Odinkirk
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- Comment on The Starfleet Gazette Will Not Be Endorsing a Candidate for President of the United Federation of Planets 3 weeks ago:
Are you kidding? That’s very on brand for Janeway.
- Comment on Which TOS episode was this? 4 months ago:
John Lithgow looking weird.
- Comment on Mandala effect 6 months ago:
Alan Tudyk would have been a good Stamets, but Anthony Rapp has been perfection.
- Comment on Janeway’s “Tuvix” Decision Divides ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Cast: “It Kind Of Hurt Her Character” 9 months ago:
I understand but disagree with that perspective. To me they were not alive at the time. However, you still haven’t accounted for the rest. Reconcile the Majalis problem and Janeway’s own speech to the Vidiians.
- Comment on Janeway’s “Tuvix” Decision Divides ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Cast: “It Kind Of Hurt Her Character” 9 months ago:
If you abandon your principles when things get hard then they’re not principles; they’re hobbies.
- Comment on Janeway’s “Tuvix” Decision Divides ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Cast: “It Kind Of Hurt Her Character” 9 months ago:
You’d fit right in on Majalis then.
- Comment on Janeway’s “Tuvix” Decision Divides ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Cast: “It Kind Of Hurt Her Character” 9 months ago:
The two crew members that were lost at the same time Tuvix appeared? The dead (not alive) ones? And again, square this with the speech she gave the Vidiians.
If you’re going to refute, then address the whole thing.
- Comment on Janeway’s “Tuvix” Decision Divides ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Cast: “It Kind Of Hurt Her Character” 9 months ago:
This is not a trolley problem in that there is sequence involved:
1: Tuvok and Neelix alive before transport
2: Tuvok and Neelix dead and a new rational being in their place. This being had a moral blank slate and are thus blameless for the circumstances of creation.
3: Janeway decides that the speech she gave to the Vidiians was just hot air and that she will kill Tuvix to get the original two back. (Non lethal ways were explored, but quickly abandoned)
4: The blameless being makes an articulate case for their life, and even addresses the “needs of the many” argument by stating the truth: the other two are gone and the new being is there. (Raw, unalloyed utilitarianism is problematic at best, just ask the people of
OmelasMajalis)5: The doctor straight up says that the procedure is unethical and refuses to do it.
6: Janet does it anyway.
Calling it a trolley problem is reductive and inaccurate.
- Comment on Star Trek: The Deep Space Nine episode that predicted a US crisis [bbc.com] 10 months ago:
“Meanwhile, Black Mirror presumably got back to the work of its horror-based arms race, as the show continues to try to find a doomsday prophecy that tech giants might still view as a warning and not a corporate benchmark for [next fiscal quarter].” – AVClub
- Comment on Savage Keiko 10 months ago:
Why is it that even in the memes, O’Brien must suffer? 🥺
- Comment on Tom Morello - A Metalhead's Guide to 'Star Trek' 10 months ago:
I found myself wanting more from the video; favorite episodes/plot arcs/characters and so on. But it was still cool.
- Comment on R.O.A. #18: A Ferengi without profit is no Ferengi at all. 10 months ago:
Why do I get the impression that this is part of basic Ferengi education?