At the end of the first season of Star Trek: Next Generation, actress Gates McFaden, who played main medical officer Dr. Beverly Krusher to the USS enterprise, was infamously fired from the show. The story says one of the show's producers, a man named Morris Charlie, did not like McFaden, and the two often heads of set often. When Charlie became a shower, he fired McFaden, hoping to replace him with a new character that long -term paths could be familiar.

In came Dr. Pulaski, who plays the veteran "Star Trek", Diana Muldaur. Dr. Pulaski was more Brusk, less matronic character than D -Krusher, and talked to Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) in a more appropriate way. She was, as Trakis was spotted immediately, in order to resemble D -McCoy (Degor Kelly) from the original Star Trek series. The trays are sharp, and we immediately felt we were spoiled. Even at that time - 1988 - some Star Trek fans referred to D -Pulaski as McCoy, Runior.

The character was offended immediately, and no one really loved it. This was not Muldaur's fault, of course. We liked it. It was her character we hated. Further, she received immediate hostility in her first episode, "the child", when she openly respected the data (Brent Spinner) by refusing to say her name properly. This was intended, some suspects, to recreate the controversial link that McKoey had with the original series with Spack (Leonard Nimoy) in the original series, but on the "next generation" fans, it was just read as rude. Pulaski was closed and awkward, cliché and return. To this day -today, it is considered a tertiary character "Trek".

But re -watching the "next generation" proves that there was much more growth and nuance of Pulaski than we can have the tracks, initially to give him credit. Indeed, by the end of the season, Pulaski became more open and warm. She even socialized with the data.

But wow, the first one-on-one that Pulanski had with data confidently stuck in the throat of people. Pulaski and the data are in the laboratory examining the medical mystery when it refers to it as "short" data ". The data corrects it. It is pronounced with a long "A". What's the difference, she asks. "One is my name," the data says. "The other is not." Pulaski could say he would say it properly by advancing forward. Instead, she is amazed that the data will be offended ... and immediately begins to scan it with a trick. She wonders if he hurt his feelings, but in an objective, scientific way. She assumed that he was an ordinary machine and did not guarantee respect. For fans who already wanted data, this scene was rubbing us in the wrong way.

And indeed, Pulaski underestimates the data a few more times. In the episode "Where Silence has a lease", Pulaski is looking for data to perform as an officer on the bridge: she wants to increase the increase in the review. When nothing seems to happen, Pulaski turns to Picard and asks, "He knows how to do these things, right?" In terms of data. It refers to it as a "device".

But here's something: Pulaski has grown over time. She originally standed out from the crew, unable to hang out, but by the end of the second season of "Next Generation", she actually began to form links. Like any character of a long -lasting show, her relationship with other characters needed only a little time to develop. The softening of the D -Pulanski was gradual; Its "hard" qualities have become less and less pronounced. She was still mildly crowded, but began to fit. At least one species.

With the events of "Peak Performance", Dr. Pulaski found himself in a position to comfort the data. Android lost a strategic game called Strataghem, something he thought his Android brain was incapable of doing. The loss gave the data an existential crisis, assuming that it was a malfunction. Pulaski tried to explain that losses should be expected every time and over. She was doing something friendly. Finally, she treated the data as equal. She was a lump, but if she stayed, Pulaski's roughness would clearly give the team player a place.

Producer Morris Charlie was fired as a "next-generation" show show at the end of his second season, allowing the new show shows to hire Gates McFaden immediately. It is not that Pulaski was terrible, but most preferred the character of McFaden to D -Krusher more. Also, Diana Muldaur has never been terribly passionate about D -Pulaski, saying in Interview with Startrek.com that she had never intended to stay for more than a year. Muldaur said he had a wonderful time, but he didn't want to stay, he was looking forward to moving to other acting projects. She never met Gates McFaden and didn't really develop warm relationships with her co-stars. It was not a trial to leave Star Trek.

When McFaden returned, many Trekis breathed a sigh, happy that they returned their preferred character and actress. McFaden continued to play D -Krusher For the rest of the series, and in the films and restart, by 2023. McFaden's play made Pulaski look like aberration, and many travelers were happy to continue. But maybe we need to pause again to look at Dr. Pulaski as a more obese than it was originally presented. She was not eternal prejudice against the data and was looking forward to learning. And that, of course, is very much in the spirit of "Star Trek".