The Loss

The Enterprise is being dragged to its doom by two-dimensional creatures headed to a destructive cosmic string. Time with Counselor Troi might help us deal, but she has her own problems. She has lost her Betazoid emphatic abilities. Can she still function as ship’s counselor? And will everyone die before we know? Find out when we add The Loss to the Mission Log. Guys, the aristocratic thing is totally sexist. This whole episode is a lesson is negative female stereotypes. She’s the shrew. Her job could be done by anyone. She’s ‘overreacting’ whereas a man would have it written differently. Ooh cue you saying archetypes just as I’m typing that. This show expresses nothing so much as that the writers see women as more alien than aliens. Look at how the women are written. The bad mother. The needy mother. The widow. The nurturer. The sexual beings. The doctor does not have the gravitas and respect that Bones did. No women in the whole series are real people until Tasha comes back as the Romulan. And of course she’s just a guest star, who are the only women that get real roles. I would love a special at the end of the series about the basic systemic othering of women in the whole thing. With some feminist fans. Because it’s actually worse in some ways than the original. Ohura is often better written. (Key to why she is a poorly written Tasha Yar is the writers cannot get around her femaleness. Hence the terrible rape thing.) Deanna has PTSD and people just want her to walk it off Princess. People are telling her how to cope. It’s truly awful and abusive how they treat her. It is awful how she’s written. It is belittling how they treat women and grief. When Data had the emotion chip he was treated better than Deanna by the crew and the writers. Thank you for pointing this out. I totally missed this when I watched the episode last week, must of been tired, but you’re absolutely right. Her being aristocratic is because she is from an aristocratic society and being an aristocrat… That being said, she clearly doesn’t like that society and she should have reacted really badly to that, because she tries to fight it. I think saying Deana has PTSD is just dumb though. She doesn’t, not even in the slightest and you shouldn’t toss around serious illnesses like that when it is so far from what it is. Those types of things do harm to people who actually have those problems, but yes, she is treated awfully, largely because they treat her with kid gloves… which in all fairness, given how nutty she is might be perfectly in character for them to do towards her… if not for the fact that these people have all gone through Starfleet which means they’ve done some serious sensitivity training (as we have seen in Wesley’s academy test). What we see falls more in line with what feminists say you should do, which one of the reason feminists are horrible in general. That aside, if you were to thow in a male character in there you’d get a different treatment and that does make it sexist (for both males and females). The funny thing here though is that without even discussing sexism you can just point them towards the fact that you would not be treating a blind person this way if they lost their site/visor so why are they making that comparison…especially when there are episodes that have Laforge lose his visor v.v And yup. It is a real waste of a good treatment and idea. I would say it would be handled better today, but for whatever plus you get from her not regaining her telepathy by the end it’s balanced or made worse by todays standards that would cause all the bad bits about how they treat her that much worse with fewer balancing scenes such as how Riker treats her. I was crafting a thoughtful response to Durakken’s misguided statement and then read them say “one of the reason feminists are horrible in general.” Alas. You can’t argue with people like this….. I really felt the females in TNG, got shafted. Minimal fleshing out of characters and T