"Their blind spot is revealed in the fact that a Black man never was successful at one of the basic and most [having a love interest]"
Uh, pretty sure black Worf got it on with Deanna in at least several timelines, he even married her.
Basically none of the characters got into an actual recurring relationship in the show because it was episodic. After every episode ends they reset back to their same basic character and role.
Geordi's real problem is that when they gave him a romantic interest in Booby Trap, the actor couldn't pull off the part without perving on Leah Brahms and the audience didn't want to see that. It's a hard episode to watch because of LeVar's acting, whereas the Worf ménage à Deanna is fine.
LaForge was supposed to be the "socially awkward engineer" trope and therefore awkward around romantic interests. Taken to 11 with the Reginald Barclay character who just decided to fuck reproductions of his romantic interests in the holodeck.
I haven't seen the episode in a while but it seems like you're just repeating some feminist trope.
My recollection was the problem was they wrote her as semi-austic girl, but then they cast her as "perfect girl anime love interest" - the reason was super awkward to watch was the contrast between how her character had poor ability to relate to men vastly over-reacted to everything, while the actress playing her came across "perfect sex nympthet" basically - it just didn't make any sense.
No one had a problem with riker having a holodeck wafu.
You know...you got a point there. TNG was inconsistent with what was considered "bad" in similar circumstances from episode to episode. I would attribute this to the fact ST was written by many different writers, sometimes even just spec scripts, so things like characterization and values tend to be a little shaky. But nobody was thinking too hard about minute continuity back then.
Could you be thinking of Wesley and Robin Lefler played by Ashley Judd? She was a perfect sex nymphette and sciency -- but even Wil Wheaton played the role slightly better than LeVar lol.
I guess ultimately my point here is there are different qualities of actor. With the exception Patrick Stewart and a handful of others, nobody in the show was actually a good actor. So LeVar being incapable of pulling off a romantic scene without turning off the audience isn't because of him being a victim of 'racist' writers, that's how he is in real life.
Like if he was explaining a warp bubble, took off his visor, and said "but you don't have to take my word for it" ba-dum-bum you'd think it was a perfectly natural crossover episode with Reading Rainbow.
It's like a weird form of disparate impact theory. If you portray the Black character as a loser in romance, you're implying that Black people are losers.
"Their blind spot is revealed in the fact that a Black man never was successful at one of the basic and most [having a love interest]"
Uh, pretty sure black Worf got it on with Deanna in at least several timelines, he even married her.
Basically none of the characters got into an actual recurring relationship in the show because it was episodic. After every episode ends they reset back to their same basic character and role.
Geordi's real problem is that when they gave him a romantic interest in Booby Trap, the actor couldn't pull off the part without perving on Leah Brahms and the audience didn't want to see that. It's a hard episode to watch because of LeVar's acting, whereas the Worf ménage à Deanna is fine.
LaForge was supposed to be the "socially awkward engineer" trope and therefore awkward around romantic interests. Taken to 11 with the Reginald Barclay character who just decided to fuck reproductions of his romantic interests in the holodeck.
Difference is Dwight Schultz actually played a socially awkward engineer, LeVar played a creepy perv.
Barclay you feel bad for the character, Geordi you feel bad for the actress.
I haven't seen the episode in a while but it seems like you're just repeating some feminist trope.
My recollection was the problem was they wrote her as semi-austic girl, but then they cast her as "perfect girl anime love interest" - the reason was super awkward to watch was the contrast between how her character had poor ability to relate to men vastly over-reacted to everything, while the actress playing her came across "perfect sex nympthet" basically - it just didn't make any sense.
No one had a problem with riker having a holodeck wafu.
You know...you got a point there. TNG was inconsistent with what was considered "bad" in similar circumstances from episode to episode. I would attribute this to the fact ST was written by many different writers, sometimes even just spec scripts, so things like characterization and values tend to be a little shaky. But nobody was thinking too hard about minute continuity back then.
Could you be thinking of Wesley and Robin Lefler played by Ashley Judd? She was a perfect sex nymphette and sciency -- but even Wil Wheaton played the role slightly better than LeVar lol.
I guess ultimately my point here is there are different qualities of actor. With the exception Patrick Stewart and a handful of others, nobody in the show was actually a good actor. So LeVar being incapable of pulling off a romantic scene without turning off the audience isn't because of him being a victim of 'racist' writers, that's how he is in real life.
Like if he was explaining a warp bubble, took off his visor, and said "but you don't have to take my word for it" ba-dum-bum you'd think it was a perfectly natural crossover episode with Reading Rainbow.
His comments only make sense if you forget every other black person in Star Trek.
This article has lead me to realize I was still thinking of some blacks as mere blacks and not niggers. I guess they're all nigs after all.
There are sane black ppl but they get attacked as white supremacists if they aren’t obsessing over racial oppression 24/7
White supremacy has become more multi-racial than the most progressive neighborhoods.
I know. The fact they don’t see that is pretty funny.
Come to think of it, isn't Worf the only character with a love interest plotline that spans most than 1 episode?
There was that klingon woman at the beginning that resulted in alexander plotline.
He went on to date Deanna Troy for a while.
Isn't it actually that the only character to have a dating arch longer than an episode was the other character played by a black guy?
It's like a weird form of disparate impact theory. If you portray the Black character as a loser in romance, you're implying that Black people are losers.
Your analysis is too deep for that idiot.