[ SECRET POST #1964 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1964 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 105 secrets from Secret Submission Post #281.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[aralias.livejournal.com]

I hated her in her early episodes BECAUSE she showed up and insulted my favourite character - Data. And indeed looking down the list of comments here, that's pretty much why people don't like her.

It was a mistake as a story arc, because of how beloved Data was, which is a shame, because I thought it was brilliant in execution. She's a great character - and she actually grows and changes over the course of the series, which no one else does. I love her asking Data to play against that arrogant guy - using his androidness as a positive factor and yet appealing to him as a human. That should have been the final episode of the series, because it really worked with the themes of the series. (It's also not an isolated incident of Puksaki liking and respecting Data in the latter half of the series).

She didnt bring as many issues/potential emotional plotlines with her as Beverley, which is a bit of a shame (although they weren't used to the full extent), but I found her (eventually - after my initial hate) to be a very interesting, compelling and amusing character

BUT,having said all that, I watched it all on DVD, so I didn't have nearly as much time to go 'why is this woman so awful? Why does she hate Data so much ARGH???' as people watching one-a-week.

[(Anonymous)]

Doesn't help that her first episode was that horrific space-orgasm-rape episode either. She was introduced in a really bad episode whose writing crapped all over Troi (back when she was an innocent bunny, not the bastard space-descendant of Sub-Lieutenant Phillips that she later became), then had the character act like a carbon clone of McCoy (the grumbling about transporters was what did it for me, it was too lazy a character-cloning device) with Data, and insulted and blew off Picard. Now I'm the least military type on the entire planet, but even I know you don't ignore the captain on his own damn ship, any captain (its one of the reasons I hated Riker during the episodes where Picard was a Cardassian prisoner, Riker just kept pissing all over the new captain because he had a different style of command).

So she came on and stoked up a lot of bad will in the process, and in those days of one-a-week (as you pointed out) it was a very different ball game. There were a lot less leaks and ancillary fandom stuff to ease an entrance on an awkward episode too. You made your judgement on the episode, and then had nothing to change your mind for a week at least.