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Saint Drogo
Dec 26, 2011

Hodgepodge posted:

section 31 is CIA propaganda; that it is not portrayed in a positive manner is irrelevant because the point is to depict the CIA as an inevitable and indispensable necessary evil, a sort of structural part of reality more fundamental than mere physics

it is everyone involved in star trek cheerfully agreeing that there are five lights
yeah, I'm not a big trek guy but i can spot genre hacks wanking off their 'hard men making hard choices to protect YOU ' fantasy a fuckin mile off.

it especially doesn't count as negative portrayal when you make them the bad guys through indisputably evil supervillainy, not any flaw in their ideology or bullshit rationalizations.

gently caress Section 31.

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Saint Drogo
Dec 26, 2011

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

It’s something that you can infer even without the explicit confirmation, because Troi can barely function without her empathic powers. People appear as “blank”, and it’s really distressing. So, in order to create replicants that Troi (or other psychics) can interact with, the computer needs to give them thoughts, emotions, memories....

Like, what if a Vulcan does a “mind-meld” on a replicant? Obviously the computer needs to account for that too.
mind melding is two computers talking to each other, they'll be good. Troi's just interfacing with the computer as it simulates them.

if psychics can't talk to computers like in Scanners this whole thing is bullshit.

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