Star Trek: The Next Generation/YMMV: Difference between revisions

* [[Base Breaker]]: Captain Edward Jellico from the two-part episode "Chain of Command" is one of ''[[Star Trek]]'''s most polarizing characters. His fans see him as a bold, effective officer who magnificently outwitted the Cardassians. His detractors consider him a huge [[Jerkass]] who had no business [[Replacement Scrappy|filling in for Picard]] and [[Tyrant Takes the Helm|making changes to the way things were run]] on the ''Enterprise''.

* [[Complete Monster]]: Data's brother Lore from ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' is a thoroughly unsympathetic android who {{spoiler|kills his creator, reprograms his brother to follow his every command, and threatens to set Wesley on fire}}.

** {{spoiler|And no, [[Creator's Pet|trying to immolate Wesley]]}} does not make up for all the other stuff he did.

** Oh, yeah, he also {{spoiler|tried to make the Borg (or at least a certain segment thereof) an even greater threat than they already were}}.

** Kivas Fajo from ''The Most Toys''. At first, he seems to be just another [[Smug Snake]] villain who thinks [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|Screw The Rules, I Have ... well, something anyway]]. Then he talks very matter-of-factly about how he'd like to try out a particularly cruel [[Death Ray]] called a Varon-T Disruptor -- illegal in [[The Federation]] because of how it slowly destroys the body from the inside out -- {{spoiler|and later does use it on his broken, codependent slave girlfriend and threatens to shooting as many subordinates as necessary to coerce Data into obeying him}}. When your actions {{spoiler|drive the emotionless android good guy to attempted murder}}, you're a [[Complete Monster]].

*** His [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to Data afterwards is particularly devastating. Data's response is to override his own ethical programming, because he knows he cannot desire justice and so must enact it for those who do.

Data: "I cannot allow you to continue." -Fires- }}

** Armus, the disgusting, hateful thing that killed Tasha Yar. It was actually ''made of hate'' -- He was [[Made of Evil|formed from the evil emotions]] cast off by a race of aliens that [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence]]. He kills, torments, and tortures as a matter of course -- and it's all [[For the Evulz]].

*** Once again, even Data who has no emotions, sees Armus for what it truly is.

Data: "I think ''you should be destroyed''." }}

* [[Creator's Pet]]: Wesley Crusher, the former [[Trope Namer]], also [[Exaggerated Trope|an especially severe case]] since, by varying amounts, he fits ''EVERY'' criterion of both [[Creator's Pet]] and [[The Scrappy]].

* [[Growing the Beard]]: The [[Trope Namer]]. After a half-baked effort of a first season, the series started to improve dramatically beginning with Riker getting away from his Kirk clone image by suddenly sporting a full beard.

** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Q, after he materializes two scantily clad women to fawn over Riker.

'''Q:''' Oh, you're so stolid. You were never like that before the beard. }}

** Counselor Troi improved significantly during the sixth-season two-parter "Chain of Command", where the substitute Captain orders her to put on a standard uniform. She continues to appear in uniform when on-duty for the rest of the series.