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Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier
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tbf that was a bit more than a flash, but yeah all those guys
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>be Troi
>loose your powers
>immediately unravel and become a raving lunatic
Pottery.
>loose your powers
>immediately unravel and become a raving lunatic
Pottery.
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I tried getting grok to replace arturo with gul dukat, but it seemed to think I wanted some random turk. Very disappointing, because it would have been perfect otherwise.
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Watching the TNG episode "The Hunted" on syndicated TV.
(it's the TEMU-Rambo episode)
It's aggressively mid. Helped a lot by being a major improvement over S1 and S2. I thought some of Worf's reactions in the episode were interesting. Especially at the climax where he makes a snide comment about the society making their super soldiers.
It's kind of interesting that the Klingons never had a eugenics program that we know of (let's not talk about Enterprise for this). You could see the logic that they might have this incentive to try and create the most perfect warrior ever, but there has also always been in the lore this bit of spirituality and morality to them. You could see a whole belief in their culture towards self improvement, not enforced perfection.
Nobody talks much about it, but I think another part of why DS9's deconstruction "works" is that the Dominion is - from a point of view - what the Federation would have been had Kahn won the eugenics war and taken over Earth. It is a better mirror federation than the actual mirror Federation.
(it's the TEMU-Rambo episode)
It's aggressively mid. Helped a lot by being a major improvement over S1 and S2. I thought some of Worf's reactions in the episode were interesting. Especially at the climax where he makes a snide comment about the society making their super soldiers.
It's kind of interesting that the Klingons never had a eugenics program that we know of (let's not talk about Enterprise for this). You could see the logic that they might have this incentive to try and create the most perfect warrior ever, but there has also always been in the lore this bit of spirituality and morality to them. You could see a whole belief in their culture towards self improvement, not enforced perfection.
Nobody talks much about it, but I think another part of why DS9's deconstruction "works" is that the Dominion is - from a point of view - what the Federation would have been had Kahn won the eugenics war and taken over Earth. It is a better mirror federation than the actual mirror Federation.
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Because Pulaski spent most of her first prominent episode being an unnecessary cunt to Data for no reason.
I think they were trying to copy the Bones/Spock dynamic, but it didn't really work because Data was too innocent to even realize she was being a cunt to him, let alone snipe back at her like Spock would do to Bones.
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But Pulaski had the capacity to be a cunt.. Crusher isn't interesting at all IMO, and she shit out Wesley.
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If they had ever developed that love arc between her and Picard, there might have been something with her character there. Plus there'd be even more opportunities for Wesley to be a petulent twat with "you're not my real dad!"
But no, we got her fucking a ghost and Picard getting zero tail, apparently.
But no, we got her fucking a ghost and Picard getting zero tail, apparently.
Farturo looks like he wants to Slide-r into your DMs there.
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Eh we do see them eating breakfast together and it'd be a pain to wake up early, get ready for work and then go to the Captain's quarters just for a croissant.
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It isn't that I even disagree with you about Beverly being a mostly uninteresting character. I could count on one hand the number of Beverly-centric episodes that I even *remember*, and one of those was about the alien ghost who fucked her dead grandmother and earlier ancestors, and the story was about him wanting to fuck her next, which... yeah. @_@
But I have known far too many women like Pulaski in my life who are cunty just to be cunty. I'm sure that *could* have been interesting, if they had given her more characterization than just being a cunt. (And also admittedly being a better doctor than Beverly...) But that doesn't mean I wasn't happy to see her go when she left.
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well there's that risa episode where he tries to be indy and actually scored (till he got cucked by Q).
because there would be no honor in it, there would be no "equal" competition to make the the "better" one the winner.
that's why quark could get away with his scheme assuming some 7 foot dude dabbing on a ferengi is hardly considered honorable.
there was certainly potential, but injecting a new character into an existing dynamic is never easy. if she would've been there from the start and could "outgrow" the first two seasons like everyone else she might have been received differently. starting late she never really had the time to catch up, iirc she improved somewhat later in the season, still wasn't enough.
doesn't help the whole recasting was for bullshit reasons to begin with. early TNG really had some management issues.
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And for me, that's enough. I don't like cunty grandmas. But ginger milfs? Differen story.
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"Girl Bones" isn't much of a character, but Q had a point when he replaced Crusher with a dog and there wasn't really any functional difference.
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Another thing that made Spock and McCoy's dynamic work was how they played off Kirk. Spock was meant to represent logic, while McCoy was meant to represent emotion. It was Kirk who usually had to mediate their bickering and take their suggestions into account as his two primary advisors.
With TNG, the cast is much larger, and Picard's primary advisor is Riker, so there's no reason to have him primarily interact with Data and Pulaski when assessing a situation.
It says a lot than when discussing Crusher, the first thing that comes up is a shitty Season 7 episode where she fucked a ghost.
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Girl Bones vs Data also was important in starting to push Data out of his early "leftover shit we didn't use for Xon" phase
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Bingo. Data was not the sort of character who could bicker of banter, so only way he ever pushed back was to ask her to stop being mean to him.
Everyone loved Data, and a lot of fans saw themselves in him because of his sperginess and outsider nature, and they picked up on the way that the crew still liked him and accepted his differences. Replacing one of thise people, the milf no less, with a hag who was constantly bullying him probably triggered thousands of middle school flashbacks.
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