I love her. She’s the queen of TMI during Q&A’s. Like when she casually dropped that before she met her now husband, she “slept” with just about every single guest star. What a legend.
“Not just the men, but the women and…”
SHUT UP WESLEY
Wesley: “Did he just tell me to shut up?”
Dr. Crusher: “Shut up Wesley.”
Cmdr William T Riker enters the chat
Guest star. So william didnt get any.
Thomas however…
Does “slept” have yet another meaning, or were they all just playing make-believe?
In many English speaking places, “slept with” is an old euphemism for sex.
I always assumed it was because the couple stereotypically spent the night together and This way you can supposedly “preserve the innocence” of people who don’t know.
Yes, that’s one of the already-existing meanings I alluded to in my comment. It’s also never written with quotation marks.
I was starting to forget why I have you tagged “Insufferable Pedant” in Voyager. Thanks for the refresher.
I never use the tag. Anyone annoying enough that I want to remember not to engage with them, I just default to blocking. Do they post good content or something?
They’re just unintentionally funny. I also block most, but instead keep this one and a few others tagged for amusement.
Edit: also for watching their cumulative vote score build over time. They’re at -20 as of today.
Sometimes I want to see others give them shit in the answers. If I block them, those are gone as well.
Yeah, how dare I ask for clarification.
Haha, okay. DARVO much?
Sure, Jan.
Yeah would be better if she just said she fucked everyone, damn people these days with their lack of clarity. Argh!
So what’s your point and how did you meaningfully contribute to the conversation by essentially asking what it means to sleep with someone and then saying you know what it means to sleep with someone, while somehow having an undeserved air of superiority?
They’re being a bit prickly about it, but using quotes like that certainly implied to me as reader that it was meaning a suggestive usage, which doesn’t make sense since the plaintext version already means fucking. I mean I understood their meaning and realized they were just unnecessary quotation marks quickly, but I also at first wondered if there was some sort of third meaning beyond rest or sex that was being suggested by the marks, so I kind of feel like the reaction to them here is a bit overblown.
never
Sorry, I’m confused. Weren’t we talking about human language here, or are you using “never” figuratively?
(The quotation marks here are referring to acual quotation of the word you used, not a standard feature of the way the word is normally written or an indicator of some alternate meaning. I’m spelling this out because just in case you’re unaware of that usage of quotation marks, which frequently occurs in the context of quoting someone. Unless you’re literally asserting that the word “slept” is never quoted, “never” is a strong word to use.)
“Gene Roddenberry’s vision” was usually an upskirt shot.
Which wasn’t helped by Berman.
God I remember reruns of TOS on G4 where they would have like a side panel with counters for things that happened in the episode. “Spock says illogical” “Uhura panty shot”
I guess the one thing we “missed out on” (I say this sarcastically) is that the teardowns of screen-worn skants indicate that there’s kind of a half-underwear thing there.
The way that the TOS uniforms “worked” is that they seem to have just declared the Space Cheerleader Shorts as clothing instead of just underwear in much the same way that actual cheerleaders have and therefore it’s totally OK for the ladies to kick or crawl around in such a way to expose the Space Cheerleader Shorts.
And, like … damn, people. I thought that a fanservice-y 90s anime aimed at teenage boys had a lot of upskirt, then I watched TOS reruns.
But, because it was very quickly relegated to background characters only, we’ll never know if the skants were hiding a genuine advance in upskirt technology and only have Marina’s word to go on that they probably … weren’t.
Which, well, I think mostly I just wanted to say “genuine advance in upskirt technology” and so therefore I think it’s OK that the skants didn’t get used more in TNG.
Captain Jellico’s “put on a real uniform” command was written in at Marina’s request.
Smart move. Even by 1989’s standards and fashions, some of the costumes they put her in were hideous.
I’m quite fond of the long dress she got for one season. I’m sure it was hell as a costume, but I thought it looked tasteful. I also have the idea that the psychological/psychiatric lead on the ship ought to look somewhat “different” when she’s working. Her uniform should be more casual, because her role is one where you want people to be able to get away from the structure, and to trust her confidentiality. The catsuits were dumb, and the Farpoint / S1 miniskirt was scandalous. but I did like the full-length dress.
Pretty much every “show off the attractive female main character” outfit that they’ve invented for Trek has not worked for me. Troi’s outfits, Seven’s outfits, T’pol’s outfits… I think that actually the only exception is the Farpoint miniskirt and even then it just looks attractive but I don’t like what it meant for Troi’s brains so all things being equal I actually like her the most in the standard uniform jumpsuit which is, quite frankly, already designed to make people look good.
Now that we’re decades away from the show and everybody involved has been interviewed a bunch of times, what I actually wish we could have seen was Troi as the diplomatic counselor instead of the vague psychological lead / poorly utilized character that we got. Because if she was the ship’s therapist the long dress would work because it is tasteful and different yet still professional, but then we’d not be seeing her on the bridge the way we did.
I’ve posted this before.
My head canon is that when a new civilization joins the Federation, they get to pick the new Starfleet uniforms. The Betazeds gave us the TOS miniskirts.
I approve.
You’re a better man (I assume) than me. My young self very much appreciated Sevens outfit back in the day. Although I have to admit, the episode where she travels back in time to the Voyager in dry dock and wears the science uniform plus a ponytail was also a great look for her.
I don’t think I’d categorize that as “better” just pickier about wardrobe?
Then again, at least later on in life I’m a boudoir and fine art photographer so all of that concentrated miniskirt vs catsuit energy went somewhere more positive than … wherever Berman went with it, LOL.
That’s a low bar if I’ve ever seen one :D
It may be an unpopular opinion, but I think she looked way cooler in uniform.
It’s a popular opinion. She looks WAY better. Hotter, too, which shows how dumb Berman is.
Rehabilitated!
Agreed, the ‘sexy’ outfits were pretty dumb.
As a female friend pointed out to me: “and you never see her panty line.”
“Dress was so short that you could see what I had for breakfast” is such an amazing turn of words
I’m immediately imagining the South Park episode where Paris Hilton sits on the pineapple.
My teenage self had no complaints about Troi’s uniforms.
Tf are you still listening to that hormonal idiot, it’s been over 30 years
I have to listen to my teenage self if I want to have any chance of getting him to listen to me!
None? He lacked inagination!
Even back then I thought she looked like she was freezing.
I mean yeah… It’s cold in space.
There’s no kind of atmosphere 🎶
We’re all alone, more or less
Let me fly, far away from here,
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In fact it’s cold as h*ll
And it’s a long road.
Based Jellico.
I’ve seen so many meme edits of this scene that I was waiting for the reveal, lol.
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Aw, he should have let her keep that one!
I still love how Jellico’s changes were all just stealth excuses for cast requests.
That being said, a four shift rotation is absurd.
They had to give Riker a reason to hate his guts to hell and back. And forcing him to organize and force his staff to do four shift rotations with no justification was pretty brilliant as a motivation.
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In the first season that dress was also worn by men… How woke…
But crucially, not by anyone in the main male cast. They threw a few skants on to a couple of male extras to forestall accusations of sexism. A figurative (and and near literal) figleaf.
Frankly, a unisex, utilitarian kilt would probably have worked a lot better for gals and guys, but someone got greedy for “underbutt” and ended up with an outfit so disliked that it was quickly phased out.
We just needed more men in the knee-high boots
More like grasping at anything to be progressive.
It was transparent at the time, kinda cringey actually.
At least ToS focused more on the Greek morality play part, though it had cringe transparent moments too.
There’s a fine line between exploring ideas and preaching, so I tend to give them some leeway - but damn if TnG didn’t rub me the wrong way from the start with the stupid costumes.
Fair take. Trying to include a moral lesson is like walking a tightrope: it’s cool when it feels like a natural part of the story or world-building, but it’s sooo cringy when it feels like a direct lecture from the writers to you.
TNG does get more subtle, but it also does have occasional moments that practically feel like He-Man turning to camera at the end of the show to tell you why drugs are bad or crime doesn’t pay.
The “drugs are bad” speech from Symbiosis is cringey-funny. But then you get the terrorism conversation from The High Ground that makes you expect another cringe speech, but then it gets really good and controversial, all of a sudden. TNG S3 is the season with the best writing!
Yeah, I’ll take a handful of eye rolls for seasons and seasons of some of the best TV ever. (I may be a tad biased)
The fact that you’re triggered by this says a lot.
I love Marina but her character was so poorly written that Guinom (Goldberg’s character) did Troi’s job as counselor better than Troi ever could. Poor woman’s entire role in the show was to be tortured and objectified while her character primary love interest shagged his way across the galaxy, Crusher probably got an award for her work during all his alien STDs.
Guinom
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Possibly her best scene was in Enterprise, where during an appointment with Data you see that her PADD says “top beach destinations”.
It wasn’t just the dress, it was those knee-high boots that made critics call her an intergalactic cheerleader.
Does Twitter or whatever have a La Forge emoji or something?
I think it’s added in because of the hashtag, unfortunately not an emoji you can use whenever you want
Hmm, yeah, it is probably some browser extension or something that added it to that screenshot. It is definitely not present in the original post
The mystery deepens!
Slack has one. :geordi-laforge: so it wouldn’t surprise me if twitter does too.
Didn’t they revamp the uniforms after season one because they were horribly uncomfortable?
IIRC from interviews that the uniforms remained generally uncomfortable. They were very stiff, and led to the famous “Picard Maneuver.” Sirtis’ uniform was changed to get rid of the dated “Cosmic Cheerleader” outfit. IMO her character’s early uniform was more in line with ToS’s making women on the Enterprise more “hot chick” than officer.
There are far too many people in here with this I didn’t have a problem with it kinda energy
I want the starfleet unisex dress
