Agreed. In fact, my go-to reboot for Picard has always been Vincent Cassel. He's perfect for it
This is why in my head canon, I sort of retcon all those attributes to being a result of designer choice. Clearly there's other models made by the same designer, even previous models, that didn't suffer from those limitations. He did it to Data deliberately, perhaps as a method of humility, a trait which we know was tragically lacking in the previous model
Please see your above meme.
I liked it very briefly, liked the symmetry. For just long enough for the rest of my brain to catch up and begin seeing all of the reasons it shouldn't have been done. Which happened in about 0.68 seconds.
I'll join you. I think it is a great scene and an essential piece of Kirk's growth.
Controversial: I want to see Love Instructors actually incorporated into canon somehow. Not because I'm trying to turn Trek into porn or anything - got actual porn for that. And not necessarily as a major plot point (unless there's a really compelling one they can tell with it). But just because Roddenberry wanted it included, and there's a lot of fans whose heads would explode.
Neelix helped guide Voyager in the earlier part of their journey being a native to the Quadrant and just being a scavenger. He really did make a difference to morale and of course they would not have made it without his skills with Leola root recipes.
Agreed. Like Refuge said, he was a guide. I think maybe the biggest problem that made him seem goofy and useless was that we rarely *saw* him guiding. A few more scenes of Janeway having one on ones with him, or of him providing useful information in the conference room, could have made a lot of difference in how he's perceived. (But also, not writing a relationship for the character with a girl that was only ever going to reach 9 years old - whatever her physical appearance - might have helped, too.)
Actually, I liked the whole Hodgkin's Theory of Parallel Planetary Development thing. And what's really screwed up is that something very similar exists in some of the real scientific theories, now. So definitely less BS than the reason no one could just unplug the freaking holodeck.
