IIRC, Crusher was to be the head of a research dept. when she left, but when she came back the explaination was that she’d been teaching or studying. (Continuity was never one of Trek’s strong points.) Personally, I find the episodes from the first couple of seasons to be nearly as bad as Enterprise (note I said “nearly”), so I avoid them like the plague.
Also, Wheaton my have gotten stuffed into a painfully stupid role, but he’s also defended his character with some pretty absurd statements. In one interview he claimed that his character had only saved the ship once, which is total BS. Damn near every episode he was in, revovled around him whipping some kind of technobabble solution out of his ass.
Heck, there was one episode where the technobabble wasn’t even necessary, and he out-ass-whipped it, anyway! He and Picard are dying of thirst but the only source of water is a small fountain around which some apparantly too-much-time-on-its-pseudopods aliens put up a forcefield. Wes gets all technobabbly instead of just using his tricorder to find the underground stream that must be feeding the fountain (as well as the channel which must be draining it) and using his phaser to excavate it.
Yes, doctors aren’t line officers (neither are counselors); Dr Crusher, on her own, took the bridge officers test, but there’s no indication that Pulaski ever did. Medical personel are li
Easy, because that would mean changing the status quo. God forbid that anything about the show actually change. That’s also the reason why Riker turned down independent command of his own ship (which in any real fleet would have landed him planetside for life, the next time the Enterprise stopped at any friendly port).
And I think that most of what Wil Wheaton says about his part in Star Trek isn’t meant to be taken seriously. Certainly, he has a healthy supply of sarcasm on hand, when talking about it.
IIRC The mechanical eyeballs would have had only 80% of the range of his visor. Geordi decided that being able to watch gamma rays or whatever was too useful to give up.
Eighteen years later, I be informed as to why my favorite doctor (and half of my favorite ST relationship next to Dax & Worf) was booted off for a season. I haven’t seen enough of Season Two to form an opinion of Pulaski, but I can honestly say I didn’t like her as much. Nobody can out-McCoy Deforest Kelley.
I always had a crush on post Season 1 Wesley. I was laughing too hard at the orange sweater to like him much in the first season, but MAN that boy could fill out an ensign’s uniform!
However, Star Fleet is not a military organization* :dubious:; the normal happenings within a Navy do not apply to this fleet. Therefore, one is able to turn down a command assignment so that one can get the Enterprise in the future. Nothing like putting a first-time captain at the helm of your flag ship. :smack:
*Or so I was told when I asked why there weren’t any marines on the fleet’s flag ship.
I disagree. I say Troi was hotter. Some of you may claim that she was not a mother. I point to the episode in which an alien spark impregnates Troi in order to be born humanoid, play with puppies, and burn itself on soup. I point also to the episode in which Whorf keeps jumping into alternate dimensions, in one of those other timelines he and Troi are married and have children.
