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** Further, while it's still sorta rude (or, rather, it would be entirely rude ''if'' Spock ever actually chose to take offense) it's not ''horrible'' for McCoy to insult Spock because McCoy's seriously punching uphill here. Vulcans are the co-dominant species of the Federation, and for that matter helped ''found'' the Federation. Also, nobody would cite Spock's being a Vulcan as a reason to remove him from command given that Vulcans are the second-most common species in Starfleet after humans. And on an individual level, Spock outranks McCoy and Spock's father is Vulcan's ambassador to the Federation High Council, meaning Spock is in absolutely no fear of political or career consequences to anything. Data, on the other hand, is ''not'' the Enterprise's First Officer and so doesn't have seniority on the Chief Medical Officer. Furthermore, he has no influential relatives, routinely goes through ''genuine'' prejudice over his status as an android, and actually has officers questioning if Data can do things like make command decisions or care for small children. At the time in which Pulaski was on the ship, Data wasn't even being recognized as a sentient being, and thus had none of the rights that would entail. In short, the target of McCoy's jibes is not only entirely indifferent but is also in a position where the only person McCoy could get in trouble is himself. Pulaski, meanwhile, is dumping crap on someone in no position to defend themselves, and who arguably lacks the mental capacity to deal with it emotionally at all. Keeping all this in mind, Pulaski's slamming of Data's cold logic making him inferior to humans just makes her look like a bigot.

** Making all of the above even worse is the fact that an elderly Admiral McCoy actually ''met'' Data briefly (in the TNG pilot, "Encounter at Farpoint")... and was entirely respectful and polite to him. Furthermore, in his conversation with Data he actually compares him to a Vulcan and in the process of doing so emphasizes that Spock was an honored and beloved friend 'even if he was damned annoying at times'. A more direct contrast to Pulaski's bullshit would be harder to imagine. That this was also DeForest Kelley's final appearance as McCoy, the note he chose to exit the series on, only underlines it yet again.

** [[Creator's Pet|Pulaski was also regularly cited by other characters as having a very kind and compassionate personality]]. Her treatment of Data says otherwise. On that note, it should be mentioned that she didn't only insult him directly; in her earlier appearances, she repeatedly talked about him in the third person while he was in the room and ran a scanner over him the same way one would run a scanner over an indistinct object, chemical, or other substance. [[It Is Dehumanizing|Oh, and she called him "it."]] This is basically the most rotten and degrading thing you can do to someone without actually resorting to physical violence; her implication was that she considered him to be no more worthy of respect than the matter replicator.

** [[Creator's Pet|Pulaski was also regularly cited by other characters as having a very kind and compassionate personality]]. Her treatment of Data says otherwise. On that note, it should be mentioned that she didn't only insult him directly; in her earlier appearances, she repeatedly talked about him in the third person while he was in the room and ran a scanner over him the same way one would run a scanner over an indistinct object, chemical, or other substance. [["It" Is Dehumanizing|Oh, and she called him "it."]] This is basically the most rotten and degrading thing you can do to someone without actually resorting to physical violence; her implication was that she considered him to be no more worthy of respect than the matter replicator.

** Not even getting into the political status/power argument, Vulcans are ''capable'' of emotions, though they control/suppress them, and can be a bit haughty about it. ''Data,'' however, was ''physically incapable of feeling emotion'', and not only didn't have any issue with others feeling emotion, often wished that he ''could'' experience it himself. So Pulaski was basically ''tormenting a disabled person for her own amusement.'' Maybe she should have been on [[Villain Protagonist|Voyager]].

** And that's just her treatment of Data; she constantly interrupted everyone else, ''including'' the captain of the ship, threw her opinions out without thinking of the consequences, practically bullies the crew into doing what she wants, even at the risk to herself, them, and/or the ship...let's just say that if she isn't related to Janeway, in some capacity, it would be a profound shock.

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** Tommy Tallarico and Victor Lucas of "Judgment Day" deserve special mention as the former's credibility in being involved in game music was shot by basically being a frat boy, [[Kick the Dog|nixing ratings darlings like Psychonauts]] in favor of [[Distracted by the Sexy|DOA games and the like,]] Lucas ''never'' [[Its Pronounced Tropay|pronouncing Japanese game titles and characters' names right,]] a general knack for [[Did Not Do the Research|not doing their research]], using the 10 point rating scale [[X-Play]] is specifically ''against'' and [[They Just Didn't Care|shilling a game they previous deemed a failure.]] No surprise why [[X-Play]] still remains and they're gone.

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