If I am remembering correctly it’s pretty explicitly stated in The Enemy Within that neither Kirk is whole and they will die if they are not rejoined. In the end, though, both Kirks agree to be rejoined so in that manner it’s a very different situation than Tuvix.
What’s good for making more money is not always or even often good for what we would think of as customer-friendly business. If you can wring more money out of a few whales at the expense of pissing off customers who don’t create as much revenue, then in our current system that’s what shareholders apparently want.
Reddit wants more users in their official app where they can target them for ads, sell NFTs, and whatever other bullshit they want to sell. It doesn’t matter if the experience is worse, and it probably doesn’t really matter if a couple thousand 3PA users split for good. As long as they can tell investors that the official app use is growing and that they can target a greater percentage of users with ads and data, they feel like they won.
Neelix was one of the best characters on Voyager and I will stand by that assertion forever.
I also think that Ethan Phillips was one of the best actors in the bunch too.
Episodes like “Jetrell” and “Mortal Coil” still move me every time I see them. Dude is amazing at playing a very damaged person hiding (in part) behind a mask of joviality. Neelix was truly a good hearted man who loved his crew, but those times when the mask slipped really showed what a complex individual he was.
I’m trying to understand what the distinction is that you’re making between my idea of an AI program and “Agents” a la The Matrix; both are computer programs operating with some level of autonomous thought and action but within defined parameters that could be considered their “nature”.
I do believe that the Q would have been programmed as part of the simulation to observe and guide the development of societies that the experimenters wanted to see; however the Q individually began to develop desires beyond that programming and thus you have miscreants like our Q and Quinn who buck against their very old programming.
Honestly, the Federation itself. I always thought you could make a really interesting show that was a mix of Federation politics and Starfleet intrigue; maybe a show about the Federation government on Earth that delved into Federation society and dealt with an overarching plot. Like maybe a season where a Federation colony at the edge of Federation space gets into conflict with another race/government, and for a season you get a mix of stories from the colony, a Starfleet ship sent to the colony to support, and the Federation Council on Earth.
Federation politics could be really interesting, but the shows always paid kind of disappointing lip service to it. One key example is in the DS9 episode “Rapture” when Bajor is being accepted into the Federation; the fact that a Starfleet admiral rather than a civilian Federation representative was overseeing the proceeding was lazy to me. Plus the entire ceremony was tiny and anticlimactic (and obviously barely got started since Sisko interrupted). Great potential for some real insight into the government but instead it’s just some rando admiral.
I believe that genetic modification to fix defects/heal diseases is still acceptable; it's augmentation beyond what is considered to be "natural" that is the problem.
Toxicity by System of a Down. Can’t really explain why but it irritates me.
If I am remembering correctly it’s pretty explicitly stated in The Enemy Within that neither Kirk is whole and they will die if they are not rejoined. In the end, though, both Kirks agree to be rejoined so in that manner it’s a very different situation than Tuvix.
What’s good for making more money is not always or even often good for what we would think of as customer-friendly business. If you can wring more money out of a few whales at the expense of pissing off customers who don’t create as much revenue, then in our current system that’s what shareholders apparently want.
Reddit wants more users in their official app where they can target them for ads, sell NFTs, and whatever other bullshit they want to sell. It doesn’t matter if the experience is worse, and it probably doesn’t really matter if a couple thousand 3PA users split for good. As long as they can tell investors that the official app use is growing and that they can target a greater percentage of users with ads and data, they feel like they won.
I think you mean to say that she deserved a medal.
Neelix was one of the best characters on Voyager and I will stand by that assertion forever.
I also think that Ethan Phillips was one of the best actors in the bunch too.
Episodes like “Jetrell” and “Mortal Coil” still move me every time I see them. Dude is amazing at playing a very damaged person hiding (in part) behind a mask of joviality. Neelix was truly a good hearted man who loved his crew, but those times when the mask slipped really showed what a complex individual he was.
I won’t watch series on Netflix anymore unless they’re complete for this exact reason.
Thank you for the compliment by the way!
I’m trying to understand what the distinction is that you’re making between my idea of an AI program and “Agents” a la The Matrix; both are computer programs operating with some level of autonomous thought and action but within defined parameters that could be considered their “nature”.
I do believe that the Q would have been programmed as part of the simulation to observe and guide the development of societies that the experimenters wanted to see; however the Q individually began to develop desires beyond that programming and thus you have miscreants like our Q and Quinn who buck against their very old programming.
Honestly, the Federation itself. I always thought you could make a really interesting show that was a mix of Federation politics and Starfleet intrigue; maybe a show about the Federation government on Earth that delved into Federation society and dealt with an overarching plot. Like maybe a season where a Federation colony at the edge of Federation space gets into conflict with another race/government, and for a season you get a mix of stories from the colony, a Starfleet ship sent to the colony to support, and the Federation Council on Earth.
Federation politics could be really interesting, but the shows always paid kind of disappointing lip service to it. One key example is in the DS9 episode “Rapture” when Bajor is being accepted into the Federation; the fact that a Starfleet admiral rather than a civilian Federation representative was overseeing the proceeding was lazy to me. Plus the entire ceremony was tiny and anticlimactic (and obviously barely got started since Sisko interrupted). Great potential for some real insight into the government but instead it’s just some rando admiral.
I believe that genetic modification to fix defects/heal diseases is still acceptable; it's augmentation beyond what is considered to be "natural" that is the problem.