What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

Crusher was awful. I used to call her Beverlump. "I need to run more tests!" was pretty much her contribution to the show.

The episode where she kinda had ghost sex is one of those ones so outrageous and awful it becomes brilliant and legend, tho.

 

Wesley? He was great on Big Bang Theory.

 

Is there a single example in the whole franchise when it's an older woman who goes out with a much younger man?

Only when it's a ghost!!!

Sort of...

 

Crusher was undeveloped as a lead character but I'd hardly call her "awful." Diana Muldaur is the stronger actress but her own character was hamstrung by just one season of episodes and being little more than a female Leonard McCoy to provide a foil for Data.

 

The thread is for controversial opinions and that is mine.
Dr. Pulaski > Dr. Crusher

 

Given the recent discussion apparently not so controversial.

 

Im with Team Pulaski.

We watched S2 recently. She's not nearly anti-data as I was led to believe and even cheers him on in a video game competition. and he cant feel anything even if she disses him a bit.

Also, I too find his character generally insufferable when he doesnt know something and the writers have a human explain it pedantically. Ish. We moved into S3 for our Fri. Star Trek lunch, my wife and I, and I had to call it quits and were going to Voyager. Cant stand Data and every time Troi opens her mouth, it' horrible. Crusher is like lukewarm oatmeal. Voyager, here we come. Is that controversial?

 

Well, she was suspicious of Data and that made her antipathic to many viewers.

 

Voyager is OK if you can get past loads of technobabble.

 

"Masks" is one of the best episodes of the last two years of TNG.

 

Miri fancied Kirk in "MIRI". She was centuries older, despite being a teenage girl in appearance.

 

A thousand likes on this post!!!

 

Of the Beverly-centric episodes it is definitely the most enjoyable.

Make of that what you will.

Pegasus beats it though.

 

"If there's nothing wrong with me, there must be something wrong with the universe." quickly became a big part of my worldview.

Miri liked Kirk. Data was said to be not much older than Wesley, and he hooked up with Yar and the woman from In Theory. T'pol made time for Trips clone (for that matter, she was 20 some years older than Trip). Jake dated a dabo girl. The woman from Insurrection was older than Picard by...a fair amount. The actress in The Dauphin was older than Wil Wheaton. In New Frontier pretty much every one Morgan Primus hooked up with.

Enjoy every other scene with The Doctor/7/Neelix/Kes talking to a human...

I feel like they went for a Spock/McCoy dynamic without thinking it through. The Spock/McCoy dynamic worked because they had great banter. Data - being an android - can't dish it out like Spock can, so - rather than friends butting heads - Pulaski just came off as a jerk, bully and bigot.

 

Or, they could have written Data to, you know, actually advance, and learn to spar back, and we could watch him become more witty and human-like, which was his main goal anyways - and Pulaski would have LOVED to watch him advance! It wouldn't have been hate-filled. It would have been more like teacher's pride. It could have been a great arc. Pulaski should have stayed.

 

Learning to act more human was an extremely long range goal for Data, and I just don't see him making that particular advance in a satisfying or believable way, at least not until long after the audience had long since tired of seeing Pulaski dissing him.