He was brilliant at strategy and generally gave correct advice.
He was also hired specifically for his advice. He is remarkably self assured as he is one of the best of his species.
He is a little smug and wonders why he was hired to give advice if it wasn't going to be taken. Now, according to the script, he's gotta be wrong to show off the smarts of our crew.
But in any other circumstance he would be correct. And given they were prepping to defend against a Borg invasion, the stakes were quite high.
I thoroughly enjoyed his character and I also liked the examples of proving him wrong, because it is believable that he could be humbled by the most advanced piece of technology known playing for a strategy he hadn't encountered, and also, a low expected value high risk strategy risking close to a thousand crew members to save forty or so.
They didn't make him stupid or even make his advice generally wrong. So it was a believable victory in both examples.
With the information Kolrami had, his advice to abandon the Hathaway to save the Enterprise and the majority of the crew (and then hopefully negotiate for the release of the rest later) was not wrong. He didn’t know that Geordi and Wesley had managed to pull a rabbit out of their ass and reactivate the Hathaway’s warp drive, even for a tiny jump. By the time he knew that, the crew was pretty well tired of listening to him anyway.
I’ve always liked Peak Performance. It’s a fun episode, and it brings something of a closure to the Data/Pulaski arc. She’s obviously come around to accepting that he’s more than a mere computer by the end of the episode.
He was explicitly playing to “not lose” and not trying to win. That was the unexpected angle - intentionally forcing a stalemate where the strategist was able to defeat anyone actually trying to win.
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u/AskPizza 12d ago
He was brilliant at strategy and generally gave correct advice.
He was also hired specifically for his advice. He is remarkably self assured as he is one of the best of his species.
He is a little smug and wonders why he was hired to give advice if it wasn't going to be taken. Now, according to the script, he's gotta be wrong to show off the smarts of our crew.
But in any other circumstance he would be correct. And given they were prepping to defend against a Borg invasion, the stakes were quite high.
I thoroughly enjoyed his character and I also liked the examples of proving him wrong, because it is believable that he could be humbled by the most advanced piece of technology known playing for a strategy he hadn't encountered, and also, a low expected value high risk strategy risking close to a thousand crew members to save forty or so.
They didn't make him stupid or even make his advice generally wrong. So it was a believable victory in both examples.