“Gene Roddenberry’s vision” was usually an upskirt shot.
Which wasn’t helped by Berman.
Oh the short skirts were 100% Gene. Rick is the one with the catsuit fetish. He was the one who decided to shrink wrap Jeri Ryan.
Captain Jellico’s “put on a real uniform” command was written in at Marina’s request.
Smart move. Even by 1989’s standards and fashions, some of the costumes they put her in were hideous.
I’m quite fond of the long dress she got for one season. I’m sure it was hell as a costume, but I thought it looked tasteful. I also have the idea that the psychological/psychiatric lead on the ship ought to look somewhat “different” when she’s working. Her uniform should be more casual, because her role is one where you want people to be able to get away from the structure, and to trust her confidentiality. The catsuits were dumb, and the Farpoint / S1 miniskirt was scandalous. but I did like the full-length dress.
Pretty much every “show off the attractive female main character” outfit that they’ve invented for Trek has not worked for me. Troi’s outfits, Seven’s outfits, T’pol’s outfits… I think that actually the only exception is the Farpoint miniskirt and even then it just looks attractive but I don’t like what it meant for Troi’s brains so all things being equal I actually like her the most in the standard uniform jumpsuit which is, quite frankly, already designed to make people look good.
Now that we’re decades away from the show and everybody involved has been interviewed a bunch of times, what I actually wish we could have seen was Troi as the diplomatic counselor instead of the vague psychological lead / poorly utilized character that we got. Because if she was the ship’s therapist the long dress would work because it is tasteful and different yet still professional, but then we’d not be seeing her on the bridge the way we did.
“Dress was so short that you could see what I had for breakfast” is such an amazing turn of words
I love her. She’s the queen of TMI during Q&A’s. Like when she casually dropped that before she met her now husband, she “slept” with just about every single guest star. What a legend.
“Not just the men, but the women and…”
SHUT UP WESLEY
Does “slept” have yet another meaning, or were they all just playing make-believe?
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Yes, that’s one of the already-existing meanings I alluded to in my comment. It’s also never written with quotation marks.
I was starting to forget why I have you tagged “Insufferable Pedant” in Voyager. Thanks for the refresher.
Even back then I thought she looked like she was freezing.
I mean yeah… It’s cold in space.
There’s no kind of atmosphere 🎶
We’re all alone, more or less
