What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Jayson1]

The follow-up "Galaxy's Child" also teaches Geordi and the audience the value of always clearing your browser history.

Thing is the program is not even a sex program. The episode did sort of cheat by just showing that one moment. If she actually watched the whole program through she would realize she was getting mad at him for no good reason. Granted she does know he has romantic feelings for her so it doesn't take a genius to understand how that and masturbating go hand in hand(pun intended.) but at the same time that stuff should be private. What people are masturbating to on the holodeck during their private time, is nobodies business.

 

[korblborp]

this episode and the barclay incident does raise some questions about ownership of your own likeness in the holodeck age

 

[Jayson1]

Especially in a society without a money. It's not like on Earth people are going to be buying sex programs designed around the likeness of Troi. No doubt a issue outside of the Federation for sure and we sort of saw that on DS9 when that alien wanted Quark to make him a Kira sex program. My theory is people are less prudes about this stuff so generally don't care to much about the idea their might be strangers masturbating to them. Might seem weird to have people in your life doing it but like with real life masturbation is isn't exactly something people would likely openly discuss.

I think the one hard rule though is people can't access nude images or real people. If you want to make that Troi sex program for example you will have to use a stock holographic body much like a sophisticated case of photo shopping. I would think the only people, who might have access to that info would be medical doctors who have had see their patients nude for medical treatments.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I think "Booby Trap" is fine. As Michael Piller put it, it's a story about a guy in love with his car.

"Galaxy's Child" has aged badly, mainly because when Leah Brahms is understandably creeped out by the fact that Geordi had a romantic interaction with a hologram based on her, Geordi gets indignant with her (his whole "I offered you friendship!" speech... ugh). Then by the end of the episode, she apologizes to him instead of the other way around, because he's a regular character and she isn't.

 

[kkt]

In some mirror universe

well, everything is opposite, so...

 

[fireproof78]

I think "Booby Trap" is fine. As Michael Piller put it, it's a story about a guy in love with his car.

"Galaxy's Child" has aged badly, mainly because when Leah Brahms is understandably creeped out by the fact that Geordi had a romantic interaction with a hologram based on her, Geordi gets indignant with her (his whole "I offered you friendship!" speech... ugh). Then by the end of the episode, she apologizes to him instead of the other way around, because he's a regular character and she isn't.

That's my biggest frustration. There's no real contrition on his part.

 

[Jayson1]

I think "Booby Trap" is fine. As Michael Piller put it, it's a story about a guy in love with his car.

"Galaxy's Child" has aged badly, mainly because when Leah Brahms is understandably creeped out by the fact that Geordi had a romantic interaction with a hologram based on her, Geordi gets indignant with her (his whole "I offered you friendship!" speech... ugh). Then by the end of the episode, she apologizes to him instead of the other way around, because he's a regular character and she isn't.

But that isn't even what happened. He didn't have a romance with the hologram. Maybe he found the hologram attractive but they were still just working to save the ship and then he turns it off at the end and I guess never went back. Also she was mad at him from the very start of the episode but it was always about the changes he did to her engine design and you know I think I would be pissed if someone came aboard and started insulting my job performance right from the very second they arrive.

Then she watches a holodeck recreation but apparently just the very end because all you do is have to push rewind to get the proper context of what happened. But in the end it really is a misunderstanding. It's a situation where you can see both sides and realize they were both kind of wrong. It should be noted that soon as she rejects his romantic dinner it's not like he continues to pursue her. They are no longer in conflict anymore until she takes the holodeck program out of context.

To me the episode is about the flaws of preconceived notions. Geordi has built up this idea of a women in his head based of a hologram program and assuming the real person will be just like the hologram. She also comes aboard expecting him to be this snobbish type. Someone who doesn't respect her work do to all the changes he has done to her engines while on the job. That bit where she expects him to make a argument about how she can't possibly understand his design changes because as a chief engineer he encounters things that someone like she can't possible understand y just working in lab situation. That is why my favorite scene is when Guinan sort of sets Geordi strait with visor comment. This scene.

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