Skipper, was Troy a psychotherapist too? Did you get the answer you needed, as yet?
Was Troy a psychotherapist too?
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I don't think there is a simple answer to that question.
It seems so. In Man of the People, when she asks the computer to run through her appointments for the morning, she receives this answer:
So it seems that she does a lot of "counseling sessions", and each lasts one hour or little less.
She often sees a crew member multiple times. These sessions seem the classical 80's/90's tv psychotherapy sessions. In The Nth Degree she congratulates Barclay on his progress (like a therapist).
So, If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably...
It seems so. In Man of the People, when she asks the computer to run through her appointments for the morning, she receives this answer:
So it seems that she does a lot of "counseling sessions", and each lasts one hour or little less.
She often sees a crew member multiple times. These sessions seem the classical 80's/90's tv psychotherapy sessions. In The Nth Degree she congratulates Barclay on his progress (like a therapist).
So, If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably...
Maybe she takes long pauses between sessions.
Well, usually IRL a “therapy hour” is 45 to 50 minutes.
She's a whiz at scheduling. Or maybe her receptionist is.
With her empathic abilities I am surprised that she needs all that time to figure things out.
She could just meet the person, read their mind or state of mind or whatever it is that she senses and give them a diagnostic immediately and then she could use the rest of the hour for whatever she wanted..
Well, she can sense if a person is distressed, but she don't know why. So they have to talk
She's probably not obliged to do 8 hour shifts on the bridge. She'd be only tapping her fingers on the rest most of the time anyway. She's summoned or appears on the bridge when she's needed.
As a lie detector.
Data and Geordie can both do that too.
People change colour when they lie to Geordie for ####s sake.
Data and Geordie can both do that too.
People change colour when they lie to Geordie for ####s sake.
I suspect her 'modus operandi' was to nudge the subjects along to realize their own neuroses in their own time, and then to gently suggest a form of treatment suited to them, rather than to blatantly call them out on their dimwittery and then send them the bill.
"Lieutenant Barclay, are you sure the problem isn't really that you're just a total basket case? Discuss."
Have you ever talked to dummies (anyone under 25) with really simple problems? If you tell them what is wrong, they get angry and say its more complicated than that, so instead you trick them into stumbling onto what their own problems are anyway by themselves with invisible guidance because they're too vain to call themselves an idiot who doesn't understand them.
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yeah, I was never under the impression that she was pulling shifts on the bridge in her capacity as ship's counselor
she later ostensibly may have pulled shifts after taking the Bridge Officer's Test, but that would be as duty officer
either way, I always assumed that she had quite a bit of leeway as head counselor to have her colleagues fill in for her when she was busy doing TV show bridge hero stuff
I always love it when he does that, somehow it always was more noticeable to me in the movies
"got bored you guys, oh what the shit is happening up here"
My first reaction was similar, that being: "The process of turning anyone into a Roddenberry Human would definitely screw them up. They'd need counseling, all right."
At least McCoy had a full staff to "assist" him.
McCoy: "What the hell's going on, Jim? Are we firing torpedoes?"
Kirk: "We're under attack. Maybe you should go to sickbay to help with any injured crewmates?"
McCoy: "Nah, Doctor M'Benga's got it covered. Besides, most of the injuries come from exploding consoles on the bridge."
Kirk: "Fair point."
Scotty: "Lads, it's my nephew. He's almost dead from the incoming volley of torpedoes. Look at how badly burned he is. He almost died on the lift up here from main engineering."
Kirk: "Why the hell did you bring him to the bridge?"
Scotty: "I figured McCoy would be here."
McCoy: "Fair point."
Spock: "Shouldn't you still be in engineering, Mr. Scott? We are under heavy attack and suffering major mechanical difficulties."
Scott: "I'll just take me old bridge station. DeSalle can take over engineering. Assuming he's still alive, of course."
It always gave me the impression that she had to endure the shift exactly like the other bridge officers. McCoy was on the bridge when something was happening (i.e. they were approaching a new planet). Troi was here even during normal cruising (then something interesting happened...)
