One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi
One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi
Many fans complain about Lwaxana Troi's StarTrek episodes but there were always those of us who loved her. Yesterday, Matt Baume shared his explanation of his own love for this character brought to life by the wonderful Majel Barrett.
Matt is a queer journalist. Much of his work focuses on how queer people influenced popular culture. His latest book is Hi Honey, I’m Homo.
(And Matt has no idea who I am or that I'm sharing his video on Threadiverse. 😹)
Shes a serial sexual harasser who uses her high position in society to avoid repurcussions for her behavior. Fuck Lwaxana, give her the Harvey Weinstein treatment
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She is a narcissist, talking herself up and putting down the people around her. Constantly bulldozing over clearly established boundaries by deliberately misnaming Worf, harassing Picard and Odo after they've made it very clear they aren't comfortable with her advances, and just completely dismissing almost everything her daughter says. It's clear she just does what she wants and expects everyone to go along with it, making a dramatic scene if anyone objects.
She's a rich bitch that doesn't care about anyone except herself and only really seems to help people when it already aligns with what she wants. It's understandable that Deanna only talks to her mother when pushed into it.
I could but others p much already covered all my points
The Timicin episode (S04E22 "Half a life") always makes me tear up at the end. The emotional struggle that Lwaxana had is heartbreaking, and speaks a lot about the role that we give our elders in our society. It's something that we still struggle with more than 20 years later.
♥️ Lwaxana!
jesus christ why do some of you people even watch the show