This might be my biggest TNG complaint. The character and the actor are good (or at least decent if we’re being picky), but almost every time the focus is on her, the writing is absolutely awful.
Even the episode where she is forced to take command when the Enterprise was disabled managed to be more about how showing Laren is a callous asshole than that Deanna was capable of command decisions.
This might be my biggest TNG complaint. The character and the actor are good (or at least decent if we’re being picky), but almost every time the focus is on her, the writing is absolutely awful.
Even the episode where she is forced to take command when the Enterprise was disabled managed to be more about how showing Laren is a callous asshole than that Deanna was capable of command decisions.
You needed Miles and Laren to play off each other and give Deanna options to consider.
The episode also led to an interesting B plot in a future episode about Deanna becoming a commander.