Most Irritating TNG Guest Star Character

[DonIago]

She was pretty horrible, and I couldn't figure out how much of that was because she was an alien impersonator and how much of it was legit bad acting.

 

[NigellaDeanna20]

Does anybody know what happened to Dr Crusher in series 2? Was she stationed elsewhere? Thanks.

Her replacement Dr Pulaski had the worst bedside manner ever. Sooo incredibly rude and lacked compassion for the patients. Thank goodness she got booted off the show

She was chief of Starfleet Medical at Starfleet HQ for about a year before she returned to the Enterprise at the start of season 3.

 

[Mojochi]

Um, yea, but she could actually act.

That's debatable. I think she was right on par with what regular prime time soap actresses of the day were doing, not much better. To be fair though. The Pulaski character had a lot of weak writing. Add in all the medico technobabble, & it'd be hard for anyone to come out smelling like roses. I do think she might have had a step or two on Gates as actors go

New nomination: Jason Vigo. I suppose he was written that way some, but even when we're supposed to start feeling for him... I didn't. He put me off right after he roped that poor security lady into a snubbing

 

[velour]

Q.

I couldn't stand Q. Q was more pompous than Picard could ever be.

 

[DarKush]

I can't say she's the most annoying per se, because I would need to really plumb my memory. But immediately Leah Brahms came to mind. Never got the Geordi-Leah thing and I wish that she hadn't been his wife in the "All Good Things" alternate future.

 

[Solariabsg25]

I didn't like her personification in the early TNG episodes. Very annoying. I get it, what they were trying to achieve, but it was so overdone. It wasn't until DS9 that the character came into her own. I recently saw the episode where she basically helps save Odo. It was probably one of Majel's better performances.

Marina Sirtis thought highly of Majel... and she also called out how Lwaxana got to develop more on DS9:

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DS9 definitely brought something out of Lwaxana, and after seeing her in these stories I got a vibe that a lot of her previous bluster and pompousness was her overcompensating.

 

[MrPointy]

Someone already mentioned Okona and Joe Piscopo, so I'm going for everyone in Code Of Honor for my #3.

 

[Jayson1]

Someone already mentioned Okona and Joe Piscopo, so I'm going for everyone in Code Of Honor for my #3.

Even the guy who dies because the poison glove hit him because nobody thought it would be smart to put some kind of safety net to protect the audience and then nobody even cared that he dies and the fight continues. For all we know he had just got tickets to the big fight for the first time in his life and his family was so happy for him because he earned it working day and night on the needed Vaccine and then he goes and that stuff happens to him?

Jason

 

[Qonundrum]

Which guest character on TNG did you find most annoying? Preferably other than Lwaxana or Q.

For me, it was Ensign Sonia Gomez, who was on Q Who and Samaritan Snare. She was dense, she talked too much, and she had an obnoxious sounding voice.

Let's hear your most irritating guest characters.

Ensign Gomez - she was intended to be part of the crew as a source of potential conflict. The first of many... The setup was there but something didn't gel. Too many other characters in the ensemble aside, given season 3's changes, I do wonder if her character would have been improved on as the others had as a result. But she, IMHO, is nowhere near the worst...


...insert drumroll...

My vote goes to the (very not) outrageous Okona as he makes Wesley genuinely outrageous by comparison. Okona was consistently grating and probably gave 80% of the women on the ship incurable STDs as well, which is probably outrageous except that wasn't the intent of the plot... That and the fact that he was not the father couldn't possibly be outrageous to anyone, except for possibly Maury Povich or Jerry Springer...))

 

[Qonundrum]

Someone already mentioned Okona and Joe Piscopo, so I'm going for everyone in Code Of Honor for my #3.

Oops. I didn't see that previous post either.

I did review the Piscopo scenes: Joe Piscopo's bit was hit or miss (possibly due to his being allowed to improv, and he and Brent Spiner had great on-screen chemistry (even for the duff moments)) but at least there were some moments that worked. Piscopo's scenes were, as a whole, rather better that what surrounded them.