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What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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And YOU want to be my latex salesman.
There must be some situations on a starship that requires a counsellor, for example in 'The Bonding' in TNG.
I’ll have to respectfully disagree with that, if I had access to therapist that was free/ came with the job I’d be in there all the time. I would say that it didn’t really make sense as a bridge officer.
A counselor on the bridge makes sense if it’s a ship of exploration that would benefit from facilitation services with new life from new civilizations.
If, on the other hand, it’s a military man o’ war that ignores Code 710 and warning buoys so as to enforce the manifest destiny of a benevolent federation, well….
And then there’s the question of whether the counselor bills hourly or if she is working to better herself and the rest of humanity.
If, on the other hand, it’s a military man o’ war that ignores Code 710 and warning buoys so as to enforce the manifest destiny of a benevolent federation, well….
And then there’s the question of whether the counselor bills hourly or if she is working to better herself and the rest of humanity.
Would have worked better as a reoccurring character, rather than a main one.
Kind of like M'Benga in TOS. He's had only two appearances in the franchise to date but when he did show up he made it count.
Ah, manifest destiny. Amazing how something that is pure evil could be made to sound so heroic and adventurous. Maybe our ancestors saw ourselves as something like the Federation, spreading the light of civilization to the far shores... no matter how much land we had to steal, people we had to kill, or cultures we had to obliterate in the process.
agreed. Someone that is occasionally there but not as a member of the senior staff.
Counsellor or not it's nice to have someone on the bridge who can tell to the captain if he's been lied to or some other similar reason.
Those scenes were the worst.
To be fair she was often correct in that the alien captain WAS hiding something
Yeah, his actual thoughts.. from her.
You haven't met my husband.
Maybe. But I definitely think it's a necessary job on a ship with over 1,000 people, some of whom are families. (And not just because of my name and icon!
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Ah, likle the British empire
I agree that a counselor is an appropriate role but not necessarily as a bridge officer.
My guess has always been that she was there because 1) she and Riker were initially based on Decker & Ilia because IIRC what became TMP was originally the pitch for TNG and Gene(?) wanted a "star-crossed" couple and 2) to have another woman on the bridge (it was the 80s).
That's a reasonable guess to my mind.
The apple didn't fall far from the tree, did it?
Maybe that's why the Federation has the non-interference rules that it does... it acknowledges the mistakes of its forbears and is determined not to repeat them.
Quite possibly.
I mean I know the history of my birth country and what the British did to it and it wasn't pretty.
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