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TNG 2:18: "Up the Long Ladder"

I wonder how Colm felt about that episode. It was pretty racist.

Damn near quit the show.

did he really?!?

Ah, the episode where no one recalls the A plot, because the B plot is... well:

It's something to do with...

He was upset by the blatant Irish stereotypes, but backed down since he didn't exactly have a lot of clout at the time. For DS9's "If Wished Were Horses" he spoke out about having a leprechaun character which then changed to Rumpelstiltskin.

Wow, I'd never heard that before. Good for him for standing up! Must be his Sean Aloysius O'Brien blood!

Tomlin Riker

I think the pervy elements and their continuation are from both Rick and Gene being horndogs and bonding over it.

For DS9’s “If Wished Were Horses” he spoke out about having a leprechaun character which then changed to Rumpelstiltskin.

the character felt completely different /s

Giant bomb did a good analysis on this before. It's about italians and not irish, but the irish get a shoutout. Could have been better with Danny O'Dwyer, but then, that applies to most things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6P_TfP8ny0

bonus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpEDvFJavUk

What is it wiþ ST and þe pinkie when drinking?

What were they thinking? "Nineteenth-century Irish stereotypes in space" was offensive when this first aired, and it hasn't aged well.

Bond, like ....👉👌 ? 😏

sorry, this is as far as I go defiling Gene's memory with crude statements. I do not wish to speculate on his... placement on the kinsey scale; only repeat what is known in public

From Memory Alpha, apparently the producers liked the idea enough they went with the rough draft which was, well, rough:

Melinda Snodgrass remarked, "It was intended to be a commentary about immigration, because I hate the current American policy. I wanted it to be something that says sometimes those outsiders you think are so smelly and wrong-colored, can bring enormous benefits to your society because they bring life and energy. That's what I was going for. Now my boss, at the time, was Maury Hurley, who is a major Irishman and leads the Saint Patrick's Day parade. When I was describing to him what I wanted to do, I was trying to come up with an analogy, and I said it was like a little village of Irish tinkerers, and he loved it so much he made me make them Irish tinkerers. I said okay, and that's how it came about."

True, but this episode did give us one of the absolute hardest Riker lines ever:

"And what are you staring at? You never seen a woman before?"

"I thought I had."

The wildest part of the A plot is when they discover the clones, Riker takes one look, says "uh nope" and summarily vaporizes the lot of them.

Yeah, seems a bit extreme. Even with the Federation's policy toward that sort of thing, he's kinda just murdering.

It's very TOS in its "judge jury and executioner" mentality, but seasons 1 and 2 were like that sometimes.