Guinan was number two on my list, but I didn’t tier them really. I mean how can you not take the mysterious alien whose species has ill-defined powers, lives hundreds of years, and is allegedly near the level of the Q evolutionarily? (although apparently not near enough to avoid assimilation)
Data - because Q has a thing for him.
Guinan - because she has unspecified mystery plot powers.
Quark - to “acquire” goods and services for the party.
Odo - to keep Quark from getting bored and selling our possessions while we sleep.
Miles - so I have someone who won’t be traumatized by being constantly thrown to the wolves, both figuratively and literally.
Sisko won’t question the four Janeways as long as you let him either meet someone famous or LARP as a historical figure.
oh okay i wasn’t familiar with that one. reminds me of an IASIP scene lol.
it was their ancient ancestors that built the city. entire planet lava. they were looking for alternatives but couldn’t find any. you… understand that this is fiction, right?
Cool! Gonna go make some coffee, read this then watch the video someone linked further up. 👍
Which feels more like moral abdication than a real ethical dilemma.
this is like the core of federation society haha. they wouldn’t be able to live with themselves if they couldn’t handwave things away with the prime directive.
he meant literally collapsing a society. as in, their foating cities would crash into a river of lava.
someone mentioned that it’s only a few pages long so I’m gonna try and read it as soon as i can get my hands on a copy.
“This is why she’s not allowed on the couch” says joke to me idk.
thats a pretty extreme trolley problem hahaha. did you learn ethics from michael? “kill one child, or kill an entire civilization. tick tock!”
(just kidding! i agree that the point is that there isn’t an answer)
Yeah, I think I get what they were trying to do with bringing back the camp of the original series but it was a bit too much for me. That said, I didn’t mind their version of a “holodeck” episode! (the elysian kingdom)
Thats a fair critique for sure. I may have been a bit starved for classic Trek by the time this aired 😂 . I dont think it was the WORST episode though. I’d probably vote for the orion episode as worst of season 1…
edit: thinking about it more, i think the main “point” of the story was that sometimes the best intentions simply aren’t enough. no matter how much starfleet might try to impose their moral viewpoint on other cultures, there will be no-win scenarios with no good answer. you just have to learn how to live with the guilt of not being able to save everyone.
Was that ever established? I remember having the impression that this was some ancient technology they had just always used and didn’t necessarily understand. Somewhat like that society in TNG with the planetary cloaking shield that was slowly killing them all. And yeah, Pike looked absolutely gutted.
I thoroughly enjoyed this episode (besides the flagrant OSHA violations obvi!). I was already into SNW but this, finally, presented a real moral quandary for Pike. Do you “allow” this civilization to use this technology that they don’t really understand but believe is necessary, leaving a child in an unknown level of suffering, or do you “rescue” the child from that suffering? It’s a good thing that Pike isn’t some sort of emergency medical program.
definitely a york peppermint patty
Ahh, so for the same reason my cat eats grass.
disclaimer: linux noob here.
the separate pull request appears to be for archinstall, “a helper library which automates the installation of Arch Linux.” it would collect user age during installation… somehow?
Oooh, that’s a good angle. The Ferengi definitely get some unique looking ships.
“Janeway Doopler” is a horrifying circumstance to imagine.