What was the point of this character? She pretty much disappeared after season 4 and I didn't even realize she was gone.
What was the point of this character? She pretty much disappeared after season 4 and I didn't even realize she was gone
They never explained really. I think she was there for "cultural' reasons as well as going to be a callback plot point for Q and maybe other things but they flubbed it and then just forgot about it.
DEI
The point was that Whoopi was a Star Trek fan and begged to be on the show, so they inserted her as Picard's work wife
shes the wise magical negro
gee why was one of the biggest female stars of the early 1990s and an Oscar winner on a show she desperately wanted to be on
Same as any red shirt it was a part of the set, then whoopi got to famous and the character was colorful enough
She was already famous years before TNG aired
There to teach the viewer a moral of the week disguised as being a sounding board for other characters to vent their problems to. She wasn't a bad character though to be honest.
She was awful
Don't bother. It's the weekend.
Just go do something else and check back Monday when the broccoli heads and ESLs are gone.
I myself am going to Meijer!
Define famous counselor troy was famous did like ten movies
But at this point during the 90's her movies got international fame with the advance of videostores
Whoopi Goldberg was an A-lister in the '80s and '90s, zoomer.
This unironically. Bonus points because she deliberate change her last name to Goldberg to get an easier interview.
Again for the people hiring or watching her movies I saw ton of 80's movies opening day in the 90's be it a very late reel copy that landed in my 1920's theater like nightmare on elm street 3d or not direct to movie subtitled releases
Ok chatgpt retard
Shes the magical negro advisor trope. She was on the show to make it more woke or progressive as they used to call it, she meddled and had quite a few scenes and lines on TNG changed. For example, in the episode where Data makes a daughter, she tells Lal that love ia between two people. Originally the script said "man and woman" but Whoopi refused to say the line or wouldnt shoot the scene until they changed it.
She was based and /comfy/ and a better counselor than Troi ever was
This is the explanation.
she was there to do Troi’s job as ships counselor but better. It helped that she gave free booze
It helped that she gave free booze
Know what else can do that? A replicator. There's no reason for her to exist.
Probly gargling Patty's nuts on the side
See ted danson and the guy who played skeletor
agreed and I know this place is just full of poltards who just hate her now because of her retarded politics, and i do too. But she she was better in the role as a sympathetic ear/timely advice giver than Troi was in hers, added to which Marina Sirtis was so woeful an actress she didnt even bother to play a role after a few seasons and just played herself as was a total waste of space.
She was in Ghost and starred in maybe two movies besides that, jumpin jack flash and burglar. She was known but not an A lister.
now
shes always been like that. The internet has just shown a spotlight on it.
The writers couldn't figure out how to have the specially trained and certified telepathic counselor give good advice and emotional support to crew members so they gave those scenes to Whoopi.
No. She was an A-lister. She had already won an Academy award and been nominated for it twice along with multiple Emmy awards, a Grammy etc. You didn't even mention The Color Purple. Shut the fuck up you retarded zoomer, I hate how your generation constantly tries to rewrite history.
They couldnt figure out how to use troi at all. Eventually shes just an excuse for her mother to show up and have her annoying overbearing mother comedy scenes.
Imagine like Emma Stone suddenly wanted to be on Star Trek. That's what it was like seeing Whoopi Goldberg on TNG.
It's still strange.
The Color Purple
How am I supposed to know who was in a movie I've never seen. She was in four movies then, not three. And all her Emmys were from HBO stand up shows.
Goldberg's Broadway performance caught the eye of director Steven Spielberg while she performed in The Belly Room at The Comedy Store.
Spielberg gave her the lead role in his film The Color Purple, based on the novel by Alice Walker.
It was released in late 1985, and was a critical and commercial success.
it's just that easy
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Isn't she the same twat who swore to flee the country should Trump get elected?
Who cares. Politics are gay and people who are overly invested in them are also gay. If you think Trump or Biden is going to save you then you're a fucking idiot.
My favorite streamer is say she woke and that is bad.*
*autotranslated from Spanish
DEI didn't exist until about 2021.
who cares
I care when people make vows they dont follow through with. Why dont you?
I'm not autistic so no some celebrity politically grandstanding online doesn't mean shit to me
Vaginan
Did she ever use her platter-hat to serve drinks? She was a cocktail waitress right?
Magic Negro is wiser and more mysterious than anyone else.
Political Correctness. was becoming big at the time.
Yeah she was fucking terrible. Most of the female characters were utterly pointless.
Troi was dead weight.
And Beverly just waved a space doodad over people and said "your broken bones and bullet wounds are cured now, don't do it again"