Star Trek Confirms an Underrated TNG Crew Member Is Destined for Command

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• CeruleanRuin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I really would love for this community to implement tags of some kind. I couldn’t care less about what characters are doing in comics, and am getting a little tired of clickbaity headlines like this exploiting the ambiguity.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll edit the title.

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    • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re a cool dude, OP. I withdraw my griping. :)

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• ren@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  don’t understand Barclay stans.

  He was problematic AF and then when he did have confidence, he was always a bit of a dick. And he had the absolute worse combover in starfleet.

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  • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    His story arc in Voyager is pretty redeeming.

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    • ren@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, we just did a rewatch and I’m still… not a stan. He just gives me the heeby jeebies.

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  • Cobrachickenwing@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If Barclay can’t even command an away mission how is he going to command a starship?

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• Blamemeta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Crusher? Shes a doctor, not a captain

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  • dmonzel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “All Good Things…”? PIC S3? Hell, she was the ranking officer of the Enterprise-D in “Descent”.

    It wouldn’t shock me if the Federation had a fleet of medical ships captained by doctors.

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    • Blamemeta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Its a joke, jim

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• Treatyoself@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was reeeeeeaaaallly hoping for a Barclay cameo in Picard. Alas, poor Barclay never gets a break.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He got a lot in Voyager.

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  • askryan@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Barclay’s actor has become a truly odious person in real life –– I don’t think the TNG cast (Stewart in particular) would have agreed to have him on the show.

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    • ArrogantAnalyst@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, sadly that’s my impression as well. I really like his acting style and remember his especially for this scene. But it’s not easy to separate the artist from his art.

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• DrManhattan@lemmy.design ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Underrated? More like boring and uninspired character. She was almost as annoying as her son on the show.

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  • cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m watching the first season of TNG now with someone who’s never seen it before. That’s forced me to look at the series with fresh eyes. One thing that strikes me is that TNG took a lot of risks in the beginning to make a new kind of Star Trek. I see the Crushers as one. Some risks didn’t work out as well as others, but Star Trek overall benefited. IMO, it would edifying revisit Dr. Crusher and see more character growth like in Picard.

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    • transwarp@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wesley’s mom, a main character, was initially going to be the ship’s teacher. They shifted her over to the empty doctor position without changing much about her. Then they made a new teacher who was also changed to be a bridge character, as the ship’s pilot.

      While Riker and Troi are adapted from Decker and Ilea, Beverly was more extrapolated from yeomen Colt, Smith, and Rand.

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• SulaymanF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Command and medical are two separate tracks though. Would a captain of a hospital ship need a medical degree?

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  • CynicalStoic@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s true but I would think that the career path to captain would be more agnostic. Starfleet would benefit from having captains with tactical backgrounds, scientific. Backgrounds etc.

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  • DrChaotica@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same reason lots of school principals are former teachers, I guess?

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  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Probably not need but it would be helpful when determine where to apply what limited resources (time, staff, ship location) is most needed for a given mission

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• th_in_gs@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can’t quite imagine how the TNG -> Picard timeline for her works out given this, presuming this is meant to fit into the same timeline. Can someone who knows the comics universe lay it out?

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