Man of the People

Ambassador Alkar is a guest aboard the Enterprise while en route to negotiate a peace treaty. When he shows up, Deanna Troi starts doing things she doesn’t normally do: showing a bit more skin, lashing out in a jealous rage, and stabbing Captain Picard. Could this all be related? Man of the People joins us this week on Mission Log. Any one else notice in the prologue that Data’s pips are on in reverse order? The open pip should be toward the back, but it’s up front. Woops. From back of collar down to front (under chin): Closed, Closed, Open. I doubt that’s the film. 🙂 Reversed film would’ve put his communicator on the wrong side. Couldn’t really fix that in post in ’92! Riker should’ve run far away from the rest of this episode and made a break for Sanctuary. Or maybe he did, and he’s the old bearded guy with the cats. One of the WORST episodes of Star Trek TNG…really, I loved Troi’s cleavage as much as the next 19 year old guy, but really, it was inexcusable to crank out this steaming turd in season six…yuck. It took aspects from sooooOOooOO many episodes and mashed them together for this drek. handsome negotiator/ ambassador “Loud as a Whisper” “The Price”- psychic assault….”Violations” “The Survivors” – poor judgment Troi “The Masterpiece Society”- although in fairness, she didn’t know hanging out w Akar was a bad idea…- ennnh aaaannnyway. This title on my VHS collection of tv recorded TNG, pretty much never got replayed…unless it was on the way to the episode after it, in which class, I was tidying up the house using TNG as background noise…. One of the negative emotions he’s obviously channeling is his vanity, so the apparent love they feel for him is his own love of self. And then he spurns that because he finds it repellent in himself. If it’s a tough job that takes a toll on him, has he considered anti depressants? I bet they’ve got some really good ones by the 24th century. Almost certainly better than drinking, taking it out on your kids or dumping your emotions on someone else with the help of magic rocks. High five for making an excellent, excellent point. TNG and later Trek series ride the “only Nixon could go to China” horse really hard: great pains are taken to make sure everyone knows Riker is Odan in “The Host”. Sarek’s aide, Sakkath, can only very quietly ask about Picard’s diplomatic history with Data, but dares not speak openly about why he’s asking. And we can only assume that the various heads-up-their-own-backsides ambassadors and commissioners in TOS were keeping their jobs solely by virtue of the same tendency in thinking, because it definitely wasn’t on account of their sparkling personalities. Is anyone else surprised he didn’t take advantage of her…? just sayin’…. Riker’s face prior to seeing seductive Troi was priceless! like “Oh, yeah..I’m gonna get lucky!…oh wait…doh!” any of the guys, who drooled over Troi when they were teens, (I was 17-19) Class of 1990, think about how we are now older than her in these episodes..this is 1992, so she was 37 here! Just funny to think about it…. This would be me on the holodeck, lol. John and Ken’s interview with Sirtis was cute when she said she quite enjoyed the attention of the fans as a sexy gal. Another messing with Troi episode, ugh. Seriously, we need a counselor’s counselor. Kinda goes back to my earlier comments about whether Deanna is the only counselor on ship, or if she has staff under her the same way Beverly does. In real clinical psychological practice today, psychologists have to be examined and vetted by another psychologist at least once a year in order to keep their licenses. As often as the Enterprise crew have their heads turned inside out by Outside Influences, you’d think it’d probably be once a month. Or maybe she goes to the holodeck and checks herself against a holographic shrink… actually, that can’t be the case, because if the holodeck could do that, why is she there at all? The morph at the end may be smooth, sure, b