I find myself wishing I had taped the ep in question, because after it ended, I was left with the feeling that the secretary had, to use a sports metaphor, scored some points with her comments to Josh about what Trek and the Federation stands for and means to her.
If it had ended after the part where she said that ST was about honor, etc., for her, I wouldn't have had as big a problem with it. Josh at least ended that exchange on "it's unprofessional, we can't have that around here" which is a valid complaint per se (ignoring the complete inconsistency in what constitutes professional behavior).
Hell, it at least serves the purpose of emphasizing that even though these people can be a little strange themselves, they do pay attention to appearances and image, and do try to present themselves as well as possible. They don't always succeed, but they try, and they've done other things over the years to draw attention to that fact. So while I didn't like that this one was aimed at folks like me, I would probably have let it slide the same way I did Lemonlymon.com.
It's the fact that Sorkin went back to it, that he felt the need to make sure it all happened again, but this time with Josh telling her that while he liked Star Trek, she was a fetishistic obsessive because she [gasp] wore a pin relating to it. It was entirely unnecessary, serving no purpose inside the plot other than to say, "Look! Trekkies! Weirdo media fans! Freaks!!" -- with the added bonus of the freaky weirdo fetishist ST fan smiling happily as Josh walked away with the patronizing little Star Trek holiday comment, because clearly Josh (and Aaron) Knows Best.
When Sorkin works his slams at fans into his plots, makes them integral, I can deal. I pretty much have to, since I'm happy to live with his slams at people I don't like. When they're gratuitous, though, there for no better reason than that he has a bully pulpit and decides to use it, it's a lot harder to take.
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If it had ended after the part where she said that ST was about honor, etc., for her, I wouldn't have had as big a problem with it. Josh at least ended that exchange on "it's unprofessional, we can't have that around here" which is a valid complaint per se (ignoring the complete inconsistency in what constitutes professional behavior).
Hell, it at least serves the purpose of emphasizing that even though these people can be a little strange themselves, they do pay attention to appearances and image, and do try to present themselves as well as possible. They don't always succeed, but they try, and they've done other things over the years to draw attention to that fact. So while I didn't like that this one was aimed at folks like me, I would probably have let it slide the same way I did Lemonlymon.com.
It's the fact that Sorkin went back to it, that he felt the need to make sure it all happened again, but this time with Josh telling her that while he liked Star Trek, she was a fetishistic obsessive because she [gasp] wore a pin relating to it. It was entirely unnecessary, serving no purpose inside the plot other than to say, "Look! Trekkies! Weirdo media fans! Freaks!!" -- with the added bonus of the freaky weirdo fetishist ST fan smiling happily as Josh walked away with the patronizing little Star Trek holiday comment, because clearly Josh (and Aaron) Knows Best.
When Sorkin works his slams at fans into his plots, makes them integral, I can deal. I pretty much have to, since I'm happy to live with his slams at people I don't like. When they're gratuitous, though, there for no better reason than that he has a bully pulpit and decides to use it, it's a lot harder to take.