Most Offensive Star Trek Movies and Episodes

[Nightdiamond]

CRUSHER: Perhaps it is a human failing, but we are not accustomed to these kinds of changes. I can't keep up. How long will you have this host? What would the next one be? I can't live with that kind of uncertainty. Perhaps, someday, our ability to love won't be so limited.

Crusher claims her problem with the whole matter is an aversion to sudden and unexpected changes.

Imagine you're eating chocolate cake, your favorite food, and halfway through, it begins to taste like spicy chili. After drinking a glass of water, you begin to eat the chili, deciding you like it well enough, and it turns into a sour lemon, which makes your mouth pucker. You finish the lemon and three hours later, inside your digestive system, that food becomes a peanut butter sandwich, which you are deathly allergic to. Two minutes after getting treated for your allergic reaction, you're left with an aftertaste that reminds you of peppermint. What a roller coaster!

Compound that with the person who hosts the symbiont now having their own different personality, which may or may not assert itself to some degree or other, as well as the possibility that the combination of host and symbiont may produce an amalgam that is too different from the one you knew for you to handle.

I can almost see this. When you see what she's just went through, I can feel for the poor woman. Obviously that's some crazy stuff to go through.

In fact, is it possible that she accepted and wanted the female Odan on sight, and then worried about how long this one would last and then decided to end the relationship? It's possible, but I doubt it.

The problem really starts when after her talk with Troi, being with Odan/Riker, she seems to accept the idea of changes, and the new host arrives.

The key parts are when Beverly says "send him in" and she's smiling at first--the scene is almost saying she expected, even wanted the new host to be a male. Then when she sees it's a woman, her smile obviously disappears, she draws distant, and then finally gives Odan the breakup speech.

It looks like she's disappointed the host is a female, but her speech is about 'I don't know if I can keep up with the constant changes'.

Why not just be honest and say, "I'm sorry I thought you were going to be male"?

The show would never have her say something like that.

 

[Nyotarules]

I can't remember another TNG episode that had a guest starring cast that was predominantly, or exclusively, black. Of the 170+ TNG episodes and storylines, I wonder why the writers chose that particular story for that particular cast. The kidnapping (of Yar) plot seemed like it was playing on the stereotype of the black man lusting after and stealing the white man's woman.

I also wonder, of the 170+ TNG episodes, why there wasn't a few more episodes that featured a predominantly black cast in vastly different types of stories; and not for pc reasons, but merely for a change of pace.

The whole of Star Trek is sub consciously based on racial stereotyping, just swap the Terran privilege that the show promotes for the real racial privilege that exists in real life.

 

[Nyotarules]

Well, given that today's generation seems pretty thin skinned compared to previous ones, combined with Political Correctness run amok, I'd say that any and all episodes/movies would be considered offensive by some.

Yeah I really miss the days when the public and the media could openly and boldly abuse my racial origin and gender, or ignore my existence altogether. Happy days, bring back Jim and his crows!

 

[1001001]

Yeah I really miss the days when the public and the media could openly and boldly abuse my racial origin and gender, or ignore my existence altogether. Happy days, bring back Jim and his crows!

Dag Gummit!

 

[Nightdiamond]

Thin skins can run both ways. There were plenty of people back then too thinned skin to handle a simple 5 second interracial kiss. Otherwise it never would have been a "big deal" to begin with.

And after civilization as we knew it collapsed and then recovered, we found out it wasn't such big deal after all eh?

 

[Donny]

In "The Tholian Web", Uhura is tied down to a bed in sickbay because she claims to have seen the captain (which she did) but she is dismissed as crazy and under the effects of Tholian space. We see her in tears in sickbay, having not had any violent outbursts like the other men confined, but has been made to believe by McCoy that she is mad and may not recover in time. She is only released after three men see the captain for themselves. A sexist blight on an otherwise beloved episode.

 

[Jayson1]

In "The Tholian Web", Uhura is tied down to a bed in sickbay because she claims to have seen the captain (which she did) but she is dismissed as crazy and under the effects of Tholian space. We see her in tears in sickbay, having not had any violent outbursts like the other men confined, but has been made to believe by McCoy that she is mad and may not recover in time. She is only released after three men see the captain for themselves. A sexist blight on an otherwise beloved episode.

I don't recall the details but when she first saw the captain wasn't she the only one? Once others see him you can say that their might be something to the idea because it's not a hallucination from just a single person. Also did 2 people see him at the same time which also would be a good indication that he was indeed floating around in space.

Jason

 

[The Old Mixer]

Alright, guess I gotta show that I meant what I said.