Captain Healey (Bill Daily) - I Dream of Jeannie Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) - M*A*S*H Frank Burns (Larry Linville) - M*A*S*H Ensign Parker (Tim Conway) - McHale's Navy Luke Dunphy (Nolan Gould) - Modern Family
Was he? I thought he was just a victim of Geordi's bullying. He treated The Great Montgomery Scott in the same way.
Barclay was dimwitted by comparison. The majority of TNG crew always seemed to be portrayed as the best of the best the Federation had to offer. Barclay on the other hand struck me as capable, but nor particularly remarkable, which made his failings stick out like sore thumbs.
A few others I don't believe have been mentioned: Joan already mentioned Woody. From Cheers, I also nominate Coach. Fry from Futurama Grampa Simpson
Barclay was dimwitted by comparison. The majority of TNG crew always seemed to be portrayed as the best of the best the Federation had to offer. Barclay on the other hand struck me as capable, but nor particularly remarkable, which made his failings stick out like sore thumbs.
From what I remember about Barclay, he was "off in his own world" and absent minded rather than dimwitted, but then it's been decades since I've seen a TNG episode.
Dr Crusher and Counselor Troi were hardly the best and brightest of anything and I'm not just referring to their scene-murdering acting.
Ryker was a clay-footed dope afraid to move on up to command--hardly the best and brightest. I've lost track of the number of times Worf got his incompetent Klingon ass zapped out of a fight before it had barely begun.
Chekov from Star Trek. The dumb ass thought everything originated in Russia. The worst of it was that Chekov was allegedly under Spock's tutelage.
Chekov only really got kinda stupid in the later films. Te "inwented in Russia" was meant to be kind of a joke (he even played it that way sometimes), so I don't hold that against him. He was smart in the series, very scientific until the third season when he had little to do.
I like Chekov, though I find it difficult to believe he was modeled after Davy Jones from The Monkees. Did Koenig appear in the pages of 16 and Tiger Beat? Did those magazines publish "Win a Date with Wally Koenig!" contests back in 1968?
