I love Marina but her character was so poorly written that Guinom (Goldberg’s character) did Troi’s job as counselor better than Troi ever could. Poor woman’s entire role in the show was to be tortured and objectified while her character primary love interest shagged his way across the galaxy, Crusher probably got an award for her work during all his alien STDs.
Problem is this is partially Marina’s fault. From her own reaccounting; it was basically her first job. The writers would go to the other actors and ask what they’d like to do in a given episode, or how they’d react to something, basically making the actors part of the script creation.
But Marina told the writers “uh, I don’t know. Write me something. That’s your job, isn’t it?”
By the time she realised she had the power to actually make her character her own, it was already several seasons into TNG and far too late to actually change anything. The writers had long since stopped trying to include her in the writing process.
Hmm… I’ll try and find a clip of where she told this story…
Yeah she had a lot more demand as a perform because she only worked theater beforehand and she knew what her worth was, and people tend to hate that. Shatner did a pretty good BTS doc on TNG and the kind of weird power plays that went on that even Patrick Stewart was occasionally the target of. This period of TV production was a real high pressure environment and people had careers given and broken over pretty minor shit.
I love Marina but her character was so poorly written that Guinom (Goldberg’s character) did Troi’s job as counselor better than Troi ever could. Poor woman’s entire role in the show was to be tortured and objectified while her character primary love interest shagged his way across the galaxy, Crusher probably got an award for her work during all his alien STDs.
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Possibly her best scene was in Enterprise, where during an appointment with Data you see that her PADD says “top beach destinations”.
Problem is this is partially Marina’s fault. From her own reaccounting; it was basically her first job. The writers would go to the other actors and ask what they’d like to do in a given episode, or how they’d react to something, basically making the actors part of the script creation.
But Marina told the writers “uh, I don’t know. Write me something. That’s your job, isn’t it?”
By the time she realised she had the power to actually make her character her own, it was already several seasons into TNG and far too late to actually change anything. The writers had long since stopped trying to include her in the writing process.
Hmm… I’ll try and find a clip of where she told this story…
To be fair tho, Gates told the writers a lot of things and got her ass fired as a result.
Yeah she had a lot more demand as a perform because she only worked theater beforehand and she knew what her worth was, and people tend to hate that. Shatner did a pretty good BTS doc on TNG and the kind of weird power plays that went on that even Patrick Stewart was occasionally the target of. This period of TV production was a real high pressure environment and people had careers given and broken over pretty minor shit.
Yeah. That sucked.
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Typo. Shite. ^^;