#devinoni ral

[garashir]

[geekysteven]

Alien governments negotiate for control of the Borzoi Wormhole

[Image description Conference room of the Enterprise on Star Trek The Next Generation showing Picard, Worf, three negotiators from interstellar governments, and an anthropomorphic Borzoi dog with a Barzan respirator device]

[countesspetofi]

Rewatched “The Price” last night for about the millionth time, and two things are stuck in my head today. One just a minor aesthetic quibble, and the other made my heart grow three sizes. 

If I’d been doing hair and makeup for this episode, I think I’d have thrown some medium-brown contact lenses on Devinoni Ral. Not black like Troi and the full Betazoids, but Matt McCoy’s baby blues just don’t feel right. Also, it would have made him look less the same “type” as Riker.

Speaking of Riker, in the scene where Picard is bragging to Mendoza about Will’s poker skills? The pride in his voice and in his face. And the smile Riker gives in response? That is probably more positive reinforcement than Kyle Motherfucking Riker ever gave his son in his entire life, and anybody who wants to tell me it’s “unrealistic” for Will to have stayed on the Enterprise as long as he did can go stuff their functional relationships with their fathers where the suns don’t shine.

[data2364]

Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi 1989 in Star Trek: The Next Generation ”The Price”

http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Price_%28episode%29

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n created by gene roddenberry The Price [s3ep8]

[lesbian-of-nine]

I HATE THIS MAN SO FUCKING MUCH AHHHH

[colonel-kira-nerys]

Star Trek TNG Episode: The Price

Do you know the scene where Devinoni Ral walks into Deanna’s office like he owns the place and just… fucking… comes on to her so strong that she's literally just sitting there, her whole body stiff and alert, as he stalks around her like a predator? And when he touches her, she flinches. Then he says “So, dinner at 8?” Like he’s not a fucking empath and doesn’t read any of the signs that are screaming “don’t touch me!?” That scene, and the scenes after, that completely ignore the fact that she was uncomfortable with him coming on to her so strongly in favor of making her have sex with him (for ratings), is the reason I need feminism.

[in-a-faradaze]

btw i rewatched that absolutely rancid tng episode the price earlier? don’t get me wrong i love wormhole stuff i love ds9 i love those ferengi on voyager. why is a main actress shown falling instantly in love with the most awful man you’ve ever seen — why are we doing that?? he’s a lying creep? he seems to not value consent? fuck this guy?? not literally the minute you meet him!

“She turns away, unsure of why she's so drawn to him and what she may do.” yeah. i’m unsure why too. esp when mr. bisexual horny consent soulmate guy is right there and he has a beard. girl.

this episode came out a year and a day before i was born. 😭 i know it’s old but it’s egregious. the horror of space travel tv is more ‘random episode lover’ plot lines. but like. if i had been a trekkie from birth i’d have grown up watching that. no!