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- From: aaron@serss0 (aaron)
- Subject: Re: Troi is capable of wearing a uniform (SPOILERS)
- Reply-To: aaron@fiu.edu (Stanley!)
- Organization: StanleY! at Florida International University, Miami
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:14:49 GMT
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- J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote: :
- >[after unnecessarily quoting my entire post, Tony Perreault chooses not
- >to respond to the main point of the entire thread (restated at least
- >twice by me). Instead, Tony Perreault chooses to say (yet again) the
- >same reason why Troi should wear non-uniform clothes (_any_ non-uniform
- >clothes) instead of a uniform]
- >
- >Please re-read previous messages in this thread to determine what has
- >been stated and what the question is.
- >
- I am curious why you are so hostile-seeming about this. Maybe it's
- just frustration. Well, I'll agree with you on the non-necessity of
- repeating the entire post so uselessly as happened. I'll endeavour to make
- better use while I do.
- In actuality, I think he did -- albeit in a half-assed way --
- respond to you, tho I also think he didn't follow his posting all the way
- to its several logical conclusions.
- The reason My. Perreault gives for using non-uniform-standard wear
- as Troi does is quite valid. Several reasons for why she wears the same
- thing over and over again could be as follows:
- 1) Continuity. We've come, as much as we do or do not like it, to
- identify Troi with that jumpsuit (numerous little appellations
- such as 'Counselor Cleavage' come to mind . . .). How much more so
- the crew? That outfit, combined with the person in it, represents
- a picture of non-threatening stability. Everyone knows who it is,
- instinctively one could almost say, and know that the person in
- that suit will give unalloyed help. Now, an added element of
- change -- the different closes you wish to see -- may be
- differently appealing, but it doesn't have that aspect of
- continuity which I wager any psychology-type person will say is
- quite important in counselling.
-
- 2) Comfort. Much as it may not look like it, it is entirely
- possible that the good Counselor is actually comfortable in that
- uniform. By my own experience, skin-tight clothes have a tendancy
- to be such so long as they are of the right make and materiel, and
- it occurs that if she uses it so regularily, this could certainly
- be the case.
-
- 3) Vanity. Much as she is the goody-two-shoes type, Troi also is a
- striking woman with an excellent figure, and the jumpsuit --
- whether for well or ill -- shows it off to good advantage. Who is
- not to say that she doesn't wear it for reasons related to this, as
- well as others which I've mentioned?
-
- Of course, all this adds up to the possibility you mention, 4)
- Ratings.
-
- >
- >What is interesting is just how few people seem to have any answer to
- >the question being asked (it just so happens, however, that of the
- >people with answers, these people and I reached the same answer). It's
- >not a difficult question for those that can see what the goal of Troi's
- >usual attire really is.
- >
- >-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
- >
-
- Such negativity. There are plenty of reasonings and
- rationalisations one could come up with if one would but spend the time.
- Of course, everyone knows that, in this day and age, it is a sad fact that
- 'sex sells', as the adage goes. And this is probably (knowing Hollywood
- and it's underlying bottom-line concerns) the case. But don't let it blind
- you, in a rage of moralising, to other possibilities. The entire world is
- not so unidealistic as all that, and those possibilities could indeed hold
- true.
-
- Hope I provided some interesting thought for you.
-
- Regards,
-
- Stanley!
- aaron@fiu.edu
-
-
-
-