TNG s6e7 “Rascals”
“We haven’t lost everything Miles, you can still work engineering miracles, and I can still criticize you for not being home often enough.”
Wait … can they still fuck? Or is it problematic now? How old is she? Are mental age and physical age the same thing in this scenario? Does she still have her memories?
Woody Allen really needs these questions answered guys.
She is one of several characters with who the infamous 4000yo-dragon defense can actually work.
Fantasy: A 4000yo dragon/demon
Sci-fi: Transporter accident.
Anime Character: “I’m just a little baby girl.”
ProZD: “Zero [years old]?!”
Anime Character: “I’m a thousand!”
ProZD: “NOPE.”
Trying to answer this seriously, I’d say no. This is like, a Princess Bubblegum de-aging situation. She has her memories, but her brain and personality is now that of a kid. As opposed to like, Claudia in Interview with the Vampire who is an immortal child that wanted to be treated as the 70 year old woman she was.
But even in the Claudia instance I’d say no because it’s still just too gross. There’s just no getting past the body age thing. I guess I’d say Claudia could probably have a legal right to seek adult experiences (though she would only find sick weirdos), but Keiko and Princess Bubblegum should not.
Heck, even in Adventure Time Bubblegum loses the right to rule because she is too young, despite being a thousand years old or something.
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Here’s my question, why was the malfunction not replicated and monitized by the Ferangi as a beauty produced? “Look 10 years younger because you will be 10 years younger”
Or when they de aged Pulaski to her “proper” age, they could have just gone a few years younger.
Or when they are aged the people in this episode, maybe only age them into their early 20s.
The transporters open up all sorts of scenarios that they clearly show as possible, but no one ever uses it that way on purpose somehow…
It’s been a while since I saw that episode but weren’t they only able to do that because they had her most recent pattern stored in the buffer or something like that?
Sure, but they screw with things in transport all the time.
There’s an infection? Omit it on the beam up. There’s a weapon discharging? Disable it. Have a hard time beaming someone up? Beam them up twice and if one copy bounces back to the planet… Oh well. I seem to recall an instance of them doing surgery while in the pattern buffer too, which makes you wonder why they don’t just use the transporter buffer to do all medical treatment. If you are beaming up a critically injured person, don’t beam them directly to sick bay, just tweak them in the buffer.
Also, what all does the “pattern” contain? After someone has been “restored from backup” in these incidents, they always seem to retain the memory of how they were after the mess up. So clearly they keep their memories as they get merged/tweaked back to the pattern on file.
I like to believe there are strict ethical laws in far future that are actually enforced, and built into the hardware. Like maybe an ethical local AI
But like everyone has the technology. I’m highly skeptical Ferengi would stand in the way of de-aging out of an ethical concern.
Ferengi… Ethic… Don’t make me laugh. To late roflmao
There’s only one question in the Ferengi ethical framework: Is it profitable?
I like to believe there are strict ethical laws in far future that are actually enforced, and built into the hardware.
Presumably only powerful people and Section 31 are allowed to use transporters to stay eternally young…heh.
Could have used that info a bit earlier.
They could literally sell it as immortality elixir, “Look and feel young forever!”
One of the innumerable examples of sci fi tech not being used as it would IRL. It’s centuries in the future and they still steer the ship and fire the weapons manually.
Wife: Would you still love me if I am de-aged accidentally by transporter?
Me: …
Ah yes, the best quote out of context:
I mean, of course you’re my wife. But you’re also ten years old.
He’s nuts over her.
“How do you like your coffee?”
“Hot and black. Like my men.”
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Bruh that was definitly my pick for weirdest and most awkward episode
Even worse than the planet of awful African stereotypes?
Right? People complain about “Spock’s brain”, while this is staring them in their eyes.
Fuck, that’s a tough one. At least that one has Lieutenant Yar. I love her. Underrated character. In general that one is probably worse though. The sexy planet one was pretty bad too.
Sometimes relationships do be like this though.
Basically the reality show “Shauna Rae” with the misadventures of dating a 23 year old trapped in the body of an 8 year old 🤨🤨
That episode was about a transporter mishap that turned Keiko, Ro and Guinan physically into 12-year-olds but mentally they were still adults. At the time I thought it was pretty lame to make anything “pedo” out of that situation. Keiko was an adult woman, married to O’Brien, presumably having a normal amount of sex, and suddenly she has a lot smaller body. How the two of them coped with this in their relationship was between them IMO. But people sure did go to town on it. One writer called him PedO’Brien, also calling a scene “particularly cringe-worthy” where Guinan and Ro decided to embrace their inner child and jump up and down on a bed. I dunno what’s wrong with people.
There was a Stargate SG-1 episode where Jack O’Neill got regressed back to a 14 year old (actually he was cloned by an rouge Asguard) and eventually they released him into a public high school with all his adult memories intact. A bit problematic, now that he’s an adult man in a child’s body presumably banging other teenagers.
Weird that they would invalidate his existing high school diploma.
Another weird one is when writers think it makes sense for vampires who are hundreds of years old to spend their days in high school because they have teenage bodies. And they’re immortal so presumably they are doomed to spend eternity in high school. What kind of hellish fate is that?
