I'm rethinking Geordie marrying Leah

[WarpCore]

Sooo...don't trust authority?

I suppose so. I wasn't thinking that while typing. I was thinking about how writers use incompetence in areas where it shouldn't be so prevalent to create plot and conflict. But there is some real world analog in the US military where anything above Major is a political appointment, not always strictly competence based.

I agree with you Data's treatment was pretty ridiculous in Ensigns of Command (such as Riker cutting him off with "You know these people. I don't. You're on your own", but feel free to point me to the admiral or other person throughout 7 seasons that would have made his job easier had they established a open comms to provide constant feedback. Maybe Nachayev? She wasn't much help to Picard. About all we ever see admirals accomplish in TNG is ferrying orders, hosting dinner parties, spreading mind control parasites, and violating treaties.

 

[Mojochi]

And this is another thing that drives me crazy. You have Data? So? Don't we need experts anymore? Does the Enterprise only carry the bare minimum to keep it running? And if for some reason Data is no longer available, is everyone suddenly lost because the only expert in all the subjects is no longer available and everyone else was deemed redundant?

Narratively, I completely understand why. You have one of the main characters who is an expert in just about everything, and you don't have to call in a guest star every time. In-Universe, it makes absolutely no sense, because Data doesn't have the gift of omnipresence and his primary job is to pilot the starship.

Well, he doesn't pilot, but point taken lol. I mean, he could though

In fact, I've often imagined whole swaths of crew waking up every morning, because I'm sure they do staff the D just like any other deep space vessel, but these poor sods just get up hoping Picard will call on them for their expertise, and while they're brushing their teeth, they're overcome with malaise, thinking "He'll probably just ask Data"

Honestly, every time I here Data say his last line in Tin Man, referring to how he's like Tam Elbrun, having found his most singularly worthwhile place in the universe...

Yes, Counselor, when Tin Man returned me to the Enterprise, I realized that this was where I belong.

I always finish his thought with "It's all of you being here that's irrelevant". He could probably just sit in engineering & operate the whole ship on his own... Not unlike how he is at the end of Night Terrors, when literally every crew member is ordered to bed. lol

 

[Skipper]

Well, at least in SNW there is an actual linguist...

 

[Mojochi]

Well, at least in SNW there is an actual linguist...

It's why I never really minded Kelvin Uhura falling into that specialty as well

 

[Guy Gardener]

Hmm?

Two people working in the same field.

One builds the most advanced star Ships, and the other flies the most advanced star ships.

Does Leah make star ships for Geordie?

Did he lean over her shoulder in bed, and "help" put the Sovereign class together?

Then he retires.

Maybe he retired to raise their children?

Maybe he had to retire because her job on Earth was more vital to the Federation?

Or did he trip over his own face, violating the top secret nature of her work, forcing his termination from Star Fleet?

 

[Mres_was_framed!]

because it's reading Geordi, & endeavoring to meet his needs...that when his guard is down made him susceptible

I think that looking at it that way makes both "Booby Trap," and "Galaxy's Child" better episodes. It adds a level of serialization and puts Geordi in a position of, for sure, not having caused the awkwardness. It still does not solve the fact that he could have saved a lot of trouble if he had just told Leah, upfront, the whole truth, but some of that can still be marked up to his struggling to socialize in this viewpoint.

And if for some reason Data is no longer available, is everyone suddenly lost because the only expert in all the subjects is no longer available and everyone else was deemed redundant

I think you described the world that Maddox would have created in "Measure of a Man," had Starfleet JAG only gone in a different direction...glad they decided against that.

 

[WarpCore]

Well, he doesn't pilot, but point taken lol. I mean, he could though

In fact, I've often imagined whole swaths of crew waking up every morning, because I'm sure they do staff the D just like any other deep space vessel, but these poor sods just get up hoping Picard will call on them for their expertise, and while they're brushing their teeth, they're overcome with malaise, thinking "He'll probably just ask Data"

Honestly, every time I here Data say his last line in Tin Man, referring to how he's like Tam Elbrun, having found his most singularly worthwhile place in the universe...

I always finish his thought with "It's all of you being here that's irrelevant". He could probably just sit in engineering & operate the whole ship on his own... Not unlike how he is at the end of Night Terrors, when literally every crew member is ordered to bed. lol

Or they get frustrated that they're being picked for an away mission that's interfering with their hobbies.