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Changed Opinion Of A Character...

I think I was fine with his behavior up until he deliberately tried to make a dinner setting he thought would appeal to her using knowledge he wouldn't have had if he hadn't used the holoprogam. That was just blatantly and creepily manipulative.
He mentioned fungilli because the computer had previously calculated that she liked it. We perhaps have different standards for what is creepy and manipulative.

That's not to say I agree with his approach overall.
 
He mentioned fungilli because the computer had previously calculated that she liked it. We perhaps have different standards for what is creepy and manipulative.

That's not to say I agree with his approach overall.
It wasn't just the food, though. It was the lighting and music and all. He was pretty obviously trying to create a romantic environment while meeting with a professional associate (I apologize in advance if I'm confusing this with another episode).

If I invited a coworker to my home and dimmed the lights, had music playing, and had made a food I thought they might enjoy because I'd done research into it without just asking them, I wouldn't be at all surprised if I heard from HR in due time.
 
It wasn't just the food, though. It was the lighting and music and all. He was pretty obviously trying to create a romantic environment while meeting with a professional associate (I apologize in advance if I'm confusing this with another episode).
You said "using knowledge he wouldn't have had if he hadn't used the holoprogam"
That was the key part of the sentence that I was replying to.
 
Most dimished opinion: Dr. Beverly Crusher. (snip) She tended to talk AT a character rather than TO a character

That's why Q turned her into a barking Irish Setter. He knew her so well.

Crusher is my most diminished along with Geordi for reasons already stated, no need to recapitulate all that.

Jean-Luc Picard. I used to love the character, now I find him an amoral blowhard.
Same, it's odd how perspective changes with age.

Same for me. As an adult, I found the character soooo self-righteous it physically hurt to watch at times.

She even got on Q's nerves.

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Exactly the scene I was alluding to.

Improved with age:

Garak, Quark

Diminished with age:

Picard, Geordi and Riker

No opinion on VOY or ENT because I haven't seen every ep yet
 
The thing about the Geordi/Leah story that I find worst of all is that they chose to name drop her in "All Good Things..." and say that she and Geordi were married now. Yeah, yeah, I know they didn't give her last name and it could have been another Leah and all that, but c'mon. Director of the Daystrom Institute? Clearly we're talking about the same woman here. And the idea that after all Geordi did they would end up getting married, after she presumably dumped her existing husband who she was married to while Geordi was doing all that? That's just wrong on so many levels.
 
The thing about the Geordi/Leah story that I find worst of all is that they chose to name drop her in "All Good Things..." and say that she and Geordi were married now. Yeah, yeah, I know they didn't give her last name and it could have been another Leah and all that, but c'mon. Director of the Daystrom Institute? Clearly we're talking about the same woman here. And the idea that after all Geordi did they would end up getting married, after she presumably dumped her existing husband who she was married to while Geordi was doing all that? That's just wrong on so many levels.
While I agree that Geordi and Leah ending up together in the end doesn't really sit well with me given the events of "Galaxy's Child", I think it would be more charitable to assume that Leah's husband passed away or they separated for other reasons, rather than jumping to her dumping him to be with Geordi.
 
And the idea that after all Geordi did they would end up getting married
Meh, for better or worse they ended friendly at the end of Galaxy's Child. If they did fall in love later on, the "holodeck incident" would be a weird meet-cute story.

"You know what, kids? I fell in love with your mother before I even met her..."
 
I just say that Leah was a common name on Earth the year Geordi was born, and he married another woman who happened to be named Leah. Problem solved.
 
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