Pulaski Fans

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

Yup.

 

[BolianAuthor]

No. I don't dislike Pulaski, but I prefer Crusher.

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This is how I feel as well.

 

[Pemmer Harge]

I prefer Pulaski. She seemed like she had more personality and I liked it when she was in the spotlight in episodes like Elementary, Dear Data and Unnatural Selection.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

No. I don't dislike Pulaski, but I prefer Crusher.

I didn't care for here either.
She should have left the show like her LA Law character and fallen down a Turbo-lift shaft when it malfunctioned.

 

[CmndrSela318]

I prefer Pulaski. She seemed like she had more personality.

Pemmer Harge, you took the words right out of my mouth.
I don't care if people think her personality was McCoy-esque, at least she had a personality. I found Crusher boring and bland. Crusher could've used a personality transplant, in my opinion.
Spock, Saavik, Sela and 7 of 9 each had more personality.

 

[Anji]

I've always been a Pulaski fan. She was more believable as a CMO.

Also Diana Muldaur carried herself like a doctor. When she walked into a room, by the way she stood you knew she was someone important.

 

[Sybok]

i hate pulaski so much

crusher (i had the crusher crush as a kid), i wish they did more with her, there was a lot of potential drama with her, picard and the baggage of the dead husband

didnt like her kid though

 

[Tashabasha]

Crusher by far.

I actually can't watch Season 2 for fear of coming across Pulaski.

 

[ElBurro]

Couldn't stand either of them. I thought Pulaski was a bit of a bitch and that Crusher was too self centered

 

[Solarbaby]

If Polaski had been in it from the beginning I would have liked her. I didn't like her confrontationalism as a 13 year old viewer. In hind sight this was a good character and probably the most realistic one. I was fond of crusher though. I was glad when she came back season 3.

 

[Blamo]

I liked both, but yes Dr. Crusher was rather boring.

Couldn't stand either of them. I thought Pulaski was a bit of a bitch and that Crusher was too self centered

I don't know if I could describe her as self centred, simply because I don't think she had enough personality for it.

 

[ElBurro]

Self centered was the only word I could think of at the time but I don't think that's the right word. I think arrogant is a better choice. Like in Suspicions when she performs an autopsy on a Ferengi even though it goes against Ferengi culture.

I just always got the impression that she thought she knew best (okay, so she was right about Reyga'a death in Suspicions, but still...)

 

[el Chalupacabra]

Crusher by far.

I actually can't watch Season 2 for fear of coming across Pulaski.

+1, especially the episode with Riker's dad...and it turned out that he and Pulaski used to......well, let's not go there. Creepy!

Couldn't stand either of them. I thought Pulaski was a bit of a bitch and that Crusher was too self centered

No argument on Pulaski, especially towards Data, but Crusher was self-centered? in what way? IMHO, she was just there, kinda hangin' out and didn't do much.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

I posted this in another thread about season two.

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Also, I've long preferred Pulaski over Dr. Janice Rand ... um, Beverly Crusher. She also had an arc throughout the season, going from disliking and distrusting Data("The Child" and "Elementary, Dear Data") to being one of his biggest champions ("Peak Performance"). Moreover, she gave both Data and Picard something they were sorely lacking in season one — someone to challenge them.

Fans always seem to get into an uproar about how Pulaski treated Data in the early season two episodes. But that's precisely what the character needed. Characters, much like us real live counterparts, grow and learn when faced with opposition. Up until that point, Data had no opposition and was treated with kid gloves.

The same with Picard. "Encounter at Farpoint" set up Riker as that opposition for Picard, much like Decker was for Kirk in the first third of TMP. Another example is "Yesterday's Enterprise." I thought the dynamic between Riker and Picard in that alternate timeline was how it should've been in the "normal" timeline too.

But any potential conflict quickly fizzled in season one in favor of a father-son relationship that was to deferential.

Pulaski pushed Picard's shit in and challenged his decisions, taking up the role that should've been Riker's. She could also go toe-to-toe with him unlike Crusher. That's because Muldar was a better actress than McFadden, who came across as a shrill, yapping dog when Crusher had to confront anyone (guess Q was right in "True Q").

 

[ElBurro]

No argument on Pulaski, especially towards Data, but Crusher was self-centered? in what way? IMHO, she was just there, kinda hangin' out and didn't do much.

I corrected myself in another comment. I didn't mean self-centered, I meant arrogant

 

[el Chalupacabra]

Ok I see that, now Yeah she was, especially in the 1st season.

 

[braveheartlion]

I liked Pulaski better. But I didn't dislike Crusher. There was room for both. I like how Pulaski convincingly pushed Picard at times when she knew she was right.

 

[Blip]

Pulaski all the way. And although I agree that certain aspects of the character grated a bit, we were rewarded as we saw her change and develop throughout the season.

IMO we would have also seen an evolution from the "blatant McCoy ripoff" if we'd been allowed to see the character progress further.

The only time I particularly liked Crusher was in Descent and as "Beverly Picard" in AGT, and other rare moments when they gave her something decent to do. Maybe it would have been better if TPTB had kept Pulaski on as CMO and allowed McFadden to guest-star occasionally as Crusher in a similar command role. Who else wouldn't mind her being placed in charge of a medical ship a few decades early?

 

[PianoWizzy]

I probably would have liked Crusher a lot more if she got together with Picard but she kept backing off and was always the same, dull character.

I just re-watched Elementary, Dear Data again, and you know what, I think that despite her blows against Data I still like her. She's got spunk.

 

[nightwind1]

I liked Crusher (although she wasn't a great character), but I actively hated Pulaski. In my mind I always imagine she suffered an off-screen fate so brutal and horrific that they never spoke of it on screen.

What, falling down a turbolift shaft?