All of this, all of it, makes perfect sense. Very good meta on BOTH characters. (Although it's really impossible to explain why Data is so tabula rasa at the beginning of TNG. I think someone accidentally wiped part of his memory banks or something.)
It's too bad there wasn't a JMS writer aboard TNG. (Even though Babylon 5 still had sexism and heteronormative problems).
I think Tasha's backstory would've been explored in some more depth. Then again, old Trek was fairly bad about continuity carrying over from one episode to the next, beyond very superficial things like "Kirk and Spock play chess."
Your comment about Tasha's "it never happened" is very true. I have not participated in much TNG discussion/fandom, so I simply accepted that as "embarrassed person says thoughtless thing after getting in control of her own mind." Tasha is VERY bottled up and VERY self-controlled in front of others, of COURSE she would be uncomfortable about it afterwards, even if she secretly had enjoyed it. Plus, with her background, she might unconsciously be troubled that (a) I sort of raped Data and/or (b) I had sex while I wasn't in control.
I would be very, very surprised if she wasn't a rape survivor. Even being able to fight back is not an ironclad defense against rapists, especially if they travel in gangs, and she was so young.
And dangit, I was partway through rewatching Season One in all its uneven glory, and got sidetracked. (I, too, had forgotten Picard's derpiness, and it's a miracle that we ever became fond of Riker... he's at least as annoying as Wesley, back when they were trying to make him Kirk Junior.)
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Date: 2012-08-12 12:10 am (UTC)It's too bad there wasn't a JMS writer aboard TNG. (Even though Babylon 5 still had sexism and heteronormative problems).
I think Tasha's backstory would've been explored in some more depth. Then again, old Trek was fairly bad about continuity carrying over from one episode to the next, beyond very superficial things like "Kirk and Spock play chess."
Your comment about Tasha's "it never happened" is very true. I have not participated in much TNG discussion/fandom, so I simply accepted that as "embarrassed person says thoughtless thing after getting in control of her own mind." Tasha is VERY bottled up and VERY self-controlled in front of others, of COURSE she would be uncomfortable about it afterwards, even if she secretly had enjoyed it. Plus, with her background, she might unconsciously be troubled that (a) I sort of raped Data and/or (b) I had sex while I wasn't in control.
I would be very, very surprised if she wasn't a rape survivor. Even being able to fight back is not an ironclad defense against rapists, especially if they travel in gangs, and she was so young.
And dangit, I was partway through rewatching Season One in all its uneven glory, and got sidetracked. (I, too, had forgotten Picard's derpiness, and it's a miracle that we ever became fond of Riker... he's at least as annoying as Wesley, back when they were trying to make him Kirk Junior.)