Why does the last panel suggest it’s a trick? Wouldn’t it make more sense for the message to have originated from the now purged creators of the bots?
My interpretation is, they sent the message to prevent the creation of anything that could plausibly be a threat to them and ensure the success of their invasion
At least we got to live 100 years of true life in peace, that’s more than in our entire history :)
Yeah, I’d take that deal.
Isn’t this basically the premise to the “3 Body Problem”
The San-Ti were more honest about it.
Well, sort of, they asked for help with their problem, then hamstrung Earth’s progress by deceit so that they could make it over in time.
I do not remember there being such a gap between book and show but at least in the book it’s earth reaching out while the one good guy on Trisolaris tells them not to.
That does sound familiar; I think I read it eight years ago so my memory is very patchy (to the extent I used the show to cover what I thought happened!).
In which reguard?
The Trisolarians actively blocked humanities scientific progress in order to avoid further advancement during the 400 years it would take their fleet to get to Sol. Humanity didn’t choose to slow down or even regress.
If we get a signal from space telling us not to do something, we’re gonna fucking do it.
Amused me greatly that the Romulans didn’t see this coming. Okay, who am I kidding? I liked them before all that and seeing the flaw in their take multiple episodes before the big reveal kinda pissed me off.
This is idiotic.
It’s basically how the Tal Shiar duped themselves and their entire civilization.
Only if you want to regard one of the worse NuTrek series as canon.
In TNG Data is known about in both the Klingon and Romulan empire, and throughout TNG the impression that Dr. Soong was a genius who’s work is nearly impossible to replicate was really high. So the Romulan just couldn’t make someone like Data.
You’re confusing active suppression for inability. The Romulans aren’t idiots, nor short on genius, they’re deluded at their core, to the point that their intelligence alone explains the long-term survival of their civilization. The Picard series didn’t invent that about them, and the stable 8-star-star-system believed to have been created by super-tech in Romulan space is old lore as well.
Except for the suppression. I’m not confusing the one with the other. I’m calling it NuTrek bullshit. The Romulans simply aren’t able. The Federation has some of the brightest minds in the alpha quadrant, largely due to being such a diverse collection of ideas, and even the smartest minds in the Federation could not replicate the work of Dr. Soong without reverse engineering Data himself, something that was the key point of the episode Measure of a Man.
You’re talking about a people who changed the color of their blood and adopted a Conlang at inception. They also managed to craft a civilization that accomodated/compensated for the extremity of their emotions. You really have a bizarre take on what is or isn’t possible for a species, simply because another one did it first. Calling some of the best Trek in decades Nu Trek/non-canon is revisionist non-sense.
You… You think the slop we have now is “the best Trek of the decade”? Well then, that tells me everything I need to know.
The worst thing “NuTrek” did was give us villains (cHaNgElInGs) who were unironically more interesting and relatable than the Federation, right up until their … ally.
Other than that, Trek has always been more about enjoyment than substance, save for some arcs of Deep Space Nine.
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