BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
On Jan 19, 2026 at 3:48:51 AM PST, "The True Melissa"And they left the engines in orbit.
<thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
Verily, in article <10kjo22$3rf1u$1@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com >>> deliver unto us this message:
On Jan 18, 2026 at 2:07:41 PM PST, "The True Melissa"
<thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
Verily, in article <10kjk2i$3ppkr$1@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com >>>>> deliver unto us this message:
Or, given that her entire being is programmed from the start, why not justShe was programmed to feel seventeen and then age from there, according >>>>> to her conversation with the Doctor.
program her with all the knowledge and experience of a Starfleet
officer and
skip the academy altogether?
Yes, but why?
Why purposely create her so that she needs to take up time, resources, and a
seat at the academy which could go to someone else who actually needs it >>>> when
they don't have to?
Apparently there's a whole planet of "photonics" now. I suppose they
wanted to simulate the society which created them, so they made kid
holograms.
This is one of the perpetually aggravating things about Trek, right from >>> the beginning. Every other kind of entity, no matter how fascinatingly >>> exotic it may seem at first, is really exactly like Earth-humans.
Another thing that made no sense was the whole "spaceship academy docking >> with
the land academy" thing.
Why does the ship need to land and dock? They not only have transporters, >> they
have the new-fangled transporters that are built into their com badges and >> which apparently are psychically linked to the person's mind because they're
all constantly just slapping their lapels and somehow the thing knows
exactly
where to beam them.
The academy students could easily stand up when the bell rings in their
tachyon theory class down in San Francisco, slap their combadge and
instantaneously be zapped up to the ship and into their exobiology class in >> literal milliseconds. So why go to all the trouble to build a docking
station
for the ship in San Francisco? Just leave it in orbit and have the staff and
students beam up and down as necessary.
Years later everyone seems to be of the idea that this was unconscionable and morally inexcusable. That Orphan Black mom should have been given a free pass on murder or something because she has a child. I guess single moms can literally do anything they want-- break any law-- and no punishment can be imposed because it would separate them from their child.
Verily, in article <10ktufl$3975f$5@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com deliver unto us this message:
Years later everyone seems to be of the idea that this was unconscionable >> andIMO, they were trying to be slightly more nuanced. She wasn't wrong to sentence the mother, who did deserve it, but it still sucked for Caleb,
morally inexcusable. That Orphan Black mom should have been given a free
pass
on murder or something because she has a child. I guess single moms can
literally do anything they want-- break any law-- and no punishment can be >> imposed because it would separate them from their child.
who *didn't* deserve it.
It's interesting that poverty appears to have returned, after previously having been stamped out.
In that show, the USS Discovery leaps 930 years into the future and finds the Federation basically shattered and the known galaxy in chaos. This was all due
to an event called "the Burn", where every ship in the galaxy that had a warp core exploded at the same time and not only killed millions but left the worlds of the Federation with no way to travel, trade, or even communicate with one another without faster-than-light capability.
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