reginald barclay, overlooked engineer

[JirinPanthosa]

I'm sure his job performance was a much greater factor. I doubt every single person on the ship is a great person to pal around with, but they at least can manage to get to work on time rather than dicking around in the holodeck.

It seems that his lateness is a result of them being hostile towards him rather than the other way around as Guinan senses.

GUINAN: If I felt that nobody wanted to be around me, I'd probably be late and nervous too.

I agree it's not very evolved of the crew. Picard makes up for it though. Highly immature of the rest of the crew if they really are so hostile towards crew members that just don't "fit in."

I do think they feed each other though. Maybe Barcalay got in the habit of thinking people wouldn't like him, so he started avoiding work, which made people not like him more.

This does raise an interesting discussion point. Does being 'evolved' mean accepting people's cultural differences or does it mean accepting *all* people's personal differences?

For example, you can say accept people for who they are, and thus you don't treat somebody badly just because of their religion or things like that. But what if somebody is intentionally doing something that makes your life more difficult? Like, if my neighbor is having loud parties at 3AM when I'm trying to sleep, then refuse to turn the music down when I ask them to, should I accept them for their differences or should I get ticked at them for being jerks?

If somebody is your coworker, and their lack of effort into their job is interfering with your ability to do yours, I think it is totally fair to judge them for it.

Although you could say then the evolved thing to do is to reach out to them like Geordi.

 

[MacLeod]

I'm sure his job performance was a much greater factor. I doubt every single person on the ship is a great person to pal around with, but they at least can manage to get to work on time rather than dicking around in the holodeck.

It seems that his lateness is a result of them being hostile towards him rather than the other way around as Guinan senses.

GUINAN: If I felt that nobody wanted to be around me, I'd probably be late and nervous too.

I agree it's not very evolved of the crew. Picard makes up for it though. Highly immature of the rest of the crew if they really are so hostile towards crew members that just don't "fit in."

I do think they feed each other though. Maybe Barcalay got in the habit of thinking people wouldn't like him, so he started avoiding work, which made people not like him more.

This does raise an interesting discussion point. Does being 'evolved' mean accepting people's cultural differences or does it mean accepting *all* people's personal differences?

For example, you can say accept people for who they are, and thus you don't treat somebody badly just because of their religion or things like that. But what if somebody is intentionally doing something that makes your life more difficult? Like, if my neighbor is having loud parties at 3AM when I'm trying to sleep, then refuse to turn the music down when I ask them to, should I accept them for their differences or should I get ticked at them for being jerks?

If somebody is your coworker, and their lack of effort into their job is interfering with your ability to do yours, I think it is totally fair to judge them for it.

Although you could say then the evolved thing to do is to reach out to them like Geordi.

Yes but in the case of noise, there might be laws which could be used.

 

[Makarov]

In this case it isn't a cultural difference but one crew member experiencing a problem. If they had reached out to him a little instead of getting pissed off they could have solved the problem sooner. Apparently he just sits in ten forward alone and no one interacts with him. It's just sad they had to be ordered to do it.

And I think that's the moral of the episode, since Picard lends him a hand instead of just judging his job performance.

 

[HIjol]

Wish I was a good graphic artist...would love to be able to render an A-Team Shuttle...wow!...and the first evildoer the Team faces is the hitherto unknown Son of Khan, Dhung...

 

[HIjol]

First Season Worf: "I ain't gettin' in no ship flown by no blind man!"


I'm telling you man - we need to make this happen. Who gets to be Face? Maybe Riker?

In my mind, because classic Face was portrayed by Dirk "Starbuck" Benedict, new face will switch genders and be played by Katie "Starbuck" Sackhoff.

...thinkin' Chris Pine for Face, but...

...and I am TOTALLY with you on this...it is fun to think about and design in our minds, but the good news/bad news of "StarTrek, the A-Team" is, it would completely sell...

 

[Mister Spock]

I really liked Barclay, he was a nice antidote to the more perfect Humans we see in the twenty-fourth century. It's nice to see somebody aboard Enterprise who can be clumsy, neurotic and shy.

 

[B.J.]

Wish I was a good graphic artist...would love to be able to render an A-Team Shuttle...wow!...and the first evildoer the Team faces is the hitherto unknown Son of Khan, Dhung...

*Ahem.*

Okay, it's a TOS shuttle, but I already had it made! (There are many more in this thread.)

 

[HIjol]

Admiral, you are excellent!...thank you!!!!!!

 

[trekshark]

I've said it before, so it's worth repeating here. I generally like Dwight Schultz' body of work as an actor. But I would have much rather preferred him returning as different characters, rather than always as Barclay. He could have been as versatile as Jeffrey Combs proved to be.

I like Barclay, but your idea of Schultz being like Combs and playing multiple distinct roles would have been good too

 

[trekshark]

What bothers me is not Barclay but the senior staff's reaction to him, especially Riker, Geordi, and even Wesley. They basically acted like a cadre of high school jocks picking on the awkward new kid because he wasn't as cool as them.

Wesley being in on it was the worst. He didn't exactly have an abundance of personality and social skills himself and if his mom wasn't cmo and his dad picard's dead best friend he would have been the one everyone picked on