By Chris Snellgrove
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Star Trek: The next generation Had one of the best overall throws in television history, but some of their characters were better used than others. For example, the Troi advisor has an exotic background and powerful empathic capacities, but it exists in most episodes to simply be pretty and stress the evidence (“I feel danger, captain!”). And the actor of Troi, Marina Sirtis, called the producers of Star Trek for this character treatment during the discussion of the way in which his strong role in the original script for “the enemy” was reduced to almost nothing.
Marina Sirtis and her Star Trek Problems
In “The Enemy”, Geordi the forge was blocked on a planet where his visor did not work and had to team up with a Romulian. Marina Sirtis didn’t have much to do on it Star Trek: The next generation Episode, but she says that the original script had both Troi and Geordi on the planet and that all was able to do nice things like Impatter a Romulian. “I was finally able to do something interesting and different,” she said, but “when the final script came not only I was not on the planet, but I had a line at the end of the show-and it was actually cut.”
Regarding this episode, Marina Sirtis vocalisted something Star Trek Fans have noticed over the years: namely that his character has always had very little to do. On the popular podcast trek The biggest generationThe hosts Adam Pranica and Benjamin Harrison have nicknamed the Troi advisor and Dr Crusher “Potted Plants”, the joke being that the show generally used these characters as nothing more than decorations. It is a good criticism, and on the basis of her comments, the one that Sirtis herself shares.
The actor’s comments were published in Captain’s newspapers: Complete Trek trips not allowedand they show how cynical it had become about the production of Tng episodes. For example, she noted that she was not supposed to read the original project of “the enemy” because “we are not allowed to see” the first scripts to avoid “conversations like this”. This rule was not limited to Marina Sirtis, because other stars of Star Trek would also be disappointed to know that they were supposed to have a major role in an episode in which they barely appear.
However, it stung the actor all more because she was traditionally so little to do. Consequently, when she read about Troi released a Romulian, Marina Sirtis said that she was “very excited” about this episode of Star Trek. Then her role has decreased so much that she was barely talking (unlike the actor’s words, she spoke in the episode, but it was only two lines). According to her, “this is the kind of thing that happens” in the show “and I hope that this is not the case.”
Without doubt, the Troi advisor had some of the most interesting narration potentials on The next generation: She is an extraterrere USS Enterprise. Unfortunately, however, the screenwriters of the series never really knew what to do with the character of Marina Sirtis, which is why she found herself with the most ill-used character in this popular pop-off Star Trek. Frankly, we would be delighted to borrow the stupid capacities of his character, because it could be the only way to learn what writers and producers thought while completely waste his character.
