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offline Tony Danza from Sesame Street on 2020-01-27 12:36 [#02593925]
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Don't make me turn into what I hate, hypies. TNG made me
cringe any time it got into biology or genetics. Like the
episode where everyone "mutated" into ancestral forms, then
happily got turned back by the end of the episode. I didn't
give a shit about the physics because 1) I don't know much
about it and 2) who cares, they have FTL drives, it's
science fiction. They have a "holodeck" where you can get
killed by the holograms. And presumably fuck them.

The most interesting un-thought-through thing to me is the
transporters. Do they destroy you and recreate a different
"you" at the destination? That's the only reason you could
have copies. It's the same as the replicators I guess. The
philosopher Derek Parfit talks about this kind of thing a
lot in Reasons and Persons.


 

offline Tony Danza from Sesame Street on 2020-01-27 12:37 [#02593926]
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HAHA, they also did that shit on Voyager??


 

online Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-01-27 15:25 [#02593927]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

online Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-01-27 15:27 [#02593928]
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yeah the transporters certainly are a philosophical dilemma,
in fact we never see the real true version of Picard as he
got atomically disassembled, when he first used a
transporter presumably when he first joined Starfleet,
actually yeah I know what you mean about picking holes in
things its opens a can of worms


 

offline Tony Danza from Sesame Street on 2020-01-27 18:18 [#02593931]
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I recall reading that a bunch of nerds at a science fiction
convention realized there was something wrong with the
physics of Larry Niven's Ringworld and started chanting "the
ringworld is unstable! the ringworld is unstable!"

Imagine the horror. Imagine the smell.

Anyways these two self righteous nerds knew the same thing
you and I did about supernovas before they consulted
Wikipedia looking for something smart to say in their
youtube: absolutely nothing. I'm wondering if there's a
service that rents out jocks to beat them up.


 

online Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-01-27 19:22 [#02593932]
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I think what they do is very tongue in cheek tbh, I think my
main complaint with modern trek is there is too much action,
they are aligning it with modern Hollywood too much, but I
guess that's the only way they can get the green light on
these projects


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2020-01-27 21:07 [#02593933]
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Series 3 of Mr Mercedes has Janeway as a nympho paedo
granny.

Got me all hot and bothered.


 

online Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2020-01-27 21:20 [#02593934]
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nsfw


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2020-01-27 22:47 [#02593935]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-01-29 16:39 [#02594003]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfQdf93e63I


 

offline Tony Danza from Sesame Street on 2020-01-30 23:22 [#02594052]
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Captain on deck


 


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