This is one of the oddest, but greatest, "charcter quirks" MT probably introduced. And her eating the fudge sundae at the front of "The Game" is pretty damn sensual!
Troi's love of chocolate...
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A woman! Who loves chocolate! Now that's out of left field!
(Sorry for being so prickish, Trekker, but, I mean, really, the only thing more cliched would have been to have her constantly shoe-shopping.)
(Sorry for being so prickish, Trekker, but, I mean, really, the only thing more cliched would have been to have her constantly shoe-shopping.)
She did seem to have quite a wardrobe, since Tasha was pawing through it while high on the Tsiolkovsky virus.
:thumbsup: I love it! Although I wouldn't call it odd only because most of the women I know (including myself) have a special love for chocolate. That delightful piece of canon has provided me with a great amount of fodder for my fanfiction stories.
That is one of my favorite scenes. It's right up there with Vash perched in Picard's command chair sensuously stroking the control panels on the armrests during Qpid. Both scenes remind me of one of my favorite quotes from TOS, "Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed -- but a woman is always a woman." -- Captain James T. Kirk, 'The Conscience of the King'
Warmest Wishes,
Whoa Nellie
Quick, what was Carol Hathaway's favorite food? Did Annie Hall prefer tea or coffee? Wait, Blanche Dubois should be an easy one, since she's such a neurotically exaggerated specimen of "feminity" - so, how many pair of shoes did she own?
There may be answers to those questions, but they're trivia about the characters rather than anything essential.
Point being that assigning these quirks to characters as if they're significant is "funny hat" characterization. A character who's memorable mainly for always tugging his left ear - or the front of his Starfleet tunic - before speaking is the very opposite of an example of good characterization.
There may be answers to those questions, but they're trivia about the characters rather than anything essential.
Point being that assigning these quirks to characters as if they're significant is "funny hat" characterization. A character who's memorable mainly for always tugging his left ear - or the front of his Starfleet tunic - before speaking is the very opposite of an example of good characterization.
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It's interesting how these 'character quirks' became a way for later Trek writers to make it easier for audiences to relate to their characters. Or to try to make it easier, anyway.
Which is why, at times, it appeared as if everyone in the 24th century was fond of 20th century pop culture.
I think this inane practice should have a name. Something that properly indicates its significance compared to tried and true concepts like the 'Maguffin'.
Which is why, at times, it appeared as if everyone in the 24th century was fond of 20th century pop culture.
I think this inane practice should have a name. Something that properly indicates its significance compared to tried and true concepts like the 'Maguffin'.
As I recall the ambassadors were trying to experience different facets of human emotion and the one attached to Troi was pleasure. I think the idea was to see how far they could push their host until they broke. So it wasn't so much he was "more insane about than her" he was going out of his way to see if he could push her so far over the edge she'd stop enjoying it, atleast for a while.
Worf was saddled with a guy who was constantly trying to piss Worf off culminating into Work plaming the guy and kicking the crap out of him.
And Picard was saddled with one posing as a woman crashed on a barely hospitalbe world to experience love. One wonders how far that guy would've gone in HIS experiment.
As for character quirks... I think it helps make characters more real. Riker's love of jazz, Beverly's love of dancing, Troi's of chocolate, Picard (inexplicably) of 20th Century American noir, and Worf (to a humorous degree) of wooden ship building and baking cakes!
I think little touches like this made the characters more real.Granted, though, Voyager blew it up into the cliche of "it's always been a hobby of mine" and had their characters conviently into whatever paticular odd thing cropped up every week. (Granted, certain things were established early on and held on to. But it seemed like many of Voyager's crew were renissance men and into just about everything and only mentioned it when there was an episode about it.)
Picard's love of archeology, for example, wasn't just sprung on us for the sake of having an episode written about it (The Chase) it was something introduce fairly early in the series and not for the sake of the plot but for the sake of giving his character a bit more depth.
"Beatlemania."
Trekker4747 said:
As for character quirks... I think it helps make characters more real. Riker's love of jazz, Beverly's love of dancing, Troi's of chocolate, Picard (inexplicably) of 20th Century American noir, and Worf (to a humorous degree) of wooden ship building and baking cakes!
:thumbsup: I agree. Well said.
Warmest Wishes,
Whoa Nellie
I have a friend you should meet. His love of chocolate is so great he can tell the difference between Nestle's and Hershey's blindfolded. He drinks at least 3 glasses of chocolate Ovaltine a day. Once while eating at a restaurant he had, no joke, 15 glasses of chocolate milk, the waiter just gave us the jug of Hershey's chocolate syrup and a gallon of milk (They did have free refills on chocolate milk, but when we came back about a month later they had stopped it). He lives on chocolate.
Adagio said:
He sounds like a blast at parties.
Sounds like he has a face like the surface of the moon.
Adagio said:
He sounds like a blast at parties.
He is. He's a great piano player and tells funny stories and does very good imitations of famous people, cartoon characters and friends. He is the life of the party.
Nope not at all, very good skin. Besides it's an urban myth about chocolate and acne.
Yeah, I know.
It was a joke. You were supposed to laugh.
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