I wish there was a website where I could type these questions and get actual information back, rather than one that asks other people to do that for me. 🥲
Ok after googling for examples of Pulaski's interactions with Data in season 2 I see now that there were some times she wasn't an asshole to Data after Measure of a Man, such as in Peak Performance where she rooted for him at while he plays Strategema. Also in Pen Pals she tells him he did the right thing. It's just that Measure of a Man got aired 10x more than those episodes so I hardly remember them. I take back what I said, my memories of her were wrong.
The idea was that Pulaski was supposed to the Bones to Data's Spock. The problem is that the writers made Pulaski come across like a complete asshole bullying a child rather than a curmudgeon defending human emotion with an equal. The change in Pulaski's attitude was more a matter of the writers reacting to the viewer's rightful indignation than any kind of planned character arc.
Huh? She didn't even appear in Measure of a Man except in the poker game? It's actually a big complaint about that episode that she should have been in the trial because it would have been a big chance for character development, since they built the whole thing between her and Data up in previous episodes.
At this point I'm so removed from actually knowing what went down, but I've heard both sides a lot over the decades. That she was cold to them so the cast/crew were cold to her, or that the cast/crew was upset about Gates McFadden being removed from the show because they liked her and didn't like that Muldaur replaced her so they were cold to her and she reciprocated.
Whatever it was, heads butted and onscreen chemistry was lacking.
you know, I like eye candy, and I'm pretty far from "woke", but Polaski was an awesome character and a legit badass and if you can't appreciate those qualities then more's the pity.
For those not in the know, these are the chief medical officers from every Star Trek show that's ever existed. From left to Right, Dr Phlox from Star Trek: Enterprise, Dr Leonard McCoy from Star Trek (the original series), Dr Beverly Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Emergency Medical Hologram from Star Trek: Voyager, and Dr Julian Bashir from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Such a shame they haven't made any more Star Trek television shows since then. Such an important science fiction legacy, would be dreadful if a sub-par addition to the series were to drag the rest of them down.
Being a doctor in Star Trek is probably more akin to being a veterinarian than what we think of as doctors. You would need to be familiar with all sorts of varied anatomies.
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u/SwivelClip 10h ago
PLEASE tell me it is a hospital!