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Sash! posted:You've been using "they" neutrally for so long that you don't even realize that you do it. Although this is true, it misses the very important point that this is the anonymous gender-neutral pronoun. You don’t know who that moron driver is, so you don’t know which gendered pronoun to use, so you default to “they”. As soon as you know who they are, however, you immediately switch to using their actual pronoun. Referring to a specific person by a gender-neutral pronoun is a relatively recent thing, especially since widespread understanding and acceptance of non-binary genders is still relatively recent.
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Discovery’s far-future consciousness projection holograms actually look really cool when they’re not glitching out for no reason. Rather than being transparent, they’ve instead got a weird shine to them, like you’re looking at them through a prism.
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Janeway and Paris literally had kids together why aren't they on any of your lists
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Nov 24, 2023 06:49
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A show that didn’t chicken out of doing season-long arcs could have a season featuring aliens with weird drive tech that let them keep up with Voyager, ultimately ending with Voyager either managing to steal that tech or moving beyond its effective area. Imagine if the aliens with the galaxy-wide transporters from season 1 wound up being the recurring antagonists, instead of it somehow being the Kazon again.
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Dec 28, 2023 22:12
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I love Course: Oblivion, but the premise really does strain credulity beyond what is usually required for even a more out-there Star Trek episode. Alien goo precisely duplicates an entire ship and its crew, who then forget (or never knew?) that they were duplicated. Then, they travel for months, interacting with other civilizations along the way, and nobody notices that anything's wrong. Finally, the thing that causes everything to go wrong is the activation of a revolutionary new warp drive, the installation of which did not raise any concerns despite all of the scans of the ship and its materials presumably done in the process. How could the hyper-competent crew of the Voyager, who constantly have to deal with weird Star Trek bullshit, get to this point at all? Once you get past that, though, it's an absolute gem of an episode. Voyager is at its best when everything is going catastrophically wrong.
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Dec 31, 2023 05:14
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1755507551406346304 SNW's Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow has established that there's Weird Time poo poo happening to push "historical" events further into the future so that they don't conflict with the real-world timeline. I still believe!
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Feb 9, 2024 04:14
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Did they disable the Voyager EMH subroutines? I just remember them doing it to their own EMH. If I recall correctly, it was both. Voyager’s EMH had his subroutines disabled after being kidnapped by the Equinox, while the Equinox’s EMH, who had swapped with the Doctor, had already had his disabled. e:f,b
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Feb 10, 2024 21:05
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I think you could make a plausible argument that the Doctor’s personality is constructed from complicated interactions between multiple sets of subroutines, and removing any parts of it would have wild and unpredictable effects. Perhaps concepts like “friendship” and “loyalty” have a significant ethical component to them—maybe something like “society is healthiest when people help those they care about”—and simply fall apart when that component is removed.
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That bit made no sense to me. The Doctor only became truly sentient after being left active for far longer than designed and being forced outside the bounds of his programming. Why would stock EMH Mk.1 programs need to be kept around? If it’s an ethical concern about erasing fledgling sentient beings, then how is turning them into miners against their will ethical itself? (The android slaves in Picard were “fine” because they weren’t actually people, just worker robots built with human faces for a reason I’m sure must have been a good one.)
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