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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Revenge of the Feminerd: Counsellor Troi and Telepathic Rape

She Pop post by Jarrah Hodge on June 3, 2011 - 10:25am; tagged counsellor troi, deanna troi, psychic rape, rape, revenge of the feminerd, Star Trek: The Next Generation, telepathic rape.

Troi holding her young son to her chest To five-year-old me, Counsellor Troi was more appealing than Disney princesses: beautiful and serene and intuitive, but also she got to go on cool missions and sit on the bridge of the Enterprise and tell the Captain the truth about his own motivations. Troi was the first action figure in my Trek collection, and when I started reading Star Trek novels in grade 6, I always went for the ones featuring her.

So as an adult feminist re-watching TNG and reflecting, I feel the need to complain about how Troi was treated, particularly around the instances when Troi was psychically raped.

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