Are the TNG Crew Kinda Mean?

[Emperor Norton]

Tom Riker really got the shaft. He didn’t even get the promotion that really both of them earned for the Nervala 4 mission.

It's the Chewbacca's Medal of Star Trek.

 

[matthunter]

The crew were mean to Barclay in his first ep, but I just watched Realm of Fear and they're incredibly supportive of him - he runs out of the transporter room in a panic just before he's due to join them on an away mission, and even Riker gives him a non-sarcastic and warm "glad to have you with us, Reg" when he finally - presumably about an hour late - beams over. Geordi checks in with him several times during the ep and, when Barclay first mentions seeing something in the transporter beam, he doesn't scoff but says they'll run a diagnostic on the equipment. The only "conflict" comes when O'Brien and LaForge get a bit heated debating transporter malfunctions (or the lack thereof) with him and when Troi relieves him of duty, but at that point he was refusing medical advice.

 

[Mojochi]

The crew were mean to Barclay in his first ep, but I just watched Realm of Fear and they're incredibly supportive of him - he runs out of the transporter room in a panic just before he's due to join them on an away mission, and even Riker gives him a non-sarcastic and warm "glad to have you with us, Reg" when he finally - presumably about an hour late - beams over. Geordi checks in with him several times during the ep and, when Barclay first mentions seeing something in the transporter beam, he doesn't scoff but says they'll run a diagnostic on the equipment.

Yeeeaaah... that's after he became a supergenius, took over the ship, & scared the CRAP outta everybody. I can imagine that having a bit of a humbling effect on some of the snottier shipmates lol