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Captain, remember your breathing exercises. They're not worth it.
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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
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I think there's a lot of value in quickly profiling enemies and anyone else you deal with.
Ah yes valuable skills like sensing that the romulans may be hiding something.
And that the alien who is yelling seems angry
And the Ferengi is scheming. Oh, wait, she can't read Ferengi.
Show was written in a time before streaming, before people could record TV. She was there to explain to the audience, who were assumed to not be aware of the previous episodes, who the bad guys are.
Good point! I had VHS tapes that had been recorded over too much....I often missed half an ep, because I set the timer wrong or I already had a good one and I tried to record a second on the same tape.
The stories which her empathy abilities are more useful don't make it to the show unfortunately, they're over too quickly. That's my theory.
Yeah. She's an empath that can size up the adversary over a FaceTime call. Pretty awesome advantage!