Starfleet’s top therapist when she loses emotion reading and actually has to do therapy: “Oh god, oh fuck.”
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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I suspect she never learned how to read faces or tell tones of voice apart, which is why has so many problems when her empathic powers are supressed. She can sense sarcasm through an opaque soundproof wall, so why would she need to know that people sound different when they're being sarcastic?
The same episode also did show her in a session when she still had her powers. She was giving rote, generic advice to a crew member that was obviously not impressed.
The whole episode was her learning to do her job. Which is odd, the empathic power should have been a tool, not just something she sat around with.
In conclusion, Troi is an underwhelming therapist, and that’s concerning since she’s on the flagship of the fleet.
I don't think that any character got shittier writing than her, with the exception of maybe Yar's death, and even then I think you still have to give it to Troi because she's got many more episodes. But her episodes are the ones that are the most consistently bad. Data's are mostly great, Worf's also pretty solid, Geordi has some stinkers mostly because the only thing they could figure out to do with him is have him lust after an unavailable woman, Crusher only has a few that are hers and honorable mention for one of my bottom five TNG eps of all time, Sub Rosa, but Troi's are pretty much all stinkers. The only one that I can think of off of the top of my head that I like is the one where she decides to take the command test.
Troi counselling with her powers: Suck it up lean to live without.
Troi counselling without her powers: I don't know just get better or whatever... I'm a failure!
The Rules of Acquisition give more helpful advice than Troi
Exploitation begins at home!!
Her mom is an ambassador. Some things never change.
Great take. How many people who are not deaf or hard of hearing really read nonverbal communication as well as they do (excepting hearing kids raised in Deaf families).
She's got plenty of practice with Reg
[off topic] In the comic version, evil Barclay was the most successful at infiltrating Star Fleet. People were so used to ignoring Reg that he could do just about anything.
Hot take - the Consoler is just the Federation's Political Officer.
Space communists need their space commissars... no rank, they exist parallel to the military structure as a bullwork against wrong think.
Yeah, I'd put the empathic mediator on the bridge too. Seems like it would give a massive advantage all the time.
I'm all for some bullwork but it's bulwark.
"She is here for your protection"
"I'm not stuck here with her. She's stuck here with me!"
"I am Captain Jean-Luc Picard, and these are the other two members of my non-sexual throuple."
"They've had it going on, I'm just stuck in the middle. Shit's awkward."
(Why have I never realized that until now.)
Guinan shoulda replaced Troi. She’s 1000% better at helping you solve your problems.
They should've had an episode where they go to the Mirror Universe and for the rest of the series Troi would be replaced by her mirrorverse counterpart which would basically be Marina Sirtis playing herself.
I'd assume the the Mirror Universe version of a counselor is a psychological torture expert; someone who can brainwash any subject.
That, or political commissar I imagine
Troi is there for the tiddies tho
Yeah but no one knows what she's all about. One moment she's on familiar terms with Q, the next she's popping up in 19th century San Francisco . Like who the heck is this bartender?
She's a near immortal. She was alive in the 19th Century and eventually met Picard later. She's a bartender because she likes people, and people talk in bars.
She's from Sting's home planet my dude
The Mad Man strategy
Stay back! Got a mad man here!
Woooooo Saaaaaaaaaa RUBS EARLOBES
Literal "HOLD ME BACK" energy.
Troi ends up stuck on the surface of Earth, and Picard ends up breaking his little ships?
That checks out.
the kraken strange holder
Like 10 seconds away from her in First Contact and he's down there with a Tommy Gun blazing away.
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You think this is a joke??
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