Error in text card of Episode 9

Data1001

Deanna is not her own mother. Should read Lwaxana.

Jassada

I think he just stopped himself from saying "Deanna's" before he had said the 's'.

Cranky (SC)

Data1001 wrote: »

Deanna is not her own mother. Should read Lwaxana.

I think you read it in a different way to me. Riker accidentally referred to Counselor Troi as the less formal “Deanna”, but then corrected himself.

Jassada

{ACE} Admiral Pasty wrote: »

Data1001 wrote: »

Deanna is not her own mother. Should read Lwaxana.

I think you read it in a different way to me. Riker accidentally referred to Counselor Troi as the less formal “Deanna”, but then corrected himself.

That's what I meant.

Knight Ranger

Yes, it reads like he was forcing himself to not use her first name unprofessionally.

Data1001

Oh I suppose it could be read that way. But then they should've used an em dash or something, rather than an ellipsis.

"Contact Deanna— Counselor Troi's mother..."

It's still clumsy to write, either way, though.

Edit: You're right though, Jassada — it would've made more sense if it Deanna had been written with an apostrophe "s" at the end.

Cranky (SC)

Yeah it’s definitely clumsy.
The fact that it can be read and understood in the wrong way proves that.

Dirk Gunderson

It’s one of those things that is easy to convey when speaking but hard do put into text.

Ice Man

This is another reason why we need Frakes to do some voice acting for this game.