Troi Suffers Endless Sexual Harassment (Patreon)

Poor Troi! Even in the 24th century women still gets treated pretty badly. Well, I guess one woman. It's really just her. Crusher had a few flings, but they were always just consentual relationships. She was never ogled by aliens, humans, weird telepaths, etc.... maybe cause she was a doctor? So while watching all the TNG episodes I noticed this pattern. Downright unacceptable behavior!!! To be fair, each situation was unique (although Picard should have asked Troi is she was comfortable with Riva creeping on her like a mute sex pervert) and was story related. You see, the sexual component was Troi's character's "function". i.e. most people laugh at how Worf gets beat up or offers suggestions that get turned down. 1. Worf getting beat up is to display how "strong" the villain is at that time. You're supposed to say "wow! If that thing beat up Worf, then...." and Worf's suggestions are often turned down because we must explore all options in the story... again you ask "why can't they just attack it" and on this topic I could also make a reel of Riker asks dumb questions... Riker is the layman. He's not an expert in any particular area so they often have him ask the "dumb" question like, "Data, what if we just go to warp right now to escape?" and to that Data answers, "That would be incredibly inadvisable. If we went to warp the stress from the tractor beam would tear the ship apart instantly" or something like that. So Riker would be asking the question the audience might be asking. Making him appear incredibly stupid. So if an episode had a sexual component often Troi was usually involved (unless it was fucking a ghost). And most crumby encounters are by non-starfleet characters. I don't know. You tell me what you think. I think The Enterprise was a pretty hostile working environment for Troi and her skills as a therapist weren't taken seriously enough.