'Twas the night before first contact day..

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• Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah I’ve actually thought about this.

  Like… did Q just re-create existence around him? Or did he pluck Prime Picards consciousness and dump it into the body of Beta Picard? I like to think it’s the latter with Beta Picard in the background just like “Wait… what? What’s happening?” and then Q and Picard fuck off leaving this poor dude to desperately rely on therapy for the next couple years.

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  • CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think this is a rare case where “it was all a dream” is fine

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  • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My headcanon is that Q shifted Picard to an alternate quantum reality. Like what happened to Worf that one time.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Q has made little pocket realities before that don’t seem to affect the rest of the universe.

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• ReplicatedSoda@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is legit horror

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  • mostNONheinous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It reads like a Chief O’Brien at Work strip. Except he wouldn’t say “hey what the fuck” because he would just be so sad he couldn’t speak.

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• TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Holy shit, was this a real episode? Anyone got the Season Episode and Title handy? I know at least a few of you nerds do

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  • FaeDrifter@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    6x15 Tapestry

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    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      👑

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• semi_sentient@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ebenezer Scrooge was the true Multiverse of Madness.

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• karlach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This reminds me of Vanilla Sky.

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  Kurt Russell’s character realises he is in a simulation and has an existential crisis. You lived your entire life to this point and from someone else’s perspective you’re basically an NPC. Dread.

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  • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hehe Kurt Russel as the least in vanilla sky? I’d watch it.

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    • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, poor guy/girl is probably from a reality where Kurt Russell did play the lead in Vanilla Sky and is now having an identity crisis.

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  • Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All other people are NPCs from the perspective of one person. That’s what “non-player character” means.

    You’re the player in your own mind, aren’t you? That makes the rest of us NPCs.

    I just don’t see how someone else’s perspective of my autonomy should cause such a crisis in me.

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    • karlach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The difference is NPCs exist only for the main character’s experience. Oblivion’s Adoring Fan does not have a life outside of interacting with the main character or an existence outside of when the human in the external reality controls the main character in the simulated reality. In our reality there is apparently no main character. Everything and everyone simply is. To learn one is artificial is to realise that everything one has done is artificial and confined to the boundaries of someone else’s experience. A created slave with a hollow origin and no means of escaping a forced purpose.

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• bappity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  mfw a version of me from an alternate universe possesses my body and begs an omnipotent god to let him out

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  • Thisfox@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And it works.

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• CycloneWolf@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  On a related topic I wonder if Plague of Gripes ever finished that fence around his farm.

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• Anonymousllama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Still one of my favorite episodes, great to see actually humble for a change

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