I love that video of her at whatever convention Q&A panel with LeVar, Gates, Michael, Sir Patrick, and Denise, and she is just completely piss drunk and going the fuck off for like 45 minutes about how women in Hollywood are underpaid while the leading men have "more money than God" (while staring directly at Patrick Stewart), while the rest of the panel look away sheepishly because Marina can't "just be normal" for one meet-and-greet. It was like if a train derailment could be beautiful and poignant. I'm a little surprised that she still got the Picard gig after that unbridled display of divorced aunt energy.

I guess what I'm saying is that I stan a Betazoid slay kween.

I mean, Troi is hot don't get me wrong, but she wasn't a bimbo either. She's quite competent in a variety of ways. She captains the fucking ship in one episode, during a crisis no less.

She was kinda both. If they'd been able to keep Denise Crosby as chief security officer, and Patrick Stewart had pulled the plug after Jean Luc went Borg, the show would have been absolutely dripping in Girl Power.

Its a bit of a shame that she, Crusher, and Whoopi Goldberg all had to play "Captain Whisperer" for the majority of the show's run. But it was a huge step up from the original series.

For as much as I admire Gene Roddenberry's utopian vision for Star Trek, that guy had some serious when it came to women. Many women who worked with him have stories about it. Kate Mulgrew even outright called him a misogynist.

I wish we could see the alternate-universe TNG where Sirtis successfully got the role of Tasha Yar like she originally auditioned for.

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