From: aaron@serss0 (aaron)
Subject: Re: Troi is capable of wearing a uniform (SPOILERS)
Reply-To: aaron@fiu.edu  (Stanley!)
Organization: StanleY! at Florida International University, Miami
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:14:49 GMT
Disclaimer: all comments are solely my remarks...

J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote: :
>[after unnecessarily quoting my entire post, Tony Perreault chooses not  
>to respond to the main point of the entire thread (restated at least  
>twice by me).  Instead, Tony Perreault chooses to say (yet again) the  
>same reason why Troi should wear non-uniform clothes (_any_ non-uniform  
>clothes) instead of a uniform]
>
>Please re-read previous messages in this thread to determine what has  
>been stated and what the question is.
>
	I am curious why you are so hostile-seeming about this.  Maybe it's
just frustration.  Well, I'll agree with you on the non-necessity of
repeating the entire post so uselessly as happened.  I'll endeavour to make
better use while I do.
	In actuality, I think he did -- albeit in a half-assed way --
respond to you, tho I also think he didn't follow his posting all the way
to its several logical conclusions.
	The reason My. Perreault gives for using non-uniform-standard wear
as Troi does is quite valid.  Several reasons for why she wears the same
thing over and over again could be as follows:
	1) Continuity.  We've come, as much as we do or do not like it, to
	identify Troi with that jumpsuit (numerous little appellations   
	such as 'Counselor Cleavage' come to mind . . .).  How much more so
	the crew?  That outfit, combined with the person in it, represents
	a picture of non-threatening stability.  Everyone knows who it is,
	instinctively one could almost say, and know that the person in
	that suit will give unalloyed help.  Now, an added element of
	change -- the different closes you wish to see -- may be
	differently appealing, but it doesn't have that aspect of
	continuity which I wager any psychology-type person will say is
	quite important in counselling.

	2) Comfort.  Much as it may not look like it, it is entirely
	possible that the good Counselor is actually comfortable in that
	uniform.  By my own experience, skin-tight clothes have a tendancy
	to be such so long as they are of the right make and materiel, and
	it occurs that if she uses it so regularily, this could certainly
	be the case.

	3) Vanity.  Much as she is the goody-two-shoes type, Troi also is a
	striking woman with an excellent figure, and the jumpsuit --
	whether for well or ill -- shows it off to good advantage.  Who is
	not to say that she doesn't wear it for reasons related to this, as
	well as others which I've mentioned?

	Of course, all this adds up to the possibility you mention, 4)
	Ratings.

> 
>What is interesting is just how few people seem to have any answer to  
>the question being asked (it just so happens, however, that of the  
>people with answers, these people and I reached the same answer).  It's  
>not a difficult question for those that can see what the goal of Troi's  
>usual attire really is.
> 
>-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
>

	Such negativity.  There are plenty of reasonings and
rationalisations one could come up with if one would but spend the time.
Of course, everyone knows that, in this day and age, it is a sad fact that
'sex sells', as the adage goes.  And this is probably (knowing Hollywood
and it's underlying bottom-line concerns) the case.  But don't let it blind
you, in a rage of moralising, to other possibilities.  The entire world is
not so unidealistic as all that, and those possibilities could indeed hold
true.

Hope I provided some interesting thought for you.

Regards,

Stanley!
aaron@fiu.edu