Look at you, scoring Data! 😉
@MLClark I lack the dancing gene. Shrug.
It's okay. Data is fully functional. He can cover for all missteps, I'm sure. ;)
@MLClark Oh lord, "The Naked Now." 😳 How could an android with a positronic brain get an organic infection?
Not to mention the sexual hijinks.
Data as the galaxy's most sophisticated vibrator.
"The Naked Now" is good fun to watch, but it might be best if it was decanonized.
@nblumengarten Roddenberry himself wrote much of it -- D.C. Fontana took her name off it after Gene rewrote her to add the sex scenes that she "felt debased the female characters of the series," to quote Dorothy -- so it's canon, for better or worse.
Gene was a great idea guy, but he was a lousy writer. Gene Coon and Dorothy Fontana were TOS' secret sauce.
Yeah, then you got his lawyer involved, and it's amazing TNG got past the first season.
The "Chaos on the Bridge" docu-film does ab great job of showing all of this.
I know it's canon, and the reference to it in "Measure of a Man" makes it hard to erase. I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek about removing it from canon.
@nblumengarten Richard Arnold, Gene's long-time personal assistant, once said at a convention:
"If it's on the screen, it's Star Trek fact. If it's not, it's Star Trek fiction."
There's been a lot of bad Star Trek over the decades. We Trekkers have to own it.
I've always thought that "Chaos" should be mandatory viewing for anyone who wants to be a TV writer. 😉
That statement hit me hard in the 2000s when Enterprise was on. I wasn't a fan of it, but love the post-DS9 Pocket Books. I was frustrated that the show, which was canon, was inferior (in my opinion) to the books, which were really well written and engaging.
@nblumengarten And there was a hard line between Trek screenwriters and Trek novelists. The novelists rarely were allowed to pitch scripts, much less write them. That slowly changed, in particular with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens coming on "Enterprise" in the fourth season. But there was a bias against the novelists for a very long time.
I would have given anything for a Peter David written Trek episode.
@nblumengarten Peter did write episodes of "Babylon 5" and "Crusade."
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Yup, and the great Centauri trilogy of books.