#lt reginald barclay

[ihaveaweirdidea]

Lt. Reginald "Brocolli" Barclay was my favorite TNG member. 💚

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i'm in love, your honor.

no but serious reg barclay...has a very, very, very special place in my heart. trek isn't trek without him, for me. personal reasons. but this character deserves ALL the love. and dwight schultz is fabulous.

"This has been the thing I've been afraid of all my life... that I'd go in and not come back... But I guess... if I'm ever going to confront my fear, it might as well be now."

star trek: the next generation - realm of fear, season 6 episode 2

[spocks-husband]

Everyone say thank you to Lt Barclay for inventing autism

[theeminentlyimpractical]

Lt. Reginald Barclay; end of watch 21 November 2024.

Lt. Barclay, you are clear to go 10-7, 10-42. Godspeed.

[violationoftheprimedirective]

you guys have no idea how excited it made me to see Barclay again in Voyager. I am so happy for him I love you Reginald <3

[rhinexstone]

Personally I LOVE how all the voyager episodes involving contact with Earth is just Barclay running around like a chicken with his head cutoff and his emotional support therapist/bff Deanna Troi attached at his side like a cleaner fish and a shark

[concentrated-crocodile]

send all my love to ✨HIM✨

[waspstar]

society if barclay was in a skant the whole time

[chiosblog]

Since today is battlestar galactica birthday I propose this special au (that nobody asked for but I already love)

Intergalactic husbands

[gettheorion]

Sauce format:

[fritzmonorail]

I kind of feel bad that whenever I remember this guy, the only name that pops up in my head is Broccoli.

[lauraliansol]

Doubtful Reddit would appreciate the positivity I want on a post like this.

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👁️ TRANSLATION: "I can see you!"

🎨: @hokuru

Data discovers and rescues Geordi and Ro from their state out of phase with the main ship

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[spocks-husband]

Hey Barclay!! What are you doing on the holodeck?

[best-star-trek-character]

Official TNG Character Bracket

And here’s the final bracket! Round One will go live tomorrow, 4/11 at 10 am EST!

Full List:

Round One:

Left side:

Q vs. Mr. Homn: poll here

Dr. Beverly Crusher vs. Sonya Gomez: poll here

Gowron vs. Guinan: poll here

Lwaxana Troi vs. Lal: poll here

Alexander Rozhenko vs. Spot: poll here

Dr. Noonien Soong vs. Wesley Crusher: poll here

K’Ehleyr vs. Lt. Commander Geordi LaForge: poll here

Captain Jean-Luc Picard vs. Selar: poll here

Right Side:

Counselor Deanna Troi vs. Lore: poll here

Miles and Keiko O’Brien* vs. Lieutenant Tasha Yar: poll here

Data vs. Vash: poll here

Commander William Riker vs. Dr. Leah Brahms: poll here

Ensign Alyssa Ogawa vs. Ensign Ro Laren: poll here

Lieutenant Worf vs. Sela: poll here

Third of Five/Hugh vs. Dr. Katherine Pulaski: poll here

Sergey and Helena Rozhenko vs. Reginald Barclay: poll here

Round Two:

Left Side:

Q vs. Dr. Beverly Crusher: poll here

Guinan vs. Lwaxana Troi: poll here

Spot vs. Wesley Crusher: poll here

Lt. Commander Geordi LaForge vs. Captain Jean-Luc Picard: poll here

Right Side:

Counselor Deanna Troi vs. Miles and Keiko O’Brien*: poll here

Data vs. Commander William Riker: poll here

Ensign Ro Laren vs. Lieutenant Worf: poll here

Third of Five/Hugh vs. Reginald Barclay: poll here

Quarter-Finals:

Left Side:

Dr. Beverly Crusher vs. Guinan: poll here

Spot vs. Geordi LaForge: poll here

Right Side.

Deanna Troi vs. Data: poll here

Worf vs. Third of Five/Hugh: poll here

Semi-Finals:

Guinan vs. Geordi LaForge: poll here

Data vs. Worf: poll here

Finals:

Geordi LaForge vs. Data: poll here

*I’m putting Miles and Keiko together for the TNG round but each of them will be on their own in the DS9 bracket

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Reginald Barclay is lowkey the most radical example of how true communist/socialist structures work on disabled individuals

Like it’s not secret Barclay struggles with addiction, paranoia, hypochondria, and OCD. He is capable of massive social conflict and ethical breeches, especially being a victim of harassment and bullying as well.

But his arc isn’t about exploitation, instead it’s about recovery and mental health, along with keeping people to the social standards they set for themselves.

More below!

His arc starts off with him one social media platform away from being an incel. He has immense social anxiety, an addiction to a fantasy outlet, and routinely exploits and violates fictional recreations of his female peers that are stripped of autonomy. He is bad at his job, bad at talking, always late, just….bad.

And his work is the symptom of his mental health. His superiors catch onto this, and dig deeper into realizing that he is struggling so, so much. And to do so, then help, is to confront the fact that yes Barclay breaks social taboos, but the empathy that these people pride themselves on must extend to those that chafe against them too.

This is especially difficult for those he has violated— fictionally, but nonetheless violated. Especially for Deanna, whose job and ethics require her to help and reach out, but knows exactly how her patient objectifies her. It would be so easy to transfer him out, but that’s not fixing the issue. That’s not helping him.

And then after all this? He still has his issues!! People with poor mental health have a bag of onions worth of layers they must peel back for them to heal and improve themselves. He continues to work with Troi, and we see time and time again that he’s now seeing her as human and working on building back trust and a healthy appropriate relationship between them. And Deanna gets to be uncomfortable, because Barclays been doing better and can take it when someone doesn’t perfectly like him.

With every uptick in paranoia or other mental issue, Barclay is met with support. Riker runs tests on him when asked, then explains exactly what is happening to soothe his medical anxiety. And people have a hard time helping him, but they work through it. People are under a social contract to help each other in Star Trek, and with Barclay we see this in tandem with social conflict. But Star Trek is what we CAN be, so we find a way to work through it.

And what I love? As he heals, he blossoms. He managed to get a job on the Enterprise, but with help, became famous for his work with Voyager, a local legend in Holodeck programming, and the only human unscathed by Spot. And he’s happy. He gets to be happy, have friends, do well, live a good life, and thus improve the lives of those around him as well.