Hollow Pursuits

Not fitting in is hard enough. Not fitting in to the extent that it’s hurting your career while you escape into a holodeck fantasy needs some serious intervention. Lt. Barclay makes his debut this week as we put “Hollow Pursuits” into the Mission Log. Another issue is that given the problem is with the poor treatment of Barclay by others which makes him nervous, not wanted, and not listened to… because he is not wanted and not listened to the problem can’t be fixed nor should it be fixed by just addressing Barclay. He’s doing nothing wrong. He is putting in good input. They are ignoring him. They are insulting him. This causes him to feel dejected and begin to not care which results in slightly poor performance which are then, we can read between the lines to see that they are inflated. This being the case it should be falling more on Picard to be putting a stop to these things actively and reprimanding all those people involved, including Deana. As far as the relationship with Wes and Riker. You gotta remember Riker has taken on the role of Mentor at this point and can be seen as big brother/father figure in Wes’ life so it’s perfectly reasonable to assume Wes would be at ease and joke with Riker like that… which makes it all the worse that he spreads it around and other start doing it too. Deana not picking up on Barclay’s problems can be explained because the problem is coming from nervousness about how others are reacting to him, and not from an inherrent problem and in that specific case he’d be nervous about Deana thus it would be covered up by that as specific rather than general. great points..Yes, Riker sets a terrible example in this episode. Troi’s empathic nature seems very limited here. For a Romulan, seems like she can determine duplicity in negotiations, but w Barclay doesn’t feel his sexual attraction/embarrassment about fantasizing about her….great points! And there is at least 3 shifts so multiply that considering that Comm and Conn are officers are junior officers usually, but we have 2 specific for this flight so that’s 26 bridge officers. Voyager has a crew of 141… subtract those 26 and we have 114 left that could and would be non officers for the most part in military craft of modern day. So out of 1000 crew, at least 520 of them are officers… Further… the 250 Security crew probably have their own ranking system that they refer regardless of their federation rank. And the remain Operations and Engineering crew probably are just so surrounded by all the ranks they have their own coded equivalent ranking and its easier to just use the same rank names to not cause confusion. WoW! You really put some thought into this I am very impressed overall though I still think the balance or imbalance just is too much. Great analysis though!! I really think they need another doctor on board…2-3 even…then mid level clinician type…hahaha, still impressed w your numbers! But the reason, at least for Voyager, that there are so few doctors is because Voyager’s crew was for a police action and not a long journey or mission. The assumption was that they’d be back in dock within a few weeks and they need more of other crewmen for the particular activity they were doing so the doctors were only on board as protocol rather than seen as necessities. As far as how many should be on board, if I remember right, which I likely do, there is a ratio that is used for hospitals that pretty much gives the number of 20 people for 1 Doctor. Voyager had 140 crew so should have had a minimum of 7 doctors. Enterprise-D has around, iirc, 1000 crew which says they should have around 50 doctors. The funny thing is, at most, no ship I know of has had more than 3, if we count nurses, holograms, and assistants. You could also count the EMTs but they are never given names and are only ever on screen for like 6 seconds… and could be just scientists that really can’t be running experiments while the ship is being attacked or people are gettin