I was born into & will die with Learning Challenges (in- language processing & short & long term memories), have earned degree in SLD, many certifications, including VE & ESE, from the most respected higher educational school in Fl., whatever that is worth, & facilitated learning in Elementary schools’-high schools’-adult education school’s ESE & Etc. classrooms. So I understand that challenges can be extremely hard identify-prove & everywhere, I think everyone has a challenge, to some degree.

Yet I cannot understand the challenges that genetic engineered friends of Dr. Bashir character Lauren (played by Hillary Shepard) & Patrick (played by Michael Keenan).
The only thing that comes close to challenges I see in- Lauren having is higher attraction drive to men, than the average person &
Patrick having is he is easily manipulated-to easy to go along with others, especially by Jack.

Lauren thing seems like UPN censored away the writers from going to a real challenge & forced them to her being just higher attraction drive to men, than the average person, which is not a challenge.
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Patrick thing is not even close to being a challenge at all, maybe, lack confidence or whatever, but not a challenge, while Lauren is also not a challenge, I can understand that if the writers were not censored away from her being sex addiction, then that would been a challenge.

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Patrick seemed to be characterized as equivalent to Dustin Hoffman’s Rain Man. He was very intelligent but completely unable to function without support.

    I suspect the idea was that all three were like that but needed to be shown to be different for TV characterization reasons. They each had only a few minutes of screen time so they have to be distinguishable as separate characters in that limited screen time.

    • GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Yes, that I understood, but what makes them unable function without each other/the challenges. Remember, I just watched, the Chrysalis episode where one of them Dr. Bashir operates on & fixes- Sarina Douglas & she cannot fit-in any longer with the other three.
      I think you are right about the screen time issue, but that really sucks, because if one add-up all the screen time they have, over all the episodes they are in, then really is enough time to make it clearer. They made the time for Sarina Douglas & Jack is easier to understand characters. Big complaint is that it devalues people with challenges, by not doing it.