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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Letting Geordi, who has been disabled all his life, weigh in on Worf's situation/decision might have led to a much richer and deeper story.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Letting Geordi, who has been disabled all his life, life (and who was working alongside Worf at the time of the accident), weigh in on Worf's situation/decision might have led to a much richer and deeper story.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: It's easy to sympathize with Riker and Crusher not wanting Worf to kill himself. How they handle the situation, not so much. Riker chews out Worf for being determined to follow Klingon tradition without regard to how his suicide would affect his friends and family, citing examples of recently deceased crewmembers who fought for life until the end. Crusher expresses a willingness to put Worf in restraints to prevent him from doing the deed. Yet neither of them are ever shown making any attempt to actually convince Worf that he could potentially achieve a life worth living in his condition. As such, their behavior can easily come off as them blindly upholding the human paradigm of "suicide bad" with little to no actual concern for Worf's quality of life.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: It's easy to sympathize with Riker and Crusher not wanting Worf to kill himself. How they handle the situation, not so much. Riker chews out Worf for being determined to follow Klingon tradition without regard to how his suicide would affect his friends and family, citing examples of recently deceased crewmembers who fought for life until the end. Crusher expresses a willingness to put Worf in restraints to prevent him from doing the deed. Yet neither of them are ever shown making any attempt to actually convince Worf that he could potentially achieve a life worth living in his condition. As such, their behavior can easily come off as them blindly upholding the human paradigm of "suicide bad" with little to no actual concern for Worf's quality of life.life or concern for Klingon cultural norms. Picard points out to both Riker and Crusher how Klingon cultural norms would make adjusting to life with a disability almost impossible.
-->'''Jean-Luc Picard''': You and I could learn to live with a disability like that, but not Worf. His life ended when those containers fell on him. Now, we don't have to agree with it, we don't have to understand it. But we do have to respect his beliefs.
-->'''Jean-Luc Picard''': You and I could learn to live with a disability like that, but not Worf. His life ended when those containers fell on him. Now, we don't have to agree with it, we don't have to understand it. But we do have to respect his beliefs.
