Ashyr

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Spicy take around these parts.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

I don’t think it should be controversial to say that you vote for Nazis and you are a Nazi.

So then our policy can simply be, “Nazis sleep alone.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That episode was very good, but had a similarly ludicrous hook, with the evil scientist wanting to rip the child from Data’s arms, which ultimately results in her death.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

In all seriousness, you can phone bank.

https://go.kamalaharris.com/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s too bad. Anything involving sentience and how we evaluate it is so fascinating and it absolutely could have been more interesting than that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I don’t mind spoilers—but use spoiler tags if necessary—what do you mean?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, the validation means the world to me. The performances were all top notch and I get the idea they’re going for, but how they went there was so painful and contrived.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I think that’s a terrific argument and it is always wise to contextualize it in history.

We have absolutely been binging which certainly gives it a different feel, but I would argue even as a standalone episode it was poorly written if superbly performed.

There are ideas that could have been played with in a way that respects the setting. Perhaps another computer attempting to join Starfleet, but it looks like a box rather than a person and asks Data to argue its personhood.

I don’t know. I’m not a writer and I’m just spitting an idea off the top of my head, but I think there’s a place for internal consistency within a narrative regardless of when it was written.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
 

My wife and I are rewatching The Next Generation and just finished Measure of a Man, the episode in season 2 in which Data’s personhood is legally debated and his life hangs in the balance.

I genuinely found this episode infuriating in its stupidity. It’s the first episode we skipped even a little bit. It was like nails on a chalkboard.

There is oodles of legal precedent that Data is a person. He was allowed to apply to Starfleet, graduated, became an officer and rose to the rank of Lt. Commander with all the responsibilities and privileges thereof.

Comparing him to a computer and the judge advocate general just shrugging and going to trial over it is completely idiotic. There are literal years and years of precedent that he’s an officer.

The problem is compounded because Picard can’t make the obvious legal argument and is therefore stuck philosophizing in a court room, which is all well and good, but it kind of comes down to whether or not Data has a soul? That’s not a legal argument.

The whole thing is so unbelievably ludicrous it just made me angrier and angrier. It wasn’t the high minded, humanistic future I’ve come to know and love, it was a kangaroo court where reason and precedent took a backseat to feeling and belief.

I genuinely hated it.

To my surprise, in looking it up, I discovered it’s considered one of the high water marks for the entire show. It feels like I’m taking crazy pills.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm on iOS, but I gave it a few minutes of swiping to help out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (8 children)

I don't really understand what this means. Can you explain the implications?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Well hey, thank you! It was a fun prompt, I appreciate the inspiration and the feedback.

 
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