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Totality lasts for about 20 episodes (startrek.website)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is... Is this loss?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I dunno. Crusher wasn't the most well developed character on the show, either before or after. Pulaski was starting to come around to being an interesting character towards the end of the season, but got cut off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why did they cut her anyway? Dr. Pulaski really gave an air of "I've studied medicine, I know my shit", while Crusher always felt like "cheerleader that bought her way to a diploma"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Gates McFadden had issues with the producers behind the scenes. There's a lot of he-said-she-said going on, but suffice it to say that she spent season 2 doing a Broadway production for $400/week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYsemEvV3-Y

It'd be nice to think Star Trek is above the usual Hollywood bullshit, but you read about stuff like this and the experience of Terry Farrel or Grace Lee Whitney, and it's clear that it's in the muck with the rest of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That's about $50k/yr in today money

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

She has annoying levels of Mary Sue. "Oh, I just happen to be the Federation's foremost heart surgeon."

Virus that ages people? "Oh, I happen to be the Federation's top expert in viruses."

"Oh I just happen to have been involved with Riker's dad"

"Oh and I also performed 2 successful ocular implants so you don't need the visor, Geordi."

You can get away with giving a character one expertise better than everyone else in the universe, not 3.

It would be like if Geordi just happened the Federation's foremost expert on warp engines instead of having to learn from Lea Brahms. And happened to be the Federation's foremost expert on Cybernetics. And knew Riker's sister.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

So it's not "the loss" but it is a loss.

Losses all the way down, boys.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Every four panel comic ever is loss.