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Alternate History in Star Trek part 6: The Birth of The Next Generation

Whenever I think of Up The Long Ladder, I think of a M0vie Blog review with a photo of a grim-faced O'Brien and the caption "I bet this was a fun shoot for Colm Meaney"

I can remember Roddenberry’s idea that the ship would need a space psychologist being relentlessly mocked in the 1990s, a criticism which (with more recent awareness of mental health issues) seems incredibly tone-deaf and idiotic.
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Lance Parkin's The Impossible Has Happened (which notes Troi gets quite a bit of focus in Farpoint) noted the other writers didn't like her character very much either, so there's two reasons getting her little to do except "CAPTAIN I SENSE THE FROWNY PERSON IS SAD".
 
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