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The XO was simultaneously great and terrible when he stabbed Mariner in the foot to prevent her from throwing herself into an apparently-unwinnable gladiatorial contest to save the team, saying it was *his* job as the senior officer to make the sacrifice play even if he had even less chance of...

In all seriousness, part of it is definitely that quality expectations back then were far, far lower. Just like once upon a time, you could win an Olympic Gold medal with running times that these days a mildly above average high school kid could beat.

*shrugs* Opinions are subjective. In my opinion, the original Star Trek is so unbearably awful that I'm genuinely shocked it got a second season, much less that it birthed a global franchise.

She's not disenchanted enough with Starfleet to want to actually quit; she just slacks off in a very specific manner as a sort of passive-aggressive rebellion against the bureaucratic rules-and-regs aspect of Starfleet. The show does not portray this as a good thing, and it is something that...

If you watch the rest of the season -- yes it is, but it's shown (and further implied) that Mariner has pretty understandable reasons for it. It'll probably be explored more in Season 2, but the short version is Mariner's slacking is also very, very specific. She's a cynical little shit when...

I'd argue that they're not actually opposite. Picard wants Ensign Crusher to step up and admit the truth in a situation where someone was killed, whereas Captain Freeman is displaying vindictive reverse nepotism -- she feels *for personal reasons* that her daughter is a lazy, underperforming...