• @confusedbytheBasics
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    262 months ago

    Uh… He wasn’t against allowing anyone to believe in a god of gods. He only took issue with people worshipping “The Picard” and Ardra scamming.

    • @Iheartcheese
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      552 months ago

      He gave a speech about how they had moved past religion and he wasn’t going to allow them to go back to superstition

      • MudMan
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        2 months ago

        I looked it up.

        Horrifying. Dr. Barron, your report describes how rational these people are. Millennia ago, they abandoned their belief in the supernatural. Now you are asking me to sabotage that achievement, to send them back into the dark ages of superstition and ignorance and fear? NO!

        Man was such an atheist I’m mildly surprised he isn’t more of a terminally online conservative. He’s too pro-choice, though, so I think we’re safe.

    • @ummthatguy
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      262 months ago

      He knew Ardra was a phony, but still passed up the opportunity.

      That takes some restraint and willpower, as opposed to Will-power, cause we all know Riker would.

      • Flying SquidOPM
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        232 months ago

        It doesn’t take any willpower when you’re this man-

        • @ummthatguy
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          82 months ago

          While I don’t doubt he (or Picard) could have bagged Cindy Crawford, you can tell they weren’t in the same room based on lighting and shadows.

          • Pleb
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            82 months ago

            Why would you expect them to be in the same room for the cover of some TV Guide in the first place?

              • brawnybunkbedbuddy
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                As much as Renee O’Connor was amazing as Gabrielle, I wouldn’t mind Jeri in that role 👀…

              • Pleb
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                Huh. Didn’t know that was a thing. Way more effort than I thought was ever put into a cover of a TV magazine.

    • teft
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      102 months ago

      Let’s be real. Picard probably worships the koala.

      • @[email protected]
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        82 months ago

        He’s met it enough times at this point that it’s not belief. You don’t believe in a fact.

        • @trolololol
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          02 months ago

          Have you been in a coma and missed the birth and growth of this terrible thing called social media?

      • MudMan
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        Nah. There is a whole omnipotent being with a massive crush on him and Picard treats him like a nuisance he deals with at regular intervals. First thing he did when Q got briefly depowered was put him in the brig.

        Picard knows the Koala is real but he has zero respect for cosmic marsupials in general.

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          Wait, I thought we all did. Which is why I suggested a superior being such as JLP also does.

          • Flying SquidOPM
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            32 months ago

            Fair enough. May your day be blessed by the holy breath of eucalyptus.

            • teft
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              22 months ago

              And may you always feel his weird double thumbed hands guiding you in your daily mod report decisions. Channel your inner Dukat.