Lwaxana is a treat every single time she’s on screen. And sometimes when she isn’t.
Best character in the entire franchise (OC)
Submitted 9 months ago by Corgana@startrek.website to risa@startrek.website
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A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Corgana@startrek.website 9 months ago
The best cold intro is:
“Counselor Deanna Troi, personal log, stardate 44805.3. My mother is on board.”
Empty corridor with Picard peeking around the corner
MelodiousFunk@startrek.website 9 months ago
We just watched that one last night after a week and a half of dealing with heavy shit that still isn’t done yet. Not really the episode I would have chosen to dip the toes back in after trauma, but that’s what was up next. Still a great ep.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The episode where she and Odo are trapped on the elevator is amazing.
kaitco@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I just watched that one for the first time the other day and it completely changed my mind on her. Just fantastic.
Corgana@startrek.website 9 months ago
It’s such a shame that the other Odo-Lwaxana episode (the one where she gets married) is the B-plot of “The Muse”.
flatplutosociety@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t love most Lwaxana episodes, but that one and Half a Life are wonderful.
Knitwear@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I had a mug custom made with her on it so I’m not fit to judge.
Does it help that I had Guinan put on other side? idk
Corgana@startrek.website 9 months ago
Damnit Jean-Luc, show us the damn mug!
kaitco@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’d like to see this mug, please.
Knitwear@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Why am I like this
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 9 months ago
On my very first watch of TNG, I was so annoyed the first couple of times I saw Lwaxana or Q dominate an episode, but by the end of the series I was cheering every time they showed up!
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
The Q farewell of Piccard Season 2 is the only redeeming quality of that entire season.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
She can be both. Sometimes the best character is the worst.
Corgana@startrek.website 9 months ago
I can see you still have a lot of growing up to do.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I dunno, I can like a character and think they’re the worst. It’s likely that I like them because they’re the worst.
sirblastalot@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
She’s a sex pest though, worse than Barclay.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s worse because she’s telepathic - she knows the advances are unwanted and makes people uncomfortable, and yet she does it anyway.
On top of that, she’s a very important Federation ambassador. People might feel pressured into keeping her happy.
I have a feeling that if she were of a different sex people would view her relentless unwanted sexual advances quite differently.
But I guess “man trying to avoid sexual advances of horny older woman” was seen as being a hilarious role reversal on 90s TV.
She did have some amazing scenes though. She can certainly act when she gets a serious scene.
sirblastalot@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
Love Majel Barret, hate Lwaxana.
Also, did we have this same conversation a couple weeks ago on telegram?
constantokra@lemmy.one 8 months ago
I interpret her interactions with Picard a little differently. He might think she’s a real pain in the ass, but I don’t think she’s actually being a sex pest, because they both know she knows there’s nothing there. He’s not going to be pressured into doing anything he’s not interested in, which is something she also knows, and they live in a world where that’s not OK anyway. It’s a game, and honestly, an extremely gifted and perceptive telepath could cause him any number of problems. This is a man whose experience with people being in his mind was from the Borg. She’s certainly found a way to come off as extremely harmless.
Doxin@yiffit.net 9 months ago
I feel like most people would agree she’s a terrible person. Makes for a great character in a tv show though because she shakes things up.
LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 9 months ago
Her demeaning of her daughter too, “little one”, grates. She’s a narcissist. Reminds me of someone in real life and I’ll never be able to get past it.
antidote101@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Partially negated by her telepathy. Theoretically she can ignore social boundaries as go by someone’s actual individual boundaries and hidden feelings.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 9 months ago
In other words she knows exactly how much she can violate people’s boundaries before they’ll be uncomfortable enough to do something about it.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
The episode featuring Kristen Dunst where Lwaxana falls into a coma, really gave a lot of color to that character.
Corgana@startrek.website 9 months ago
Yes, “Dark Page”. A top five TNG episode for me.
antidote101@lemmy.world 9 months ago
When I was a kid I hated her episodes, as an adult, I love them.
GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social 9 months ago
A lot of TNG episodes would have been shorter if she had Troi's job.
Picard: "These fishy-looking ambassadors arrived in hibernation."
Lwaxana: "They're not ambassadors, they're terrorists. They have a bomb."
Picard: "Thanks, L"
Security arrests fishy dudes
Roll credits
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 9 months ago
It honestly would have made more sense if Deanna Troi was a member of the diplomatic service instead of being the ship’s counselor.
It doesn’t make sense having the ship’s counselor do bridge duty when their time is best spent treating patients, but it does make sense having someone assist the captain by knowing the various treaties and international relations going on.