The whole history of Starfleet disagrees with you.
Does anyone else dislike Raffi?
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Indeed, somebody probably saw the potential for evil admiralty in her.
She’d be able to remove the replicator restrictions that stop her replicating smack. Starfleet command would smell like a hippies house.
And one with a very full swear jar.
“Smack?” Raffi’s non-existent heroin addiction isn’t really a reason to dislike her, what with it not being a thing at all.
She’s not a substance abuser as of season 2. She’s in command of her own ship and she has her shit together. So I’m not sure why you’re still harping on something that the character doesn’t even do anymore. Sounds more like you’re bitching just to bitch about something.
And what is she "hooked" on in this season?
Elnor.
the same stuff, we don’t see her go the toilet either does that mean she’s not doing that?
That she reacts to that how she does in the middle of a crisis proves that she’s unprofessional, senior staff keep clear heads at all times.
I assume that the many active Federation officers who’ve consumed illegal Romulan ale (McCoy, Kirk, Bashir, Worf, Picard, etc.) are on the same list as Raffi, since I guess any use of a controlled substance is clearly an ongoing addiction, that cannot ever(?) be overcome.
Unless it’s just baseless, and arbitrary nonsense being held against Raffi.
Unless it’s just baseless, and arbitrary nonsense being held against Raffi.
Except that it is what we were meant to think, which is why it's referenced more than once, shown as part of a lengthy "relapse", referred to as such by Michelle Hurd (actress) and Michael Chabon (writer) respectively, and the first thing that Freecloud advertises to her.
Agree or disagree with whatever views you wish, but let's not pretend this isn't a core part of the character as written, acted and depicted.
There is no more reason to believe that they are not addicts than there is to believe Raffi was smoking snakeweed in bathroom, for many reasons.
And Raffi was cleared for duty, we have every reason to believe she has a handle on any addiction she may or may not have had as well as any Starfleet officer.
And Raffi was cleared for duty, we have every reason to believe she has a handle on any addiction she may or may not have had as well as any Starfleet officer.
I’m don’t mean to pretend that isn’t a part of Raffi’s character, I wrote “that cannot ever(?) be overcome” because it is an important distinction. I’m not trying to suggest that Raffi doesn’t have issues with substance abuse, just that she’s actively dealing with them as depicted in season 2, and to suggest that she cannot change/assume she is in the midst of a relapse offscreen in S02 is baseless, and requires just ignoring her current depiction.
Yup.
This is more accurately. The assumption about Raffi's character is surface level, at best.
I can identify with them along the lines of Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Bros., and the characters from Looney Tunes; its an element established to lighten the plot.
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