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[Star Trek] Keep On Trekkin' (Lower Decks stuff in SPOILERS)

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    I'm not sure what an episode of Star Trek has to do with the Clintons or whatever pro-prison propaganda means.

  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    Prison Colonies have been a staple of Sci Fi going back before we even conceived of space travel. I wouldn't exactly call Power Play a pro-prison episode. It clearly comes down on the side of eternal imprisonment being a BAD thing. The crew did everything possible to peacefully resolve the situation, only resorting to threats when all other options had been exhausted. In reality some people have made the choice to be irredeemably bad and the only way of dealing with them is imprisonment. Capital Punishment isn't an option in TNG's Federation. What choice do you have to contain a malevolent ancient non-corporeal being other than imprisonment? I'm sure most of the Power Play aliens were not irredeemably evil but the ones that took control of the moon and The Enterprise clearly were and didn't give the meatbags any other choice.

  • dlinfinitidlinfiniti Registered User regular
    They totally revelled in the fact that Tom paris was an ex con

    AAAAA!!! PLAAAYGUUU!!!!
  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    dlinfiniti wrote: »
    They totally revelled in the fact that Tom paris was an ex con

    I mean, he did cause the death of 2 cadets and lied about it after.

  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    I like the way The Culture handles crime and punishment. Most things that are stigmatized aren't actually crimes. You just look like a shitheel to everyone. If you manage to cross the line into a full on crime like murder, they have a drone follow you around to prevent you from committing further crimes. There's no prison system and it's pretty much impossible for a human to kill the drone.

  • mrondeaumrondeau Montréal, CanadaRegistered User regular
    That_Guy wrote: »
    I like the way The Culture handles crime and punishment. Most things that are stigmatized aren't actually crimes. You just look like a shitheel to everyone. If you manage to cross the line into a full on crime like murder, they have a drone follow you around to prevent you from committing further crimes. There's no prison system and it's pretty much impossible for a human to kill the drone.

    Slap drones are only used when people refuse treatment. Normally, the Culture simply fixes whatever problem led to murder.

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    edited February 2021
    That_Guy wrote: »
    I like the way The Culture handles crime and punishment. Most things that are stigmatized aren't actually crimes. You just look like a shitheel to everyone. If you manage to cross the line into a full on crime like murder, they have a drone follow you around to prevent you from committing further crimes. There's no prison system and it's pretty much impossible for a human to kill the drone.

    It should be noted that murder is almost impossible in the Culture due to the fact that if, say, someone chops off your head, a drone can reach you within seconds to save and keep your head alive while they grow you a new body. Even situations where you're completely unsalvageable, you can still have neural nets set up in your brain (prior to dying, of course) that constantly back-up your consciousness and then they can plant "your" brain and memories into whatever body you want. (that's more like a perfect clone than you living on though)

    As Gurgeh explains it, the primary punishment of having a drone following you everywhere is social. "You won't get invited to parties" and if you crash parties anyway, "no one will talk to you."

    This is also a society where if you just happen to be doing a hike in some mountainous region of a Culture orbital and you see a nice house along the way, you can just enter in and be hosted by the house's drones even if the homeowner isn't around. There's no concept of ownership because anything you have can be easily and freely duplicated, right down to the landscape. "I want a house exactly like Jurno Gurgeh's with exactly the same view" is entirely possible. Imagine if the entirety of Earth's 584 million mile orbit were a ring of manufactured plates connected together and spinning around the sun (as well as each plate spinning towards and away from the sun) instead of just one planet. The ability to live where ever you want is limitless. If the right environment doesn't exist on one of the plates they already built, just add another plate and expand the size of the orbital by a little bit.

    Slight tangent so gonna spoiler it for those who don't want to read:
    I've never thought about how orbitals work before now, but it does make me wonder if people try to set records to see how many plates they can hike across in one lifetime. Or if there's any particular plate landscape that invites people the way Earth's mountain ranges do, like how there are people who want to traverse the Appalachians or reach the top of Mount Everest. I would guess there are plates built specifically for people who like outdoorsy achievements. Like a climbing wall at a gym, except your entire environment is transformed into climbing, hiking, and camping challenges, with rivers stocked to always produce enough edible fish for you to easily survive without a drone during your hike, or specific cold-acclimated animals and plants for high on the mountain top.

    I think this is why I was Ok with, even pleased at how Star Trek Picard handles Rafi's situation. Because the Federation as yet has not shown the ability to create entire environments out of nothing the way the Culture can (the Genesis device being a failure). So you can give Rafi all that she needs to live, but you can't guarantee her a beautiful ocean view and an army of robots to clean up after her. If you need something to live, you will get it in the Federation, but luxuries still have limits.

    Cambiata on
    "If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
  • mrondeaumrondeau Montréal, CanadaRegistered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    I like the way The Culture handles crime and punishment. Most things that are stigmatized aren't actually crimes. You just look like a shitheel to everyone. If you manage to cross the line into a full on crime like murder, they have a drone follow you around to prevent you from committing further crimes. There's no prison system and it's pretty much impossible for a human to kill the drone.

    It should be noted that murder is almost impossible in the Culture due to the fact that if, say, someone chops off your head, a drone can reach you within seconds to save and keep your head alive while they grow you a new body. Even situations where you're completely unsalvageable, you can still have neural nets set up in your brain (prior to dying, of course) that constantly back-up your consciousness and then they can plant "your" brain and memories into whatever body you want. (that's more like a perfect clone than you living on though)

    As Gurgeh explains it, the primary punishment of having a drone following you everywhere is social. "You won't get invited to parties" and if you crash parties anyway, "no one will talk to you."
    That's not quite accurate: you can murder people in the Culture, it's just that most people can be unmurdered. From the Culture's PoV, the main problem is not death, it's that the dying part is rather traumatic, so they would prefer if people don't kill people, outside of special circumstances.
    The rest is not so much punishment as people not liking someone much because they don't want to be treated to make them stop wanting to kill people.
    Presumably, they will just have nice conversations with the Slap drone.

    On the tangent: they have plate dedicated to people who want to raft on lava without a backup, so...

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    edited February 2021
    mrondeau wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    I like the way The Culture handles crime and punishment. Most things that are stigmatized aren't actually crimes. You just look like a shitheel to everyone. If you manage to cross the line into a full on crime like murder, they have a drone follow you around to prevent you from committing further crimes. There's no prison system and it's pretty much impossible for a human to kill the drone.

    It should be noted that murder is almost impossible in the Culture due to the fact that if, say, someone chops off your head, a drone can reach you within seconds to save and keep your head alive while they grow you a new body. Even situations where you're completely unsalvageable, you can still have neural nets set up in your brain (prior to dying, of course) that constantly back-up your consciousness and then they can plant "your" brain and memories into whatever body you want. (that's more like a perfect clone than you living on though)

    As Gurgeh explains it, the primary punishment of having a drone following you everywhere is social. "You won't get invited to parties" and if you crash parties anyway, "no one will talk to you."
    That's not quite accurate: you can murder people in the Culture, it's just that most people can be unmurdered. From the Culture's PoV, the main problem is not death, it's that the dying part is rather traumatic, so they would prefer if people don't kill people, outside of special circumstances.
    The rest is not so much punishment as people not liking someone much because they don't want to be treated to make them stop wanting to kill people.
    Presumably, they will just have nice conversations with the Slap drone.

    On the tangent: they have plate dedicated to people who want to raft on lava without a backup, so...

    I said "almost" impossible, not entirely impossible. Most medical things can just be fixed, and things like poisons can be handled by the Culture-engineered body. Dying outside the culture has more of a risk since you don't have Hub at your beck and call all day, but within the Culture proper death is difficult to come by.

    Also, though the Culture may not consider it a 'real' death as long as your consciousness survives, I think I would experience it as such. Just because they could make a perfect duplicate of me with all of my memories intact doesn't mean that the me that is me doesn't stop living.

    On the other hand, downloading my consciousness to a virtual world and killing and respawning that one off multiple times so you can have a war over virtual heaven and hell is more like immortality for that consciousness. Presumably I'd still be hanging around in my meat body being myself, though, the virtual version is someone else.

    Cambiata on
    "If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
  • mrondeaumrondeau Montréal, CanadaRegistered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    mrondeau wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    I like the way The Culture handles crime and punishment. Most things that are stigmatized aren't actually crimes. You just look like a shitheel to everyone. If you manage to cross the line into a full on crime like murder, they have a drone follow you around to prevent you from committing further crimes. There's no prison system and it's pretty much impossible for a human to kill the drone.

    It should be noted that murder is almost impossible in the Culture due to the fact that if, say, someone chops off your head, a drone can reach you within seconds to save and keep your head alive while they grow you a new body. Even situations where you're completely unsalvageable, you can still have neural nets set up in your brain (prior to dying, of course) that constantly back-up your consciousness and then they can plant "your" brain and memories into whatever body you want. (that's more like a perfect clone than you living on though)

    As Gurgeh explains it, the primary punishment of having a drone following you everywhere is social. "You won't get invited to parties" and if you crash parties anyway, "no one will talk to you."
    That's not quite accurate: you can murder people in the Culture, it's just that most people can be unmurdered. From the Culture's PoV, the main problem is not death, it's that the dying part is rather traumatic, so they would prefer if people don't kill people, outside of special circumstances.
    The rest is not so much punishment as people not liking someone much because they don't want to be treated to make them stop wanting to kill people.
    Presumably, they will just have nice conversations with the Slap drone.

    On the tangent: they have plate dedicated to people who want to raft on lava without a backup, so...

    I said "almost" impossible, not entirely impossible. Most medical things can just be fixed, and things like poisons can be handled by the Culture-engineered body. Dying outside the culture has more of a risk since you don't have Hub at your beck and call all day, but within the Culture proper death is difficult to come by.

    Sorry, I was not clear: murder is not "victim is dead", it's "murderer killed". The final state of the victim is irrelevant, it's the intent that matter. To put it in modern terms, for the Culture, attempted murder is murder.

    To loop back to Star Trek, the main difference with the Federation is not so much the tech level but the willingness to intervene: the Culture is very interventionist at all scales. Being able to make things better (as seen by the doer!) is basically mandatory.
    Someone is sick, heal them. Someone is violent, make them non-violent. Some society has a epidemic, heal it. Some society is waging war, make them non-wage war.
    It's not punishment, that would be barbarous, it's improvement.

    Contact is the society scale version of rewriting someone's personality. The society scale version of a Slap drone is significantly more slappy. But not punitive.

  • Phoenix-DPhoenix-D Registered User regular
    The Federation also has a distinct anti-transhumanism bent to it, despite occasionally forrays in that direction.

  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
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    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    I think First Contact is better than Generations, but I think Generations is a Star Trek story and First Contact is (more or less) not

    and Insurrection is also a Star Trek story but it's one of those Dear Doctor ones where the morality of everything is fucked and absolutist in the wrong way

    Here is my annual "I will never forgive First Contact for the Borg Queen" post.

    I'll say this; from an efficiency standpoint, it makes sense.

    The borg are all linked together, and without any sort of hierarchy (i.e. one super drone, or a council of super drones or whatever) to make decisions, they'd likely have to poll all available drones and try to come to a consensus. That might work for a team, or even a cube; but to fully guide the entire Borg race in decisions on plans potentially centuries out, it's more efficient to put that decision making into a single vetted entity.

    That said, making the Queen basically just an evil cyborg lady who gets the hots for everyone is where this falls apart.

    The Borg landed on the horny hottie planet and added its biological and sexual technological distinctiveness to their own.

    Borg primary objective has been changed to 'Kill Wesley Crusher for crimes against arboretums'

  • wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    Prison Colonies have been a staple of Sci Fi going back before we even conceived of space travel. I wouldn't exactly call Power Play a pro-prison episode. It clearly comes down on the side of eternal imprisonment being a BAD thing.
    I think what’s especially grating to me about the episode is the way it treats the spirits’ criminality as an explanatory twist. Like, if it was just an episode about evil escaped cons, ok, whatever, but the way the characters are like “no way can these dudes be Starfleet because they’re so poorly behaved...aha, they’re secretly criminals, that explains it!”

    Even my sister, who is less of a ra ra pro-abolition angry leftist than I am, was bugged by how the episode turned out, saying something like “oh, they just return them to their prison? That doesn’t seem very Star Trek”

    And I disagree that the episode comes down on eternal imprisonment being bad. After the characters learn that the spirit things are prisoners, the characters never question the imprisonment

  • PailryderPailryder Registered User regular
    mrondeau wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    mrondeau wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    I like the way The Culture handles crime and punishment. Most things that are stigmatized aren't actually crimes. You just look like a shitheel to everyone. If you manage to cross the line into a full on crime like murder, they have a drone follow you around to prevent you from committing further crimes. There's no prison system and it's pretty much impossible for a human to kill the drone.

    It should be noted that murder is almost impossible in the Culture due to the fact that if, say, someone chops off your head, a drone can reach you within seconds to save and keep your head alive while they grow you a new body. Even situations where you're completely unsalvageable, you can still have neural nets set up in your brain (prior to dying, of course) that constantly back-up your consciousness and then they can plant "your" brain and memories into whatever body you want. (that's more like a perfect clone than you living on though)

    As Gurgeh explains it, the primary punishment of having a drone following you everywhere is social. "You won't get invited to parties" and if you crash parties anyway, "no one will talk to you."
    That's not quite accurate: you can murder people in the Culture, it's just that most people can be unmurdered. From the Culture's PoV, the main problem is not death, it's that the dying part is rather traumatic, so they would prefer if people don't kill people, outside of special circumstances.
    The rest is not so much punishment as people not liking someone much because they don't want to be treated to make them stop wanting to kill people.
    Presumably, they will just have nice conversations with the Slap drone.

    On the tangent: they have plate dedicated to people who want to raft on lava without a backup, so...

    I said "almost" impossible, not entirely impossible. Most medical things can just be fixed, and things like poisons can be handled by the Culture-engineered body. Dying outside the culture has more of a risk since you don't have Hub at your beck and call all day, but within the Culture proper death is difficult to come by.

    Sorry, I was not clear: murder is not "victim is dead", it's "murderer killed". The final state of the victim is irrelevant, it's the intent that matter. To put it in modern terms, for the Culture, attempted murder is murder.

    To loop back to Star Trek, the main difference with the Federation is not so much the tech level but the willingness to intervene: the Culture is very interventionist at all scales. Being able to make things better (as seen by the doer!) is basically mandatory.
    Someone is sick, heal them. Someone is violent, make them non-violent. Some society has a epidemic, heal it. Some society is waging war, make them non-wage war.
    It's not punishment, that would be barbarous, it's improvement.

    Contact is the society scale version of rewriting someone's personality. The society scale version of a Slap drone is significantly more slappy. But not punitive.

    i think it's interesting to note that the culture has the ability to "not care" about the consequences of intervention. Save these people...oh they turned out to be murderous aholes, we'll just destroy them or rewrite their dna to not be that way.

    Trek doesn't seem to explore that scientific solution, it's all about, how can we "humans" find common ground with others and we don't know if we can therefore we have to be careful about if we help or not. There are of course stupid examples but there just as easily could be very valid examples.

  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited February 2021
    I mean the culture also does scale better than much of scifi. It's a galaxy spanning civilization that doesn't rely on planets, but on movable orbitals and moving GSVs, with the implications that this brings.

    For example (spoilers for the books "Consider Phlebas", and "Look to Windward")
    Even one of the major conflicts that the culture was involved in, the Culture-Idrian war, which resulted in
    Total casualties amounted to 851.4 ± 2.55 (0.3%) billion sentient creatures, including Medjel (slaves of the Idirans), sentient machines and non-combatants, and wiped out various smaller species, including the Changers. The war resulted in the destruction of 91,215,660 (±200) starships above interplanetary, 14,334 orbitals, 53 planets and major moons, one ring and three spheres, as well as the significant mass-loss or sequence-position alteration of six stars.

    And still that conflict, while being a major event in the galaxy of that setting, basically only involved those who wanted to take part in the culture.

    99% of the inhabitants of the culture just avoided it completely, because even 851 billion sentiences are a very small percentage of a whole galaxy full of beings

    Also, the culture would never just rewrite DNA. At worst, they'd steer a civilization to where they'd do it themselves!

    autono-wally, erotibot300 on
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  • MonwynMonwyn Apathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime. A little bit of everything, all of the time.Registered User regular
    mrondeau wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    mrondeau wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    I like the way The Culture handles crime and punishment. Most things that are stigmatized aren't actually crimes. You just look like a shitheel to everyone. If you manage to cross the line into a full on crime like murder, they have a drone follow you around to prevent you from committing further crimes. There's no prison system and it's pretty much impossible for a human to kill the drone.

    It should be noted that murder is almost impossible in the Culture due to the fact that if, say, someone chops off your head, a drone can reach you within seconds to save and keep your head alive while they grow you a new body. Even situations where you're completely unsalvageable, you can still have neural nets set up in your brain (prior to dying, of course) that constantly back-up your consciousness and then they can plant "your" brain and memories into whatever body you want. (that's more like a perfect clone than you living on though)

    As Gurgeh explains it, the primary punishment of having a drone following you everywhere is social. "You won't get invited to parties" and if you crash parties anyway, "no one will talk to you."
    That's not quite accurate: you can murder people in the Culture, it's just that most people can be unmurdered. From the Culture's PoV, the main problem is not death, it's that the dying part is rather traumatic, so they would prefer if people don't kill people, outside of special circumstances.
    The rest is not so much punishment as people not liking someone much because they don't want to be treated to make them stop wanting to kill people.
    Presumably, they will just have nice conversations with the Slap drone.

    On the tangent: they have plate dedicated to people who want to raft on lava without a backup, so...

    I said "almost" impossible, not entirely impossible. Most medical things can just be fixed, and things like poisons can be handled by the Culture-engineered body. Dying outside the culture has more of a risk since you don't have Hub at your beck and call all day, but within the Culture proper death is difficult to come by.

    Sorry, I was not clear: murder is not "victim is dead", it's "murderer killed". The final state of the victim is irrelevant, it's the intent that matter. To put it in modern terms, for the Culture, attempted murder is murder.

    To loop back to Star Trek, the main difference with the Federation is not so much the tech level but the willingness to intervene: the Culture is very interventionist at all scales. Being able to make things better (as seen by the doer!) is basically mandatory.
    Someone is sick, heal them. Someone is violent, make them non-violent. Some society has a epidemic, heal it. Some society is waging war, make them non-wage war.
    It's not punishment, that would be barbarous, it's improvement.

    Contact is the society scale version of rewriting someone's personality. The society scale version of a Slap drone is significantly more slappy. But not punitive.

    Also, not "as viewed by the Culture," but "As mathematically proven using formulae that aren't really comprehensible by organic life."

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  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited February 2021
    Monwyn wrote: »
    mrondeau wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    mrondeau wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    I like the way The Culture handles crime and punishment. Most things that are stigmatized aren't actually crimes. You just look like a shitheel to everyone. If you manage to cross the line into a full on crime like murder, they have a drone follow you around to prevent you from committing further crimes. There's no prison system and it's pretty much impossible for a human to kill the drone.

    It should be noted that murder is almost impossible in the Culture due to the fact that if, say, someone chops off your head, a drone can reach you within seconds to save and keep your head alive while they grow you a new body. Even situations where you're completely unsalvageable, you can still have neural nets set up in your brain (prior to dying, of course) that constantly back-up your consciousness and then they can plant "your" brain and memories into whatever body you want. (that's more like a perfect clone than you living on though)

    As Gurgeh explains it, the primary punishment of having a drone following you everywhere is social. "You won't get invited to parties" and if you crash parties anyway, "no one will talk to you."
    That's not quite accurate: you can murder people in the Culture, it's just that most people can be unmurdered. From the Culture's PoV, the main problem is not death, it's that the dying part is rather traumatic, so they would prefer if people don't kill people, outside of special circumstances.
    The rest is not so much punishment as people not liking someone much because they don't want to be treated to make them stop wanting to kill people.
    Presumably, they will just have nice conversations with the Slap drone.

    On the tangent: they have plate dedicated to people who want to raft on lava without a backup, so...

    I said "almost" impossible, not entirely impossible. Most medical things can just be fixed, and things like poisons can be handled by the Culture-engineered body. Dying outside the culture has more of a risk since you don't have Hub at your beck and call all day, but within the Culture proper death is difficult to come by.

    Sorry, I was not clear: murder is not "victim is dead", it's "murderer killed". The final state of the victim is irrelevant, it's the intent that matter. To put it in modern terms, for the Culture, attempted murder is murder.

    To loop back to Star Trek, the main difference with the Federation is not so much the tech level but the willingness to intervene: the Culture is very interventionist at all scales. Being able to make things better (as seen by the doer!) is basically mandatory.
    Someone is sick, heal them. Someone is violent, make them non-violent. Some society has a epidemic, heal it. Some society is waging war, make them non-wage war.
    It's not punishment, that would be barbarous, it's improvement.

    Contact is the society scale version of rewriting someone's personality. The society scale version of a Slap drone is significantly more slappy. But not punitive.

    Also, not "as viewed by the Culture," but "As mathematically proven using formulae that aren't really comprehensible by organic life."

    And if that mathematical solution isn't available, sometimes simmed in society wide simulations so realistic they have to keep them running forever since switching them off would be considered mass murder..

    (not simmed often!)

    autono-wally, erotibot300 on
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  • mrondeaumrondeau Montréal, CanadaRegistered User regular
    Monwyn wrote: »
    mrondeau wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    mrondeau wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    I like the way The Culture handles crime and punishment. Most things that are stigmatized aren't actually crimes. You just look like a shitheel to everyone. If you manage to cross the line into a full on crime like murder, they have a drone follow you around to prevent you from committing further crimes. There's no prison system and it's pretty much impossible for a human to kill the drone.

    It should be noted that murder is almost impossible in the Culture due to the fact that if, say, someone chops off your head, a drone can reach you within seconds to save and keep your head alive while they grow you a new body. Even situations where you're completely unsalvageable, you can still have neural nets set up in your brain (prior to dying, of course) that constantly back-up your consciousness and then they can plant "your" brain and memories into whatever body you want. (that's more like a perfect clone than you living on though)

    As Gurgeh explains it, the primary punishment of having a drone following you everywhere is social. "You won't get invited to parties" and if you crash parties anyway, "no one will talk to you."
    That's not quite accurate: you can murder people in the Culture, it's just that most people can be unmurdered. From the Culture's PoV, the main problem is not death, it's that the dying part is rather traumatic, so they would prefer if people don't kill people, outside of special circumstances.
    The rest is not so much punishment as people not liking someone much because they don't want to be treated to make them stop wanting to kill people.
    Presumably, they will just have nice conversations with the Slap drone.

    On the tangent: they have plate dedicated to people who want to raft on lava without a backup, so...

    I said "almost" impossible, not entirely impossible. Most medical things can just be fixed, and things like poisons can be handled by the Culture-engineered body. Dying outside the culture has more of a risk since you don't have Hub at your beck and call all day, but within the Culture proper death is difficult to come by.

    Sorry, I was not clear: murder is not "victim is dead", it's "murderer killed". The final state of the victim is irrelevant, it's the intent that matter. To put it in modern terms, for the Culture, attempted murder is murder.

    To loop back to Star Trek, the main difference with the Federation is not so much the tech level but the willingness to intervene: the Culture is very interventionist at all scales. Being able to make things better (as seen by the doer!) is basically mandatory.
    Someone is sick, heal them. Someone is violent, make them non-violent. Some society has a epidemic, heal it. Some society is waging war, make them non-wage war.
    It's not punishment, that would be barbarous, it's improvement.

    Contact is the society scale version of rewriting someone's personality. The society scale version of a Slap drone is significantly more slappy. But not punitive.

    Also, not "as viewed by the Culture," but "As mathematically proven using formulae that aren't really comprehensible by organic life."

    Which is how the Culture view things, yes. Look to Windward is a pretty good look at how those on the receiving end of the math might feel about it.

  • Kipling217Kipling217 Registered User regular
    Actually the Culture brings up one of the things I am disappointed by S3 of Disco; the lack of anything resembling megastructures. The closest we came was Starfleet HQ and Emerald Chain boss ship and they are small fry compared to anything the Culture regularly produces.

    Its been 900 years and that is best they can come up with?

    Its a big galaxy though and they do an excuse for not talking about such things, but its one of the pitches I would have made for Disco S4. A fuckhuge orbital that is controlled by a splinter faction of the federation from before the burn. Made up of all the people that didn't see the point of exploration once they got a custom made paradise. Isolationist and embodying the worst smugness of the Federation. The Culture without Contact, Special Circumstance and Minds(or Ships). Powerful but indifferent to the suffering going on outside of their little sphere. Like many in the developed world are towards injustices going on in the third world. Sure its horrible, but that's just the way it is over there. AKA The Paradise Trap.

    The sky was full of stars, every star an exploding ship. One of ours.
  • TastyfishTastyfish Registered User regular
    This is the biggest issue I have with Picard, I really wanted a what will the future of the Federation be, with them being on the verge of the singularity with the holographic AIs, the functioning positronic minds and the prime directive holding the basic biological unit as being paramount.

    The Federation in Star Trek is genuinely at a cross roads, which also mirrors a lot of the issues we're going to face in the coming decades. There's also a lot of things that when you look back on them with these issues in mind, raise a lot of world building questions;

    The computer on a Starship could clearly run it, but that's not what Star Fleet is about - it's the exploration that counts, seemingly requiring a organic being to experience it, and more than that - be comfortable doing so.
    Discovery has definitely introduced cyborgs as people who had been injured beyond even the Federations medical tech as a way of treating an injury and we've seen that these prosthetics can also grant superhuman abilities.

    It seems that the Federation should be fine with two classes of people, upgrade yourself to become a member of cyborg starfleet, or be content in your own personal paradise back home, as they're not a huge step from the current conditions.

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    edited February 2021
    Kipling217 wrote: »
    Actually the Culture brings up one of the things I am disappointed by S3 of Disco; the lack of anything resembling megastructures. The closest we came was Starfleet HQ and Emerald Chain boss ship and they are small fry compared to anything the Culture regularly produces.

    Its been 900 years and that is best they can come up with?

    Funny coincidence - people on my STO fleet's discord were talking about this very subject while I was at work today, and one of their issues with S3 is that it's a little too advanced - that when you add that much new future-magic technology, it starts to look just like the Culture and other SF of that ilk. The classic technologies of the Federation, with all their well-known limitations, get lost in the mix. Aside from stuff like "primary, secondary, nacelles" (and even that gets messed with a bit, with some of the new ships), what's left that's distinctively "Trek" compared to any other series or setting with a comparable tech level?
    Its a big galaxy though and they do an excuse for not talking about such things, but its one of the pitches I would have made for Disco S4. A fuckhuge orbital that is controlled by a splinter faction of the federation from before the burn. Made up of all the people that didn't see the point of exploration once they got a custom made paradise. Isolationist and embodying the worst smugness of the Federation. The Culture without Contact, Special Circumstance and Minds(or Ships). Powerful but indifferent to the suffering going on outside of their little sphere. Like many in the developed world are towards injustices going on in the third world. Sure its horrible, but that's just the way it is over there. AKA The Paradise Trap.

    This has potential, but also some risk. An unspoken but important rule of this sort of storytelling is that you can't be too critical of current society, can't make the audience feel too bad about themselves or their way of life. They have to be given an out, a path to convince themselves that of course they would be on the right side of any moral conflict. Poke holes and point out the flaws, sure, Trek has always done that (as much as some seem to forget or pretend otherwise), but there has to be that thread of hope, the little bit of honey to make the bitter medicine/moral go down easier.

    Tastyfish wrote: »
    This is the biggest issue I have with Picard, I really wanted a what will the future of the Federation be, with them being on the verge of the singularity with the holographic AIs, the functioning positronic minds and the prime directive holding the basic biological unit as being paramount.

    The Federation in Star Trek is genuinely at a cross roads, which also mirrors a lot of the issues we're going to face in the coming decades. There's also a lot of things that when you look back on them with these issues in mind, raise a lot of world building questions;

    The computer on a Starship could clearly run it, but that's not what Star Fleet is about - it's the exploration that counts, seemingly requiring a organic being to experience it, and more than that - be comfortable doing so.
    Discovery has definitely introduced cyborgs as people who had been injured beyond even the Federations medical tech as a way of treating an injury and we've seen that these prosthetics can also grant superhuman abilities.

    It seems that the Federation should be fine with two classes of people, upgrade yourself to become a member of cyborg starfleet, or be content in your own personal paradise back home, as they're not a huge step from the current conditions.

    Trek has also always been deeply suspicious of this sort of transhumanism, of computers or cyborgs or genetically-engineered supermen taking over and making regular humans obsolete, irrelevant and/or extinct. Instead it prefers to embrace psuedoscientific mystical woo where all life inevitably evolves toward more "advanced" and ultimately non-corporeal forms or sometimes salamanders, through purely natural, spiritual (but not religious) and biological means. I do think we're finally starting to see some of that changing/becoming more flexible, but there's a lot of inertia and silliness that needs to be overcome.

    Commander Zoom on
  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    I have to say I actually really enjoyed the episode where it's revealed that Bashir is genetically engineered and I think they tackled the topic in an interesting way. I think the only problem is that the resolution was too quick and easy, they really could've dug into the idea of Bashir being put on trial for who he is in a way that he had no control over, and could've really sunk into some interesting topics.

  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    Y'all ain't gonna go making me write another essay about the Culture now are you?

  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    Y'all ain't gonna go making me write another essay about the Culture now are you?

    Make you? Perish the thought.
    Set up a conversation where you feel compelled to do so? Like, you can feel the words under your skin like a clutch of parasitic insects waiting to burst forth onto your keyboard? Sure, that we might do.

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    I have to say I actually really enjoyed the episode where it's revealed that Bashir is genetically engineered and I think they tackled the topic in an interesting way. I think the only problem is that the resolution was too quick and easy, they really could've dug into the idea of Bashir being put on trial for who he is in a way that he had no control over, and could've really sunk into some interesting topics.

    According to Memory Alpha, Siddig apparently praises the episode and the acting that the twist allowed him to do, but did not like the way it was sprung on him - when he got the script the day before shooting started. No warning or consultation at all.

  • Kipling217Kipling217 Registered User regular
    Kipling217 wrote: »
    Actually the Culture brings up one of the things I am disappointed by S3 of Disco; the lack of anything resembling megastructures. The closest we came was Starfleet HQ and Emerald Chain boss ship and they are small fry compared to anything the Culture regularly produces.

    Its been 900 years and that is best they can come up with?

    Funny coincidence - people on my STO fleet's discord were talking about this very subject while I was at work today, and one of their issues with S3 is that it's a little too advanced - that when you add that much new future-magic technology, it starts to look just like the Culture and other SF of that ilk. The classic technologies of the Federation, with all their well-known limitations, get lost in the mix. Aside from stuff like "primary, secondary, nacelles" (and even that gets messed with a bit, with some of the new ships), what's left that's distinctively "Trek" compared to any other series or setting with a comparable tech level?
    Its a big galaxy though and they do an excuse for not talking about such things, but its one of the pitches I would have made for Disco S4. A fuckhuge orbital that is controlled by a splinter faction of the federation from before the burn. Made up of all the people that didn't see the point of exploration once they got a custom made paradise. Isolationist and embodying the worst smugness of the Federation. The Culture without Contact, Special Circumstance and Minds(or Ships). Powerful but indifferent to the suffering going on outside of their little sphere. Like many in the developed world are towards injustices going on in the third world. Sure its horrible, but that's just the way it is over there. AKA The Paradise Trap.

    This has potential, but also some risk. An unspoken but important rule of this sort of storytelling is that you can't be too critical of current society, can't make the audience feel too bad about themselves or their way of life. They have to be given an out, a path to convince themselves that of course they would be on the right side of any moral conflict. Poke holes and point out the flaws, sure, Trek has always done that (as much as some seem to forget or pretend otherwise), but there has to be that thread of hope, the little bit of honey to make the bitter medicine/moral go down easier.

    Well the protagonist would be the Disco Crew and Starfleet and it would be focused on them being in the right to care about the outside world, with the Orbital People being the lotus eaters in the Paradise Trap. The path being that comfort at the expense of indifference to others suffering, a refusal to grow and explore the human condition and the need to look forward to improve yourself is the right choice.

    The sky was full of stars, every star an exploding ship. One of ours.
  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    I've been watching some Kids in the Hall stuff on Youtube over the past couple of days (and realizing how many skits I missed when it was on Comedy Central). On this skit, at around the 2:08 mark... Nicole de Boer aka Ezri Dax?!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUUWMsOUC5Y

    "If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    Cute as a button, long hair or short.

  • The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    I remember her being in a handful of skits. Retro recognition and all that now, but if anything she stood out because it's an actual woman in a KitA skit instead of one of the 5 dressing up.

    "The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
  • Quantum TigerQuantum Tiger Registered User regular
    Remember in TNG when the Enterprise found a Dyson Sphere but the episode mainly focused on this random dude they found on it, I think his name was "Scotty?"

  • RhinocerousRhinocerous Registered User regular
    Remember in TNG when the Enterprise found a Dyson Sphere but the episode mainly focused on this random dude they found on it, I think his name was "Scotty?"

    RIP Franklin. :(

  • LanlaornLanlaorn Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    I like the way The Culture handles crime and punishment. Most things that are stigmatized aren't actually crimes. You just look like a shitheel to everyone. If you manage to cross the line into a full on crime like murder, they have a drone follow you around to prevent you from committing further crimes. There's no prison system and it's pretty much impossible for a human to kill the drone.

    It should be noted that murder is almost impossible in the Culture due to the fact that if, say, someone chops off your head, a drone can reach you within seconds to save and keep your head alive while they grow you a new body. Even situations where you're completely unsalvageable, you can still have neural nets set up in your brain (prior to dying, of course) that constantly back-up your consciousness and then they can plant "your" brain and memories into whatever body you want. (that's more like a perfect clone than you living on though)

    As Gurgeh explains it, the primary punishment of having a drone following you everywhere is social. "You won't get invited to parties" and if you crash parties anyway, "no one will talk to you."

    This is also a society where if you just happen to be doing a hike in some mountainous region of a Culture orbital and you see a nice house along the way, you can just enter in and be hosted by the house's drones even if the homeowner isn't around. There's no concept of ownership because anything you have can be easily and freely duplicated, right down to the landscape. "I want a house exactly like Jurno Gurgeh's with exactly the same view" is entirely possible. Imagine if the entirety of Earth's 584 million mile orbit were a ring of manufactured plates connected together and spinning around the sun (as well as each plate spinning towards and away from the sun) instead of just one planet. The ability to live where ever you want is limitless. If the right environment doesn't exist on one of the plates they already built, just add another plate and expand the size of the orbital by a little bit.

    Slight tangent so gonna spoiler it for those who don't want to read:
    I've never thought about how orbitals work before now, but it does make me wonder if people try to set records to see how many plates they can hike across in one lifetime. Or if there's any particular plate landscape that invites people the way Earth's mountain ranges do, like how there are people who want to traverse the Appalachians or reach the top of Mount Everest. I would guess there are plates built specifically for people who like outdoorsy achievements. Like a climbing wall at a gym, except your entire environment is transformed into climbing, hiking, and camping challenges, with rivers stocked to always produce enough edible fish for you to easily survive without a drone during your hike, or specific cold-acclimated animals and plants for high on the mountain top.

    I think this is why I was Ok with, even pleased at how Star Trek Picard handles Rafi's situation. Because the Federation as yet has not shown the ability to create entire environments out of nothing the way the Culture can (the Genesis device being a failure). So you can give Rafi all that she needs to live, but you can't guarantee her a beautiful ocean view and an army of robots to clean up after her. If you need something to live, you will get it in the Federation, but luxuries still have limits.

    Even when all things can be duplicated effortlessly there's still the value society places on things, if a forger could mass produce perfectly indistinguishable Mona Lisa paintings they would all still be worth the cost of his time and materials while the real Mona Lisa in the Louvre is priceless.

    Similarly there would always be a real Manhattan with apartments along the real Central Park and value associated with living there rather than newly churned out Manhattan 56183 on an Orbital halfway across the galaxy.

    There will always be "cool" places and everyone who wants to physically occupy that space will exceed the physical dimensions, thus scarcity and real estate values. Even if you completely stop giving a fuck about hand made works of art vs. mass produced drone items or unique historical artifacts vs. replicas, we're shown that Culture citizens still care about attending parties and making friends and cool scenes, etc.

    I love the Culture, it's so nice to have an interesting post-scarcity society to contrast to Star Trek's lazy nonsense, but even in a setting where you can say "I want my own private world" and some AI says "Sure, coming right up" because fuck it, our resources are infinite, I feel it's too handwavy to just say "yep, money and trade is dead".

    The Star Trek episode where Jake is trying to get an authentic signed baseball card for Sisko is a great example, he could just replicate one, but it's not the same thing. The episode acts like this is a surprising and unusual situation for a Federation citizen to find themselves in, but that shit would happen constantly. Picard owns a vineyard in the South of France. There's only one South of France and plenty of people who want to live there, it's worth a fortune and every time I see that episode where he scolds the recently unthawed 20th century rich man I want to roll my eyes.

  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    edited March 2021
    Star Trek's world isn't lazy nonsense. It's just not the point. It's why the Culture comparisons are just incredibly silly. Star Trek is not trying to tell that kind of story. And not just on the level of "Star Trek is not concerned with strict adherence to some concept of world building and is more concerned with telling entertaining and often unconnected stories week after week". But on a really fundamental level Star Trek has never been about how technology shapes people. It's not about how Federation society is the product of the technology that can build a post-scarcity society. It's about how people changed themselves to be the kind of people who would build a post-scarcity society. Star Trek stories are rife with technobabble but it's literally babble. It's right in the name. It exists to support the story but is not meaningful in and of itself. Both on the level of week to week storytelling and on the larger thematic level of what the shows have wanted to say about the future. It's fundamental uninterested in the specifics of how an advanced society would work and actively avoids elements of that kind of thing that would make life unrecognizable to the audience because all of that is either not the point or defeats the purpose. The Culture series on the other hand seems very interested in like the exact opposite of all that.

    shryke on
  • LanlaornLanlaorn Registered User regular
    I think "That's not the story the writers want to tell" is a pretty broad defense that handwaves any criticism one could have with any work of fiction.

    Take anything widely considered bad or ridiculed, say the ending of Dexter, or How I Met Your Mother, or Rise of Skywalker - why aren't they better works? "That's just not the point."

    This feels like "Well, man, that's like your opinion." Yes, technically true, but still unsatisfying. I get that most people don't care about Star Trek's economy but it would only be a better work if it actually made sense, especially given the focus on Ferengi in DS9.

  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    Lanlaorn wrote: »
    I think "That's not the story the writers want to tell" is a pretty broad defense that handwaves any criticism one could have with any work of fiction.

    Take anything widely considered bad or ridiculed, say the ending of Dexter, or How I Met Your Mother, or Rise of Skywalker - why aren't they better works? "That's just not the point."

    This feels like "Well, man, that's like your opinion." Yes, technically true, but still unsatisfying. I get that most people don't care about Star Trek's economy but it would only be a better work if it actually made sense, especially given the focus on Ferengi in DS9.

    That's not true. "That's not the story the writers want to tell" is a valid defense of criticism of elements that are beside the point of the story, but not a valid defense of criticism of elements relevant to the story.

    Why does the tech in Star Trek not make sense and its impacts on society and culture not fully explored? Because that's not the point of Star Trek, it's a morality play in space that focuses on what it means to be, and how to be, better humans. Why are the TNG movies and Discovery and the second half of Picard senseless action sequences with little to no coherent character development? "That's not the point" doesn't work anymore, because characters are the point of Star Trek.

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited March 2021
    So I never finished TNG and have resumed my watch of it.

    I'm in season 5 and there's some real interesting episodes here, and some not so interesting ones.

    Unification 1 and 2:
    Spock! But also these episodes are kind of boring? And Tasha Yar is back but she's a romulan now? Clever use of the hologram tech at the end and Data gets to do a vulcan nerve pinch, so that's fun.

    A Matter of Time:
    I just like watching Matt Frewer do stuff so this was a treat.

    New Ground:
    Oh no Alexander is back, and he's an asshole. There's a surprisingly large number of episodes with kids in them, isn't there? The little kid klingon makeup is kind of hilarious, but overall this was a little cringey.

    Hero Worship:
    More child actors! Except this one gets to be robotic on purpose! Figured out the reason the ship blew up pretty quickly, except then the little kid goes I DID IT, I KILLED THEM ALL and I was hoping for something more fun but nope he's just a traumatized little kid. :(

    Violations:
    Good lord this episode is terrifying. I had to skip over some of the sequences because the audio and visual stuff they did made me really uncomfortable. Which is probably the point! But it was weird how this wrapped up with so little ramifications for the offenders.

    The Masterpiece Society:
    Eugenics, what if they're good though? I appreciated that Picard got to say no, absolutely not, this shit sucks. Deanna falling in love with the administrator was kinda weird.

    Conundrum:
    This one was fun! I had to double take when it talked about Commander MacDuff, thinking I had missed a character somehow because I was picking up my rewatch. Also Riker and Ro was hilarious.

    Power Play:
    GHOSTS. Data being an asshole is very fun and also pretty scary. Weird how they blew up an innocent ship and killed a bunch of people and there was no repercussion other than "Well we apologized"

    Ethics:
    Worf becomes paralyzed, except definitely not forever because it's Worf and I'm pretty sure he shows up in other series. I liked Riker's speech about refusing to help Worf kill himself and having his son do it instead. Sub plot with the doctor who sucks at being a doctor was weird and didn't feel properly resolved to me. Beverly was mad at her, she sort of shrugged and went off to continue doing dangerous medicine, I guess.

    The Outcast:
    This episode felt real interesting in 2021, but resolved in a pretty weird way with Soren getting "rehabilitated" off screen and everyone just leaving sort of sad about it. Considering the age of the episode, definitely interesting to see it tackle gender like this. I do want to know more about how they inseminate husks though.

    Cause and Effect:
    Groundhog day episode but with the members not realizing they're groundhog daying. Fun twist on it but so many scenes were repeated without changes I was wondering if this episode was made with budget constraints in mind, although the ship collision and explosion was pretty cool. And then SURPRISE KELSEY GRAMMAR.

    Been a lot of fun, looking forward to finishing out the series and maybe trying out Deep Space 9 or something. And also probably watching the TNG movies I've never seen, even if they're bad. I remember one with Picard and Kirk riding horses but that's it.

    SniperGuy on
  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Lanlaorn wrote: »
    I think "That's not the story the writers want to tell" is a pretty broad defense that handwaves any criticism one could have with any work of fiction.

    Take anything widely considered bad or ridiculed, say the ending of Dexter, or How I Met Your Mother, or Rise of Skywalker - why aren't they better works? "That's just not the point."

    This feels like "Well, man, that's like your opinion." Yes, technically true, but still unsatisfying. I get that most people don't care about Star Trek's economy but it would only be a better work if it actually made sense, especially given the focus on Ferengi in DS9.

    Nah. It's a specific point about what kind of story you are trying to tell.

    Does the world of John Wick make any goddamn sense? Would all this shit be happening literally just beneath the notice of the wider world? It doesn't matter because it's irrelevant to the type of story it's trying to tell.

    Does Omelas make sense? Does it need to make sense? It's besides the point of the story.

    Something like Rise of Skywalker is not shit because it's worldbuilding doesn't make sense. Star Wars has never made much sense in that respect. It's shit because it's got bad writing that abandons established plotlines and character arcs and has shitty pacing and randomly absolutely shuts down built up romantic stories because a multi-billion dollar franchise can't risk the blowback of interracial hookups and so on down the road. I have no idea how you think these are comparable.

  • HydropoloHydropolo Registered User regular
    From the episode in question:
    PICARD: That's what this is all about. A lot has changed in the past three hundred years. People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of things. We've eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We have grown out of our infancy.

    There is nothing here saying things don't have value or you can't have specific desires for things. It's just that it's no longer a driving need within Earth or possibly the Federation at large. When food, shelter, medical, entertainment/etc are all available for a trivial cost, you are talking about just the bonus. I 100% imagine that in the Federation there is a TON of handmade items and in general an art boom, if for no other reason than because people don't need to work a job to make money, and can do things for passion.

  • daveNYCdaveNYC Why universe hate Waspinator? Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    Lanlaorn wrote: »
    I think "That's not the story the writers want to tell" is a pretty broad defense that handwaves any criticism one could have with any work of fiction.

    Take anything widely considered bad or ridiculed, say the ending of Dexter, or How I Met Your Mother, or Rise of Skywalker - why aren't they better works? "That's just not the point."

    This feels like "Well, man, that's like your opinion." Yes, technically true, but still unsatisfying. I get that most people don't care about Star Trek's economy but it would only be a better work if it actually made sense, especially given the focus on Ferengi in DS9.

    Nah. It's a specific point about what kind of story you are trying to tell.

    Does the world of John Wick make any goddamn sense? Would all this shit be happening literally just beneath the notice of the wider world? It doesn't matter because it's irrelevant to the type of story it's trying to tell.

    Does Omelas make sense? Does it need to make sense? It's besides the point of the story.

    Something like Rise of Skywalker is not shit because it's worldbuilding doesn't make sense. Star Wars has never made much sense in that respect. It's shit because it's got bad writing that abandons established plotlines and character arcs and has shitty pacing and randomly absolutely shuts down built up romantic stories because a multi-billion dollar franchise can't risk the blowback of interracial hookups and so on down the road. I have no idea how you think these are comparable.

    Actually, I think John Wick is a good example of the problem with Trek's setting. The first movie was relatively low key. It was a bit of a stretch, but yeah, you could buy that there's some weird shady underground of assassins doing business with gold coins. Third movie comes around and it's just gotten silly, with seemingly half of Manhattan and every homeless person and taxi driver involved in this shadowy world. It's gone from suspension of disbelief to just eye rolling so we can get on with the stunts and the shooting.

    Trek is in a similar situation. Two seasons of TOS? Fine. The tech can do whatever is necessary to carry the main plot. After TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, Picard, Lower Decks, and Discovery? Even if you weren't trying to build a setting because that wasn't important to the story, at this point you've managed to build one just from the quantity of produced material. And if it's contradictory and doesn't make much sense, then that's on the writers not wanting to do the work in the first place. And I don't think the situation has been harmless to the core stories that Trek is trying to tell. There's certainly been enough situations where 'In Episode X, why didn't they just do the thing that they did in Episode Y since that'd solve the problem right quick?' came up as fridge logic. B5 and SG-1 managed to keep things fairly well sorted on that front, no reason to give Star Trek a complete pass on it.

    Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Cause and Effect:
    Groundhog day episode but with the members not realizing they're groundhog daying. Fun twist on it but so many scenes were repeated without changes I was wondering if this episode was made with budget constraints in mind, although the ship collision and explosion was pretty cool. And then SURPRISE KELSEY GRAMMAR.
    Surprise all of Frasier!
    https://youtu.be/BIeEyDETaHY

    Incredibly accurate considering the skit ends with a Janeway Pi.

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