If voyager went sublight they could time dilate themselves into the future. Idk why I just realized this.

Eh jk I guess they’re too far away anyway. Any Earth they would recognize is gone.

I named my cat Mariner because of the character. She’s actually my favorite star trek character of all time.

You absolutely must watch this episode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_a_Man_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation) the entire premise is that Picard provides a legal defense for the personhood of Data. The episode is literally a court case and it is one of the most well received episodes.

I think your slavery analogy holds. I don’t think the Federation believes Data can be a slave because they don’t believe he is sentient. But they do pick and choose how to apply their legal code to Data.

Data broke himself out of the government lab because he hadn’t consented to be experimented upon and he believed his detention was unlawful.

The Federation arrested him because he is their legal property and by him leaving he stole highly sensitive government technology.

Fuck the Federation. I stan for the true leader of the Alpha and Beta quadrants, >!the Grand Nagus!<.

Damn what the actual fuck that is a good idea why don’t they serve Turkish and Israeli coffee out of these racktaccino mugs?

I needed this.

While you may be correct, if you’re on a dogmatic team, work with dogmatic people, or are a part of a dogmatic company, you probably need to avoid duplication. This is because duplicate code is an easy thing for a reviewer to nitpick and reviewing code can sometimes be more about showing off and less about ensuring code quality.