From: sweet@ug.cs.dal.ca (garth r sweet)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: troi
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:53:24 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Dean Adams (dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
>  >> The "I just want Troi brutally hurt, but she can stay in the show"
>  >You mean the new Picard maneuver, no, torture's to good for her.
>  >> The "I want Troi killed and she can never come back" committee.
>  >>  (For slightly better then wimps and/or fired TNG writers)
>  >HELL YES, DIEDIEDIEDIEDIE
>  >Cool, count me in on 4, 7, and 8.  Although I'm not thrilled with Dax,
> 
> Ugh... this is PATHETIC!  Troi happens to be one of the best and most
> interesting characters on the ship (and one of the "biggest" as well :).
> She has shown more growth and potential than any other character over
> the last couple of seasons.  Any kids who can't deal with an intelligent,
> attractive, interesting WOMAN should just go back to watching cartoons
> or wrestling or who knows what.  This "DIEDIEDIEDIEDIE" nonsense is
> totally ridiculous...
> 
> Dax and Kira are also very good!  Star Trek already lost one of their
> women characters, and Ro seems to be on hiatus, so the last thing they 
> need to do is lose another female.  The show is VASTLY more interesting 
> with them that it would be without them.  Troi especially provides a very 
> unique point of view.  People who are intimidated by her body or her 
> relationship and authority with Picard would probably just be better off
> watching Space Rangers.  :->
> 

	"Growth potential"..... Maybe she packed on a few pounds, but that's
the only growth I ever seen from Sirtis. The Troi character is totally 
useless, she never provides any information beyond the bleeding obvious
and those all too numerous episodes where Troi has/deals with a terrible
emotional issue are some of the worst episodes I've watched (IMHO). I'd
like to see a little more of this exploration of space they keep
talking about instead of the current trend of exploration of deep emotional
issues. Shake it up a little TNG writers, a little more cutting edge 
instead of gaping wound.

	As for being intimidated by her body, I think only the wrestlers
you mentioned would be intimidated by her body. Her good/poor looks have
nothing to do with why I and others would like to see Troi gone, you
concluding it's her body that causes all this makes me think it's you
who lusts for Troi as the women of your erotic dreams. Now my choice for
a good Startrek women to lust over is Dax, at least she doesn't have to
have the transporter beam set to "wide spread" to get her hips down to 
the surface. :-)

	As for Space Rangers I still haven't seen it yet, but I always
liked Battlestar Galatica so who knows if I'll like it. I wonder if
characters ever get scratched or die in the show? :-) 

	You sound like a *shutter* Wesley lover to me! 

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