The program where her speech runs looks suspiciously like Teletubbie land.
yar's epitaph speech, ridiculous in so many levels
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Hehehe. I always thought so!!
Bottomline this was a great episode - not the Trek by the numbers bermanized crap that comes in heavy doses S4-S7 and the rest of Modern Trek
The holodeck automatically edited out Yar's fond salutes to Singh (because he was killed off in "Lonely Among Us"), and to Sarah MacDougal (who presumably transferred after "The Naked Now") after Yar had recorded her speech.
Yar was outstanding in her field.
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Are you serious??
It was shite. I've seen daytime soaps that have had better acting. Everyone was over emotive and so over the top that nothing in that episode stuck out as qualitative, except the credit roll at the conclusion of that pathetic piece of flaccid tripe.
It wasn't GAY.. it was just stupid, cornball, idiotic, dumb... but not gay... I'm gay, I know gay, and it was not gay.
(or I probably could have acted like some and been insulted... after all it was an insensitive and non-enlightened thing to say)
... and that is where they left her... out standing in a field.
The most ridiculous part is that a twenty or so year old was Chief of Security of the Federation's flagship. She was too young, hotheaded and inexperienced to be in charge of the safety and security of a large crew and her captain.
Admittedly her final speech was a tad Jerry Bruckheimer-ish, but would we really have wanted it to be different? I for one needed specific closure and would probably have been a bit "meh?" if she had just been removed through an unsignificant death and just forgotten about. She was a key character after all so I don't think putting some extra effort into her final minutes on the show was a bad move, cheezy as parts of it may have been.
I agree, and also think it's funny that if they hadn't given her some closure and killed her like a redshirt of the week, then this board would be blasting the show because that was a lame move.
It looks like exactly what it was supposed to be: a disembodied representation of an idealized memorial background! Whew, say that 5 times really fast.
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If you were watching the episode in 1987 when it first aired, bracketed by the other season one episodes around it, you would probably not have noticed the cheezy acting and writing; it was in line with much of the scripts in episode one. (Just think back for a moment about episodes like 'Symbiosis', where Yar lectures Wesley about drugs).
But if you go back now and watch this episode in 2008, it's going to seem much worse now than it was then.
In reality, I feel it is actually one of the better season one episodes.
But if you go back now and watch this episode in 2008, it's going to seem much worse now than it was then.
In reality, I feel it is actually one of the better season one episodes.
Given the fact that YaR was chief of security and the possibilty of dying violently was always there .It was not silly.
Exactly!
Yar really got on my nerves. I wasn't disappointed when she was kicked off of the show. I think it was her voice that really got to me, and the way she made protocol sound ridiculous every time she opened her mouth. Her character was a butch, ripped, female chief of security, for which she tried to compensate by walking and talking like she wanted to have sex with everyone.
Agree 100%, including acting like she wanted to have sex with Picard in that one ep - it was like she was coming on to him. Is that the one with the Q Penalty Box? I don't remember. She was always on the verge of blubbering one minute, acting like a lesbian the next, then acting like a slut. Plus Crosby could not act. At all.
Concur.
... and that is where they left her... out standing in a field.
I must admit my sources. This was also the description of Ma and Pa Cant (Bjo Trimble and Kirk Allyn) in the hilarious "Superbman: The Other Movie".
