- Never realize it takes place over labor day weekend until today. It hits even harder knowing that.
- It kind of makes me sad not knowing how the original Bell got acess to the Net without jadzia's help. That makes me think he couldn't and It was a predestination paradox and the implication is humanity couldn't put us on a path to the world of star trek on our own and we needing star fleet to push the scales. Explains a lot for our timeline.
- 1995 Me: Getting the voices on the Net would fix things for sure. 2024 Me: There would be a misinformation campaign to drown out those voices and used by grifters to make a quick buck off the cause. Most would just swipe to the next youtube short/reelz/TikTok video.
Yeah i made myself sad
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Repelle@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
The images recorded in history changed from the real bell’s face to sisko’s which to me says it wasn’t a predestination paradox, the real bell did it the first time, and sisko did it the second.
lordnikon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
yeah I hope so, What do you speculate how the original Bell got acess to the Net?
mosiacmango@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y
The story might have played out the same way. Someone Bell knew got saved by that CEO, and they convinced him to help Bell.
Repelle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Sisko says “Maybe it was Bell”, I like to think it was, that Bell had the hacking skills to do it himself.
Corgana@startrek.website · 6 pts · 1y
To point #3: It's sad how optimistic people were for the Internet not realizing that it would largely just consist of the same existing power structures.
Stormygeddon@startrek.website · 1 pts · 1y
Regarding point 2, I just figured Gabriel Bell was probably just someone good with computers who was also down on his luck and empathic to others' plights.