Right, but what I am saying is they could have easily just talked to some actual social workers to find out what would have actually worked with someone like Barclay instead of just deciding it. It’s kind of a shitty way to treat mental illness as a subject.
Just like they could have easily talked to a real fucking Native American.
But I don’t think this one was an unforced error. That was all most well-intended Americans (yeah, I really do have to qualify it that way) knew at the time. It was progressive then, but insulting today.
Otherwise, you can chalk it up as yet another Berman Conflict™.
So I don’t think that’s applicable here. They thought they had consulted someone properly in that case but they were wrong through no fault of their own. With Troi, all they had to do is find one of the millions of social workers in the U.S. or just the thousands in Los Angeles and talked to them.
She helped get Barclay better because the writers decided she did, not through any therapeutic techniques that would have actually worked.
Yeah, because she was written by science fiction writers. The enterprise saved the day because the writers decided it did.
Things got more realistic during their scenes in Voyager, thankfully.
Right, but what I am saying is they could have easily just talked to some actual social workers to find out what would have actually worked with someone like Barclay instead of just deciding it. It’s kind of a shitty way to treat mental illness as a subject.
Just like they could have easily talked to a real fucking Native American.
But I don’t think this one was an unforced error. That was all most well-intended Americans (yeah, I really do have to qualify it that way) knew at the time. It was progressive then, but insulting today.
Otherwise, you can chalk it up as yet another Berman Conflict™.
In that case, they were fooled by a con man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamake_Highwater
So I don’t think that’s applicable here. They thought they had consulted someone properly in that case but they were wrong through no fault of their own. With Troi, all they had to do is find one of the millions of social workers in the U.S. or just the thousands in Los Angeles and talked to them.