A Conversation About Their Hobbies

[Mojochi]

It was a sizable factor in their screen time, & I still have questions.

Did Data's blunt honest criticism ultimately destroy Picard's interest in painting? He didn't seem to have much else except occasionally reading & a detective holoprogram now & then, until the Kataan flute came aboard.

So many of the crew we saw played musical instruments, like Keiko & Miles, who in all their time on 2 shows, we never see them play together. What a shame really. Do you have any idea how beautiful Miles cello & Keiko's clarinet would sound together?

Data played music with pretty much anyone who played, at some point or another... except Riker. WTF man? I have to think Riker is deliberately ducking a musical collaboration with Data. I guess he must think Data can't do jazz improv.

But for the good of social interaction, you'd think Data, Riker & Picard could drag themselves together for... something. The top 3 officers all play music, & not one get-together?

Data seemingly delved into nearly every art as part of his human studies, but did Troi have... nothing? Geordi too. I really don't think he was into holodeck stuff as much as people think he was. Barclay? Obviously

Heck, even Worf had his Mok'bara class, which was certainly a departure from his more personal exercise programs.

And am I alone in thinking there was something rather pushy & overbearing about Beverly & her theater Company?

 

[Takeru]

Data seemingly delved into nearly every art as part of his human studies, but did Troi have... nothing? Geordi too. I really don't think he was into holodeck stuff as much as people think he was.

Deanna had chocolate and seems to be into fitness, she took Worf's classes and exercised with Beverly for example, she also liked western which we saw exactly once but at least it's something. Geordi really had nothing, he mostly tagged along when Data tried something new.

 

[Mojochi]

Chocolate doesn't seem to be a hobby to me lol. Fitness maybe. It depends really. Everybody needs fitness. Hobbies are things people do as personal interest. Worf is interested in teaching a Mok'bara class. Deanna & Will just join in once in a while. Picard likes fencing (Ooo I'd forgotten about that one) & horse riding, but are they really hobbies? They're more like activities, like if I joined a bowling league

Hey, wait. I just remembered that one time Geordi built a model ship! I seem to remember Worf once trying to build something like that too, & when Riker came in, he just mashed it into a drawer frustratingly lol

Holodecks are like their tv. Is that really a hobby?

Meh, I guess all of this could fit the definition of hobby... Except eating chocolate

 

[Tosk]

but are they really hobbies? They're more like activities, like if I joined a bowling league

A hobby is any activity you do on a regular basis for pleasure when you're not working.

 

[Trekker09]

But for the good of social interaction, you'd think Data, Riker & Picard could drag themselves together for... something.

Well...they did all go for poker - !

I could imagine a talent night of individual acts, with Picard on Risican flute, Data on violin, Riker on trombone, Crusher tap dancing, Worf maybe singing Klingon opera...La Forge displaying a model ship. Troi could maybe do her impression of Durango.

 

[dupersuper]

Troi could maybe do her impression of Durango.

Or that professor who hit on her...

 

[Mojochi]

Or that professor who hit on her...

One has to wonder why the hell Beverly never got Troi in her theater troupe. She harassed every other one of them, & Troi seemingly has a little knack for mimicry.

 

[Skipper]

Chocolate doesn't seem to be a hobby to me lol. Fitness maybe. It depends really. Everybody needs fitness. Hobbies are things people do as personal interest. Worf is interested in teaching a Mok'bara class. Deanna & Will just join in once in a while. Picard likes fencing (Ooo I'd forgotten about that one) & horse riding, but are they really hobbies? They're more like activities, like if I joined a bowling league

Hey, wait. I just remembered that one time Geordi built a model ship! I seem to remember Worf once trying to build something like that too, & when Riker came in, he just mashed it into a drawer frustratingly lol

Holodecks are like their tv. Is that really a hobby?

Meh, I guess all of this could fit the definition of hobby... Except eating chocolate

I had a coworker of mine who was really in chocolate, different blends, different origins etc etc. Sometimes he let me taste something from his "collection" and it was excellent!

But yes, Deanna just asked chocolate from the replicator, so, definitely no hobby

 

[Mojochi]

I had a coworker of mine who was really in chocolate, different blends, different origins etc etc. Sometimes he let me taste something from his "collection" and it was excellent!

But yes, Deanna just asked chocolate from the replicator, so, definitely no hobby

Ok, so yeah. If she was like a chocolate collector, a researcher/historian on the subject, maybe designed her own, like those coffee or beer people who get their own roastery or microbrewery, then I'd say yeah, that's a hobby. She just wants to pig out on chocolaty sweets. That's not a hobby, anymore than tea is Picard's hobby. That's an addiction

I've seen her in an exercise class a time or 2, but never hear or see her show real interest in it. It's probably more about the social aspect for her. She's quite the social type. Her only real hobby seems to be poking her nose into other people's business. She's so into that, she made it her business

She also seems to get a kick out of messing with people, like that time she deliberately requested a tune from Riker's band that she knew he would mess up. Dude's putting on a show. You want him to screw it up? That lady needs a hobby lol

She's the only one I feel like doesn't have one. I don't count that one time she joined in on Worf's Old West program. That's more like a movie genre she likes.

 

[Brennyren]

am I alone in thinking there was something rather pushy & overbearing about Beverly & her theater Company?

No. Though to be fair, I have cast several church plays, and the roster rarely gets filled out without a little arm-twisting!

Beverly also has a little collection of plants, as shown in "Clues."

 

[Trekker09]

I'd totally forgotten that O'Brien played the cello and Keiko played clarinet - guess it was just a one-off though.

Deanna enjoyed the 3 D chess game— with Data, at least.

 

[JesterFace]

Chocolate doesn't seem to be a hobby to me lol.

If you combine chocolate with excercise that could be a hobby, eat all the chocolate you can and then try to burn off the ecxess energy. Before streching with Beverly she must've downed a few chocolate cakes, at least.

 

[Mojochi]

Beverly also has a little collection of plants, as shown in "Clues."

Which she did call a hobby!

I'd totally forgotten that O'Brien played the cello and Keiko played clarinet - guess it was just a one-off though.

yeah...

Deanna enjoyed the 3 D chess game— with Data, at least.

This is true. I'll give her that one. You couldn't be a passive player if you're beating Data. Her strategy did again seem to revolve around social dynamics, much like playing poker probably is for her. She just can't get away from pastimes that involve messing with people lol

 

[Brennyren]

"Chess is a game of intuition," though? Sure it is, Deanna. Sure it is.

Don't forget Picard and O'Brien are also a ship-in-a-bottle men. Remember in "Bobby Trap," when Picard was reminiscing about building ships in bottles as a boy, and nobody understood the appeal, provoking Picard to say, "Didn't any of you ever build a ship in a bottle as a boy?" Riker, Worf, and Data all demur, Data noting, "I was never a boy."

Then O'Brien chips in, "I did!", prompting Picard to smile as he beams away. The others look at O'Brien as if to say, "Suck-up!", and he says, a little defensively, "I did! Ships in bottles. Great fun."

I don't remember if we saw Picard continuing that hobby, but I know O'Brien did, at least on DS9.

 

[Ragitsu]

Beverly can always push me around, thespian aspirations or otherwise...

Seriously, however, I'd love to be part of a theater club that is that inclusive.

 

[Mojochi]

I'm not knocking her theater company. It actually does seem like a good time. FAR more active than a dumb holodeck program imho. It's even probably helping Barclay therapeutically. It's just that she really hounds Geordi & Picard, especially poor Geordi. No mediocre singer is going to want to be put on the spot like that

However, you'd think a guy like Picard, all into Shakespeare, would be more than interested though. Put your money where your mouth is there, JL. Then again, she was only offering him a butler, not King Lear.

Well, you know... Even though it seems like fun... I might want to take a break from it, if I were Riker, after Frame of Mind lol

 

[dupersuper]

I had a coworker of mine who was really in chocolate

Were they a peanut?

Deanna enjoyed the 3 D chess game— with Data, at least.

Yeah...I can just buy Kirk - decorated multiple times as a tactical genius - beating Spock. The ship's councilor beating an android was a bridge way too far for me.

However, you'd think a guy like Picard, all into Shakespeare, would be more than interested though. Put your money where your mouth is there, JL.

Maybe if the potential audience was any one but his crew. He took 7 years to play even a game of poker with his senior staff, after all.

 

[Mojochi]

Maybe if the potential audience was any one but his crew. He took 7 years to play even a game of poker with his senior staff, after all.

I don't think it's the audience so much. I think it's social events he doesn't like. He took Troi to his horseback riding program. He fences with crew members (Even offering Riker a chance) He invites friends like Guinan to his Dixon Hill program. Even the right romantic interest found a way to get him to share his music.

He's always sharing his interests with the crew... just not in a group. The perfect example is Commander Hutchinson's party, where in only a matter of a few minutes he managed to find an out. I think he uses his command position as a crutch to avoid group social interaction, by claiming it's not an appropriate look, like it undermines the dignity of his office, but I think he knows that's not true. He just has an aversion to it.

 

[filmnoter]

Holodecks are like their tv. Is that really a hobby?
... Except eating chocolate

The first is a form of cosplay. The second, Deanna could be a foodie.

 

[Mojochi]

But Deanna doesn't seem like a chocolate aficionado. A foodie doesn't have a dumb argument with the replicator about wanting "Real" chocolate. She'd be like "I want slightly chilled deLafée Swiss chocolate"