- Star Trek: The Next Generation S4E16 “Galaxy’s Child”
- Protagonist: LeVar Burton’s character Geordi La Forge
- Hero: Leah Brahms
- Geordi is excited to meet his hero and collaborate with her. When they finally meet, she turns out to not be as friendly as what he was expecting.
- Community S2E16 “Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking”
- Protagonist: Troy Barnes
- Hero: The real LeVar Burton
- Troy does not actually want to meet his hero because he is concerned about disappointing him or embarrassing himself. When he is forced to do so, he panics and just freezes.
Didn’t The Doctor (Voyager) also have this issue? When his matrix was deteriorating, they called up his creator’s hologram. Then he met his own creator who refused his existence.
Or that other Cardassian doctor which was programmed based on prior data, turned out to not be so moral.