Or it is they want you to believe..?
And Tasha Yar before him, yep.
Was Troy a psychotherapist too?
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Or it is they want you to believe..?
And Tasha Yar before him, yep.
That's how Worf killed geordi.
...Agreed!
And floating around in outerspace would be an incongruous position for a Soccer Mom to be in, in the first instance ...
The only recognized true physiological disorder is looking around yourself and suddenly realizing that you're not living in a post-something utopia.
Don't worry, there's a "treatment" for that.
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One thing I cannot know is: How could Barclay have gone through ALL of that therapy for ALL of those years - with Troi in the Pilot Seat of his Treatment Programme - and still not find himself helped a wit? To be Frank & Ernest, he's always struck me as being addicted to the therapy, itself ...
Unless you're playing zero gravity soccer.
Perhaps, sir ... perhaps. One thing that's certain is that Claire liked things to be normal. She didn't like deviation ... nothing that would break her normal routine. She likes making the kids their lunches and driving them to soccer practice in the SUV and going to PTA this and thats. She's very basic, which is good.
Well, you certainly know her better than I do.
And how is it possible that someone suffering from transporter phobia was accepted in Star Fleet..?
Skipper, I have no idea. He would've never made the grade and gotten in STARFLEET, if any sort of reality were applied to his narrative. He'd be some eccentric holonovelist, perhaps Galaxy-reknown, if he'd been allowed to follow his natural instincts. But, no ... the TNG staff shoehorns him into Picard's elitist group, as a way of deconstructing and mocking it, for their own shits and giggles.
Sometimes, when STAR TREK has the temerity to affront the audience by advertising that, "... it's only makebelieve, folks" it works. As with Q, But other times, it's just a spanner in the works and it's name, in this case, is Reginald Barclay. And even in this "it's just a show" mentality, you would've thought the reason Barclay gained admittance was because STARFLEET realised that his fractured psyche could be cured, with relative ease.
Instead, we see Deanna showing him Self-Help methods that are found in any, pedestrian Shit-house Shrink publication. I love TNG, so much ... I don't want to look at the show's warts! But Barclay wasn't just someone thrown a one-liner and would let us forget about him. No. He came back for show, after show ... never getting well. Never showing any sign of improvement ...
McCoy hated the transporter too.
McCoy had a strong distaste. Barclay was suffering from a pathological phobia.
Given the (original) premise of the show, I don't think it would be that weird to have a 'shrink' on board. There you are, on a fairly long term deep space assignment, with no access to Federation planets, Starbases, or other off-board Starfleet facilities for months on end, with over a thousand crewman, and perhaps even a lot more non-crew people. In my view, it was only when it became apparent that the Enterprise could return at a moment's notice to familiar space, that the concept became questionable.
However, Deanna seems to wield much more power than your average shrink does and seems to have a lot more pull on the senior staff too, and that's what makes it weird. That 'political commisar' thing popped into my head more than once, as well....
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She's kind of a behavioral analyst consultant as well - it's sort of like having someone on staff who can advise you on how people will react/respond to what you do. Like jury consultants. https://www.thebalance.com/jury-consultant-2164304 If she knows the best way to proceed with a situation and deal with someone, it'd make a whole lot of sense to ask her rather than blindly running ahead and committing a faux pas with lasting repercussions.
Her questioning herself in "The Loss" doesn't really make me doubt her capabilities. We tend to have a blind spot when it's us in deep trouble - all the platitudes we spout to others don't work anymore. I think it gave her a chance to see what it's like to be on the other side of the problem.
Her questioning herself in "The Loss" doesn't really make me doubt her capabilities. We tend to have a blind spot when it's us in deep trouble - all the platitudes we spout to others don't work anymore. I think it gave her a chance to see what it's like to be on the other side of the problem.
And even if in-universe she wield an uncomfortable quantity of power, yet the writers didn't know what to do with her, so often they created new roles for her, like the aforementioned "Ship Linguist" or "legal consultant".
Seems like a quest for legitimacy/justification of her presence at first blush, but you have to remember, most of the other primary characters already had bridge officer rights. To do a story about someone major trying to get those rights, it had to be her. Unless you want a story about "guest character of the week"'s quest for bridge officer-ship. Not saying that wouldn't have been interesting, but I don't think we would have been as invested in the story if that was the case.
But part of the original concept (Roddenberry's) is that Humans are more "evolved," this is why they don't have inter-personal conflicts.
Why do near perfect people need a shrink?
