Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars”
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 day agoit is weird that they did not introduce a trained psychiatrist/counselor
Ake did say the cadets had been attending counselling sessions, and that they weren’t working (actually, I think she said that they “weren’t enough”).
Maybe they could have included a scene or a montage of those ineffective settings - IIRC, the most comparable “classic” episodes, “Family” and “It’s Only A Paper Moon” showed them, however briefly.
buerviper@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah, I remember she said something to that effect, but it is a bit hard for me to believe that trained specialists in trauma therapy did not achieve anything, but Tilly with the power of drama did.
I am also not one of these specialists, but some methods used by Tilly seem… Counterproductive? Like cornering a traumatized young adult emotionally seems like it could backfire heavily.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 6 hours ago
I won’t pretend to be an expert, and I do hope that someone out there will get an actual therapist to guest on a podcast or soemthing to talk about the episode, but I do know that therapeutic confrontation is a real thing.