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ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m pretty ambivalent about her, but I agree it was an interesting performance, particularly for a woman at that time in television.

She was horribly underused - it’s downright criminal that she doesn’t pay a significant role in “The Measure of a Man.”

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Deebster@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I watched that one last night and had the same thought - she’s been the face of nonacceptance towards Data and although Bruce Maddox is far more extreme in his views it seemed like a waste of her character building.

That said, they’d already shoehorned in a Guinan scene so I don’t know where they’d find the time.

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- milkisklim@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Could you please expand on what you mean by shoehorning in the Guinan scene? How would you handle it if you were the episode writer?
  
  Edit: to be clear, I know what shoehorning is, I just want to know why you think it occured here.
  
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  - Deebster@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I was referring to this trivia:
    
    Picard’s scene with Guinan was not in the original script. Melinda M. Snodgrass was told that they needed a “Ten-Forward” scene to accommodate Whoopi Goldberg coming in that week.
    
    I took it as true, although I had a quick go at finding where this claim came from and am drawing a blank
    
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    MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I think that scene was necessary. “Disposable people” was a powerful summary of the issue.
    
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    milkisklim@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Interesting and cool if true. Thanks!
    
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richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think obvious that she would have sided with Maddox and disagreed with the ruling. I don’t think her capable of overcoming her prejudices against artificial life forms.

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