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      I want to see the chaos Janeway solution.

      Dilemma: Tuvix doesn’t want to die. He can do both Neelix’s and Tuvok’s jobs, but he simply doesn’t have time for both, and Janeway is in a survival situation. She needs them both.

      Solution? Just Tom Riker Tuvix! We’ll just have two Tuvixes!


      Though honestly, this comic is genuinely beautiful, a real love letter to TNG/DS9/VGR era Trek.

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        They should’ve Riker’d him and then de-Tuvix’d one of the copies. Then they’d have one of each!

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            Do the second step quick before he has a chance to think about it. It’s all on the transporter; it could probably be programmed in as a single sequence of operations.

            Also, if the pre-duplication Tuvix consents, that’s good enough.

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                That’s not saying much, to be honest!

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                  Or, it’s doing what good science fiction does, make you think about the consequences of things that you normally wouldn’t. (And there was some lazy writing.)

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                It’s important not to think about the transporter too much. The transporter should be able to make everyone immortal and cure any disease. But they don’t tend to use it for that for some reason.

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    The Geordi/Data one does kinda bring up a good point though. Data is a graduate of Starfleet Academy, put in his time and rose up the ranks to the point of being the 2nd officer and CSO of the flagship. Yet the first episode of the series he’s shown to be naive to most human interactions, most basic idioms and turns of phrase.

    This had been posted a few times on r/DI, but a good working theory is that at the academy he never tried to fit in or make friends and simply did the work. In all his postings he never attempted to go above and beyond, but just did his job and what was expected of him, and some of his promotions may have been simply *you’ve been an ensign for 4 years, so you kinda have to get promoted now. It was Picard who saw his uniqueness and potential, and pushed Data to think for himself to help him grow, and as such the other exceptional crew members on the flagship actually took the time to get to know him and become his friend.

    But I’d love to hear other theories!

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      It’s Picard and arguably LaForge, who saw his potential.

      But don’t let Kim hear about those promotions!

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      Maybe the academy is just a terrible educational institution. Basically all we see of it is weird mind games, like simulated terrorist attacks and tests you automatically fail… Maybe Picard thought of the gardener as a mentor because he was the only adult there not fucking with him.

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        all we see of it is weird mind games, like simulated terrorist attacks and tests you automatically fail

        I can definitely see how those things are extremely useful. Not everyone is going to be within the relatively save confines of ESD or stationed on a core planet. You’re out in unexplored space on your own with no backup and will encounter some of the most absurdly effed-up races/beings/giant green space hands.

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      some of his promotions may have been simply *you’ve been an ensign for 4 years, so you kinda have to get promoted now.

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    This reminds me of that Enterprise episode where they were trapped in a cave with the rock people.

    “Hello. I see you. I know there’s a person in there.”

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      Sometimes when you trip balls you see imaginary rock people in caves. I don’t judge.

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        It’s Enterprise S1E4 “Strange New World”. Unless they mean S1E6 “Terra Nova”. Both those have cave people but episode 4 is the one where they’re stuck in the cave and hallucinate rock people.

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            Well they were hallucinating people coming out of the rock so it’s a matter of perspective I guess?

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    I try to explain to people why star trek is not just boring people saying boring things in a boring looking space cockpit for hours and hours on end, I think this picture explains it very well, nice job!

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        im into stems, thats why. i used to binge on space-base documentaries, plus other docs in the early 2000s(cable). the most ignorant seems to be more focused on people who are gymbros(certain demographics/military and profit-making industries.

        for some reason star wars just doesnt have the same attraction as trek is, im guessing its more drama(SW) vs "technobabble, realistic scientific discovery development in the future(even though some concepts maybe impossible)

        • I always thought the science in Star Trek was an unrealistic plot device.

          And yeah, Star Wars is a space opera and not really comparable to Trek. I personally don’t really like it, it’s just another action/drama franchise without much philosophical substance

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      theres a saying(dont know where it came from), if a person think everything/or alot of things are boring then the person saying is a boring person.

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    I love the art.
    I love the message.
    The text was a little difficult to actually read though. My brain kept tripping over a bunch of those letters.

    Overall, excellent!

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      The only one little ( really just so small ) nitpick i have, is that Picard looks much older than he was in that first panel.

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    The way this is drawn is simply adorable!

    That is the cutest Akira-class starship I’ve ever seen.

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      I have nothing to add, just to say that I wish you peace.

      Oh, and that your ex-bestie gets an incurable case of crotch rot that burns with the fire of a thousand suns. That too.

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    Dunno why but this brings a tear to my eye today. Maybe it’s because news and especially social media is so inundated with hate, prejudice and aggressive ignorance for the last several days that I think I’ve hit my limit and just wish for even a partial simile of the Star Trek utopia. So tired of the need for so many people to hurt others. Man, what a drag…just need some hope.

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      Those are Bajorans, with a Cardassian overlord looking down

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          To be fair, with how oddly abstract it was it could’ve been a lot of things. I thought it was just supposed to be Nagilum or something and was just confused by the (obvious in retrospect) Cardassian features.

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    And sometimes, just sometimes… it’s whatever the fuck was going on in Move Along Home.

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    Janeway wasn’t very respectful of what Seven of Nine wanted. Watching Seven of Nine go along with what Janeway told her to be reminded me of my parents making me get a haircut because they thought I was a boy

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      It’s called an intervention.

      A heavy drug addict will not want to get off his drugs. But he’s not only being destructive to himself, but His surroundings as well.

      So it is with The Borg. So it was with Seven/Anika.