Your “She’s fired!” reminds me of what I drive my husband batty with when we watch TV. Whenever some yitzoid charater pulls a completely stupid stunt, I can’t resist saying, “TSL! TSL!” TSL stands for “too stupid to live.” Most characters that get that chant from me have me hoping for their death pretty quickly, just so I don’t have to watch them.
I really wish they had secondary characters on star trek, constantly revolving through the cast and getting killed off. Once in a while they’d have a chance to be a fan favorite, and then we could kill off a primary character like Deanna Troi.
In a way, it seems like this happened with Tasha Yar, who was fun to hate and then she got killed off. It turns out it was because no one wanted to work with Denise Crosby and she thought so much of herself that she obviously was gonna be a movie star within a year or so. The only reason she got the part was because she was Bing Crosby’s granddaughter, and then Worf took over her part. Basically a secondary character taking over a primary, and it was a win-win for everyone.