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Originally Posted by pseudoreality
14-year-old me never forgave him for that! Now that I am in my 40s and had to enforce dress code issues at work, I totally see where he was coming from.
Another thing about that episode that bothered me was I didn't recall them ever previously establishing that Riker was some hot-shot pilot, best on the ship. That seemed to come out of nowhere.
It is funny how Star Trek often shows non-major character senior leaders in Starfleet as being evil or incompetent. How many terrible Admirals does the fleet have? Oh well, I guess it is an easy plot device. Let's violate orders!
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Riker was a terrible XO, I mean the Borg are getting set to invade, a hot shot expert officer who wants a command someday and shows a bunch of initiative and expertise in the face of an alien invasion obsesses that she's basically after his job (Which she should be) and whines that she takes the iniative to go planet side and investigate before a storm shows up.
But he did play a mean trombone.
But an awful first officer.
Just like Worf being an awful security chief.