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01/10/20 12:58:26 PM
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#58. Katherine Pulaski
"Two robots and a good old-fashioned vacuum cleaner enter a bar. Data, did that break you? Why, it's just that you're nothing more than a machine."

It's highly unfortunate that Katherine Pulaski's name sounds vaguely akin to "Roman Polanski" but that is not her fault. However, her casual racism (as fellow fifty-eighter board-eighter Anagram just mentioned) is certainly her fault. She strikes me as mean and vindictive even though that's not quite what the writers intended. We're supposed to regard her as "Bones II: Return of Bones" but despite her actress' best intentions she's more like a wet blanket who reduces the quality of all other actors around her. There is very briefly an effort to produce some sort of chemistry between Pulaski and Picard but thankfully it's soon expelled. Pulaski, too, is soon expelled.

My biggest grief against Katherine Pulaski is technically not Katherine Pulaski's fault -- she's never even name-dropped ever again after Beverly Crusher returns to the show. She's a title character for every episode of season 2 of Star Trek: The Next Generation whose name is avoided like Voldemort or whatever as of the season 3 premiere. It's like a big apology from the writing staff. Or maybe the actress would have received ten bucks in Burger King coupons if they'd dared to speak her name? Who knows. All I know is that it's silly and it makes it feel like Pulaski's even more immaterial than she was whist she was on screen.

There's this one episode where Pulaski tries to treat a peculiar case of an entire colony of folks rapidly aging and she, too, begins to age rapidly. I'm not saying her actress looked ancient in general or anything but it's really strange how, like, she doesn't really look much different in her make-up-overload hundred-year-old self. It's like she went from irrelevant somewhat racist wallpaper to irrelevant somewhat racist wallpaper with a few cracks along the edges. It doesn't matter that there are cracks along the edges in the latter picture because no one I care to associate with is going to cover their house with Katherine Pulaski in the first place.



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