Dr. Crusher or Pulaski

[Distorted Humor]

As I liked McCoy, I also like Pulaski, but I just can't see the whole "I liked one but not the other" thing.

Bones is the original, Pulaski is just a weak echo.

 

[maneth]

I much prefer Crusher although Pulaski had some of the most interesting stories. And I admit to liking Muldaur's work in TOS.

 

[imranbecks]

Dr Pulaski? Are u kidding me? She was forgettable..

 

[Vulagr]

Paul Winfield should've played the Doctor.

 

[trentman359]

It would have been interesting to see Pulaski get a few more seasons. I voted for Pulaski mainly because she was the only main character to ever conflict with the rest of the crew.

Crusher was hot but very annoying.

 

[Anji]

'been saying it for almost 10 years now: Muldaur played a more believable head doctor. It's gotta be Pulaski.

 

[lstyer]

It would have been interesting to see Pulaski get a few more seasons. I voted for Pulaski mainly because she was the only main character to ever conflict with the rest of the crew.

This explains my vote, too. Conflict among the crew was sorely lacking in TNG, so I appreciate Pulaski shaking things up in that department.

 

[Bob Karo]

I voted Crusher, but not by much.

I really wanted to see more Selar.

 

[sonak]

I voted Crusher, but not by much.

I really wanted to see more Selar.

I wanted to see much more of Selar to, but in a different sense than you mean.

 

[Deks]

I prefered Pulaski.
She seemed more competent as a character/doctor and wasn't afraid to speak her mind.
Could have done away with her transporter phobia (oh yeah... she DID manage to get over it in the episode where she aged rapidly).


I couldn't care less about Mcfadden's 'looks'... I just didn't find her of too much relevance to be honest.

 

[Macman27]

I voted Crusher

 

[BlobVanDam]

I despised Pulaski. I'd say she's my most disliked, but that would be an insult to Wesley Crusher and Tasha Yar.

Therefore my vote goes to Crusher by default, even though "in universe" she popped out Wesley.

 

[Happenstance]

Im amazed that this could even be a question. I always found Pulaski a terrible character and completely unlikable. Crusher all the way.

 

[RandyS]

Hmm. We just did this topic a few months ago. Love the votes for Crusher because "she's hot".

Crusher as a character was bland and boring. McFadden as an actress is bland and boring.

Pulaski may be a copy of McCoy but then again McCoy wasn't the only "cranky" character the world has ever known. One could even say that DeForest was playing a copy of a cranky police pathologist when he played McCoy.

I'll take Pulaski over Crusher any day. But then that's because I base my preference on character, not on who may or may not be hot.

So do I, and it's because her character was not the McCoy rip-off, and that she was better written (when they wrote for her), that my vote goes to Crusher.

However, I will admit that the passage of time has tempered my violent hatred of Pulaski to just dislike.

 

[Balrog]

I didn't like either of 'em.

 

[Tachyon]

My girl Bev, of course. I like Pulaski, too, but Beverly's the one for me.

 

[Bones_McCoy21]

I don't know I voted for Crusher. I guess because Her relationships with the others can be uncomfortable.

 

[The Castellan]

I liked Pulsaki. Someone who could tell the Captain what she thinks and also, the part I love most, is openly criticize the Prime Directive, which was absurd by the time of TNG, like in Pen Pals and so on.

 

[The Castellan]

I really liked Pulaski, and thought she was just one of many improvements in Next Gen in season two. She has far more life and spirit in her than Crusher, who just came across as neutral in personality. Pulaski was intellectually curious and adventurous. I like the moment where she does the tea ceremony with Worf and injects herself with antidote so as to "enjoy" the poison in the tea with him.Pulaski was not similar to McCoy except for her problem with transporters. I think people must be connecting her intolerance toward a synthetic being, Data, with McCoy's irritation with Spock. Data and Spock aren't equivalent. It makes sense that someone whose life work is biology might not find it easy to accept a non-biological being as a real person.I'm nuts for Diana Muldaur in just about anything she's done, in the 60s and 70s anyway. Besides having a great "presence", she's also insanely attractive in those earlier roles. In the 80s she did this unfortunate thing with her hair, that put an end to that... I was very disappointed when Crusher came back.

You pretty much said all that I was thinking.

She was not a bad looking woman during the 1980's, either, though the Rue McCallahan hair that a lot of woman over 35 had in those days had to go. Plus in "When Silence Has Lease", which is one of my favorite episodes, she was the only one, with exception to Worf's willing to take the chance of not being on Negelem's death list, I think, who had the most realistic reaction to Picard's choice of blowing up the ship, bluff or no bluff.

 

[Dr. Crusher]

It would have been nice to catch up with Pulaski at some point later in the series. Was there ever anything mentioned about where she had gone after leaving the Enterprise?