Great take. How many people who are not deaf or hard of hearing really read nonverbal communication as well as they do (excepting hearing kids raised in Deaf families).
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VindictiveJudge@startrek.website 8 months agoI suspect she never learned how to read faces or tell tones of voice apart, which is why has so many problems when her empathic powers are supressed. She can sense sarcasm through an opaque soundproof wall, so why would she need to know that people sound different when they’re being sarcastic?
StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 8 months ago
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The same episode also did show her in a session when she still had her powers. She was giving rote, generic advice to a crew member that was obviously not impressed.
The whole episode was her learning to do her job. Which is odd, the empathic power should have been a tool, just just something she say around with.
In conclusion, Troi is an underwhelming therapist, and that’s concerning since she’s on the flagship of the fleet.
whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I don’t think that any character got shittier writing than her, with the exception of maybe Yar’s death, and even then I think you still have to give it to Troi because she’s got many more episodes. But her episodes are the ones that are the most consistently bad. Data’s are mostly great, Worf’s also pretty solid, Geordi has some stinkers mostly because the only thing they could figure out to do with him is have him lust after an unavailable woman, Crusher only has a few that are hers and honorable mention for one of my bottom five TNG eps of all time, Sub Rosa, but Troi’s are pretty much all stinkers. The only one that I can think of off of the top of my head that I like is the one where she decides to take the command test.
SARGEx117@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeahhhhhh, historically, the original Treks just did NOT understand how to properly utilize FEEEMAALE characters, from the writers to ahem the producers. coughfuckbermancough
All the women in star trek could have been given fantastic roles and their own episodes here and there like the male cast get their own personalized episode… But they just weren’t given good material.
Mostly they were used as a prop, or an echo chamber to validate the protagonist of the episode.
FaeDrifter@midwest.social 8 months ago
TNG: awful writing for the women
DS9 and VOY: amazing writing, some of the best women characters in TV history
ENT: nosedive back to awful writing for women
DSC: awful writing for everyone
PIC: tiny bit of redemption for the women mistreated in TNG
LD&SNW: modern and consistently non-terronly writing
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Troi counselling with her powers: Suck it up lean to live without.
Troi counselling without her powers: I don’t know just get better or whatever… I’m a failure!
Ser_Salty@feddit.de 8 months ago
The Rules of Acquisition give more helpful advice than Troi
AnneBoleynTudor@startrek.website 8 months ago
Exploitation begins at home!!
Etterra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Her mom is an ambassador. Some things never change.