All this does is invalidate the organization and its organizers. This, too, will pass.
I'm rating you optimistic - but this time I meant it as a good rating.
The best part is that that chick ended up doing some porn after this. Kirk knocked her straight into the jizz biz.
No, at least not unless this iteration of Star Trek crashes and burns and it gets resurrected a few decades later with a lower budget aimed at the original niche viewers. Right now it is a Hollywood IP cow which means they have to have $20 million budgets per episode for their nepotism slush fund and the final product itself has to try in vain to appeal to the lowest normie denominator audience to have any chance of recuperating a fraction of that money.
Have you watched DS9? They do a disturbing version of the Inner Light where some aliens make O'Brien live out a lengthy prison sentence in his mind. It gets pretty dark by Star Trek standards.
Now you mention him, I was watching some old clips of TNG and, boy, Wesley could be a bully. I think it was "Sarel" when he and Geordi started to argue and he tells Geordi something like "at least I won't spend the night with a book". I know they all were suffering from telepathic influence, but the feelings behind were real. I think he really thought that about Geordi.
Whats great about Barclay is how real he is. Everyone in their life has met a guy like Barclay or been Barclay. That morning meeting scene where Geordi is forcing himself to ask for Barclays opinion and Barclay clearly does not want to speak is something I've seen time and time again where a manager is trying his best to include an apathetic or distant employee in the conversation and its a struggle all around. Even on a spaceship where the chief engineer wears a special visor that lets him see and his best friend is a robot, there's some grounding in reality.
Just watch this shit limp on to season 5 while ENT was culled in S4.
Geordi always tried to make everybody feel included and was overall a great boss. I could believe he was like this with any other starfleet newbie who couldn't yet leave their shell. Barclay was just a harder case for him but he actually helped him to be more comfortable.
Instead of heartwarming human interaction that shows us how much humanity has progressed and now empathises with everyone, trying to help them, we have snarky assholes making quippy comments and always there needs to be someone who is bested, shamed and ridiculed.
The real ending was Terra Prime.
I'm watching DS9 now I'll let you know if I find it, I'm currently a few episodes into season 4 so that should narrow it down for you.
Someone already did. It was a season 7 episode, Badda Bing Badda Bang
