box. (I added one for you.)
That title goes to Wesley Crusher.
Deanna is about as useful as all of the children on board, who had absolutely no business being on a starship anyway.
If you want a professional pshrink in the crew, make her a member of the medical contingent and use her only when you have a real psychological crisis, i.e., once every other year or so. Otherwise you create the impression of a ship manned by whiny, insecure dweebs whom normal screening would have weeded out well before it ever set sail.
They did use her from time to time to provide actual psych counseling (Worf, Alexander, Barclay and that grieving kid who’d lost his mom on a mission, off the top of my head), but more often than not she was just offering glaringly obvious insights to Picard.
The only way Barclay would be allowed onto an actual starship would be as a space tourist, provided he signed a written pledge not to touch anything beforehand.
Children on a starship are the ultimate in nonproductive personnel. Putting them on board was by far the dumbest idea anyone in the Trek front offices ever had, and that’s saying one helluva lot. Every time I watch the Borg carve that huge section out of the primary hull, I wonder if that’s where the nurseries were located.
There are a lot of annoying characters on Star Trek!
Wesley
Worf with a phaser
Beardless Riker
Data wanting to “be a real boy!”
Troi’s tele-empathy uselessness
Geordi whining about datelessness
Joe Piscabo
Gem
Lazarus
Harry Kim
Jake
Salt Vampire
Travis “Grew Up On A Spaceship” Mayweather
Dr Pulaski
etc…
Funny thing is, we still sort of like them. I guess we like them now for being annoying.
Ripped Shirt TOS Kirk vs The reboot Master vs original trilogy Darth Vader – Who wins?
Talk about oranges and apples! :rolleyes:
I’m torn between Scenery-Chewing-Ripped-Shirt-Horny-Sailor Kirk and Unrepentant-Personification-of-Pure-Evil Darth Vader.
Well it’s not like there were children for the sake of children. They were the offspring (and and spouses) of the hundreds of scientists, engineers, and technicians on board. Not everyone can be the perpetual eligible bachelors that Picard, Riker, and Barclay are.
Husband-and-wife teams of scientists, etc., I can understand. There’d be no shortage of those in the Federation willing to sign on (or of single men and women, I dare say). However, keeping children on board a ship whose primary function is planetary exploration and contacting unknown life forms is, to put it mildly, tantamount to felony endangerment.
There are no effective methods of contraception in the 24th century? No rotation of personnel and their dependents to less hazardous duties? No way to return parents and their newborn children to Starbases or deep-space stations?
Though the subject was never discussed on-air in TOS, the practice then was that birth control was voluntary for married couples, mandatory for unmarried females. You get pregnant, you have the choice of either accepting a shore assignment or resigning from the service.
This actually followed the real military practices of the time; what they’re like nowadays, I don’t know, but I’m sure you won’t find toddlers living aboard submarines, aircraft carriers, or any other warship. (And puh-LEEZE, don’t give me that “The Enterprise is not a ship of war, it’s a ship of peace” bullshit. There are a lot of alien species out there who don’t give a rat’s ass one way or the other.)
Career officers can and often are.
Actually, yes there were. They way everyone kind of forgot about them after the first couple of years shows just how nonessential they were, and how the production staff belatedly realized what a rotten idea it was in the first place.
Plus, wasn’t it part of Gene’s idea to make his precious Starfleet look less military? I hate to keep harping on that point, but it really made early TNG shows a little hamstrung.
Photon Torpedoes!
Daddy, look what i draw!
That’s nice, honey. Now go see Mommy, I have to obliterate the bad guys ship.
oh, okay …
FIRE!
And that’s also why (iirc) they had a scene with saucer separation in the pilot. To show how they can be a minivan in space and also a gunboat.
They rarely used saucer separation in later eps, except to fight Borg. One book I read, maybe a Larry Nemecek book, said the scene was costly and time consuming, so saucer sep wasn’t slated to be used very often.
Regarding the episode “Samaritan Snare”.
There’s a really cool callback later in the series to a certain detail Picard reveals in the episode. Really blew my mind. One of my favourite moments in all of Star Trek.
They also separated for the Good Ship Lollipop ep (Arsenal of Freedom)
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You know what I’d do if I were commander of an enemy vessel? I’d take out the gunboat (a few direct hits is all it ever takes to knock down all of their deflectors and disable the warp drive) and then head out at full warp and deal with the impulse-driven saucer section. Or maybe I’d just ignore the gunboat and blow the saucer to smithereens first.
I prefer the first scenario, because Terran women and children are welcome additions to slave markets all over the Galaxy.
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