This is all like insisting Finnegan should be played by the same actor as in Shore Leave in some TOS film decades later for what amounts being Kenny. This thread has likely spent more time on Brophy in Trek than was spent on him over the years since the episode aired.
Your words have the ring of truth... I will sharpen my ushaan-tor blade and make the appropriate preparations.
it spent more time on him already than all the episodes he was in combined
Similar to me. I don't know how many times I've seen Measure of a Man, the most recent being about three years ago. Yet, I never remembered Brian Brophy's name until recently when talk about Maddox being relevant to Picard's storyline started up.
This isn't a fraction of the time threads have spend on subjects, and no one is being forced to read or participate?
Take away Stewart's delivery and the episode is about as subtle as Omega Glory.
How dare people not enjoy a performance from a season 2 TNG episode! They were all so good!
I read that in Sheldon's voice. That's what I get for watching Harley Quinn while I post here.
He told me that 2-3 weeks ago when I approached him about it (edit to clarify: he implied, but didn't explicitly say so).
Indeed, including one of the good ones that's usually on all the top episode lists for the season or the series or the franchise.
It's on my TNG top list too - for its themes, for the brilliant setup with Riker having to 'prosecute', for Picard's speechifying, for Spiner's performance with the Tasha bit. Not so much for the performance of the week's antagonist who, having watched the episode dozens of times, fails to make any more impact than "oh he wanted Data to dissect". Khan, he was not.
That's most TNG episodes, though.
He was more Bruce Mars, Finnegan.
Stewart and Spiner were the only reasons I watched that show. I wouldn't have made it through the first season much less the series without them.
Because in the 80's television it touched upon important themes about conscience and rights when usually the most morally challenging issue was what a soap opera protagonist had to do when he found that the woman he had banged was his sister?
