Up The Long Ladder is absurd.

[Trekker4747]

God this episode is just abusrd. Absurd as absurd can be.

It is the very definition of absurd.

Further by insulting generations of Irish folk.

 

[Vic Sixx]

Absurd but with some funny moments. I thought it was mostly meant as a comedic story.

 

[RoJoHen]

I can't even think of what episode this is.

 

[Mysterion]

Absurd but with some funny moments. I thought it was mostly meant as a comedic story.

Well, yes if by "comedic" you mean racist.

 

[Unicron]

I can't even think of what episode this is.

It's the one with the primitive society on one side, and the cloning society on the other.

 

[Trekker4747]

Absurd but with some funny moments. I thought it was mostly meant as a comedic story.

Well, yes if by "comedic" you mean racist.

I think you mean nationalist.

Considering the Irish are the same "race" as "us."

 

[Commander_Mills]

Still, that Rosalyn Landor as Brenna is definitely one of the more charming guest stars to grace TNG's stages...

 

[Augustus]

eh it wasn't THAT bad.... I just throw it into that gigantic pile of season 1 and 2 weirdness that was TNG

 

[The Old Mixer]

Kegek should be along any time, I imagine....His loathing for this episode is legendary.

 

[Bad Atom]

"Sometimes Number One, you just have to bow to the absurd."

 

[Red Ranger]

Still, that Rosalyn Landor as Brenna is definitely one of the more charming guest stars to grace TNG's stages...

I can't stand the ep, either, but I agree, Brenna was smoking hot! Lucky clone bastid gets to be with her! Aarrgg! -- RR

 

[The Old Mixer]

^IIRC, three lucky clone bastids got to be with her....

"Sometimes Number One, you just have to bow to the absurd."

A great early Picard moment.

 

[FalTorPan]

I hated how Riker and Company killed their own clones, seemingly based only on their aversion to the idea of being cloned.

 

[Forbin]

Rosalyn Landor saved the episode. Just by standing there.

 

[The Borg Queen]

Rosalyn Landor saved the episode. Just by standing there.

But did she have Ginormous Boobies?

 

[Evil_Kirkneivel]

eh it wasn't THAT bad.... I just throw it into that gigantic pile of season 1 and 2 weirdness that was TNG

That's right. It didn't seem as absurd when viewed amid the other season 2 episodes.

But as absurd as it is, it's still better than Voyager's Spirit Folk.

 

[Bacl]

It is weird how people seem to think it is acceptable to be racist against the Irish. They used to be targeted in our country in the same way Mexicans now are, ads for employment openly read 'Irish Need Not Apply' and they were looked on as little more than animals. Today we think it is innocent to hurl jokes about them, or to depict them here in an episode of Star Trek as the unevolved or uncivilzed colony. Chickens and hay and booze and ignorance and lustful wenches. Disgraceful.

 

[Tan Ru]

.....the same way Mexicans now are.

Puh-leeeeze..............

 

[RAMA]

God this episode is just abusrd. Absurd as absurd can be.

It is the very definition of absurd.

Further by insulting generations of Irish folk.

An episode the comes to the conclusion that two completely different types of people need to co-exist for their own benefit is racist and absurd?? Can you get more Trek than that?

RAMA

 

[Trekker4747]

God this episode is just abusrd. Absurd as absurd can be.

It is the very definition of absurd.

Further by insulting generations of Irish folk.

An episode the comes to the conclusion that two completely different types of people need to co-exist for their own benefit is racist and absurd?? Can you get more Trek than that?

RAMA

Well, I'm talking more about the execution of it. The message of it is fine and solid but could've done without all of the Irish stereotype absurdity.

The stong-willed woman yelling at and berating everyone, the drunk father, the farm-style life. It's not as offensive as "Spirit Folk" or "Fair Haven" or even Sub Rosa, but it seems to me that Trek, TNG at least, has something "against" the Irish considering how their potrayed in a number of episodes.

The people of the less devloped planet could've been potrayed without all of the absurd stereotypes.