Everyone on star trek has anxiety, panic attacks, ptsd and imposter syndrome now. It is too much!
Barclay was OK. (In TNG.) He had his episodes but they were interesting because of the juxtaposition against the others.
Like >60% of plot & characters are now about anxiety and mental (un)health. It is individuated vs collective.
I also deeply resent the attempt to create equivalency between AI and LGBT people.
No wonder people hate woke.
I am fairly certain I remember a plotline wherein he spends so much time in the holodeck that it does impact his duties.
but it was kind of because he was trying to keep his problems contained and not bother anybody.
although it’s a plot that mimics modern nonconsensually produced AI porn, in the TNG context there was no social media of any kind, so the intention of creating a holo program was that it would never ever be seen by anyone else. the fact that it became public was an invasion.
it doesn’t impact his work in that (unlike la forge) he doesn’t get harassy on women. in fact he keeps trying to evade counselling by troi, because she is sort of turning him on. his impulse is “I have to get out of here!” because he doesn’t want her to see/sense his hard on.
everyone in the show falls off their work at some point or another.
i meant he wasn’t harassing the women. all allosexuals have private thoughts about crushes and that’s fine as long as they stay private, we just don’t have a holodeck they can walk into.
I don’t think that being porn-addicted should really be included under “sex pest”.